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View Poll Results: Should Dick Cheney be allowed to use a gun, ever again?
Yes, there should be no restrictions on The Big Dick 2 20.00%
Yes, but only when he's in Texas 1 10.00%
No, but that won't stop him 3 30.00%
No, he made the one mistake he's allowed 1 10.00%
No, and duck if he's within 10 feet of one 3 30.00%
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Old 11-01-2006, 09:21 AM   #1
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Should Dick Cheney be allowed to use a gun?

They say "guns don't shoot people, people shoot people". Since The Big Dick shot his friend Harry in the face, should he ever be allowed to handle a gun again?
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Old 11-01-2006, 09:23 AM   #2
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If you have an auto accident, should you be allowed to drive?
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Old 11-01-2006, 09:35 AM   #3
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If you have an auto accident, should you be allowed to drive?
If the accident is your fault, sometime your license is taken away, and you are forbidden to drive.

But you don't have to pass any sort of skills based test to use a gun. No license to take away.
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Old 11-01-2006, 09:58 AM   #4
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If the accident is your fault, sometime your license is taken away, and you are forbidden to drive.
Based on what I know about the incident in question, the fellow struck by the shotgun pellets was essentially jaywalking. Not exactly the kind of accident that causes licence revocations or rises to criminal negligence. Revoking a driver's licence is a criminal matter.
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Old 11-01-2006, 09:59 AM   #5
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But you don't have to pass any sort of skills based test to use a gun.
Depends on the kind of gun, how it's used, and the jursidiction. Are you proposing that Cheny's hunting licence be revoked? That would follow your analogy.
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Old 11-01-2006, 11:00 AM   #6
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Harry is a bad example, because it was his poor shooting discipline that lead to his taking a face full of birdshot.
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Old 11-01-2006, 11:03 AM   #7
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I was looking for an option that said something like "no, unless he's hunting with Dub"
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Old 11-01-2006, 11:06 AM   #8
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Based on what I know about the incident in question, the fellow struck by the shotgun pellets was essentially jaywalking. Not exactly the kind of accident that causes licence revocations or rises to criminal negligence. Revoking a driver's licence is a criminal matter.
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still blaming the victim, I see.
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Old 11-01-2006, 11:39 AM   #9
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I was looking for an option that said something like "no, unless he's hunting with Dub"

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Old 11-01-2006, 11:59 AM   #10
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I don't think the Veep should be allowed to do anything besides playing with Legos in a padded cell.
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Harry is a bad example, because it was his poor shooting discipline that lead to his taking a face full of birdshot.
Yeah, its right there in the Texas hunting laws (Sec T14 subparagraph 3). "Dick Cheney is allowed to ignore the first rule of hunter safety and point his gun and shoot without seeing his target." As Joan Didion once wrote, "I avoid careless people. It takes two to make an accident."
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Old 11-01-2006, 12:30 PM   #13
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I don't think the Veep should be allowed to do anything besides playing with Legos in a padded cell.
And here we thought it was only Republicans who would lock you up for your politics.
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I want *the Republicans* to lock him up. He can still cash his under the table Halliburton checks over the Internet.
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