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New Zealand prime minister: 'I do not understand' US lack of action on gun control
Washington Examiner ^ | May 14, 2019 | Julio Rosas

Posted on 05/14/2019 10:47:05 PM PDT by Oscar in Batangas

New Zealand Prime Minster Jacinda Ardern expressed shock at the lack of action in the United States to implement gun control laws.

"You can draw a line and say that does not mean you need access to military-style semi-automatic weapons and assault rifles. You do not. And New Zealand has by and large absolutely agreed with that position," Ardern said in a CNN interview.

“Australia experienced a massacre and changed their laws; New Zealand had its experience and changed its laws," Ardern said, referring to the country's mass shooting at Muslim mosques in March. More than 50 people were killed during the gunman's attack

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


TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; ardern; banglist; crazywomen; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; jacindaardern; mediawingofthednc; newzealand; nra; nzguncontrolfreak; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; secondamendment; smearmachine
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Have your barf-bag standing by in case you want to watch the accompanying video

Please assure me that this creature has NO CHANCE of ever setting policy in the

Land of the Free and the Home of the WELL-ARMED Brave

1 posted on 05/14/2019 10:47:06 PM PDT by Oscar in Batangas
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To: Oscar in Batangas
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2 posted on 05/14/2019 10:51:57 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Oscar in Batangas

No one in the USA gives a rat’s ass what this worthless c... thinks. If we wanted to live in a sh!tty little police state run by a pompous ass we’d move to New Zealand


3 posted on 05/14/2019 10:55:19 PM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: Oscar in Batangas

That’s OK sweetie, you don’t need to worry your pretty little head about it.

WE understand why WE have a Second Amendment, even if you, as one of NZ’s “betters”, never will.

And that suffices...


4 posted on 05/14/2019 10:55:29 PM PDT by null and void (You can't normalize the type of behavior the left is trying to normalize because it isn't normal.)
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To: Oscar in Batangas
I don't understand why there's only a handful of Jacinda Ardern's amateur porn videos on the Internet...

You'd think that a woman so enthusiastic about group sex with rugby teams Down Under would have liked to document more than she has... ;-)

5 posted on 05/14/2019 10:58:23 PM PDT by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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To: Oscar in Batangas

Somebody in NZ needs to give that STUPID TWIT a swift kick in the toucas & out into the street, as it’s patently obvious that she’s a clueless LOSER, as well as an ignorant DUMB-bunny.

THEN the next thing that needs to happen is start a MASSIVE truth campaign in NZ & AUS to change the hearts & minds of the terminally naïve & willfully blinded by FOOLISHNESS/NONSENSE morons, who are DUMB enough to believe that OBJECTS are dangerous in themselves.

Yours, TMN78247


6 posted on 05/14/2019 11:01:32 PM PDT by TMN78247 ("VICTORY or DEATH", William Barrett Travis, LtCol, comdt., Fortress of the Alamo, Bejar, 1836)
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To: kiryandil

Anthony Wiener had them all under lock & key and let only Bill & Hill have access?

(And you know how well THEY would share)


7 posted on 05/14/2019 11:01:43 PM PDT by Oscar in Batangas (12:01 PM 1/20/2017...The end of an error.)
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To: null and void
Amen. I get into it all the time on You Tube with Brits, Krauts, and Canadians . If they're not going on loud and long about what ignorant gun toting rubes we are it's we're troglodytes because we don't have ''free'' health care. Let me tell you Canadians hate us and I have no love for them. I tell they have no f'ing idea how fortunate they are to have us on their southern border instead of Mexico and all of Latin America. I tell them that if they did have Mexico on their southern border Canada would have been over ten years ago. I tell the Bits We The People Of The United States have cared a damn what the British have thought of us since 1776.
8 posted on 05/14/2019 11:04:15 PM PDT by jmacusa ("The more numerous the laws the more corrupt the government''.)
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To: Oscar in Batangas

We kicked the British out. In contrast, New Zealand signed on to be part of the British Commonwealth - just couldn’t give up being subjects of the British crown. Of course Jacinda doesn’t understand the vastly different mindset.


9 posted on 05/14/2019 11:05:19 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: Oscar in Batangas
'I do not understand'

That's because you are stupid!
10 posted on 05/14/2019 11:18:47 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: Oscar in Batangas

[[New Zealand prime minister: ‘I do not understand’ US lack of action on gun control]]

That’s bec ause you have proven that you do NOT grant sovereignty to your citizens- and you do not respect man’s INALIENABLE RIGHT to self protection!


11 posted on 05/14/2019 11:22:21 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: jmacusa
Waste of time, like trying to converse with New Yorkers, Shitcongos, etc.

Alien species, waste of time. Just be prepared to repel them with the force appropriate.

Given recent events, they WILL be coming, in one guise or another.

12 posted on 05/14/2019 11:25:36 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: Oscar in Batangas

Perhaps that’s because many Americans will not, under any circumstance, give them up. Don’t assume because New Zealanders may have spines of jelly that all Americans do as well.


13 posted on 05/14/2019 11:27:22 PM PDT by GreyHoundSailor
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To: Oscar in Batangas

here miss jacinda- lemme explain it to you in my next post!


14 posted on 05/14/2019 11:33:58 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: Bob434

Gun Quotations of the Founding Fathers


"A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined..."
- George Washington, First Annual Address, to both House of Congress, January 8, 1790

"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms."
- Thomas Jefferson, Virginia Constitution, Draft 1, 1776

"I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery."
- Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Madison, January 30, 1787

"What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance. Let them take arms."
- Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Madison, December 20, 1787

"The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man."
- Thomas Jefferson, Commonplace Book (quoting 18th century criminologist Cesare Beccaria), 1774-1776

"A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks." - Thomas Jefferson, letter to Peter Carr, August 19, 1785

"The Constitution of most of our states (and of the United States) assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed."
- Thomas Jefferson, letter to to John Cartwright, 5 June 1824

"On every occasion [of Constitutional interpretation] let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying [to force] what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, [instead let us] conform to the probable one in which it was passed."
- Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Johnson, 12 June 1823

“They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759

"To disarm the people...[i]s the most effectual way to enslave them."
- George Mason, referencing advice given to the British Parliament by Pennsylvania governor Sir William Keith, The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adooption of the Federal Constitution, June 14, 1788

"I ask who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people, except a few public officers."
- George Mason, Address to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 4, 1788

"Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every country in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops."
- Noah Webster, An Examination of the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution, October 10, 1787

"Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached, and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of."
- James Madison, Federalist No. 46, January 29, 1788

"The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the best and most natural defense of a free country."
- James Madison, I Annals of Congress 434, June 8, 1789

“A militia when properly formed are in fact the people themselves…and include, according to the past and general usuage of the states, all men capable of bearing arms…  "To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
- Richard Henry Lee, Federal Farmer No. 18, January 25, 1788

"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined.... The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able might have a gun."
- Patrick Henry, Speech to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 5, 1778

"This may be considered as the true palladium of liberty.... The right of self defense is the first law of nature: in most governments it has been the study of rulers to confine this right within the narrowest limits possible. Wherever standing armies are kept up, and the right of the people to keep and bear arms is, under any color or pretext whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of destruction."
- St. George Tucker, Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England, 1803

" The balance ofpower is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside. And while a single nation refuses to lay them down, it is proper that all should keep them up. Horrid mischief would ensue were one-half the world deprived of the use of them; for while avarice and ambition have a place in the heart of man, the weak will become a prey to the strong. The history of every age and nation establishes these truths, and facts need but little arguments when they prove themselves."
- Thomas Paine, "Thoughts on Defensive War" in Pennsylvania Magazine, July 1775

"The Constitution shall never be construed to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms."
- Samuel Adams, Massachusetts Ratifying Convention, 1788

"The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them."
- Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, 1833

"What, Sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty .... Whenever Governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins."
- Rep. Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts, I Annals of Congress 750, August 17, 1789

"For it is a truth, which the experience of ages has attested, that the people are always most in danger when the means of injuring their rights are in the possession of those of whom they entertain the least suspicion."
- Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 25, December 21, 1787 

"If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no resource left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government, and which against the usurpations of the national rulers, may be exerted with infinitely better prospect of success than against those of the rulers of an individual state. In a single state, if the persons intrusted with supreme power become usurpers, the different parcels, subdivisions, or districts of which it consists, having no distinct government in each, can take no regular measures for defense. The citizens must rush tumultuously to arms, without concert, without system, without resource; except in their courage and despair."
- Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 28

https://www.buckeyefirearms.org/gun-quotations-founding-fathers

 

 

 


15 posted on 05/14/2019 11:34:07 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: Oscar in Batangas

“No Kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave.”
- James Burgh

“Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.”
- Daniel Webster

“Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples’ liberty’s teeth.”
- Author Unknown

“The philosophy of gun control: Teenagers are roaring through town at 90MPH, where the speed limit is 25. Your solution is to lower the speed limit to 20.”
- Sam Cohen (inventor of the neutron bomb)

“The tragic history of civilian disarmament cries a warning against any systematic attempts to render innocent citizens ill-equipped to defend themselves from tyrant terrorists, despots or oppressive majorities,”
- Daniel Schmutter

“If the constitutional right to keep and bear arms is to mean anything, it must, as a general matter, permit a person to possess, carry and sometimes conceal arms to maintain the security of his private residence or privately operated business.”
- David Prosser (Wisconsin Supreme Court justice)

“As a card-carrying member of the liberal media, producing this piece was an eye opening experience. I have to admit that I saw guns as inherently evil, violence begets violence, and so on. I have learned, however, that in trained hands, just the presence of a gun can be a real “man stopper.” I am sorry that women have had to resort to this, but wishing it wasn’t so won’t make it any safer out there.”
- Jill Fieldstein (CBS producer, Street Stories: Women and Guns)

“If you’ve got to resist, your chances of being hurt are less the more lethal your weapon. If that were my wife, would I want her to have a .38 Special in her hand? Yeah.”
- Dr. Arthur Kellerman (famous gun grabber)

“If gun laws in fact worked, the sponsors of this type of legislation should have no difficulty drawing upon long lists of examples of crime rates reduced by such legislation. That they cannot do so after a century and a half of trying — that they must sweep under the rug the southern attempts at gun control in the 1870-1910 period, the northeastern attempts in the 1920-1939 period, the attempts at both Federal and State levels in 1965-1976 — establishes the repeated, complete and inevitable failure of gun laws to control serious crime.”
- Senator Orrin Hatch

“Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms. ... the right of citizens to bear arms is just one more guarantee against arbitrary government, and one more safeguard against a tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible.”
- Sen. Hubert Humphrey

“Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom.”
- John F. Kennedy

“By calling attention to ‘a well regulated militia,’ ‘the security of the nation,’ and the right of each citizen ‘to keep and bear arms,’ our founding fathers recognized the essentially civilian nature of our economy... The Second Amendment still remains an important declaration of our basic civilian-military relationships in which every citizen must be ready to participate in the defense of his country. For that reason I believe the Second Amendment will always be important.”
- John F. Kennedy

“Just as the First and Fourth Amendment secure individual rights of speech and security respectively, the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms. This view of the text comports with the all but unanimous understanding of the Founding Fathers.”
- Attorney General John Ashcroft

“There’s no question that weapons in the hands of the public have prevented acts of terror or stopped them.”
- Israeli Police Inspector General Shlomo Aharonisky

“The great body of our citizens shoot less as times goes on. We should encourage rifle practice among schoolboys, and indeed among all classes, as well as in the military services by every means in our power. Thus, and not otherwise, may we be able to assist in preserving peace in the world... The first step – in the direction of preparation to avert war if possible, and to be fit for war if it should come – is to teach men to shoot!”
– President Theodore Roosevelt

“The ruling class doesn’t care about public safety. Having made it very difficult for States and localities to police themselves, having left ordinary citizens with no choice but to protect themselves as best they can, they now try to take our guns away. In fact they blame us and our guns for crime. This is so wrong that it cannot be an honest mistake.”
- Sen. Malcolm Wallop

Same link as above


16 posted on 05/14/2019 11:40:32 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: from occupied ga
No one in the USA gives a rat’s ass what this worthless c... thinks. If we wanted to live in a sh!tty little police state run by a pompous ass we’d move to New Zealand

Well said Georgia, well said.

17 posted on 05/14/2019 11:44:30 PM PDT by onona (It is often wise to allow a person a graceful path.)
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To: Oscar in Batangas

This NZ ignoramus wouldn’t be able to define, much less recognize a military-styled semi-automatic weapon or assault rifle if one shot him in the ass.


18 posted on 05/14/2019 11:52:49 PM PDT by The_Harlequin
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To: Oscar in Batangas


Shut up, woman. The men are talking. Put on the costume, play the role.
19 posted on 05/15/2019 12:02:48 AM PDT by Rastus
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To: Bob434

Thank you for posting this list Bob. It will be well used by me.


20 posted on 05/15/2019 12:03:35 AM PDT by onona (It is often wise to allow a person a graceful path.)
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