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In reply to the discussion: Indian student murdered in Salford street attack (in UK, unprovoked attack) [View all]hack89
(39,171 posts)92. I have been immersed for 30 years and I am still a progressive democrat
perhaps there are other factors?
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alp227
Dec 2011
OP
Doesn't happen often. Brits don't want guns. No NRA blowing smoke. People live without them.
Hoyt
Dec 2011
#1
Thank God for ATF plants at Aryan Nation get-togethers. Weaver and anyone like him is a terrorist.
Hoyt
Dec 2011
#17
I suppose you've never fucked up. I hope they keep the pressure on the Weaver type gunners.
Hoyt
Dec 2011
#23
'Entrapment?" -- ATF approaches Weaver at racist Ayran Nation meeting and Weaver agrees to supply
Hoyt
Dec 2011
#24
Gun culture will be defending Koresh shortly. Even though he had 51 days to surrender after killing
Hoyt
Dec 2011
#28
It's unfair to mention the fact he didn't use guns for his terrorism.
friendly_iconoclast
Dec 2011
#36
Why not? We could also point out that they use computers to communicate with each other.
friendly_iconoclast
Dec 2011
#51
Can we blame "the gun culture" for the Weather Underground as well?
friendly_iconoclast
Jan 2012
#88
Why not? Note how many terrorist attacks happened in 'civilized' Europe before WW1
friendly_iconoclast
Jan 2012
#90
Who said Weaver, a racist -- living in a compound -- would not normally do that? LMAO
Hoyt
Dec 2011
#33
Yes, even though they don't give due process and Weaver was supplier of executioner's weapon.
Hoyt
Dec 2011
#55
What "executioner's weapon" was that? Short-barrelled shotguns are legal.
friendly_iconoclast
Dec 2011
#56
I guess you can't see difference between a member of Ayran Nation (Weaver) and political opinion?
Hoyt
Dec 2011
#25
By golly if you go to Ayran Nation "events", you are a member, sympathizer, racist, and worse.
Hoyt
Dec 2011
#66
I know, Weaver is one of the upstanding gun owners the "gun culture" likes to tout.
Hoyt
Dec 2011
#67
Didn't read past "insulate yourself from its underclass" BS. Sounds like British TBaggery to me.
Hoyt
Dec 2011
#9
If so, nothing came of it. Nothing's been hidden since January 2 n/t
friendly_iconoclast
Jan 2012
#81
Unfortuiantely I don't have a list of all the witers who have views oppose yours...
spin
Jan 2012
#93
Gunner = short for member of "gun culture" = euphemism for "guns on the brain" and in waistband to
Hoyt
Dec 2011
#32
Fear in this context = having to strap a gun or two on before venturing out in public.
Hoyt
Dec 2011
#68
The Swiss? You mean the Swiss who have more than two million guns in their homes?
TheWraith
Jan 2012
#86
Everyone in the UK knows that guns kill people...danger danger gunz are bad! The UK needs a gun ban.
ileus
Dec 2011
#7
Apparently Scalia's opinions are abhorrent- unless he agrees with them....
friendly_iconoclast
Dec 2011
#52