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Josh Abbott Band Guitarist Says He Flipped Gun Control Stance Following Las Vegas Shootin
Hollywood Reporter ^ | 10/2/17 | Bryan Reesman

Posted on 10/02/2017 1:22:19 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper

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To: SoFloFreeper

In other words, it’s likely that his position never changed on the issue.

I know an old man who has been mad all of his life, because he was drafted during the Vietnam War to be a helicopter mechanic. He’s been so mad, that he always claimed that he was forced to go from his airframe and engine school to Ranger school and then to be a door gunner. [I’m very skeptical about that.]

He says that he’s against other soldiers and our national defense, because he killed a lot people. Says killing a lot of people in Vietnam made him an alcoholic and made him be mean to his wife, until he recognized the evil of military service.

Says he’s a conservative, but he’s been a Democrat. He continues in churches and other social groups to libel and shame other men with prior service.

Yeah. Sure. [Irony, sarcasm.] The truth that became evident after some research, is that his ancestry shows several generations of male feminists owned by quaking, holy roller harridans wallowing in victimology. The few of those men who did drink—mostly lifelong civilians—were alcoholics.

Characters like him make me sick. They never really became men. They’re jealous of men.


81 posted on 10/02/2017 2:27:40 PM PDT by familyop (12B, National Guard, '89-'96)
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To: DCBryan1
"I’ve been a proponent of the right to travel my entire life. Until the events of last night. I cannot express how wrong I was. We should ban 18 wheelers!"

I was thinking we should nip this problem in the bud... Go right to the root of the problem and stop the breeding of all progressive liberals..!! They seem to be the ones that go off their nut and gun people down in large numbers...

So, I recommend we castrate all the snowflake, millennial types, and their offspring... Well, the ones they don't murder their selves anyway....

82 posted on 10/02/2017 2:47:50 PM PDT by unread (Joe McCarthy was right.......)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Is the arra around Mandalay Bay and others a GUN FREE ZONE? Someone reported it is.


83 posted on 10/02/2017 2:57:32 PM PDT by Tucker39 (Read: Psalm 145. The whole psalm.....aloud; as praise to our God.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

It’s certainly possible that he was always pro-gun control, and found this to be the pretext he needed to come out of the closet.


84 posted on 10/02/2017 3:05:25 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: Mozzafiato

Thanks. I figured him to be a hoplophobe who decided that in the wake of something like this, it was finally a good time to come out of the gun control closet (a closet that confines country music performers because of the typically conservative ideology of its fans).


85 posted on 10/02/2017 3:10:18 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: Amendment10

The shooter was also a pilot. He could’ve flown into a crowd kamikaze style.

Ifs ands or buts


86 posted on 10/02/2017 3:51:51 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Cause we all know that nations with gun control never experience mass killings.


87 posted on 10/02/2017 4:34:27 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

While he’s at it, he may as well reassess knife control, car control, van control, alcohol and drug prohibition, domestic violence control and medical error control.


88 posted on 10/02/2017 4:46:37 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (I was not elected to continue a failed system. I was elected to change it. --Donald J. Trump)
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To: SoFloFreeper

That’s what happens when emotions overpower intellect....


89 posted on 10/03/2017 2:26:11 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: All

I’m guessin’ he’s another rapper/rocker pretending to be country?


90 posted on 10/03/2017 4:57:46 AM PDT by Maverick68
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To: SoFloFreeper

Nearly all of the gun grabbers also support open borders.

Note tagline:


91 posted on 10/03/2017 6:26:28 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (Support gun control so that undocumented border crossers can sell machine guns.)
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To: DoughtyOne

I understand that feeling that’s surging through the guy, and I’m willing to temporize this sentiment.

First of all, infringing gun rights requires a constitutional amendment to do it properly.

Secondly, if we must have gun control, it should be a state power, not federal.

Thirdly, guns with clips [magazines] which allow such fast reloads, and if they are converted from semi-automatic, they overheat. Therefore, if there MUST be gun control, it is a severe overreach for this event to trigger limiting too much — one clip-loaded semi automatic rifle per citizen would not make this kind of mass murder very likely.

Fourthly, without secure borders, machineguns can be smuggled across th border. So, SAFE BORDERS FIRST. [Note tagline.]

Thirdly, if there absolutely must be


92 posted on 10/03/2017 6:31:30 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (Support gun control so that undocumented border crossers can sell machine guns.)
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To: DoughtyOne

Research and discussion is being concentrated here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3591183/posts?page=199#199

[Such as a link to this thread.]

FRegards....


93 posted on 10/03/2017 6:35:15 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (Support gun control so that undocumented border crossers can sell machine guns.)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

While I understand why you said the things you did, I am not on board more gun control. If the laws we have didn’t prevent this, NOTHING EVER WILL.

As for states coming up with their own laws to infringe on our 2nd Amendment rights, why is it they can do that, but if they come up with some law that modifies racial rights, it would be ruled unConstitutional?

The U. S. Constitution is there for a reason. It assures every citizen certain rights, over and above what the government can deny them.

States should not be given the right to supersede the U. S. Constitution.


94 posted on 10/03/2017 11:34:35 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (John McBane is the turd in the national punch-bowl.)
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To: ConservativeWarrior

I assumed when they said they were “illegal”, there was something illegal about them. Of course, one should never do that. My bad.


95 posted on 10/03/2017 3:20:49 PM PDT by I still care (The left's goal never was tolerance. It always was fascism.)
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To: SoFloFreeper; Arthur Wildfire! March; NFHale; stephenjohnbanker; BillyBoy; fieldmarshaldj; ...

Dumb wuss.

He was too afraid to go for his gun therefore it was “useless”. The gun was fine buddy, it’s you that’s useless.

An aside, the shooter reportedly was looking to hit other concerts first, a homage to what happened in England? But the FBI insists he wasn’t ISIS.


96 posted on 10/03/2017 6:16:12 PM PDT by Impy (The democrat party is the enemy of your family and civilization itself, forget that at your peril.)
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To: Impy; NFHale; stephenjohnbanker; BillyBoy; fieldmarshaldj

“The gun was fine buddy, it’s you that’s useless.”

PREACH!!!


97 posted on 10/03/2017 8:33:23 PM PDT by GOPsterinMA (I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
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