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Newt Gingrich Stabs Gun Owners in the Back

Katherine Mangu-Ward | December 5, 2011

In my inbox today, a message from Georgia Gun Owners who are grumpy about GOP darling of the day Newt Gingrich's record on gun control. They note his support for restrictions on the gun rights of people involved in misdemeanor domestic violence charges and the fact that he played nice with Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on gun-free school zone legislation. "But the biggest knife that Newt plunged into the back of all Americans and gun owners who wish to defend themselves and their families, was his coming out in support of a national thumbprint database for gun owners," said [D.R. Leonard, Political Director of Georgia Gun Owners]. Hey, at least his choice of weapons is ideologically consistent!

2 posted on 12/05/2011 3:08:39 PM PST by Outlaw Woman ( Hello, Hello....it's only me....I'm everything you can't control...)
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To: Outlaw Woman

But remember only Mitty flip flops and Newt finds the errors of his ways and changes his views based on facts and thats good thing..


8 posted on 12/05/2011 3:13:26 PM PST by skaterboy (Hate=Love....Love=Hate)
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To: Outlaw Woman
Gingrich has never been anything by a ruling class elitist. The question of firearms ownership is the absolute, Vulcan mind-meld issue that divides those who believe that they have the right to dictate the terms of existence to us from those who of us who believe that no such 'right' exists.

Those who presume to tell you that you have no right to defend yourself, your family or your property are not merely holding the the United States Constitution, The Bill of Rights and in particular, the Second Amendment in contempt - what they are really saying is that you have no right to your own life. To them, you are a thing, an animal, or a machine. Nothing more.

They are declaring their supremacy over you by holding the value your life as little more - and often less - than a wheelbarrow full of bricks.

THAT's who we're dealing with. And as history has shown us, the ultimate destination of that outlook is something far worse than slavery.

Gingrich, for all of his talk, is no friend of human freedom.

20 posted on 12/05/2011 3:32:20 PM PST by Noumenon (The only 'NO' a liberal understands is the one that arrives at muzzle velocity.)
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