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To: koan who wrote (36981)	1/4/2013 12:47:35 PM
From: d[-_-]b	3 Recommendations Respond to of 85487

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To: koan who wrote (36981)	1/4/2013 1:10:17 PM
From: longnshort	2 Recommendations Respond to of 85487

did guns save slave lives ?? every study says so

To: koan who wrote (36981)	1/4/2013 1:28:44 PM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

Guns save lives and I know of crimes averted because the potential victim was armed myself. I'll mention my first wife. Years before we met, she was driving at night to visit her sister in another state. Stopping at a gas station / convenience store she saw a guy staring at her. After she left, the guy showed up behind her, drove beside her motioning for her to pull over. He pulled ahead and slowed down so she passed him. He sped up and drove beside her not letting her return to the right lane. She had a small handgun, turned on her inside car light and pointed at the guy driving beside her, mouthing 'You want this, you want this?' He hit his brakes and she drove on and never saw him again. What would have happened?

To: koan who wrote (36981)	1/4/2013 1:40:46 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 85487

Does God exist? Watch this space -> Barney Frank: I Want The Massachusetts Senate Appointment - The Huffington Post Former Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), who just left the House of Representatives Thursday after 32 years, said Friday that he has told Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick (D) that he would like an interim appointment to fill the Senate seat that would open if Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) is confirmed as secretary of state. "A few weeks ago, I said I wasn't interested. It was kind of like, you're about to graduate and they said, you've got to go to summer school. But that [fiscal cliff] deal now means that February, March, and April are going to be among the most important months in American financial history," he said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe." "Yes, in fact, I'm not going to be coy, it's not anything I've ever been good at. I've told the governor that I would now like, frankly, to be a part of that. It's only a three-month period, I wouldn't want to do anything more, but to be honest, it's a little arrogant." Said Frank, "Coach, put me in." The placeholder seat would open in the Senate between Kerry's exit and a special election for the remainder of his term, expected in early summer. Patrick has said that he is strongly leaning toward appointing a caretaker for the Senate seat, as happened after the death of former Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) Frank, 72, has said that he has no interest in running for the Senate seat in a special election, but that he wouldn't refuse an appointment. Frank, former chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, played a pivotal role in both the negotiations over the Troubled Asset Relief Program and financial reform, where he passed legislation known as Dodd-Frank. Other names mentioned for the interim appointment have included Kennedy's widow, Victoria Kennedy, and former Gov. Michael Dukakis (D), who said he wasn't interested.