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Obama marks Newtown school shooting anniversary with call for gun control
Reuters ^ | December 14, 2013 | Mark Felsenthal

Posted on 12/14/2013 10:25:11 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: Standing Wolf

Imdeed, affirmative action has made it very easy for dangeorus losers like him to gain power.


21 posted on 12/14/2013 10:51:10 AM PST by lavaroise
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To: digger48

Nah, demonrats? They are like the young of Israel who were allowed to the Obama promise land because they did not know good from evil, never defaulting to evil.


22 posted on 12/14/2013 10:53:18 AM PST by lavaroise
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To: Biggirl

If one has to hide their weapons, it is time to use them...


23 posted on 12/14/2013 10:53:31 AM PST by JDoutrider
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To: Rock N Jones

“President Barack Obama told aides that he is “really good at killing people.””


24 posted on 12/14/2013 10:53:59 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Instead of crapping all over the 2nd Amendment, put God back in schools and teach/demand respect.


25 posted on 12/14/2013 10:55:24 AM PST by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Why is it as we become more liberal, we have more mass shootings?


26 posted on 12/14/2013 11:00:10 AM PST by realcleanguy
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To: MeshugeMikey

“Obama maybe thinks this Nation won its very freedom with drums and flutes??? “

No, but his history tracher noted an unusual, even unseeming, interest in the drummer boy!


27 posted on 12/14/2013 11:03:01 AM PST by GladesGuru (Islam Delenda Est - Because of what Islam is and because of what Muslims do.)
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To: GladesGuru
by the looks of things...the drummer boy appears to be mildly leery of something here...


28 posted on 12/14/2013 11:05:47 AM PST by MeshugeMikey ( Visit http://icantenroll.com/ In Glitch We Trust....;o})
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I'm for THIS type of gun control:


29 posted on 12/14/2013 11:09:06 AM PST by lightman (O Lord, save Thy people and bless Thine inheritance, giving to Thy Church vict'ry o'er Her enemies.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Wouldn’t want those ‘troubled minds’ voting, now would we?


30 posted on 12/14/2013 11:19:52 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi)
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To: Izzy Dunne

Guess I’ll bid on that new AK I’ve been watching today!


31 posted on 12/14/2013 11:29:12 AM PST by Renegade
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To: lightman
She needs a tactical vest with some 60-round mags to go with that rifle.


32 posted on 12/14/2013 11:34:25 AM PST by Carriage Hill (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
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To: savedbygrace

Saw the live clip on TV this morning. There was a constant and rapid click - click from cameras as still pictures were being taken. I thought the WH official photographer was the only one allowed to take pictures? Was an audio tape of dozens of clicking cameras being played to make it sound like there were many photographers in the room and allowed to take photos?


33 posted on 12/14/2013 11:39:41 AM PST by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Obama calls for gun control if he sees a rerun of “Gunsmoke” What else is new? He’s not going to stop. We just have to stop him and his band of merry commies in the legislature.


34 posted on 12/14/2013 11:44:11 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Waiting for his ceremony for the Bengahzi victims, and the victims of Gunwalker.

How about some recognition for those people who you killed with your ignorant policies, Barak?

35 posted on 12/14/2013 11:48:43 AM PST by Fido969 (What's sad is most)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"We haven't yet done enough to make our communities and our country safer," the president said in his weekly address.

Hey, I agree! But not in the way you might think odumber. We certainly haven't done much to make our people safer. Why, there are still idiotic "gun free zones" everywhere. These are also known as "defenseless victim congregating areas" for any whack-job out there.

We haven't, as a general rule, made our schools any safer. Most still rely on easily bypassed passive physical security measures. Does your children's school have large glass doors or windows? It isn't safe. An attacker can get through those faster than you can be buzzed-in by the office. Most communities still bar teachers and staff from carrying firearms in the school. Thus our children remain virtually defenseless. Gratifyingly, a few school systems have let reality seep in past the anti-gun hysteria and emotional appeals and have evaluated security dispassionately. You can tell which schools these are because you will find armed personnel there that can not only respond-to and stop an incident before it turns into a mass shooting event - their very presence acts as a deterrent to any such event starting.

"We have to do more to keep dangerous people from getting their hands on a gun so easily. We have to do more to heal troubled minds."

Hey I'm all for making it difficult for criminals to obtain weapons. However, I'm not so naive (as so many liberals apparently are) as to believe we can prevent criminals from obtaining weapons. It is this reality that drives my desire to not impede or restrict law abiding citizens from getting weapons with which to defend themselves. Unfortunately, virtually every single "gun control" measure in existence or proposed does virtually nothing to actually impede criminals from obtaining weapons. At the same time, they all make it difficult or impossible for the law abiding to obtain the tools to defend themselves. In short, all "gun control" laws are and always will be failures.

If you really want to heal troubled minds, start with the people who favor disarming innocent law abiding people in the face of the threat posed by violent criminals. Start with asking anyone and everyone who is in favor of gun control if they are: a) woefully or even willfully ignorant on the topic, b) a violent sociopath who likes to see people hurt and killed, or c) a wanna-be dictator and fascist who longs to control the masses. There are no other choices. If you are pro gun-control, you are some mixture of a, b, and c.

You are woefully ignorant on the issue if you do not realize that while 30,000 deaths by firearm a year are regrettable, that is not the only statistic that matters. Subtract the suicides by firearm, subtract the legal and proper defensive uses of firearms that result in a perpetrator's death, and you're left with only a few thousand wrongful deaths a year. Yes, those are still terrible, but put it in perspective. Every year in the US there are between 1 million and 5 million legal defensive uses of a firearm. You don't hear about them because they don't make headlines. A woman threatened in a parking lot pulls a revolver from her bag, the hood runs away. The home invader lurking outside the bedroom window hears the 12 gauge pump racked and runs away. The car jacker pulls the victim from the car, who in turn pulls a gun and the perp runs away. These don't get reported to the police, or if they do no official report is made. That is why the statistics are fuzzy, 1 to 5 million. But these kinds of things are happening every single day, multiple times a day, in your town. Take away the defensive firearms and these violent attacks actually play out. Not theory, not speculation, fact. Every single place that has tried strict gun control has seen significant and long-lasting increases in the violent crime rate, including the murder rate. That's right - ban guns and murders increase.

That leads to the second category. Once you get the facts, you can't possibly believe gun control is a good idea unless you are mentally ill and like the idea of your fellow citizens being violently attacked, raped, and/or killed. If you like the idea of taking away everyone's firearms, and even say 10% of today's defensive firearm uses play out differently in the absence of defensive firepower... You are saying you are in favor of roughly 200,000 additional attacks, rapes, and murders a year. If that sounds ok to you, seek professional help. Now, today.

Finally category c - the power hungry fascists. Not even going to waste words on you. You are the enemy of us, the freedom and liberty loving Americans. If you fancy yourself in this group, and like the idea of a disarmed populace that will be easy to control... Well, myself or someone like me will be seeing you some day.

36 posted on 12/14/2013 12:01:06 PM PST by ThunderSleeps (Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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I agree.

When you go into the gun shop and there’s only 3 boxes of .22LR left, control yourself, think of the others, and buy only 1 BX.


37 posted on 12/14/2013 12:06:35 PM PST by USCG SimTech (Honored to serve since '71)
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To: Paladin2

He is a socialist! What’s new? Look at this and listen to our dear leader, but I think he must be hard of hearing or lacked concentration because he sort of ignored the poor daughter’s question. I guess the moral of his story is, however, that we just don’t need these kind of people around here anymore.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-dQfb8WQvo


38 posted on 12/14/2013 12:16:57 PM PST by Rock N Jones
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’m trying to be the cool aunt and grandma and bought a pink bb gun for my 13 year old granddaughter and tried to buy four nerf dart guns for my three great nephews and one great niece. I was only able to buy three dart guns. Amazon only allows me these guns and they will not sell me any more. Anyone know anything about this?


39 posted on 12/14/2013 12:19:45 PM PST by Mercat
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What was that photo op this morning with Barry and Moochelle lighting candles all about? That was some goofy sh*t! If the Kenyan “messiah” wants “gun control”, I suggest that he move to Kenya or North Korea.


40 posted on 12/14/2013 12:22:15 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Trust No One.)
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