XPost: alt.politics.democrats, alt.politics.usa.republicans, talk.politics.guns   
   XPost: alt.society.liberalism   
   From: tim.howard@suddenlink.net   
      
   On 1/10/2011 2:06 PM, RD Sandman wrote:   
   > Tim Howard  wrote in news:4d2a5540$0$5568   
   > $bbae4d71@news.suddenlink.net:   
   >   
   >> I assume everyone noticed that CNN was getting a lot of feed from a   
   >> local station named KGUN?  Predictably, CNN did not comment on the   
   >> irony.  But that example just shows how entrenched the gun culture is   
   > in   
   >> Arizona.   
   >   
   > No, it shows nothing really.  KGUN has been KGUN for a long time.   
   >   
   > The station was founded in 1955 by rancher D.W. Ingram, who gave the   
   > station his initials, KDWI-TV. It began broadcasting June 3, 1956.[1]   
   > Shortly afterward, Ingram sold it to H. U. Garrett, who changed the   
   > station's call sign to KGUN on March 14, 1957.   
   >   
   So?  The gun culture has been strong in AZ since before their statehood.   
   >   
   >   
   >    This will probably not be the last such shooting in a strong   
   >> pro-gun state.   
   >   
   > Or any other state including yours.   
   >   
   Perhaps not.  The right-wing is fanning the flames with their violent   
   rhetoric in most every state.   
      
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