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In reply to the discussion: 80-year-old woman shoots and kills young intruder after he stabs her husband [View all]beardown
(363 posts)53. Amen to over technical elitists
I with you Louis.
I had a bad pain in my back and my doctor said we'd need to do some x-rays and most likely MRI's and possibly exploratory surgery. Fortunately, for me. While I was having a beer at a bar the drunk next to me said that if I just took several Advils and hang upside down from the monkey bars that it'd cure my back. Now while it's true that I ruptured two disks when I tried it and now I'm in a wheel chair for the next several months, but I'm not going to let that force me to let knowledgeable techno-elites tell me what to do.
Screw the techs, go with truthiness and your gut baby.
Egads, I've lived long enough to not only see where ignorance is now a virtue in America, but to have posters rally around it.
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80-year-old woman shoots and kills young intruder after he stabs her husband [View all]
TeddyR
Apr 2016
OP
"And I'll just bet you and I are nowhere near alone in that." You certainly aren't!
friendly_iconoclast
Apr 2016
#30
All 80 yo women are expected to have the stamina and strength to defeat a knife armed 25 yo...
Marengo
Apr 2016
#27
This news situation rarely happens. So, "what if possession saves ONE precious life"?
vkkv
Apr 2016
#11
Wow, that come back has GOT to be the most childish thing anyone could come up with.
vkkv
Apr 2016
#34
Semi-auto refers to the loading of the next round AUTOMATICALLY by blow-back method.
vkkv
Apr 2016
#38
I wonder if that one would be okay with legislating women's reproductive rights...
Marengo
May 2016
#56