Palin is a sick piece of work

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Registered: 09-12-2008
Palin is a sick piece of work
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Fri, 09-12-2008 - 3:46pm

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Registered: 09-13-2008
Sat, 09-13-2008 - 8:56pm

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"afterall only right wing christians have the right to kill animals with their high powered automatic rifles from planes."


I'm pretty sure left wing athiests

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Registered: 09-13-2008
Sat, 09-13-2008 - 8:59pm
neutering still does not stop them from hunting and killing the caribou and elk though ...

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Registered: 09-13-2008
Sat, 09-13-2008 - 9:11pm

Seriously? do you eat chicken? Do you eat chicken sandwiches at McDonalds? Do you eat hamburgers? or are you vegan?


Cause unless you are vegan, I fail to see where it is not okay for the wolf to be in pain like the video shows, and it be okay for a chicken to be hung by its legs upside down from a machine and in assembly line fashion, one by one, until it reaches the 'chopper' and have it's head chopped off, stay alive for a number of minutes later, before being "processed". Cows do not have it much better.


and to think this happens because people choose to eat meat for dinner each night.


I fail to see how someone who chooses to hunt for their own food is "aggressive" and

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Registered: 09-13-2008
Sat, 09-13-2008 - 9:15pm

On the flipside though it's also easier to protect yourself in the instance someone invades your home or threatens you. It takes seconds to get your own gun, minutes to complete the 9-1-1 call and for the police to arrive. We should have the right to protect ourselves.


Also, last I checked, the instance of registered gun users was not the problem, if someone is intent on violence they are going to get their weapon of choice regardless of what the law says.


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Sat, 09-13-2008 - 10:03pm

have it's head chopped off, stay alive for a number of minutes later


Don't you have to have brain function to be considered alive?

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Sat, 09-13-2008 - 10:15pm


"Does a Gun in the Home Make You Safer?

No. Despite claims by the National Rifle Association (NRA) that you need a gun in your home to protect yourself and your family, public health research demonstrates that the person most likely to shoot you or a family member with a gun already has the keys to your house. Simply put: guns kept in the home for self-protection are more often used to kill somebody you know than to kill in self-defense; 22 times more likely, according to a 1998 study by the Journal of Trauma. More kids, teenagers and adult family members are dying from firearms in their own home than criminal intruders. When someone is home, a gun is used for protection in fewer than two percent of home invasion crimes. You may be surprised to know that, in 1999, according to the FBI's Uniform Crime Report, there were only 154 justifiable homicides committed by private citizens with a firearm compared with a total of 8,259 firearm murders in the United States. Once a bullet leaves a gun, who is to say that it will stop only a criminal and not a family member? Yet at every opportunity the NRA uses the fear of crime to promote the need for ordinary citizens to keep guns in their home for self-protection. Furthermore, the NRA continues to oppose life-saving measures that require safe-storage of guns in the home."

This touches a nerve for me because my ex father-in-law was a gun collector when he was younger, and a gun enthusiast I guess you would say. He is now in his 80's and still has quite a gun collection. Unfortunately he is not the same man he was when he was issued his gun permits. Recently I visited him only to find him sitting in his den with two loaded guns - in case the Mexicans next door break into his house he said. Now i sincerely doubt the people living next door are interested in breaking into his house, they do after all own the house they currently live in so why would they break into the house next door? Yet here was an 80+year old man sitting with two loaded guns, one of which was hidden in a box of tissues under the tissues. When I called the police they said they couldn't do anything about it until/unless he discharged a gun in city limits. Sadly if he did discharge a gun someone, possibly him or his wife, could be dead. Anyone who broke into his home with the intent to do harm would be able to get to the gun before he could take the safety off and shoot it. My children will not be visiting him unless and until the guns are out of the house, and since the police could not/would not help with that it will probably be a long time.

On another note one of my students was killed by a younger sibling last year when the brother picked up a gun in the home and thought it was a toy.

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Registered: 08-25-2008
Sat, 09-13-2008 - 11:31pm
the potential for deadly violence is increased, but that can also be a good thing.
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Registered: 08-25-2008
Sat, 09-13-2008 - 11:33pm

What's the difference?


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Registered: 08-25-2008
Sat, 09-13-2008 - 11:37pm

One thing you miss in this instance.

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Registered: 08-31-2008
Sat, 09-13-2008 - 11:51pm

Ummm....who's eating wolves for dinner?

You're talking about apples and oranges. And as a matter of fact, I don't eat mass production factory meat because I think the ways in which they are killed is cruel. And when I eat fast food, I eat salads, never meat.

If you know any psychology, Bush blowing up frogs as a child has alot to do with his character, even as an adult. Cruelty to animals in any form as a child is a huge red flag for someone with any number of clinical personality disorders.

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