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Gun Control & RKBA

sarisataka

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5. So why should a woman

Reply to flamin lib (Reply #4)

Fri May 6, 2016, 12:11 PM

May 2016

Who is receiving death threats from an abusive ex, a person much more likely to carry out such threats than Anonymous internet posters, be denied the same option of protection?

Is it because, as one GCRA host put it, her fault for "making poor choices in partners"? Or is it simply that billionaires and former Monsanto executives are more important than working women in New Jersey?

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Watts: 'One tough mothers' relentless in quest for gun sense [View all] SecularMotion May 2016 OP

I bet people that try to go after free speech get a lot of that too. beevul May 2016 #1

Sorry, not going to subscribe sarisataka May 2016 #2

So she hired a man with a gun to protect her while she worked to make it Press Virginia May 2016 #3

Yeah, with good reason because so many 'law abiding' gun owners sent death threats. nt flamin lib May 2016 #4

So why should a woman sarisataka May 2016 #5

Your assumption of who sent what doesn't Press Virginia May 2016 #6

It does sound like a good reason, and she has the right and money to act on her fears. Eleanors38 May 2016 #7