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DonP

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9. They kinda breeze by the 21 year old requirements
Wed Aug 17, 2016, 02:55 PM
Aug 2016

Much easier to try and create a moral panic among the ignorant by referring to the "children" and recounting and projecting tales of their own nostalgic days of binge drinking and drug use, as some kind of proof of the immaturity of gun owners.

My son has a permit, after 5 years in the Army with 3 tours to Iraq and Afghanistan. Not too worried about his behavior on or off campus. Lot's of carriers are veterans using their GI Bill benefits.

That's the really silly part. The professor walks across the street to Starbuck's, stands in a line with 1 or 2 concealed carriers behind them and never thinks twice about it. Cross back to the quad and those same people somehow suddenly become "dangerous lunatics that could snap at any second or threaten them for a better grade".

It's a total reprise of the "Blood in the Streets" manufactured hysteria ... that none of the Grabnutz wants to discuss any more.

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