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Originally Posted by Cimarron29414
Tully,
Good post. Nice to see someone turn off the Turbo Retard button on this thread. I've wondered exactly the same thing about the lack of return fire. I think it is probably because there is a lot of confusion regarding federal limitations on one's right to carry. Many can misunderstand the limitations of carrying on Federal property as opposed to carrying around a federal official. Or the limitation of carrying on election day as opposed to around elected officials. Furthermore, there's the laws forbiding carrying around the President which others might misinterpret as the all branches of the federal government. In short, some may have played the legality "better safe than sorry" card and left their piece at home, unfortunately.
As for the second part of your post, thank you for stating it.
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Well, I would like to see the volume of screaming reduced so we might find actual solutions to our problems rather then simply yell at one another. Sad thing is this Giffords lady (I never heard of her before the event) sounds like the type of public official trying to make that happen. I read last night where the day before the shooting she sent out an e-mail stating pretty much just that. Now instead of becoming a nation reflecting on what needs to be done to make that happen we've just increased the volume of blame.
On the gun carry issue I found Sheriff Dupnik comments rather odd. He made it sound like Az. is full of gun toting trigger happy red necks. Doesn't the fact that no one else fired a shot dispel this idea? If he were right and Az. has become the "Tombstone" of the US wouldn't the air have been full of flying lead? Now we have a bunch of folks talking about tighter gun control, including several GOP members. An over reaction to inaccurate facts will not help us with our current problems, IMHO. But now we get to have that debate (again and again) instead of working towards many more serious issues the nation faces.