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fear
Ice climber
hartford, ct
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Jun 15, 2016 - 09:49am PT
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We've got sooo many bears around here now, mainly due to idiots who feed them on purpose. 99/100 can be shooed with broom.
Better have a backup plan though when you run into the other 1%....
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F
climber
away from the ground
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Jun 15, 2016 - 09:59am PT
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Backup plan.... Like 300 lbs of husky?
Or an AR15 with a few 30 round clips taped together for faster reload?
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fear
Ice climber
hartford, ct
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Jun 15, 2016 - 10:24am PT
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An AR with 30 round clips would be a poor choice since they wouldn't fit.
Perhaps a Ghost Gun.
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blahblah
Gym climber
Boulder
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Jun 15, 2016 - 10:35am PT
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I just watched a 110 lb, 24 year old girl wearing an apron shoo off this guy with a broom.
A 24 year old female is not a "girl," she is a woman or perhaps "young lady" or the like.
Would you call a 24 year old male a "boy"?
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F
climber
away from the ground
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Jun 15, 2016 - 10:35am PT
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What's the point of having a gun if the scary lady in the pant suit is just going to come take it away the day after she's elected?
Just an excuse to pull a Finnicum?
Uhhhhhh blah blah.... Your name is fitting.
24 year old CHICK!
How's that grab ya? Offensive enough?
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jun 15, 2016 - 10:39am PT
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"OneBlood has learned that Omar Mateen donated blood at a mobile blood drive in Ft. Pierce, Florida, on May 29," OneBlood vice president Susan Forbes said in a statement to ABC News. "All facets of the donation were in our normal parameters for blood donation, including screening questions and post-donation blood testing. A staff member recognized Mateen's face from media photos and told their supervisor."
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dirtbag
climber
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Jun 15, 2016 - 11:06am PT
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We've got sooo many bears around here now, mainly due to idiots who feed them on purpose. 99/100 can be shooed with broom.
The idiots or the Bears? I'm guessing the Bears: the idiots are probably not shooable.
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kev
climber
A pile of dirt.
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Jun 15, 2016 - 11:10am PT
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A 24 year old female is not a "girl," she is a woman or perhaps "young lady" or the like.
Would you call a 24 year old male a "boy"?
Seriously? You PC police are funny...and sad...
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EdwardT
Trad climber
Retired
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 15, 2016 - 11:25am PT
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No kidding. I'm partial to dame or broad.
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F
climber
away from the ground
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Jun 15, 2016 - 11:34am PT
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sycorax
Boulder climber
Yoknapatawpha County
Jun 15, 2016 - 10:48am PT
F, How sage of you to alert us to what a woman is wearing. That's how best to judge her. Never mind about Donald's paunch ( who f*#ks a guy with a paunch anyway?) or orange spray tan.
His wife could use an accent reduction class. She can't seem to string a proper sentence together. But hey she dons the obligatory sleeveless shift regularly and that's what counts.
Obviously, you aren't a golfer.
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Tom
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo CA
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Jun 15, 2016 - 11:50am PT
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A Chinese man attacked the Shanghai airport with a homemade bomb he'd made using a beer bottle and gunpowder. Then, he tried to kill himself by slashing his throat with a dagger.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/12/asia/shanghai-airport-explosion/index.html
No guns were involved.
No radical Islam was involved.
Mental illness is an equal-opportunity afflicter.
Getting rid of guns and Muslims in the United States will not prevent attacks on the public by deranged individuals.
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Escopeta
Trad climber
Idaho
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Jun 15, 2016 - 11:58am PT
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There is a gas station near where I grew up that was robbed three times in a month several years ago. He decided to offer 10 cents off each gallon of gas to any patrons with a concealed carry permit.
Oddly, his gas station has not been broken into since. Seems that having folks at the pumps that might be armed was good for business in the long run.
I wonder if other establishments will start doing that. Or even places frequented by the LBGT community as the pink pistols have proposed.
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Tom
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo CA
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Jun 15, 2016 - 12:04pm PT
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...and no one was killed.
Because, thankfully, the man was not only deranged, he was also stupid and inept. Or, he didn't intend to actually kill people.
If he'd used metal pipe instead of a beer bottle, the story would have been different.
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monolith
climber
state of being
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Jun 15, 2016 - 12:09pm PT
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Yep, there you go. Assault weopens are easily used by the stupid.
Bombs are much harder. Just ask the Columbine boys.
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Bruce Morris
Social climber
Belmont, California
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Jun 15, 2016 - 01:23pm PT
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Perhaps freedom, democracy and equality - the principles of the 18th century Enlightenment upon which the US was founded - are really to blame?
There are other ways of running things of course.
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Norton
Social climber
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Jun 15, 2016 - 01:34pm PT
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yes, Bruce
and perhaps "money in politics" is also to blame
it is no secret that the NRA gives much much more money to Repubs than Dems
and the results of their giving are a bought and paid for political party
even after 20 seven year olds were slaughtered at Sandy Hook the Repubs blocked
all of the Democratic attempts to pass even the least "restrictive" legislation
and this one is SO obvious- the fact that your name can be on the "no fly" list for
terror related suspicions and yet you are free to buy assault weapons in the US
and you can thank the Republicans in congress for refusing to stop even that
the insanity continues, because 45% of the voting population votes against their own interests , they vote Republican
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Escopeta
Trad climber
Idaho
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Jun 15, 2016 - 02:21pm PT
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The Federal Government has so many laws that the project to catalog them all was abandoned. They don't even know how many laws they have written.
In 2007 the Inspector General said that there were over 700,000 names on the DOJ terrorist watch list and that list was growing at over 20,000 names per month (you do the math)
Numerous findings in an audit of the list process identified not only weak controls around how you get ON the list, but also findings showed lag times around getting taken OFF the list in cases of mistaken identity. Its basically nothing more than a shadow opportunity for the Federal Government to put people on a spurious list due to "suspicions" that otherwise should be fully protected by the First Amendment.
To propose that we not allow citizens to enjoy their 2nd Amendment rights simply because they are on a secret list, managed by a secret government agency is not only unconstitutional, its the acme of stupidity and naivete.
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Binks
climber
Uranus
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Jun 15, 2016 - 02:23pm PT
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Not an Islamic terrorist, just a confused gay guy with a gun. Following in the pattern of Roseburg, Sandy Hook, "that guy in the movie theater I've already forgotten or some disgruntled college kid" etc. It is an outcome of our gun laws and gun culture. No "terrorist" link needed. In a week it will be forgotten except as the latest footnote in the perpetually recurring mass shootings of our deluded state. Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia. Wake me up when we bomb another country because of something stupid we do here and not over there and I'll ask "which one this time" and go back to sleep. Nothing new to see here.
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