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Incendiary Image of the Day: Equating Guns with Cigarettes. Again. Still.
thetruthaboutguns.com ^ | 4/4/2014 | Nick Leghorn

Posted on 04/05/2014 9:45:33 AM PDT by rktman

Folks like Moms Demand Action, a campaign run and funded by Michael Bloomberg, keep trying to make the association between cigarettes and guns. It’s a smart move, since the “progressive” movement was very successful in branding those who argued in favor of cigarettes as being in the pocket of “big tobacco” and kept ramming through more restrictions on when and where people can enjoy their favorite tobacco products. In their minds, guns are no different — a scourge on the country with no benefit whatsoever. They even say as much in the copy accompanying this Facebook post . . .

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


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: 2a; banglist; guncontrol
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Guess I'm doubly in trouble. Plus, I'm a denier, a fauxbamacare repealer and I like the Koch bros. I'm a BAD man.
1 posted on 04/05/2014 9:45:34 AM PDT by rktman
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To: rktman
why do i have a hard time believing a cigarette, even a lite one, is a good self defense weapon???
2 posted on 04/05/2014 9:53:20 AM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: rktman

I equate homosexuality with demonic activity.


3 posted on 04/05/2014 9:53:24 AM PDT by American Constitutionalist
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To: rktman

Who ever robbed a bank with a cigarette?


4 posted on 04/05/2014 9:55:47 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: American Constitutionalist

That it is, but how does that pertain to guns and smoking.


5 posted on 04/05/2014 9:56:28 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: rktman

The irony of the liberals -
tobacco cigarettes = bad
cannabis cigarettes = good

I have seen many smokers die young (50s, 60s), but they were able to work at a full time job.
Marijuana consumers rarely work. Don’t know about life expectancy relative to tobacco or average life span.
But on an economic scale, shifting from tobacco to cannabis is bad for overall productivity.


6 posted on 04/05/2014 9:56:38 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: rktman
Guess I'm doubly in trouble. Plus, I'm a denier, a fauxbamacare repealer and I like the Koch bros. I'm a BAD man.

You left one out - you're a racist too.

7 posted on 04/05/2014 9:58:08 AM PDT by Graybeard58 (God is not the author of confusion. 1 Cor 13: 33)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
It doesn't , but the thinking of the left has no logic to it..... but, me equating homosexuality to demonic activity is true...
In other words ? the left's mind does not have truth, but Conservatives know the truth.
8 posted on 04/05/2014 9:59:27 AM PDT by American Constitutionalist
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To: Chode

Funny how much they love their government guns and personal guns of their bodyguards, though.


9 posted on 04/05/2014 9:59:51 AM PDT by DPMD
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To: rktman

The Moms Demand Action ad has a Navy SEAL wannabe cop as the man holding the gun in the picture.


10 posted on 04/05/2014 10:00:51 AM PDT by Antihero101607
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To: DPMD
do as i SAY, NOT as i Do, personified
11 posted on 04/05/2014 10:02:58 AM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: Antihero101607

That would be “moms Lookin’ for a ‘little action’”. If you know what I mean. :>}


12 posted on 04/05/2014 10:03:15 AM PDT by rktman (Ethnicity: Redneck. Race: Daytona 500)
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To: rktman

:>}

Either that’s a weird emoticon to me or my mind is in an impure place right now.


13 posted on 04/05/2014 10:06:24 AM PDT by Antihero101607
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To: rktman

14 posted on 04/05/2014 10:09:08 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: tbw2
"I have seen many smokers die young (50s, 60s), but they were able to work at a full time job. Marijuana consumers rarely work. Don’t know about life expectancy relative to tobacco or average life span. But on an economic scale, shifting from tobacco to cannabis is bad for overall productivity."

I've seen the same thing. Regular pot smoking makes you lazy and lowers ambition. I grew up in the '60's and saw it over and over. Even alcoholics try to maintain a standard of living with their jobs.

The upside of making pot legal is the reduction of profitable criminal smuggling (cartels), killings, less prison population, and I can finally stop hearing the whining potheads.

BTW, why is pot legal in Colorado when it's still a federal offense and the DOJ has said nothing about it? Oh right, it's Obama's DOJ that selectively enforces laws.

15 posted on 04/05/2014 10:15:26 AM PDT by A Navy Vet (An Oath is Forever!)
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Cigs kill more people each year and they still haven’t been outlawed.

The duplicity drips.

Besides, can you imagine robbing a store with a cigarette ?

A lady was filling her tank at a gas station, smoking a cigarette, even though all the signs say not to.

The fumes that came out of the gas tank ignited, severely burning her hands. But it also lit up her arm, too! Instead of rolling on the ground to put it out, she panicked. She took off running down the street.

A policeman car was at the intersection where it happened and he tried to stop her to put out her arm, but she just kept running and screaming.

All the officer could think of doing was to shoot her. This took everyone by surprise.

The officer ran over to her and put the fire out, then called for an

When questioned about his course of action to stop her, the officer said, “My only thought was to stop her. After all, she was waving a fire-arm.”


16 posted on 04/05/2014 10:23:24 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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Thanks rktman.

BILL MAHER: REPUBLICANS ARE INSANE AND SICK BECAUSE THEY LOVE GUNS
Breitbart TV | 4 Apr 2014
Posted on 4/5/2014 1:10:10 PM by kingattax
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3141178/posts


17 posted on 04/05/2014 10:35:51 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Obama is now making Jimmy Carter look like Attila the Hun. /focus/news/3138768/posts)
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To: Chode

Well, lighting a cigarette in a no smoking zone has been known to make uptight people have “dog strokes”.

On the flip side of that, I about wanted to strangle an Army Captain who was standing in a parking lot, surrounded by soldiers who were cleaning equipment with gasoline, and he was literally standing in a shallow pool of liquid gasoline, when he decided to flame up a smoke.

“Sir!”, yelled an NCO standing right in front of his, as he snatched the Captain’s lighter out of his hand. Then the Captain looked at him, puzzled, and reached into his pocket to get another lighter. “Sir!”

Finally, someone said to him that they didn’t mind if his karma was to immolate himself, but we would appreciate it if he didn’t insist we join him in the afterlife just then.

He still had that “deer in the headlights” look to him, so we just asked him to leave.


18 posted on 04/05/2014 10:37:00 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (WoT News: Rantburg.com)
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To: rktman
Winston Churchill

Conservative with tommy gun and cigar

He knew how to live well.


19 posted on 04/05/2014 10:55:35 AM PDT by xp38
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The irony of the liberals - tobacco cigarettes = bad cannabis cigarettes = good

I think someone (s) want Americans to be really stupid...our education is totally dumbed down and the "Irony" of what to smoke has about succeeded in making dim-wits out normal citizens. Where are out Statesmen/women...where are our leaders who have the guts to tell these Politically Correct bureaucrats whose salaries are dependent on a diminishing coherent citizenry's ability to work....that the party is over...America is rudderless....Dartmouth College is the latest to fall to idiots demands.....WSJ this morning....

20 posted on 04/05/2014 11:01:31 AM PDT by yoe
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