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Old 10-11-2006, 04:17 PM   #85
Spexxvet
Makes some feel uncomfortable
 
Join Date: Dec 2005
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Originally Posted by Flint
My family are from the country, where guns are just another tool (IE, a mechanical device with no implicit psychological characteristics). These "urban" associations with guns don't jibe with their "rural" function. Ironically, the function of those guns might be altered dramatically if some fancy law-makin' city-slicker were trying to take them away.

The "taking-your-guns-away-boogeyman" is the ideological flip-side to the "replacing-the-Constitution-with-the-Bible-boogeyman" . . .
Pistols or rifles/shotguns?
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