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Tab

(11,093 posts) Fri Dec 21, 2012, 12:31 PM Dec 2012

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"More armed good guys"

And assuming we armed all our schools, what about the malls? Or public gathering areas? Rockafeller Center? Mall of America? Times Square? Small little town gathering places? Adding more guns doesn't make it safer, it just shifts the problem around.

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"More armed good guys" (Original Post) Tab Dec 2012 OP

Now, we'll have a bunch of Zimmermans trying for "armed good guy" designation. What a crock. Hoyt Dec 2012 #1

Good point - neighborhood watch partrols Tab Dec 2012 #4

sounds like LaPierre may have done the NRA much more harm rurallib Dec 2012 #2

Only among DU members... regnaD kciN Dec 2012 #3

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)

1. Now, we'll have a bunch of Zimmermans trying for "armed good guy" designation. What a crock.

Reply to Tab (Original post)

Fri Dec 21, 2012, 12:34 PM

Dec 2012

Tab

(11,093 posts)

4. Good point - neighborhood watch partrols

Reply to Hoyt (Reply #1)

Fri Dec 21, 2012, 12:37 PM

Dec 2012

I don't need a Zimmerman dude cruising my neighborhood with a gun, and my son going out at night and running into him.

rurallib

(62,416 posts)

2. sounds like LaPierre may have done the NRA much more harm

Reply to Tab (Original post)

Fri Dec 21, 2012, 12:35 PM

Dec 2012

and really exposed their ugliness and hatefulness.

regnaD kciN

(26,044 posts)

3. Only among DU members...

Reply to rurallib (Reply #2)

Fri Dec 21, 2012, 12:36 PM

Dec 2012

Watch how quickly his talking points will become conventional wisdom after being repeated 24/7 by Rush and Faux.

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