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Just shoot them out from your speeding car. With luck you'll nail an endangered owl or something too.

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The New Black Panthers regretfully decline to serve that role this time around, due to an newfound unwillingness to be shot dead by everyone from police to random white citizens in the process: "Yo liberal white folks: the fire this time is on youall."

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... and ended up with a life sentence, no parole, like every other black person who has fired a gun and then tried to assert the Florida Stand Your Ground law.

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Or - just guessing here - a GED.

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It's time for a reboot of Key Largo, don't you think?

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I strongly suspect that if Michael Foster had been carrying and shot him dead, nothing (else) would have happened.

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"with the exception of some (not all) of the toddlers present."

You must mean those too young to reach into mom's purse.

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Never know when they'll try to "bait and switch" to screw with your coupons.

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I don't think black people get to stand their ground, unless maybe it's against a muslin. We'll have to wait for a Florida jury to answer the thug vs. terrist question.

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Eventually we'll all order everything online from Amazon and just have their drones drop it to us behind our battlements and inside our moats.

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I think today we have learned (again) that to the common Florida Patriot the only kind of Good Guy With a Gun is a White Guy With A Gun.

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Still here in St Augustine (a college town so fairly sane) in North Florida. Our conundrum is (a) if we go any further north we are in The South, and (b) if we go far enough north to be out of The South we will freeze to death and also die of starvation because high cost of living <i>New England we are talking to you</i>. So here we sit, feeling like we <i>are</i> the last sane people in Florida.

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The Keys make that tat look like a water pistol with very weak trajectory. Either that or something too gross to mention on a mommyblog.

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<a href="http:\/\/up2darack1.u.yuku.com\/gallery\/view\/fid\/230610#.VMHsA9LF-lc" target="_blank">Or...</a>

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Check 'caucasian' on your driver's license application, and claim to have a severe tan when doing your background check. That's what I did. Or gun show.

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Talk about creating a paradox - "good guy with gun". But blah. But good guy with gun. But BLAH...ad infinitum.

Lot of wingnuts will have steam coming out their ears.

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