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Gun sale surge driven by fear, Obama says
The San Francisco Chronicle ^ | January 14, 2013 | Charles J. Lewis

Posted on 01/15/2013 4:29:06 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

One month after the school massacre in Newtown, Conn., President Obama attributed the recent surge of weapons sales to efforts by gun control foes to arouse fears that the federal government would seize firearms.

Obama said he would unveil details of his "sensible, common-sense" program for tighter gun controls later this week. The president, responding to questions at a White House news conference Monday, said those steps would include "an assault weapons ban that is meaningful," stronger background checks and measures to keep high-capacity magazine clips "out of the hands of folks who shouldn't have them."

Asked at his news conference about the boom in weapons sales amid administration efforts to tighten gun rules, Obama said gun control opponents "have a pretty effective way of ginning up fear on the part of gun owners that somehow the federal government is about to take all your guns away."

The administration's gun control agenda is being fashioned by Vice President Joe Biden...

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; biden; economy; fascism; guncontrol; gunsales; obama; secondamendment
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To: Obadiah

I would like to hear from the “Republicans”, more. Last I heard, we’re a “Constitutional Republic”. WHERE THE HELL ARE THEY???????


41 posted on 01/15/2013 5:02:05 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Great vid by ShorelineMike! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOZjJk6nbD4&feature=plcp)
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To: obama
Resolve ≠ fear


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42 posted on 01/15/2013 5:02:23 PM PST by tomkat ( .. shall not be infringed)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He understands it fully and completely. He just thinks he can ignore it with impunity.


43 posted on 01/15/2013 5:09:34 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (The only thing that Hollywood gets right about guns is that criminals will always get them.)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
WHERE THE HELL ARE THEY?

The reason you hear nothing from them is, likely, because they are statists as well.

44 posted on 01/15/2013 5:18:17 PM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The disarming of America is the crux of this war.

If the Communists can disarm us, they can beat us.

If they fail to disarm us...they cannot win.

45 posted on 01/15/2013 5:21:38 PM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
James O'Keefe has posted a new video, where he and friends visit many NJ journalists' homes and ask them to put up "gun-free home" signs. Hilarity ensues.
46 posted on 01/15/2013 5:23:57 PM PST by rabidralph (http://www.cafepress.com/westernwis)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
I would like to hear from the “Republicans”, more. Last I heard, we’re a “Constitutional Republic”. WHERE THE HELL ARE THEY???????

Like most of us, they are trying to wrap their minds around the inconceivable idea that we are indeed under attack by Communists. Being inside the Beltway means that they lack the distance needed for perspective and clear thinking.

They will be the last to "get it."

47 posted on 01/15/2013 5:25:49 PM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: umgud

Yes I know...you missed my sarcasm......


48 posted on 01/15/2013 5:29:06 PM PST by C. Edmund Wright
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To: Secret Agent Man
“i wish he’d be forced to answer what the definition of the word “infringed” means.”

Exactly. The operative word is “infringe” just as you say. Anything he does to infringe upon a person's right to have a gun, violates the second amendment so any EO causing that, means Hussein must be impeached. He will laugh his head off thinking anyone could do that to him.

I cannot say in polite company what he is.

49 posted on 01/15/2013 5:30:33 PM PST by Marcella (Prepping can save your life today. Going Galt is freedom.)
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To: Da Coyote

Many comments on this thread that I wish I could hit a “like” button to show my approval!


50 posted on 01/15/2013 5:30:54 PM PST by Rutabega (If you don't want me in your personal affairs, don't stick your hand out for my help.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz; 2ndDivisionVet

51 posted on 01/15/2013 5:31:07 PM PST by potlatch (~One Heart Less In My Life~)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He’s right.
It is fear.

Fear of what he may do next!


52 posted on 01/15/2013 5:36:42 PM PST by servo1969
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I went to my local gun shop today and saw that all the ARs were sold and even the older version Mini 14 I sold them a year ago—that was there 2 weeks ago finally got sold.


53 posted on 01/15/2013 5:37:24 PM PST by KneelBeforeZod (I have five dollars for each of you)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

> Gun sale surge driven by fear, Obama says

It is NOT fear, you narcissistic tyrant.

It is DEFIANCE!


54 posted on 01/15/2013 5:43:09 PM PST by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it.)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
"I would like to hear from the “Republicans”, more. Last I heard, we’re a “Constitutional Republic”. WHERE THE HELL ARE THEY???????"

^^^ THIS. I'd like to think they are waiting for the "right time"....but I fear that time has already passed.

But they need to know we are watching closely. I can only speak for myself but if they bow to this without a fight, I'll make it my business to work toward replacing each and every one of them. And it won't be hard to find replacements as almost anyone can do NOTHING.


55 posted on 01/15/2013 5:43:34 PM PST by BattleFlag (The right to self defense, one without which none others matter)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Fears may be well-founded.


56 posted on 01/15/2013 5:44:34 PM PST by popdonnelly
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To: potlatch

57 posted on 01/15/2013 5:44:52 PM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Yo-Yo
So the president said that we have an irrational fear that he is going to take our guns away, then says he’s going to propose banning guns?

It's almost as if nobody is actually listening to what he says, anyway, so he says the most outrageous, contradictory things. At least no-one in the media is calling him on it, and his followers don't notice the fallacies.

58 posted on 01/15/2013 5:48:20 PM PST by Disambiguator
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Dictators can be scary people. Even though Obama looks like a smirking faggot and putz of a man, it’s the weak and puny minded little farts who abuse power when they get it, and Obama, like Hitler, is as punkish as they come, though not as intelligent.


59 posted on 01/15/2013 5:49:00 PM PST by pallis
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To: txrefugee

I was just in WalMart, Pismo Beach, CA- out of ammo due to high demand. .22LR, .30 .30, 45ACP and .38SPL.


60 posted on 01/15/2013 5:49:17 PM PST by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever.u)
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