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Tapper Presses Georgia's Abrams on Gun-Control Legislation, She Claims 'Conversation'
newsbusters.org ^ | 11/4/2018 | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 11/05/2018 7:08:01 AM PST by rktman

Kudos to Jake Tapper. On his State of the Union CNN show this morning, not only did Tapper raise with Georgia Democrat gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams the legislation she introduced as a member of the Georgia legislature that would have forced Georgians to surrender their "assault weapons." Tapper then twice pressed Abrams on it as she tried to dance away.

Abrams's weasel word of the day: "conversation." No fewer than five times Abrams claimed she was merely trying to start a "conversation" on the subject. Sorry, Ms. Abrams: when you introduce legislation, you're not merely starting a conversation. You're expressing what in your heart-of-hearts you believe is the best solution to the problem at hand.

Beware Georgians, and gun owners across the country. When liberals say they just want to start a "conversation" about taking your guns away, they will make every effort to turn that "conversation" into reality.

Note: further credit to Tapper for not buying into the gun control enthusiasts' "assault weapons" terminology. Tapper was careful to describe them as "so-called assault weapons," and a bit later spoke of "semi-automatic rifles that are called assault weapons."

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Philosophy; Politics/Elections; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: 11finkelsteinlove; 1a; 2a; banglist; ga
Wait, what? Okay, who spiked tappers coffee? Or did he miss his meds before the show? Someone mess with the teleprompters? Did he ask her about her well armed black panther supporters?
1 posted on 11/05/2018 7:08:01 AM PST by rktman
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To: rktman

NON print:

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/mark-finkelstein/2018/11/04/georgias-abrams-claims-she-just-wants-start-conversation-tapper


2 posted on 11/05/2018 7:08:33 AM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: rktman

Remember this when liberals say they don’t want to take away your gun. They are lying.


3 posted on 11/05/2018 7:17:05 AM PST by circlecity
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To: circlecity

I saw some guy trying to explain her gun confiscation thingy this weekend. She won’t take away any guns, just military style weapons which aren’t guns. Understand it now?


4 posted on 11/05/2018 7:20:42 AM PST by shelterguy
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To: rktman

Confiscating firearms is how you start a revolution or a civil war, not a conversation.


5 posted on 11/05/2018 7:25:56 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

I knew it sounded familiar. LOL!


6 posted on 11/05/2018 7:27:01 AM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: rktman

“Conversation” = We’re coming for your guns!


7 posted on 11/05/2018 7:27:23 AM PST by Gritty (Progressives think that power should only be in expert hands - their own ... Angelo Codevilla)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

I believe the British wanted to take away our guns a few centuries ago. They lost.


8 posted on 11/05/2018 7:28:58 AM PST by shelterguy
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To: rktman

GEORGIA GOVERNOR'S RACE

Black Panthers with AK-47s Campaign for Democrat Stacey Abrams
(They're not really AK-47's)

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/11/vote-or-die-black-panther-democrats-campaign-for-stacey-abrams-with-ak-47s-video/

Democrat Stacey Abrams Admits Her Plans May Require Georgians to ‘Turn Their Guns In’

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/11/04/watch-democrat-stacey-abrams-plans-require-georgians-turn-guns-in/


9 posted on 11/05/2018 7:31:57 AM PST by Vlad The Inhaler (I started out with nothing, and I still have most of it.)
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To: Vlad The Inhaler

I could have sworn they were ‘AR-47s’. Which we all know would mean they are like 32 times more powerful than the more common AR-15.


10 posted on 11/05/2018 7:34:17 AM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: rktman

OK, so Jake asked a good question. But did he tapper?


11 posted on 11/05/2018 7:37:45 AM PST by Migraine
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To: Migraine

Yewwwwwwwwww!


12 posted on 11/05/2018 7:38:50 AM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Gritty

Will not be infringed upon.


13 posted on 11/05/2018 7:39:29 AM PST by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: rktman

Abrams is a full-on commie who lies about that in hopes of fooling the voters and getting elected. On top of that there is something just off about that woman.


14 posted on 11/05/2018 7:40:09 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: rktman

“Conversation”, “Listening Tour”: euphemistic terms that democrat politicians love to use that mean they could care less what people actually think. They could care less what the facts actually are. They are planning to ramrod their agenda through as soon as they get in power.


15 posted on 11/05/2018 7:46:43 AM PST by Nevadan
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To: Migraine

Is Tapper signaling a new CNN after the mid-Terms.

I think it’s inevitable that AT&T (the owners) will put pressure on CNN to become 50% anti-Trump instead of 90%.

I was in Dallas Fort Worth airport a couple weeks ago and actually so some decent non-political programming on the CNN tubes there!

Where there’s a will, there’s a way. And the need to keep the business afloat has a way of sharpening the mind.


16 posted on 11/05/2018 9:09:50 AM PST by poconopundit
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To: rktman
Try and follow this line of thought...

"...My mission in 2016 was to be a part of the conversation. I believe that we have to ban assault weapons in the state of Georgia. But what I’m saying is, as part of my leadership, I’m going to work across the aisle, and we’re going to have a conversation about how we accomplish this..."

17 posted on 11/05/2018 9:35:48 AM PST by skimbell
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To: rktman
I could have sworn they were ‘AR-47s’. Which we all know would mean they are like 32 times more powerful than the more common AR-15.

AR-15?

Would that be the same deadly AR-15 "Assault Rifle" feared by leftists and used by no assault force in the known universe?


18 posted on 11/05/2018 10:37:42 AM PST by Vlad The Inhaler (I started out with nothing, and I still have most of it.)
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To: Migraine

I wouldn’t tap that with my worst enemy’s tap.


19 posted on 11/05/2018 10:38:44 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: NorthMountain

I’d tapdance away faster than Bojangles.


20 posted on 11/05/2018 10:54:53 AM PST by Migraine
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