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Re: Political Persuasion
« Reply #30 on: March 26, 2007, 12:57:58 AM »
Damn lobbying.
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Re: Political Persuasion
« Reply #31 on: March 26, 2007, 05:32:26 AM »
Yes, what a shame that the cowards didn't succeed in making Americans as helpless against criminals as most of us Europeans are.

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Re: Political Persuasion
« Reply #32 on: March 27, 2007, 07:26:20 AM »
Yes, what a shame that the cowards didn't succeed in making Americans as helpless against criminals as most of us Europeans are.
i read somewhere that armed robberies are less likely to occur in plces where it is legal to carry a concealed firearm.
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Re: Political Persuasion
« Reply #33 on: March 27, 2007, 08:12:59 AM »
Yes, what a shame that the cowards didn't succeed in making Americans as helpless against criminals as most of us Europeans are.
i read somewhere that armed robberies are less likely to occur in plces where it is legal to carry a concealed firearm.

They are. Criminals are cowards, so they won't commit armed robberies that easy if ordinary people can shoot back on them. But here in Europe the politicians and news reporters twist all that statistics, and my naïve European fellows usually believe them, not only the Swedes.

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Re: Political Persuasion
« Reply #34 on: March 27, 2007, 03:20:27 PM »
Show us the statistics and spare us the platitudes. ::)
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Re: Political Persuasion
« Reply #35 on: March 27, 2007, 03:27:54 PM »
Check out the NRA home page.  8)

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Re: Political Persuasion
« Reply #36 on: March 27, 2007, 03:54:39 PM »
Ah, yes, why look further when we have the NRA. :laugh:
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Re: Political Persuasion
« Reply #37 on: March 27, 2007, 03:58:49 PM »
It's a shame we don't have an NRA in Sweden. I know some guys that are shooting club members and have about the same opinions on guns as the NRA, but they'd risk their licenses if they'd go out with those opinions openly. Or their club membership, which would make the cops revoke their licenses anyway.  :(

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Re: Political Persuasion
« Reply #38 on: March 27, 2007, 04:07:10 PM »
Yeah, maybe we could have Charlton Heston as some kind of honorary moron, too. "Over. My. Cold. Dead. Hands."
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Re: Political Persuasion
« Reply #39 on: March 27, 2007, 04:15:08 PM »
That was a manly speak.  8)

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Re: Political Persuasion
« Reply #40 on: March 28, 2007, 12:47:43 AM »
He's the definition of "manly", as a matter of fact. ;D
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Re: Political Persuasion
« Reply #41 on: March 28, 2007, 11:20:28 AM »
What does very liberal and very conservative mean?

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Re: Political Persuasion
« Reply #42 on: March 28, 2007, 11:23:43 AM »
That's weird. According to the original meaning of the word "liberal" (Latin "liber" means "free"), a liberal should be pro guns, not against them.

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Re: Political Persuasion
« Reply #43 on: March 28, 2007, 12:24:15 PM »
i think that the dividing line for current polititians was drawn over the Roe v. Wade case.
so pro-abortion means liberal.
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Re: Political Persuasion
« Reply #44 on: March 28, 2007, 12:35:43 PM »
That's weird. According to the original meaning of the word "liberal" (Latin "liber" means "free"), a liberal should be pro guns, not against them.

FREE of guns? ;)
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