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Raymond Newman Sr.: If Orlando victims had been armed, many might have been spared

What a great country we live in. If you make any disparaging remarks about Islam you are an Islamaphobe. If you make any disparaging remarks about the LGBT community you are a homophobe. So here we have two special, protected groups, one of which just killed 50 of the other group with a registered weapon that the perpetrator had a permit to carry. So much for background checks and all the myriad rules and regulations for firearms. And, if someone in the crowd had been carrying a weapon the carnage might have been limited to just one, the perpetrator. Lets see the MSM spin this one.

Raymond Newman Sr., Modesto

This story was originally published June 13, 2016 at 12:52 PM with the headline "Raymond Newman Sr.: If Orlando victims had been armed, many might have been spared."

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