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<blockquote data-quote="lunkerslayer" data-source="post: 115992" data-attributes="member: 217"><p>Correct Dirty, I was making a observation about those (mma) who like the guillotine choke hold, I think it would be much harder to get out if you had the arm.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/12/politics/kim-rhode-rio-olympics-gun-rights-second-amendment/" target="_blank">http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/12/politics/kim-rhode-rio-olympics-gun-rights-second-amendment/</a></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">On Friday afternoon, American shooter Kim Rhode held her bronze. It was her <strong>sixth medal </strong>won across six Olympics on four continents, and she could feel the tears stinging her eyes. In front of her fluttered the US flag, confirmation she is now the first woman to win medals in six straight summer Olympics - her first was a gold back in 1996. Behind her fluttered an Olympic flag at half-mast to honor a Brazilian soldier killed in another spate of Rio gun violence. And those two worlds are forever complicating one of the US’s most-accomplished athletes.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">She is a star shooter and a devoted gun advocate. These facets have become an inseparable part of her identity. Once, her medal celebrations were about her performance on the mat. But in a post-Newtown, post-Aurora America, her Olympics are about the gun she fears is being pulled from her hand</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span><span style="color: #262626"><span style="font-family: 'CNN'"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">US Olympic Gold Medal shooter Kim Rhode is wading into the gun control debate and defended the Second Amendment ahead of her competition in Brazil.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #262626"><span style="font-family: 'CNN'"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #262626"><span style="font-family: 'CNN'"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #262626"><span style="font-family: 'CNN'"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">"We should have the right to keep and bear arms, to protect ourselves and our family," the skeet shooter said in an interview Wednesday with Time Magazine in Rio de Janeiro. "The Second Amendment was put in there not just so we can go shoot skeet or go shoot trap. It was put in so we could defend our First Amendment, the freedom of speech, and also to defend ourselves against our own government."</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #262626"><span style="font-family: 'CNN'"></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="lunkerslayer, post: 115992, member: 217"] Correct Dirty, I was making a observation about those (mma) who like the guillotine choke hold, I think it would be much harder to get out if you had the arm. [URL]http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/12/politics/kim-rhode-rio-olympics-gun-rights-second-amendment/[/URL] [FONT=times new roman][SIZE=3]On Friday afternoon, American shooter Kim Rhode held her bronze. It was her [B]sixth medal [/B]won across six Olympics on four continents, and she could feel the tears stinging her eyes. In front of her fluttered the US flag, confirmation she is now the first woman to win medals in six straight summer Olympics - her first was a gold back in 1996. Behind her fluttered an Olympic flag at half-mast to honor a Brazilian soldier killed in another spate of Rio gun violence. And those two worlds are forever complicating one of the US’s most-accomplished athletes.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=times new roman][SIZE=3] [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=times new roman][SIZE=3]She is a star shooter and a devoted gun advocate. These facets have become an inseparable part of her identity. Once, her medal celebrations were about her performance on the mat. But in a post-Newtown, post-Aurora America, her Olympics are about the gun she fears is being pulled from her hand [/SIZE][/FONT][COLOR=#262626][FONT=CNN][FONT=times new roman][SIZE=3]US Olympic Gold Medal shooter Kim Rhode is wading into the gun control debate and defended the Second Amendment ahead of her competition in Brazil.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=times new roman][SIZE=3] [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=times new roman][SIZE=3]"We should have the right to keep and bear arms, to protect ourselves and our family," the skeet shooter said in an interview Wednesday with Time Magazine in Rio de Janeiro. "The Second Amendment was put in there not just so we can go shoot skeet or go shoot trap. It was put in so we could defend our First Amendment, the freedom of speech, and also to defend ourselves against our own government."[/SIZE][/FONT] [/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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