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marybourg

(12,620 posts) Fri Nov 25, 2016, 09:12 PM Nov 2016

The armed nation: A new tradition is arising to add to the

holiday festivities: ( )

Shoppers in Nevada, New Jersey, Tennessee shot on Black Friday-New York Daily News

Two shot dead at annual Ky. football tournament as mayor watches-New York Daily News

3 shot while hanging Christmas lights amid fight with driver-Tulsa World - ‎ Tulsa World - ‎Nov 24, 2016‎

All: https://news.google.com/
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The armed nation: A new tradition is arising to add to the (Original Post) marybourg Nov 2016 OP

yet the only thing I heard on MSNBC was how wonderful it was going for the retailers. n/t Horse with no Name Nov 2016 #1

I've found that old Andy Griffith re-runs radical noodle Nov 2016 #2

I miss the old days when cops had one bullet... scscholar Nov 2016 #3

None of these were marybourg Nov 2016 #4

No... just people high on anger radical noodle Nov 2016 #6

I'll admit it. As much as I would like to lose the Second Amendment... backscatter712 Nov 2016 #5

Even I'm considering it bhikkhu Nov 2016 #8

Murders are down 50% since the early 1990s. n/t Kang Colby Nov 2016 #7

We can thank the end of leaded gasoline for that. n/t backscatter712 Nov 2016 #9

Maybe. In Freakonomics they argued it was Roe v. Wade. eom Kang Colby Nov 2016 #10

Horse with no Name

(33,956 posts)

1. yet the only thing I heard on MSNBC was how wonderful it was going for the retailers. n/t

Reply to marybourg (Original post)

Fri Nov 25, 2016, 09:13 PM

Nov 2016

radical noodle

(8,000 posts)

2. I've found that old Andy Griffith re-runs

Reply to Horse with no Name (Reply #1)

Fri Nov 25, 2016, 09:33 PM

Nov 2016

are more informative than the news channels these days.

scscholar

(2,902 posts)

3. I miss the old days when cops had one bullet...

Reply to radical noodle (Reply #2)

Fri Nov 25, 2016, 09:39 PM

Nov 2016

and kept it in their shirt pocket.

marybourg

(12,620 posts)

4. None of these were

Reply to scscholar (Reply #3)

Fri Nov 25, 2016, 09:48 PM

Nov 2016

police shootings, as far as I could tell.

radical noodle

(8,000 posts)

6. No... just people high on anger

Reply to marybourg (Reply #4)

Fri Nov 25, 2016, 11:07 PM

Nov 2016

backscatter712

(26,355 posts)

5. I'll admit it. As much as I would like to lose the Second Amendment...

Reply to marybourg (Original post)

Fri Nov 25, 2016, 10:45 PM

Nov 2016

I'm suspending my efforts opposing it, probably for the next four years.

Because I want to be armed when dealing with the fascists...

bhikkhu

(10,715 posts)

8. Even I'm considering it

Reply to backscatter712 (Reply #5)

Fri Nov 25, 2016, 11:20 PM

Nov 2016

...not sure I'll do it, as it has been very nice spending a life completely incapable of doing serious bodily harm to another, but at some point it may be the more responsible course.