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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGuns! Don't you just love 'em.
If only the tourists were issued guns as they entered Washington A-mir-ca would be a safer place. Hasn't hunting season started? Maybe it was just Ted Nugent lost in the woods.
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Guns! Don't you just love 'em. (Original Post)
Lint Head
Oct 2013
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They are saying it was a car chase and they were trying to get through the barriers.
Lint Head
Oct 2013
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LiberalEsto
(22,845 posts)1. And why, oh why aren't members of Congress packing heat?
PDJane
(10,103 posts)2. I suggest that confiscating guns might be a start.
I don't want congresscritters carrying heat..........
Lint Head
(15,064 posts)3. They are saying it was a car chase and they were trying to get through the barriers.
Lint Head
(15,064 posts)4. It may have only been the police who were firing their weapons.
davepc
(3,936 posts)5. There's not a single report that the suspect shot anything at anyone.
The injured capitol police officer was not shot, according to reports.
seveneyes
(4,631 posts)6. Link?
Still not seeing where the suspect was armed.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)7. Only took like what, an hour for somebody to use this for their pet cause
Damn, you could have at least waited a day like Alex Jones does...
Oh wait, never mind
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)8. DBH...nt
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krispos42
(49,445 posts)9. You can self-delete this
Assuming you don't want to put your inappropriate reflexes on display anymore.
Dreamer Tatum
(10,926 posts)10. Don't you look quite the idiot now. nt
Ranchemp.
(1,991 posts)11. Only guns involved were law enforcement guns.