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Gun Control & RKBA

DonP

(6,185 posts)

3. Oh Goodie! Another Gun Control "Tipping Point"

Reply to SecularMotion (Original post)

Thu Jan 14, 2016, 11:29 AM

Jan 2016

We haven't had one for a few weeks now.

They seem to alternate with the other "Wishful Thinking" posts; that the NRA is doomed and will collapse before the next election cycle.

Or my personal favorites, the ones that confidently predict that "In 3 or 4 generations no one will own guns". Always nice to predicts something that you'll be long gone so you cant be pointed at and laughed out of town for being so off trend.

But I'm sure this time it will really, really happen.

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In Defense of the Public Square [View all] SecularMotion Jan 2016 OP

so open carry in Oklahoma Duckhunter935 Jan 2016 #1

I really feel sorry for people so frightened of life that they can't leave home without a loaded gun flamin lib Jan 2016 #2

Your sincere concern for over 12 million fellow citizens and voters is duly noted. DonP Jan 2016 #4

I really feel sorry for people so frightened of CHL holders. eom. GGJohn Jan 2016 #5

should be in a proper Duckhunter935 Jan 2016 #6

Yeah, they're certainly more frightened... beevul Jan 2016 #7

Imagine being frightened of guns... ileus Jan 2016 #11

Damn, flamin, you seem more fearful than anyone here... Eleanors38 Jan 2016 #14

Oh Goodie! Another Gun Control "Tipping Point" DonP Jan 2016 #3

Yes, but by next week... beevul Jan 2016 #8

A shifting narrative must be better than accepting defeat DonP Jan 2016 #9

Wonder if the writer has even seen an open carrier or just scared by interweb BS? ileus Jan 2016 #10

I'm guessing there are far more of the latter than the former DonP Jan 2016 #12

During 2014 SXSW, the OC parade got a lotta tourist pics -- everyone thought it was... Eleanors38 Jan 2016 #15

Wow! How many bystanders were killed? DonP Jan 2016 #16

Actually, later that night 4 were murdered by a semi-automatic Honda. Eleanors38 Jan 2016 #18

Tell me it didn't have... discntnt_irny_srcsm Jan 2016 #19

Tipping is not a town in Mississippi. Eleanors38 Jan 2016 #13

I'm going PUBLIC; Mike King is SQUARE discntnt_irny_srcsm Jan 2016 #17