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examiner.com - America waits for the candidates to “go to guns”

Mike

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http://www.examiner.com/article/america-waits-for-the-candidates-to-go-to-guns

SNIP

Everybody remembers that Top Gun (see original movie trailer here) colloquy about air-to-air combat tactics between student fighter pilot “Maverick” played by Tom Cruise and instructor “Charlie” played by Kelly McGilles:

Charlie: A rolling reversal would look well in that situation.
Maverick: If I reversed in a hard cross I could immediately go to guns on him.
Charlie: Yeah, but at that speed it’s too fast. It’s a little bit too aggressive.
Maverick: Too aggressive, yeah I guess when I see something I go right after it.

But so far Maverick’s “going to guns” tactic appears too aggressive for both moderators and candidates at the Presidential and Vice-Presidential debates.

Americans support the right to bear arms, including in public places, by overwhelming bi-partisan margins.

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fighting_for_freedom

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I'm sorry, but would a moderator please go through and delete all these damned stickys? This one only has one reply - from last year!

Half of these danged things only have a few replies, and more from a very long time ago, and almost all are completely uninteresting, unimportant, and furthermore, are a waste of time to have to scroll through every time one wants to see the new topics.


Only make a sticky if it's life-altering. Say, if the US government nukes Middle America.

So, please. Delete all this junk.
 

jeeper1

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I'm sorry, but would a moderator please go through and delete all these damned stickys? This one only has one reply - from last year!

Half of these danged things only have a few replies, and more from a very long time ago, and almost all are completely uninteresting, unimportant, and furthermore, are a waste of time to have to scroll through every time one wants to see the new topics.


Only make a sticky if it's life-altering. Say, if the US government nukes Middle America.

So, please. Delete all this junk.

I agree.
 
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