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Quote of the Day: I Never Did Edition

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Gun rights protesters in Albany, NY (courtesy foxnews.com)

“I don’t trust the government to do the right thing anymore.” – Retired factory worker James R. Colloca quoted in Hundreds of protesters call to repeal tough New York gun law [via foxnews.com]

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Robert Farago

Robert Farago is the former publisher of The Truth About Guns (TTAG). He started the site to explore the ethics, morality, business, politics, culture, technology, practice, strategy, dangers and fun of guns.

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  1. I believe we should revert cars to crank start again. The key in the ignition makes it too easy to start and run over unsuspecting illegal aliens, children, stray endangered species at the same time commit bank robberies. All citizens should be forced to carry a 8 pound crank to turn over their car engine so as to keep them from going off willy nilly and causing damage. This would allow the lean forward thinking folk to tackle the offender before they could start their car to committ a crime.

    Makes just about as much sense for guns.

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  2. I work for the government, and I don’t trust the government. The Feds have me the most concerned, particularly with the DHS, IRS, etc. I guess I just don’t feel that every email and text I send needs to be compiled into a massive database which is payed for at taxpayer expense.

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  3. So far all you have seen is this trailer. You really trust this film to be constructive? Many trailers look good, but the actual film was C-RAP! Remember they show the best parts in the trailer to suck you in.

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  4. It’s amazing… here you are in Colorado with an evil “high” capacity magazine.

    And yet you somehow to managed to not kill the other people walking at the far end of that trail…

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  5. MD person here, still waiting for a purchqase from the BEGINING of March, got to have patients like budda around here.

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  6. Looks like a good product, hope it gets play on some PBS stations… could see this in line with a “Frontline”-like presentation

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  7. Street fighting? Meh.

    Fighting is the use of physical force. Gunfighting is the use of deadly force. In most cases, deadly force cannot be used to stop physical force. There are exceptions when the victim of the physical force is old or infirm, or when there is a great disparity in size between a large attacker and a smaller victim. There is also an exception when the attacker is well-trained in martial arts, such as Asian styles, MMA or boxing, where the potential for lethality is much higher that would be in a typical fight.

    Pictures of Martin smoking dope or fighting are important because he’s been portrayed as Saint Trayvon. It will be easier to portray Martin as the aggressor if he was, you know, aggressive. But that alone won’t free Zimmerman, although it certainly takes murder off the table.

    The fact remains that Martin was unarmed. Yes, I know that people have been killed with one punch, but that doesn’t magically turn every punch into deadly force. And the fact that Zimmerman is alive and didn’t even need to go to a hospital shows that deadly force was never applied to him.

    Zimmerman’s best chance for acquittal is to show that Martin tried to grab his gun. Now that would be a threat of the imminent use of deadly force. Absent such a showing, I don’t see how Zimmerman can stay out of prison.

    I didn’t write the laws, so save your flames for someone who did.

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  8. Is anyone taking into consideration the Castle Doctrine that says your car is an extension of your home? How about Non-resident permits from other states, I have one. I paid half of what a Texas permit cost without attending a course for 10 hours. I am a former police officer and have all the training in firearms I will ever need!

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