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Old 01-10-2013, 10:54 AM
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Interesting Perspective: Pravda-"Americans never give up your guns."

Full disclosure: I'm a gun owner (shotguns and rifle) but don't keep them in the house. Always considered myself pro-2nd amendment but not a member of the NRA. My father (ex-Coast Guard) isn't a gun owner, my late uncle (ex-Army & Navy) had a full stock of auto and semi-auto military guns. The Newtown shooting has me personally thinking something needs to be done, but I honestly don't know what. It's really been tearing at me internally. I think it's as much a mental health issue as it is a gun access issue.

Americans never give up your guns
-Stanislav Mishin, Pravda.ru

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These days, there are few things to admire about the socialist, bankrupt and culturally degenerating USA, but at least so far, one thing remains: the right to bear arms and use deadly force to defend one's self and possessions.

This will probably come as a total shock to most of my Western readers, but at one point, Russia was one of the most heavily armed societies on earth. This was, of course, when we were free under the Tsar. Weapons, from swords and spears to pistols, rifles and shotguns were everywhere, common items. People carried them concealed, they carried them holstered. Fighting knives were a prominent part of many traditional attires and those little tubes criss crossing on the costumes of Cossacks and various Caucasian peoples? Well those are bullet holders for rifles.
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