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Bill Gates Is Going Up Against The NRA
BI - VentureBeat ^ | 8-27-2014 | Gregory Ferenstein

Posted on 08/27/2014 7:42:12 AM PDT by blam

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To: blam

Guess I need to read up on “Initiative 594”. I thought background checks were already required.


21 posted on 08/27/2014 8:35:36 AM PDT by shooter45
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To: blam

Gates joins a long line of high-profile activists in the fighting the powerful gun lobby.

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They aren’t fighting the NRA, they are fighting law abiding citizens exercising their rights.


22 posted on 08/27/2014 8:37:40 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Iron Munro

That would be my take as well. Im rich therefore I can dictate to you. Sorta sad isnt it. The man really doesnt understand money or even much about life.


23 posted on 08/27/2014 8:41:37 AM PDT by 556x45
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To: devolve
"...bring out yer dead"(operating systems)

"I'm not dead yet!" (Windows XP SP4? )

24 posted on 08/27/2014 8:43:12 AM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Shall Not Be Infringed)
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To: blam

Another anti- American sorosian Ahole So many super rich spend so much money in so many ways trying to weaken average people or this republic ( which was designed to strengthen normal citizens by liberty and by recognizing or asserting their inherent rights, including self- defense).


25 posted on 08/27/2014 9:02:46 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ((Brilliant, Profound Tag Line Goes Here, just as soon as I can think of one..) n)
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To: blam

I wonder if the armed body guards that protect Gates when he is traveling about are members of the NRA...?

If so I can’t decide if that would be hypocritically ironic or ironically hypocrite...


26 posted on 08/27/2014 9:06:25 AM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: blam

He’ll have about as much luck with this as his dad had with trying to get a state income tax.

This state is strange, King County is very blue but the rest of the state is very red. Even so, the entire state loves its guns and gun rights. And they don’t much like it when the uber rich attempt to by legislation against the will of the voters.


27 posted on 08/27/2014 9:07:33 AM PDT by CityCenter (Resist Obamacare!)
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To: Stormdog

I works on the executive floor with Gates and Ballmer for 8 years. All the serious security were armed.


28 posted on 08/27/2014 9:08:48 AM PDT by CityCenter (Resist Obamacare!)
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To: blam

Nostradamus predicted loaded fellars uhhh do-gooders like this would arise someday

HIster uhhh Hitler too..

And that people would rebel against them

when they finally awoke to the threat

Of those who seek to play God.


29 posted on 08/27/2014 9:13:35 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Revolution is a'brewin!!!)
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To: Slyfox

‘turning?’

Gates family in Seattle is massively, massively liberal, and always has been.


30 posted on 08/27/2014 9:15:13 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: blam
When asked; “Why do you need one of these in your house…

when you have one of these close by?”

I reply: “Then you don’t need any of these in your house…

because you have one of these close by.”


31 posted on 08/27/2014 9:20:18 AM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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To: blam; GeronL

This isn’t about saving lives, Mr. Gates would like to the world far less populated. It’s about seizing guns.


32 posted on 08/27/2014 10:18:42 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (ISIS has started up a slave trade in Iraq. Mission accomplshed, Barack, Mission accomplished.)
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To: a fool in paradise

bump


33 posted on 08/27/2014 10:19:59 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: blam

I think these rich dweebs do not understand WHY the so called gun lobby is so powerful. The NRA is not a handful of wealthy elites trying to push a political agenda.


34 posted on 08/27/2014 10:31:57 AM PDT by Chuckster (The longer I live the less I care about what you think.)
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To: blam

He’s wasting his money.

Criminal background checks are ALREADY required for firearm sales.


35 posted on 08/27/2014 11:13:14 AM PDT by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: blam
How would a “hack-a-thon” prevent gun violence.

It seems to me that a bunch of liberal punks sitting around hacking other people's computers could lead to an INCREASE in gun violence.

36 posted on 08/27/2014 11:15:54 AM PDT by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: Sergio

EXCELLENT!


37 posted on 08/27/2014 11:23:34 AM PDT by SgtHooper (Anyone who remembers the 60's, was not there!)
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To: SgtHooper

Glad you like it, feel free to use it as I lifted it from another FReeper as well.


38 posted on 08/27/2014 11:34:44 AM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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To: blam

This post comes not long after I read about the 5 biggest Leftist donors.
http://www.mrc.org/special-reports/soros-clones-5-liberal-mega-donors-nearly-dangerous-george-soros

The so-called 1% is liberal and cronyist.


39 posted on 08/27/2014 11:35:43 AM PDT by Mozilla
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To: blam

All the more reason to use Linux instead.


40 posted on 08/27/2014 12:29:02 PM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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