General Discussion, Friday, July 1, 2016

Posted on July 1, 2016 by Stella
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Pickett’s Charge

On July 1, 1863, began the largest battle of the Civil War – Gettysburg.

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  2. sandandsea2015's avatar sandandsea2015 says:
    July 1, 2016 at 12:06 am

    My hubby went to many historical battlefields on summer vacation as a kid. His dad is a big history buff and passed that love on to my husband. Best way to learn the real stories as opposed to what’s being taught in school these days!

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  3. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
    July 1, 2016 at 1:43 am

    Yeah, we’re only able to get in as Mary’s AWOL and the gate’s unguarded.

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  4. ZurichMike's avatar ZurichMike says:
    July 1, 2016 at 2:47 am

    Today is also the anniversary of the Battle of the Somme (WWI) — a horrific battle, especially for the Brits, who, in typical amazing ceremonial grandeur, honored the dead so beautifully: Check out the article’s photos. Some will make you weep.
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3667796/We-remember-Queen-leads-night-long-vigil-honur-hundreds-thousands-soldiers-killed-wounded-Battle-Somme-100-years-ago.html

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    • Stella's avatar stella says:
      July 1, 2016 at 8:12 am

      My mother’s older brother, Allen, was gassed October 7th, 1918 at Argonne Meusc.

      It was a truly horrible war. The British lost much of an entire generation of young men, and many thought “why?”

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      • ZurichMike's avatar ZurichMike says:
        July 1, 2016 at 8:33 am

        I read “The Guns of August”– the carnage as described was beyond imagination.

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        • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
          July 1, 2016 at 11:45 pm

          My grandfather, the Brit one, was gassed at Loos – by his own forces. Brits planned on using gas to soften German lines before the attack…and the wind changed. Brits suffered more casualties from their own gas release than the Germans did. Over 1 million gas casualties in WWI, majority Russian.
          With be gassed in WW I and another a German Pioneer office my ending up as a Combat Engineer and a Chemical Specialist was sort of ironic but my service was nothing like the hell they lived through daily in WW I. To me it was the fusion war where traditional face-to-face war met modern industrial slaughter.

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      • Stella's avatar stella says:
        July 1, 2016 at 11:56 pm

        I just realized that I wasn’t clear about my uncle (not that it matters to anybody but me). He was not killed, but lived a foreshortened life.

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    • Col.(R) Ken's avatar Col.(R) Ken says:
      July 1, 2016 at 9:38 am

      Thank you ZM for the Link. It’s just unbelievable, sad, very sad. “The Lost Generation”.

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    • Stella's avatar stella says:
      July 1, 2016 at 9:42 am

      Ode of Remembrance (Laurence Binyon, from For The Fallen)

      They went with songs to the battle, they were young.
      Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.
      They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted,
      They fell with their faces to the foe.

      They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
      Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
      At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
      We will remember them.

      They mingle not with their laughing comrades again;
      They sit no more at familiar tables of home;
      They have no lot in our labour of the day-time;
      They sleep beyond England’s foam.

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      • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
        July 1, 2016 at 11:53 pm

        It is the world’s first ‘modern’ war. Folks forget that there were around 23 million total casualties in that war when the world’s population was only about 1.8 billion.

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  5. ZurichMike's avatar ZurichMike says:
    July 1, 2016 at 2:50 am

    Only time for a quick breakfast today:

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    • sandandsea2015's avatar sandandsea2015 says:
      July 1, 2016 at 3:24 am

      Thanks ZM! Kind of you to share! 🙂 Is it morning where you are? I’m assuming you’ve returned home.

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      • ZurichMike's avatar ZurichMike says:
        July 1, 2016 at 3:36 am

        Yes. Home office day today, which is good since I am still fighting off bronchitis.

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        • sandandsea2015's avatar sandandsea2015 says:
          July 1, 2016 at 6:11 am

          Hope you feel better quick! Sorry you’re been under the weather.

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        • Stella's avatar stella says:
          July 1, 2016 at 7:13 am

          Chicken soup, Mike, and lots of rest.

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        • michellc's avatar michellc says:
          July 1, 2016 at 7:58 am

          At least it’s not strep throat, it seems everyone I talk to has strep lately, from toddlers to the elderly. My daughter and I was talking yesterday and she says she thinks all the illegals are to blame for that as well. lol
          I told her that was part of it probably and another part of it is people have no common sense or common courtesy anymore and don’t keep themselves or their kids at home while they’re contagious.

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          • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
            July 1, 2016 at 9:12 am

            I almost never get sick like this. My throat is sore, so I am going to go to Urgent Care here in a little bit to have them check for strep. I am making a trip to see my grandbaby in a few weeks, so I want to be sure I am completely over whatever this is.

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            • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
              July 1, 2016 at 9:12 am

              It’s all ZM’s fault. 😦

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            • michellc's avatar michellc says:
              July 1, 2016 at 9:33 am

              It’s odd how many people from different parts of the country have strep.
              The good news about strep is after 24 hours on antibiotics you’re no longer considered contagious and usually you feel a lot better after two days of antibiotics.

              If you can see your throat in a mirror and it has white spots, good chance you have strep. When I was a kid I would get strep several times a year and the test always came back positive every time I had pus pockets on my throat.

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              • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
                July 1, 2016 at 9:44 am

                I have known people to have strep without having the pus pockets. That is one reason I am going to get tested. This just started last night, so I really don’t know what it is.

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              • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
                July 1, 2016 at 2:54 pm

                No strep. Just a cold. I called a friend and she gave me a “Poor Baby.” I feel a little better now.

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              • The Tundra PA's avatar The Tundra PA says:
                July 2, 2016 at 12:40 am

                OK, here’s the deal about Strep. First, you can’t diagnose it by looking at it. What looks like classic Strep–red, swollen tonsils, and white shaggy exudate, bad breath, big lymph nodes, fever, no cough–often isn’t; and what doesn’t look like it–just a red throat–often is. Testing is the only way to know. Strep can start with a sudden headache, or a stomach ache, and very little sore throat. Second, it is not the antibiotics that make you feel better, and we don’t prescribe them to make you feel better. Strep is a rapidly-passing infection. You would feel better in about 3 days whether you took antibiotics or not. The problem is that 20% of people with untreated Strep will get a major complication in the kidneys or heart, 3-4 months later. Of course, 80% won’t. But to prevent the complications, we treat everybody with antibiotics. And because the complications happen so much later, you can take the antibiotics a month after your Strep throat and still prevent the complications. The key to feeling better is Tylenol, ibuprofen, warm salt water gargles, sleep. Of course whiskey with honey and lemon is warranted too. Hope everybody is feeling better soon!

                And I just realized that no one will see this except Stella, because I’m so late you’ve all gone to bed. Oh well.

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                • lovely's avatar lovely says:
                  July 2, 2016 at 12:45 am

                  I’m awake and learned something new so thanks Tundra!

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                • Stella's avatar stella says:
                  July 2, 2016 at 1:01 am

                  Hi, Tundra! Michellc will see it too.

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                • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
                  July 2, 2016 at 9:14 am

                  I saw it. 🙂 I saw the doctor yesterday and they did one of those quick cultures and it was negative. But, he said he was sending one out and they would notify me if it was positive. He said this is just a cold. I don’t believe it, because I had a high fever last night, I felt like I was going to set the sheets on fire I was so hot. But, my temp is back down to normal this morning. I don’t have the runny eyes and nose that I associate with a cold. Just a sore throat.

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                  • The Tundra PA's avatar The Tundra PA says:
                    July 2, 2016 at 1:24 pm

                    The Rapid Strep Test (RST) has a 2% false negative rate–will say negative when it really is Strep. At our institution, we do a “long culture” on all negative RSTs for this reason. It takes 2 days, but catches those false negatives. Most people feel better by the time the result comes back, but as explained earlier, you still need treatment to prevent the complications.

                    Your description does sound like Strep, USmom. The culture will tell. In the meantime, do the warm salt water gargles every hour and stay on the Tylenol and/or ibuprofen round the clock. Hope you are better soon!

                    And, BTW, the very worst throat I ever saw in 24 years of practicing medicine, was viral–mononeucleosis. That was one very sick young man, and there was very little we could do for him other than symptomatic treatment. He wanted a medically-induced coma until it was over.

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                  • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
                    July 2, 2016 at 2:33 pm

                    Can I ask what the Tylenol is for? I don’t take anything like that. And, I can stand the discomfort. I also am a believer that the fever is to help fight the bad germs. Anyway, I don’t have much fever right now, just a really bad sore throat. I find it hard to believe it is a cold, since there is some sinus involvement but it is just draining down my throat.

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                  • The Tundra PA's avatar The Tundra PA says:
                    July 2, 2016 at 3:06 pm

                    Tylenol and ibuprofen are simply to reduce pain and fever, which allows you to feel better while your immune system fights off the invasion (by either bacteria or virus) which is causing your symptoms. There are a handful of bacteria which cause upper respiratory symptoms, but there are about 50 different viruses (called rhinoviruses, where “rhino” = nose, which is how we acquire them) which do. Symptoms will vary somewhat from one to the next, and first exposure is usually worse than subsequent ones. If you are sick from a virus, and it is the first time you’ve had this particular virus, your symptom complex may be different from other episodes of viral Upper Respiratory Infection (URI or “common cold”). It usually takes our immune system 10-14 days to conquer an invading virus, and the only thing to do while waiting out that process is to treat the symptoms.

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                  • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
                    July 2, 2016 at 3:12 pm

                    Thanks. I am going to visit my grandbaby in a few weeks. I sure hope I am completely over it by then. I probably will be.

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                  • The Tundra PA's avatar The Tundra PA says:
                    July 2, 2016 at 3:18 pm

                    Yes, you probably will be. But if you have any residual symptoms, don’t kiss or breathe on the baby, and wash your hands with soap and water for at least 20 seconds before holding the baby.

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                  • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
                    July 2, 2016 at 3:29 pm

                    Thanks for the advice. When I went to see her after she was born, I had to fly in and I was very paranoid about picking up something on the flight. So, I washed my hands before I touched her every time.

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        • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
          July 2, 2016 at 12:49 am

          Sorry, guy, I feel for ya but it’s all I got. Welllll….I could say that I’m sorry you’re a little hoarse from your colt, I’ll pony up a pun to make you feel better. If it’s caused by sinus drainage perhaps you’d feel better if you regularly gargoyled? Feeling better yet?

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          • ZurichMike's avatar ZurichMike says:
            July 2, 2016 at 2:16 am

            The bronchitis I have gives me a headache, so I really can’t tell. BTW: the new Bio Pfefferminze Ricola are excellent.

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            • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
              July 2, 2016 at 10:49 am

              Our Ricola selection’s rather limited but I do use them. European makers use different parameters for flavor profiles than do US companies and I find the European ones stronger and more effective.
              I had a bad ‘nasal discharge/Kloten’ and ‘Rhineoplasty’ set of puns but as you already have a headache I’ll pass on them.

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  6. shiloh1973's avatar shiloh1973 says:
    July 1, 2016 at 3:38 am

    Well, it is 12:36AM where I live. There is a raccoon on the roof. The dog is going cujo and the cat is going is freaking out. No sleep for me tonight.

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  7. WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:
    July 1, 2016 at 7:03 am

    TGIF, kids! Good morning!

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  8. WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:
    July 1, 2016 at 8:23 am

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  9. nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
    July 1, 2016 at 8:48 am

    Mornin’ stella! (Smiter of those that ought to be smote) 😎 🍸 (Long Island Iced Tea)
    Mornin’ WeeWeed! (Master Mixologist Extrodinare) 😎 🍸 (Old Fashioned)
    Mornin’ Menagerie! 😎 |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| (Jack Daniels)
    Mornin’ Ad rem! (Queen Felis catus) 🐱 🍸 (Flaming Lamborghini)
    Mornin’ Sharon! 😎 🍸 (earthquake)
    Mornin’ ytz4mee! 😎 🍸 (cosmopolitan)
    Mornin’ partyzantski! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ texan59! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ ZurichMike! 🙂 🍸 (fuzzy navel)
    Mornin’ Col.(R) Ken! (hand salute) 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ czarowniczy! 🙂 |_| ( and Czarina 🙂 🍸 )
    Mornin’ letjusticeprevail2014! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ ctdar! 🙂 🍸 (grasshopper)
    Mornin’ tessa50! 🙂 🍸 (flaming volcano)
    Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (sidecar)
    Mornin’ varsityward! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ MaryfromMarin! 😀 |_| (Mortlach)
    Mornin’ Wooly Phlox! (aka “taqiyyologist”) 🙂 |_| (Roy Rogers)
    Mornin’ Howie! 🙂 |_| (Classic Daiquiri)
    Mornin’ TwoLaine! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ Sha! 🙂 🍸 (Lemon Drop)
    Mornin’ BigMamaTEA! 🙂 🍸 (Harvey Wallbanger)
    Mornin’ cetera5! (aka “Cetera”) 🙂 |_| (Blackberry wine)
    Mornin’ The Tundra PA! 🙂 🍸 (bailey irish cream on the rocks)
    Mornin’ lovely! 🙂 |_| (Backdraft)
    Mornin’ michellc! 🙂 🍸 (Salty dog)
    Mornin’ auscitizenmom! 🙂 🍸 (Kiss on the Lips)
    Mornin’ Margaret-Ann! 🙂 🍸 (White Russian)
    Mornin’ Auntie Lib! 🙂 🍸 (Tom and Jerry)
    Mornin’ holly100! 🙂 🍸
    Mornin’ Pam! 🙂
    Mornin’ ImpeachEmAll 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ Monroe! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ Les! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ shiloh1973! 🙂 |_| (Jack Daniels)
    Mornin’ TexasRanger! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ Ziiggii! 🙂 |_| (B52)
    Mornin’ oldiadguy! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ smiley! (“stuck in spambucket”) 🙂 🍸 (Spanish coffee)
    Mornin’ derk! (“Stellars”) 🙂 🍸 (Mudslide)
    Mornin’ Jacqueline Taylor Robson 🙂 🍸 (Shirley Temple)
    Mornin’ facebkwallflower! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ Ms. Cindy! (aka “Ms Cynlynn” aka “ms cynlynn”) 🙂 🍸
    Mornin’ sandandsea2015! 🙂 🍸
    Mornin’ whiners and complainers! ⭐ 😛 (No drink for you!)
    Mornin’ to people posting that I missed. 😳
    Mornin’ to all you lurkers! 😕

    Also just in case someday; mornin’ to Elvis Chupacabra and F.D.R. in Hell! :mrgreen:

    Breakfast!

    NEW and IMPROVED breakfast with extra bacon for ZurichMike!

    Pastries for coffee!

    ⭐ = Unprintable phallic symbol

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  10. WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:
    July 1, 2016 at 9:28 am

    Who is this clown?? Not that I’d be caught dead eating in Cleveland, but still…….

    http://nation.foxnews.com/2016/06/30/cleveland-chef-michael-symon-theres-not-chance-id-let-trump-one-my-restaurants

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  11. jeans2nd's avatar jeans2nd says:
    July 1, 2016 at 12:42 pm

    Listening to Senator Whitehouse’s comments re: the Navy and global Warming, I thought you all might enjoy a story.

    I live in a small house in a now-small town with my cat. Very few here know, let alone remember, that I am USMC. The one and only thing I have USMC is a small Eagle, Globe, and Anchor charm on a necklace chain, hanging on a corner of my fridge.

    One of the guys walks in my small living room and asks Who is the Marine? I confessed and asked how he knew. “I read your refrigerator.”

    Have a Blessed Day.

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  12. lovely's avatar lovely says:
    July 1, 2016 at 1:52 pm

    Active terror/hostage situation at Holy Artisan Bakery in Dhaka, Bangladesh (20 – 60 hostages) explosion heard, people and police officers shot. Americans thought to be among the hostages.

    Live update: Hostage situation, shooting at Gulshan

    http://www.dhakatribune.com/2016/jul/01/hostage-situation-holey-artisan-bakery-gulshan

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    • lovely's avatar lovely says:
      July 1, 2016 at 2:03 pm

      http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-36687616

      Gunmen take hostages in Bangladeshi capital Dhaka

      It is not clear who the attackers are, although a police officer told the BBC that Islamic militants were suspected.

      Media reports quoted witnesses as saying that “Allahu Akbar”, meaning “God is greatest”, was heard as the attack took place.

      MSM and Obama administration flummoxed as who the perpetrators could possibly be, likely to blame the patrons of establishment for existing.

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      • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
        July 1, 2016 at 2:14 pm

        “Media reports quoted witnesses as saying that “Allahu Akbar”, meaning “God is greatest”, was heard as the attack took place.”
        “Islamic militants were suspected”

        Well, a big “DUH” to them. SMH

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  13. Monroe's avatar Monroe says:
    July 1, 2016 at 2:10 pm

    Yesterday he was Clock boy……coming soon Jihad boy

    Ahmed, 14, arrived in Dallas on Monday after about eight months in Qatar.
    Teen said he appreciated learning about Islam and Quran in new school
    Visited Mecca.
    Activist father who runs for President of ME country.
    Ahmed says he returned to the US with a deeper knowledge of his religion and a desire to change the world.

    Formula for Islamist terrorist = 1st generation on US soil of ME parents + Islam + Mecca visit + activist father

    Just a matter of time. Obama support and the lack of punishment for his bad behavior acts as an accelerant because he knows no one dares to question him even if he wears a suicide vest.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3669892/Clock-boy-Ahmed-Mohamed-thankful-chance-visit-Mecca-learn-Islam-Qatar-nine-months-arrested-bringing-teachers-thought-bomb-school.html#comments

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  14. lovely's avatar lovely says:
    July 1, 2016 at 4:08 pm

    I wonder if any eyes will be opened.

    Hillary’s America

    Dinesh D’Souza

    http://hillarysamericathemovie.com/#trailer

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  15. michellc's avatar michellc says:
    July 1, 2016 at 4:18 pm

    I had to go to the store and this young woman kept yelling at her little boy who looked to be around 3 or 4. I thought she was calling him Epsom, like Epsom salts.lol
    Finally, curiosity got the better of me and I asked her what his name was and she said Espan spelled Espn. lol
    How exactly do you come up with a name like that? It’s like you’re sitting there and can’t come up with a name and flip over to ESPN and think, “that’s a good name.” 🙂
    Good thing his parents didn’t like HBO.

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  16. WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:
    July 1, 2016 at 7:12 pm

    Bar. Swim up!! 😀

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  17. auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
    July 1, 2016 at 9:12 pm

    This is interesting. A new law in Tennessee says that if a business posts a gun free zone, they are responsible for protecting those people and liable if they are harmed.
    ‘Gun Free’ Zone Tennessee Business Liable for Disarming Concealed Carry Holders
    “This bill imposes a duty of care.”‘

    http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/gun-free-zone-tennessee-business-liable-disarming-concealed-carry-holders

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