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dailypress.com - 11/28/2008
It's a madhouse outside the gun shops, too -
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"Stock up on guns, ammunition, and canned goods," a reader named "Church Slave" suggests in our online Topix system. "And maybe a candy bar or two." I'm no stranger to the idea of laying in supplies for lean times; I have Mormons in the family. What is new is the drumbeat of imminent doom ...

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Paranoid Gun Owners
damnum absque injuria — Hillary Clinton Tamara Dietrich of the Newport News Daily Press pokes fun at gun owners who think Barack Obama is not a friend of gun owners. A black man gets elected president and half the country dives for the panic room, buying up guns and squirreling away supplies like fatalists awaiting the End of Days. That’s an exaggeration, of course. Barack Obama is biracial, not black. Lovely of Ms. Dietrich to bring up race in an article on guns, or for that matter, any other topic except … um … race. I know plenty of gun owners who fear new restrictions on their right to ...

Silly Fool … The Second Amendment Keeps Us Red, White And Blue
Pat Dollard | Young Americans — A Barry Merry History Lesson: A Barry Merry History Lesson: Volume Two, The AG: Schooling The Dolts: It’s a madhouse outside the gun shops, too Tamara Dietrich - (Daily Press) black man gets elected president and half the country dives for the panic room, buying up guns and squirreling away supplies like fatalists awaiting the End of Days. That’s an ...

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