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Alter Compares Obama's Executive Actions on Gun Control to the Emancipation Proclamation
NewsBusters.org ^ | January 5, 2016 | Curtis Houck

Posted on 01/05/2016 7:47:10 AM PST by Kaslin

On the Monday night edition of MSNBC's All In, longtime liberal columnist Jonathan Alter reacted to President Obama's executive actions on gun control by comparing it to President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and remarking how heartbreaking it was for Obama to have met with the families of Sandy Hook victims and "see those six-year-olds stacked up like cord wood."

Host Chris Hayes began the segment with a number of soundbites from the President and Republican presidential candidates opposed to the move before remarking: "While the substantive reason to be concerned about guns seems clear, in a country where in 2015, at least 265 kids under the age of 18 picked up a firearm and accidentally shot themselves or someone else with that firearm, the politics of it seem less clear."

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1 posted on 01/05/2016 7:47:10 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

The EP was not law.


2 posted on 01/05/2016 7:49:26 AM PST by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: Kaslin

It is actually a declaration of slavery, he could not be more wrong.


3 posted on 01/05/2016 7:50:41 AM PST by ThePatriotsFlag ( Anything FREELY-GIVEN by the government was TAKEN from someone else.)
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To: Kaslin

Only to a liberal/progressive/facist

Taking away US Consitutional rights from US citizens is equal to giving US Constitution rights to slaves.


4 posted on 01/05/2016 7:59:33 AM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: Kaslin

The executive actions previewed yesterday are practically meaningless.

Using the Emancipation Proclamation analogy it would be as though Lincoln announced that he was clarifying that slavery was still illegal in the North and legal in the South.


5 posted on 01/05/2016 8:00:51 AM PST by Above My Pay Grade (Donald Trump: New York City Liberal)
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To: Kaslin

"While the substantive reason to be concerned about guns seems clear, in a country where in 2015, at least 265 kids under the age of 18 picked up a firearm and accidentally shot themselves or someone else with that firearm ..."

As I recall, to combat highway fatalities we did not confiscate cars; we taught people to use seat belts. Just like training seat belt use in a car, train people to carry without a round chambered. Train Israeli carry and draw. Young children possess the strength to flip a safety, but not the strength to action the slide. Accidents are few and far between without a round chambered.


6 posted on 01/05/2016 8:01:11 AM PST by so_real ( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
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To: Kaslin

Harriet Tubman carried a gun. Guns freed the slaves, not the Emancipation Proclamation.

Like so many things coming out of this administration involving attempts by the megalomaniac and his sycophants to compare himself to great people, the comparison of his attempts to infringe upon the 2nd amendment to Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation is completely false and spurious.


7 posted on 01/05/2016 8:02:12 AM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Kaslin

What, then, about Holder, Ayres, Dohrn, and Davis’ actions in the 70s? Armed takeover, bombings, killing a cop-and conspiracy to kill a judge?


8 posted on 01/05/2016 8:02:55 AM PST by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: SkyDancer

And it freed no one.


9 posted on 01/05/2016 8:03:25 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (There's a right to gay marriage in the Constitution but there is no right of an unborn baby to life.)
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To: Kaslin

What a self absorbed douche.

CC


10 posted on 01/05/2016 8:10:07 AM PST by Celtic Conservative (CC: purveyor of cryptic, snarky posts since December, 2000..)
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To: Kaslin

Neo-Fascist Lib


11 posted on 01/05/2016 8:11:57 AM PST by RaginRak
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To: Kaslin
“...how heartbreaking it was for Obama to have met with the families of Sandy Hook victims and “see those six-year-olds stacked up like cord wood.”

Odd quote about a sociopath who has no heart to break.

If he REALLY cared about kids in schools getting shot, he would make laws requiring schools to have armed teachers that could’ve stopped the nut who shot them.

Instead, the bloodthirsty Socialist ideals say that they should let as many kids as possible be killed while they wait 15 minutes for the police to arrive.

Think of the glee the demons that control the Democrats must’ve had when in the last century Socialist governments killed tens of millions of their own unarmed citizens.

12 posted on 01/05/2016 8:12:50 AM PST by PATRIOT1876 (The only crimes that are 100% preventable are those committed by illegal aliens)
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To: Celtic Conservative

Jonathan Alter is a humorless brain-fried liberal. When he dies and is buried, stupid sounds like this one will continue to rise from his grave.


13 posted on 01/05/2016 8:14:39 AM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Exactly. I think Lincoln was trying to keep the Border states neutral.


14 posted on 01/05/2016 8:15:11 AM PST by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: elcid1970

I’m well aware of Mr Alters barking moonbat routine. I just wish he would spontaneously combust.

CC


15 posted on 01/05/2016 8:17:22 AM PST by Celtic Conservative (CC: purveyor of cryptic, snarky posts since December, 2000..)
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To: Kaslin

“O” imagines himself to be a “Brown Lincoln”; bravely
bestowing “rights” left and right! Homosexual Rights,
Black Lives Matter Rights, Health Care Rights, Left’s
Rights, Rights No Rights, Whites No Rights, Muslim Rights,
Christians No Rights, Abortion Rights, Fetus’s No Rights.

What’s today’s countdown? 360 Days Left to suffer this
_____________ (fill in the blank)!


16 posted on 01/05/2016 8:18:35 AM PST by Twinkie (Kneel at the cross, Jesus (Yeshua) will meet you there.)
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To: combat_boots
You mean THIS incident? They DID murder the judge with a sawed off shotgun supplied by Angela Davis.


17 posted on 01/05/2016 8:24:09 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Kaslin

Martha McCallum on FoxNews this morning was interviewing a gun regulations supporter.

McCallum asked him whether the new regs would stop typical mass killers and she specifically mentioned the gun violence in Chicago.

Id’ot said that many of the guns in south Chicago come from the rural areas in surrounding states. The new regs would cause those in rural areas to get background checks — before the guns end up in Chicago.

huh?????


18 posted on 01/05/2016 8:31:58 AM PST by TomGuy
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“see those six-year-olds stacked up like cord wood.”

WHAT???????????????????????


19 posted on 01/05/2016 8:32:24 AM PST by Boonie ("Nuke 'em all...Let Allah sort 'em out...)
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To: Above My Pay Grade

executive actions are meaningless

Expect them to be legitimized by the Uniparty.


20 posted on 01/05/2016 8:33:15 AM PST by Ray76 (Vote Democrat. Vote Republican. Do the same thing over and over again. Expect change.)
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