Wish the research could add details, such as Home/Property: Shotgun. Personal: a .38 in pocket/purse.
Nice chart but how many of those dems are fudds?
A fudd is just as bad as a gun grabber.
Looks we have them out-gunned,
If you try to comment on the gun range article in the Star.. the hammers of hell will descend on you and boot you.
However, did you notice that even the dems seem a little dubious of Bammy, with the increase in ownership after he slithered in?
Here is another twist. How many democrats say what they are supposed to say and don’t actually tell the truth. If the flavor of the day is anti gun, they say they don’t have one. Same as carbon footprint.
As these sheeple move on to new causes, they speak more freely of the ones they no longer care about.
The graph shows 37% in 2003 and 2004 when everyone was still mad at terrorists. When the democrats decided the war was bad, the number of democrats owning guns went down. How? did they sell them? Note that they really went down when Obama first got elected, probably the height of anti war.
Now they are back up to more reasonable numbers as the war is not such a hated subject since it is obama doing it.
I agree that there is a lot of artsy type voting democrat, and they probably have no gun.
The republicans stay within a couple percent and the democrats swing 10 %. That tells me that the rebublicans basically say the same thing all the time while the democrats lie and say what is appropriate for the setting.
Buy a gun, buy some gold and nonperishable food, spare ammo and cache what you can. Be ready.
It would be interesting to see the charts on the number of well heeled Dems who not only bought guns but gold and cache food.
Anyone with a brain can see this Obama regime are criminally insane and the criminals are running the nation right now. They’ll take your loot, your guns and the food from your mouth if you let them.
I guess this means now there are many more Democrat men that are feeling a little ‘small’in comparison to Republicans. Right, statist trolls? Could this be correlated with the rise in internet pron?
“On their property” could mean “the universe” to many lefties.
Think globally, act locally, be an automaton!
I have a problem with the percentages…if anyone were to call me and claim to be taking a survey and ask “do you have any firearms in your home ?” my immediate answer would be a quick “NO!”….because I’d want to KEEP them…not see them confiscated ‘for my own safety’ or more likely targetted for a break-in…even the dumbest liebral could figure that out.
More interesting than a graph based on party would be a graph based on region or degree of urbanization.
The difference is we Republicans are willing to USE a gun instead of “reasoning” with bad guys.
The graph has two variables combined in one line. Sadly, it might indicate a spike in the number of “democrat leaning” households.
Maybe the recent upswing in Democrats with guns is due to Obama’s comment “we will bring a gun to a knife fight”, so they are getting ready. Considering that we are talking about Dems, a gun will be of little use due to their poor understanding of the physical world.
The increase in Dem numbers is largely accounted for by the firearms “in transit” to the Mexican border as part of Holder’s fast and furious stimulus.
Good point coach–it could show gun owners flocking to lean Democrat, or Democrats flocking to obtain guns, or both, with no clear trend either way. However, given the poll data on independents, independents are leaning away from Obama and his policies, so it is more likely Democrats obtaining guns (but not certain, of course). The interesting question, then, is why are Democrats thinking they need guns in their home? Crime has been falling generally for a decade, so it seems to reflect anticipation of a social crisis. …. Yikes. (But then why have the Republican numbers stayed fairly even–one would have thought them more concerned about a crisis.)
Glad to see Mr. Ford is standing up for gun owners.
The Difference Between Liberals, Conservatives and Realists Question:
You’re walking down a deserted street with your wife and two small children. Suddenly, a dangerous looking man with a bushy beard brandishing a huge knife comes around the corner, locks eyes with you, screams “allahua akbar” raises the knife, and charges. You are carrying a Glock .40 and you are an expert shot. You have mere seconds before he reaches you and your family. What do you do?
Liberal Answer:
Well, that’s not enough information to answer the question! Does the man look poor or oppressed? Have I ever done anything to him or his culture that would inspire him to attack? Could we run away? What does my wife think? What about the kids? Could I possibly swing the gun like a club and knock the knife out of his hand? What does the law say about this situation? Does the Glock have an appropriate safety built into it? Why am I carrying a loaded gun and what kind of message does this send to society and my children? Is it possible he’d be happy with just killing me? Does he definitely want to kill me or would he just be content to wound me? If I were to grab his knees and hold on, could my family get away while he was stabbing me? This is all so confusing! I need to debate this with some friends for a few days to try to come to a conclusion.
Conservative Answer:
BANG!
Realist’s Answer:
BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!
click… (sounds of reloading).
Wife: “Sweetheart, he looks like he’s still moving, what do you kids think?”
Son: “Mom’s right Dad, I saw it too…”
BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! click.
Daughter: “Nice group, Daddy! Were those the Winchester Silver Tips
Right on.
I think this is a bit like Al Gore and his stance on carbon. When they say they are for gun control, they mean no one should be allowed to own a gun, EXCEPT THEM. After all, if everyone has a gun, that’s a little bit too equal for them.
Bemused at 3:54 pm
What’s the purpose of that tired old joke, Bemused?
I’m a gun-owner, I’m against the long gun legislation, I belong to the CPC and am a confirmed supporter of the right wing of Canadian politics. I am pleased with the inroads we have made in the last few years in becoming mainstream in national politics and disabusing folks of the knuckle-dragging neanderthal image the left likes to apply to us. Then along comes Bemused with his ten year stale joke which does nothing but resurrect and give legitimacy the old crap of conservatives being nothing but gun-crazed lunatics. Did you think before writing?
Thanks a lot for nothing.
Get used to it BCer- It happens all the time at this site.90% of the posters here are smart, passionate and full of good information. 10% are morons that can barely string 2 words together and do nothing for the cause.
Instead of spitting on the left and calling them names, we should be trying to bring them to the right through debate backed by fact.
Mr/Ms BCer, did you hear here the news story out of an Ontario University, where a Muslim student wielding a machete attacked a fellow student. The almost victim’s agility saved him from a beheading.
He wasn’t Jewish. His capital crime, in the mind of the Muslim student attacker, was supporting the continued existence of Israel. Had he been accompanied by a wife and two children… how do you think that would have turned out?
That story alone is enough to intimidate entire communities.
The university, a bastion of political correctness, will “commemorate the Montreal Massacre annually in condemnation of Canadian male partriarchy, but rejected establishing a memorial (fully paid) to Aqsa Parvez, a “honour killing” victim.
Where I live, in the west, we have a high rate of violent crime. We now have many “no go” areas of the city, something unheard of a generation ago.
Unarmed, being swarmed by knife, baseball bat, machete wielding thugs is so common, it often doesn’t make the news or is downplayed so as not to scare away shoppers.
Armed robberies using firearms are often no longer carried in the local newspaper.
I’m glad you’re safer where you live, enjoy it while you can.
I couldn’t agree more, ryan. There are times when we are our own worst enemies …… usually it’s when those same morons, with no thought at all, run off at the mouth.
There we go!! See what I mean. Larry at 5:56 pm makes my point exactly even though his gibberish is difficult to decipher. It`s pretty sad.
BCer
actually the worst “to make us look stoopid” is the constant bible thumping in here
we denigrate the lefties for their belief in AGW, and then blair away about a non-provable (thusly non-existant god)
Please the rhetoric is getting unpalatable, if you have a problem with the idea of self defense go back to KOS. The idea that Bemused put forward is how we want the lefties to think of us they need to fear us and we need to make it that way.
My father went to Korea to kill commies not hug them, he taught me well. The only good commie (or criminal for that matter) is a dead one.
“Daughter: “Nice group, Daddy!…. ”
GOOD ONE ha ha!
Bemused said: “Conservative Answer:
BANG!”
That’s because Conservatives know to carry enough gun and can hit what they shoot at. Usually know what “fire discipline” is too.
BCer said: “…ten year stale joke which does nothing but resurrect and give legitimacy the old crap of conservatives being nothing but gun-crazed lunatics.”
Personally I’ve always found that our ideological opponents the Lefties will assert things like that about me no matter what I do or say. Anybody who isn’t guzzling their gun control bong water is by their definition “nothing but gun-crazed lunatic”.
Therefore it is a complete waste of time and energy trying to modify your behavior/speech to stay in their good graces. If they can’t get something on you they’ll MAKE IT UP.
If you really want to defeat these creatures don’t play their game at all. Point, laugh, and if the opportunity presents itself, spit in their eye.
@BCer
quote What’s the purpose of that tired old joke, Bemused? unquote
yes, it’s old…and a bit long past the punchline…but if I have to explain WHY I went to the trouble of looking it up and posting it, then you aren’t quite the gunowner you claim to be and you’re missing entirely what the moonbats are trying to do…forbid us defending ourselves with their stale, useless rhetoric that’s meaningless in the real world when someone is trying to do you harm and there’s no cop within arm’s reach…it’s aimed at them to try and get them to think about the very real consequences of their mindless oversensitivity and if you don’t want them to do that then the battle is already lost…turn in your firearms and report for re-education.
To quote a famous lady “Pleasing your enemies does not turn them into friends”.
What FREE said.
BCer- You were a hall monitor, weren’t you?
Just a few months into Obamba’s office it’s pretty clear everyone went out and bought guns!
Remember trying to buy defensive ammo late 2009 through 2010?
Looks like the loony gun banning left is starting to think about their necks a little more lately.
The current spike is because all the liberals moved into mom and dad’s basement. Dad, having lived through violence and uncertainty has a private arsenal.
BCer:
I understand where you’re coming from, pal. It’s like when those morons in Belleville lit the Quebec flag on fire. We saw it once on TV; Quebec saw it every single night for a year. One single off-hand comment by a right-winger is grist for lefty mills for a long, long time, while a similar gaffe by a lefty is quickly forgiven. (Svend Robinson’s a jewel thief, and he’s an MP; funny how no one ever mentions that.)
And Bemused? If you need to empty two clips into one person to make sure he’s dead, you probably shouldn’t be allowed to carry a gun. The risk of collateral damage from such a lousy shot is too high.
give it up, pal, you missed the point of a JOKE…jokes are supposed to be over the top, that’s what makes them funny…don’t bother digging yourself in deeper trying to turn it into something it isn’t like a liebral mewling over anything that isn’t politically correct…you’ll be trying to rename fairy tales next…I understand it itches a bit when the wings are first starting to sprout but don’t worry, there’ll be a full moon before long and you can stretch them then.
and when the moonbats fly….this is what they drop
now even pictures are banned…and jokes are apparently next.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. –
A teenage girl’s sense of style got her in trouble at the airport.
Vanessa Gibbs, 17, claims the Transportation Security Administration stopped her at the security gate because of the design of a gun on her handbag.
Gibbs said she had no problem going through security at Jacksonville International Airport, but rather, when she headed home from Virginia.
“It’s my style, it’s camouflage, it has an old western gun on it,” Gibbs said.
But her preference for the pistol style didn’t sit well with TSA agents at the Norfolk airport.
Gibbs said she was headed back home to Jacksonville from a holiday trip when an agent flagged her purse as a security risk.
“She was like, ‘This is a federal offense because it’s in the shape of a gun,'” Gibbs said. “I’m like, ‘But it’s a design on a purse. How is it a federal offense?'”
After agents figured out the gun was a fake, Gibbs said, TSA told her to check the bag or turn it over.
By the time security wrapped up the inspection, the pregnant teen missed her flight, and Southwest Airlines sent her to Orlando instead, worrying her mother, who was already waiting for her to arrive at JIA.
“Oh, it’s terrifying. I was so upset,” said Tami Gibbs, the teen’s mom. “I was on the phone all the way to Orlando trying to figure out what was going on with her. It was terrifying. I don’t ever want to go through it again.”
Vanessa and her mom said it’s hard to believe anyone could mistake the design on the purse for a real gun because it’s just a few inches in size and it’s hollow, not to mention Vanessa has taken it on planes before.
“I carried this from Jacksonville to Norfolk, and I’ve carried it from Norfolk to Jacksonville,” Vanessa said. “Never once has anyone said anything about it until now.”
TSA isn’t budging on the handbag, arguing the phony gun could be considered a “replica weapon.” The TSA says “replica weapons have prohibited since 2002.”
It’s a rule that Vanessa feels can’t be applied to a purse.
“Common sense,” she said. “It’s a purse, not a weapon.”
A TSA official at JIA said it’s not that uncommon for passengers to wear something that could be considered a gun replica, but the official encourages everyone to check the prohibited items list, which can be found online or at the airport before going through security.
Bemused: “Common sense,” she said. “It’s a purse, not a weapon.”
Not when a government employee is involved.
I remember a couple of beauties. First was the kid who was not allowed on the plane because his GI Joe had a two inch plastic rifle. Not making it up. reason.com/archives/2002/08/16/doll-disarmament
Then there was the old geezer not allowed on because he had a medal in his pocket. TSA genius said it could be a weapon. What medal was it? The Congressional Medal of Honor. General Joe Foss was the old geezer. http://www.snopes.com/military/medal.asp
Tell the jokes as loud and as often as possible.
BANGBANGBANGBANGBANGclick [reload]BANGBANGBANGBANGBANGclick… S&W .38 Airweight snubbie. Not enough gun. 🙂
While I’ll probably be clubbed for this statement, does it seem to you that the Lib/Dems tend to be girly-men?
On a related item, seems Ford is cranking the Trawna crowd on a similar issue.
http://www.thestar.com/news/cityhallpolitics/article/1095391–council-debating-lifting-of-gun-controls?bn=1#article
Wish the research could add details, such as Home/Property: Shotgun. Personal: a .38 in pocket/purse.
Nice chart but how many of those dems are fudds?
A fudd is just as bad as a gun grabber.
Looks we have them out-gunned,
If you try to comment on the gun range article in the Star.. the hammers of hell will descend on you and boot you.
However, did you notice that even the dems seem a little dubious of Bammy, with the increase in ownership after he slithered in?
Here is another twist. How many democrats say what they are supposed to say and don’t actually tell the truth. If the flavor of the day is anti gun, they say they don’t have one. Same as carbon footprint.
As these sheeple move on to new causes, they speak more freely of the ones they no longer care about.
The graph shows 37% in 2003 and 2004 when everyone was still mad at terrorists. When the democrats decided the war was bad, the number of democrats owning guns went down. How? did they sell them? Note that they really went down when Obama first got elected, probably the height of anti war.
Now they are back up to more reasonable numbers as the war is not such a hated subject since it is obama doing it.
I agree that there is a lot of artsy type voting democrat, and they probably have no gun.
The republicans stay within a couple percent and the democrats swing 10 %. That tells me that the rebublicans basically say the same thing all the time while the democrats lie and say what is appropriate for the setting.
Buy a gun, buy some gold and nonperishable food, spare ammo and cache what you can. Be ready.
It would be interesting to see the charts on the number of well heeled Dems who not only bought guns but gold and cache food.
Anyone with a brain can see this Obama regime are criminally insane and the criminals are running the nation right now. They’ll take your loot, your guns and the food from your mouth if you let them.
The source:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/150353/Self-Reported-Gun-Ownership-Highest-1993.aspx
I guess this means now there are many more Democrat men that are feeling a little ‘small’in comparison to Republicans. Right, statist trolls? Could this be correlated with the rise in internet pron?
“On their property” could mean “the universe” to many lefties.
Think globally, act locally, be an automaton!
I have a problem with the percentages…if anyone were to call me and claim to be taking a survey and ask “do you have any firearms in your home ?” my immediate answer would be a quick “NO!”….because I’d want to KEEP them…not see them confiscated ‘for my own safety’ or more likely targetted for a break-in…even the dumbest liebral could figure that out.
More interesting than a graph based on party would be a graph based on region or degree of urbanization.
The difference is we Republicans are willing to USE a gun instead of “reasoning” with bad guys.
The graph has two variables combined in one line. Sadly, it might indicate a spike in the number of “democrat leaning” households.
Maybe the recent upswing in Democrats with guns is due to Obama’s comment “we will bring a gun to a knife fight”, so they are getting ready. Considering that we are talking about Dems, a gun will be of little use due to their poor understanding of the physical world.
The increase in Dem numbers is largely accounted for by the firearms “in transit” to the Mexican border as part of Holder’s fast and furious stimulus.
Good point coach–it could show gun owners flocking to lean Democrat, or Democrats flocking to obtain guns, or both, with no clear trend either way. However, given the poll data on independents, independents are leaning away from Obama and his policies, so it is more likely Democrats obtaining guns (but not certain, of course). The interesting question, then, is why are Democrats thinking they need guns in their home? Crime has been falling generally for a decade, so it seems to reflect anticipation of a social crisis. …. Yikes. (But then why have the Republican numbers stayed fairly even–one would have thought them more concerned about a crisis.)
Glad to see Mr. Ford is standing up for gun owners.
The Difference Between Liberals, Conservatives and Realists Question:
You’re walking down a deserted street with your wife and two small children. Suddenly, a dangerous looking man with a bushy beard brandishing a huge knife comes around the corner, locks eyes with you, screams “allahua akbar” raises the knife, and charges. You are carrying a Glock .40 and you are an expert shot. You have mere seconds before he reaches you and your family. What do you do?
Liberal Answer:
Well, that’s not enough information to answer the question! Does the man look poor or oppressed? Have I ever done anything to him or his culture that would inspire him to attack? Could we run away? What does my wife think? What about the kids? Could I possibly swing the gun like a club and knock the knife out of his hand? What does the law say about this situation? Does the Glock have an appropriate safety built into it? Why am I carrying a loaded gun and what kind of message does this send to society and my children? Is it possible he’d be happy with just killing me? Does he definitely want to kill me or would he just be content to wound me? If I were to grab his knees and hold on, could my family get away while he was stabbing me? This is all so confusing! I need to debate this with some friends for a few days to try to come to a conclusion.
Conservative Answer:
BANG!
Realist’s Answer:
BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!
click… (sounds of reloading).
Wife: “Sweetheart, he looks like he’s still moving, what do you kids think?”
Son: “Mom’s right Dad, I saw it too…”
BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! click.
Daughter: “Nice group, Daddy! Were those the Winchester Silver Tips
Right on.
I think this is a bit like Al Gore and his stance on carbon. When they say they are for gun control, they mean no one should be allowed to own a gun, EXCEPT THEM. After all, if everyone has a gun, that’s a little bit too equal for them.
Bemused at 3:54 pm
What’s the purpose of that tired old joke, Bemused?
I’m a gun-owner, I’m against the long gun legislation, I belong to the CPC and am a confirmed supporter of the right wing of Canadian politics. I am pleased with the inroads we have made in the last few years in becoming mainstream in national politics and disabusing folks of the knuckle-dragging neanderthal image the left likes to apply to us. Then along comes Bemused with his ten year stale joke which does nothing but resurrect and give legitimacy the old crap of conservatives being nothing but gun-crazed lunatics. Did you think before writing?
Thanks a lot for nothing.
Get used to it BCer- It happens all the time at this site.90% of the posters here are smart, passionate and full of good information. 10% are morons that can barely string 2 words together and do nothing for the cause.
Instead of spitting on the left and calling them names, we should be trying to bring them to the right through debate backed by fact.
Mr/Ms BCer, did you hear here the news story out of an Ontario University, where a Muslim student wielding a machete attacked a fellow student. The almost victim’s agility saved him from a beheading.
He wasn’t Jewish. His capital crime, in the mind of the Muslim student attacker, was supporting the continued existence of Israel. Had he been accompanied by a wife and two children… how do you think that would have turned out?
That story alone is enough to intimidate entire communities.
The university, a bastion of political correctness, will “commemorate the Montreal Massacre annually in condemnation of Canadian male partriarchy, but rejected establishing a memorial (fully paid) to Aqsa Parvez, a “honour killing” victim.
Where I live, in the west, we have a high rate of violent crime. We now have many “no go” areas of the city, something unheard of a generation ago.
Unarmed, being swarmed by knife, baseball bat, machete wielding thugs is so common, it often doesn’t make the news or is downplayed so as not to scare away shoppers.
Armed robberies using firearms are often no longer carried in the local newspaper.
I’m glad you’re safer where you live, enjoy it while you can.
I couldn’t agree more, ryan. There are times when we are our own worst enemies …… usually it’s when those same morons, with no thought at all, run off at the mouth.
There we go!! See what I mean. Larry at 5:56 pm makes my point exactly even though his gibberish is difficult to decipher. It`s pretty sad.
BCer
actually the worst “to make us look stoopid” is the constant bible thumping in here
we denigrate the lefties for their belief in AGW, and then blair away about a non-provable (thusly non-existant god)
Please the rhetoric is getting unpalatable, if you have a problem with the idea of self defense go back to KOS. The idea that Bemused put forward is how we want the lefties to think of us they need to fear us and we need to make it that way.
My father went to Korea to kill commies not hug them, he taught me well. The only good commie (or criminal for that matter) is a dead one.
“Daughter: “Nice group, Daddy!…. ”
GOOD ONE ha ha!
Bemused said: “Conservative Answer:
BANG!”
That’s because Conservatives know to carry enough gun and can hit what they shoot at. Usually know what “fire discipline” is too.
BCer said: “…ten year stale joke which does nothing but resurrect and give legitimacy the old crap of conservatives being nothing but gun-crazed lunatics.”
Personally I’ve always found that our ideological opponents the Lefties will assert things like that about me no matter what I do or say. Anybody who isn’t guzzling their gun control bong water is by their definition “nothing but gun-crazed lunatic”.
Therefore it is a complete waste of time and energy trying to modify your behavior/speech to stay in their good graces. If they can’t get something on you they’ll MAKE IT UP.
If you really want to defeat these creatures don’t play their game at all. Point, laugh, and if the opportunity presents itself, spit in their eye.
@BCer
quote What’s the purpose of that tired old joke, Bemused? unquote
yes, it’s old…and a bit long past the punchline…but if I have to explain WHY I went to the trouble of looking it up and posting it, then you aren’t quite the gunowner you claim to be and you’re missing entirely what the moonbats are trying to do…forbid us defending ourselves with their stale, useless rhetoric that’s meaningless in the real world when someone is trying to do you harm and there’s no cop within arm’s reach…it’s aimed at them to try and get them to think about the very real consequences of their mindless oversensitivity and if you don’t want them to do that then the battle is already lost…turn in your firearms and report for re-education.
To quote a famous lady “Pleasing your enemies does not turn them into friends”.
What FREE said.
BCer- You were a hall monitor, weren’t you?
Just a few months into Obamba’s office it’s pretty clear everyone went out and bought guns!
Remember trying to buy defensive ammo late 2009 through 2010?
Looks like the loony gun banning left is starting to think about their necks a little more lately.
The current spike is because all the liberals moved into mom and dad’s basement. Dad, having lived through violence and uncertainty has a private arsenal.
BCer:
I understand where you’re coming from, pal. It’s like when those morons in Belleville lit the Quebec flag on fire. We saw it once on TV; Quebec saw it every single night for a year. One single off-hand comment by a right-winger is grist for lefty mills for a long, long time, while a similar gaffe by a lefty is quickly forgiven. (Svend Robinson’s a jewel thief, and he’s an MP; funny how no one ever mentions that.)
And Bemused? If you need to empty two clips into one person to make sure he’s dead, you probably shouldn’t be allowed to carry a gun. The risk of collateral damage from such a lousy shot is too high.
give it up, pal, you missed the point of a JOKE…jokes are supposed to be over the top, that’s what makes them funny…don’t bother digging yourself in deeper trying to turn it into something it isn’t like a liebral mewling over anything that isn’t politically correct…you’ll be trying to rename fairy tales next…I understand it itches a bit when the wings are first starting to sprout but don’t worry, there’ll be a full moon before long and you can stretch them then.
and when the moonbats fly….this is what they drop
now even pictures are banned…and jokes are apparently next.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. –
A teenage girl’s sense of style got her in trouble at the airport.
Vanessa Gibbs, 17, claims the Transportation Security Administration stopped her at the security gate because of the design of a gun on her handbag.
Gibbs said she had no problem going through security at Jacksonville International Airport, but rather, when she headed home from Virginia.
“It’s my style, it’s camouflage, it has an old western gun on it,” Gibbs said.
But her preference for the pistol style didn’t sit well with TSA agents at the Norfolk airport.
Gibbs said she was headed back home to Jacksonville from a holiday trip when an agent flagged her purse as a security risk.
“She was like, ‘This is a federal offense because it’s in the shape of a gun,'” Gibbs said. “I’m like, ‘But it’s a design on a purse. How is it a federal offense?'”
After agents figured out the gun was a fake, Gibbs said, TSA told her to check the bag or turn it over.
By the time security wrapped up the inspection, the pregnant teen missed her flight, and Southwest Airlines sent her to Orlando instead, worrying her mother, who was already waiting for her to arrive at JIA.
“Oh, it’s terrifying. I was so upset,” said Tami Gibbs, the teen’s mom. “I was on the phone all the way to Orlando trying to figure out what was going on with her. It was terrifying. I don’t ever want to go through it again.”
Vanessa and her mom said it’s hard to believe anyone could mistake the design on the purse for a real gun because it’s just a few inches in size and it’s hollow, not to mention Vanessa has taken it on planes before.
“I carried this from Jacksonville to Norfolk, and I’ve carried it from Norfolk to Jacksonville,” Vanessa said. “Never once has anyone said anything about it until now.”
TSA isn’t budging on the handbag, arguing the phony gun could be considered a “replica weapon.” The TSA says “replica weapons have prohibited since 2002.”
It’s a rule that Vanessa feels can’t be applied to a purse.
“Common sense,” she said. “It’s a purse, not a weapon.”
A TSA official at JIA said it’s not that uncommon for passengers to wear something that could be considered a gun replica, but the official encourages everyone to check the prohibited items list, which can be found online or at the airport before going through security.
Bemused: “Common sense,” she said. “It’s a purse, not a weapon.”
Not when a government employee is involved.
I remember a couple of beauties. First was the kid who was not allowed on the plane because his GI Joe had a two inch plastic rifle. Not making it up. reason.com/archives/2002/08/16/doll-disarmament
Then there was the old geezer not allowed on because he had a medal in his pocket. TSA genius said it could be a weapon. What medal was it? The Congressional Medal of Honor. General Joe Foss was the old geezer. http://www.snopes.com/military/medal.asp
Tell the jokes as loud and as often as possible.
BANGBANGBANGBANGBANGclick [reload]BANGBANGBANGBANGBANGclick… S&W .38 Airweight snubbie. Not enough gun. 🙂