Gun-toting Texans prefer GOP
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 6:38 pm
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Gun-toting Texans prefer GOP
and David Saleh Rauf - Express-News
Among the assault rifles and razor-sharp throwing stars for sale at a recent Freeman Coliseum gun show, fierce loyalty to John McCain also was on display. Lit by flashing red lights and imprinted on buttons, his name greeted browsers at the booths of dealers who consider this year's presidential contest a momentous occasion.
“This election is the most important election in my lifetime,” said Sheryl Loughlin, a 62-year-old Cibolo resident who wore a “No B.O.” (Barack Obama) button high on her shirt.
At a booth beside her carbine-dealing husband, Loughlin was hawking curiosities that included a stack of Operation Desert Shield trading cards with the head of former President Bush at the top of the deck. Born in Jennings, La., she recalled a poor but contented childhood of “rice-threshing, hog-butchering (and) milked cows.”
And guns were ever-present.
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