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Alexcabbie
Regular Member
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Posted: Wed Jul 1st, 2009 07:33 am |
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Yesterday the Washington Post reported that the Metropolitan Police had announced that the murder rate for the first half of 2009 was the lowest it has been in years.
Gee whiz. Six months. Isn't that about how long the Heller decision has been in full effect? Wow. What with all the apoplectic bloviating about all the "new guns" coming into the city and the certain-to-follow reddening of the Potomac and Anacostia with blood, didn't you expect to see articles about graveyards running out of space and crematoria burning out due to overwork? Gee whiz. Guess it didn't happen. In fact, the opposite has occurred. Oh pity the poor crime reporters. Slow news days are a drag without a juicy murder, and what with people able to defend themselves in their homes, juicy murders just got rarer. Now if D.C. had Virginia-style open carry and "shall issue" concealed, well, hell folks. Them crime writers might wind up covering pothole repair or something.
Well, I guess they'll have to accept it. Nobody gives out Pulitzers for writing a series about sewer backups in rainstorms. Too bad. NOT.
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KS_to_CA
Regular Member
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Posted: Wed Jul 1st, 2009 02:51 pm |
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Where's Brady? Where's Brady? OMG! OMG! This can't be! This can't be!
An armed society is a polite Society...
Chicago, are you listening? 
Last edited on Wed Jul 1st, 2009 02:53 pm by KS_to_CA
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Chaingun81
Regular Member
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Posted: Wed Jul 1st, 2009 03:00 pm |
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Of course if the opposite happened, there would be reports everywhere about how new more permissive gun laws increase crime...even though without carry permission, it's not gonna have much effect either way...media is just so full of crap!  
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XD-GEM
Activist Member
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Posted: Wed Jul 1st, 2009 05:30 pm |
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I still wouldn't walk around the place by myself in the middle of the night.
You never know when you're going to get mugged by some politician. 
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Alexcabbie
Regular Member
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Posted: Wed Jul 1st, 2009 09:35 pm |
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Chaingun81 wrote: Of course if the opposite happened, there would be reports everywhere about how new more permissive gun laws increase crime...even though without recognition of the Constitutional right to carry, it's not gonna have much effect either way...media is just so full of crap!
There, Brother Chaingun. Fixed it for ya.
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Chaingun81
Regular Member
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Posted: Wed Jul 1st, 2009 09:46 pm |
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Alexcabbie wrote: Chaingun81 wrote: Of course if the opposite happened, there would be reports everywhere about how new more permissive gun laws increase crime...even though without recognition of the Constitutional right to carry, it's not gonna have much effect either way...media is just so full of crap!
There, Brother Chaingun. Fixed it for ya.
You are so right! Sorry for this slip - proximity to big brother in NOVA is screwing with my brain and making me say things like that. Shame on me!
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Task Force 16
Campaign Veteran
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Posted: Thu Jul 2nd, 2009 04:25 am |
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XD-GEM wrote: I still wouldn't walk around the place by myself in the middle of the night.
You never know when you're going to get mugged by some politician.
Don't need to leave the house for the ploiticians to mug you. Their doing that to you right in your own home, via tax hikes.
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