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Although many citizen's showed up today at gun ranges, gun shows, capitals, and other places to show support for gun rights we also slit our own throats and might have trampled any ground we gained.
The Anti's will show gun owners as incompetent and dangerous, too dangerous to have guns. They already have portrayed gun owners as a fringe, minority with their use of "gun culture".
Notice the title of the article isn't "Many gun owners show up to support the 2nd Amendment" since today was the day gun owners were going to band together and show up their support of the 2nd Amendment, but rather gun owners shooting themselves and others. The press will have a field day with this and start airing every story of gun owners making mistakes.
We don't need anti's to make us look like fools, sadly we can do it ourselves.
http://www.startribune.com/nation/187611351.html
Although many citizen's showed up today at gun ranges, gun shows, capitals, and other places to show support for gun rights we also slit our own throats and might have trampled any ground we gained.
The Anti's will show gun owners as incompetent and dangerous, too dangerous to have guns. They already have portrayed gun owners as a fringe, minority with their use of "gun culture".
Notice the title of the article isn't "Many gun owners show up to support the 2nd Amendment" since today was the day gun owners were going to band together and show up their support of the 2nd Amendment, but rather gun owners shooting themselves and others. The press will have a field day with this and start airing every story of gun owners making mistakes.
We don't need anti's to make us look like fools, sadly we can do it ourselves.
http://www.startribune.com/nation/187611351.html
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5 people hurt in accidental shootings at gun shows in Ohio, Ind., NC on day of US gun rallies
Article by: Associated Press
Updated: January 19, 2013 - 9:34 PM
MEDINA, Ohio - Accidental shootings at gun shows in North Carolina, Indiana and Ohio left five people injured Saturday, the same day that thousands of gun advocates gathered peacefully at state capitals around the U.S. to rally against stricter firearm limits.
At the Dixie Gun and Knife Show in Raleigh, a 12-gauge shotgun discharged as its owner unzipped its case for a law enforcement officer to check at a security entrance, injuring three people, state Agriculture Department spokesman Brian Long said.
And in Ohio, a gun dealer in Medina was checking out a semi-automatic handgun he had bought Saturday when he accidentally pulled the trigger, injuring his friend, police said. The gun's magazine had been removed from the firearm, but one round remained in the chamber, police said.
The gun rallies held Saturday coincide with President Barack Obama's unveiling of a sweeping package of federal gun-control proposals in the wake of a Connecticut elementary school shooting that killed 20 first-graders and six educators last month.
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