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In actuality, the gun is owned by a municipal police officer, and it was being fired on a private shooting range.  The sidebar comment was just a joking, throw-away retort back to my friend Nicole Boxer.  Jimmy Wales is the gun advocate, not me.  Jimmy Wales is lying about being threatened, as usual.
 
In actuality, the gun is owned by a municipal police officer, and it was being fired on a private shooting range.  The sidebar comment was just a joking, throw-away retort back to my friend Nicole Boxer.  Jimmy Wales is the gun advocate, not me.  Jimmy Wales is lying about being threatened, as usual.
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For any of the ding-dongs who still believe that Jimmy Wales is capable of penning one stroke of truth about me, let me set straight the record: I do not harbor any desire whatsoever -- either tangible or fantasized -- of firing a weapon near, toward, across, sidelong, underneath, above, over, zig-zaggy, in serpentine fashion, or at Jimmy Wales, his family, or his ex-family.
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My joke was spawned by the fact that Jimmy Wales is (or at least was) an avid gun owner and gun rights advocate. I am very distant from Jimmy Wales on this plank in the political spectrum. I suspect that men who feel the need to emphasize their masculinity with frequent [http://web.archive.org/web/20011214134105/http://www.jimmywales.com/shotgun.html firing of their guns at groceries] may be compensating for deficiencies in other armament categories.