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Democratic Senator: People Getting The AR-15 Are “Buying It To Do Bad Things”
Buzz Feed News ^ | June 20, 2016 | Andrew Kaczynski

Posted on 06/20/2016 6:12:42 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

“They’re not buying it to go out and hunt deer. You don’t need an AK-47 or an AR-15 to hunt deer. They’re buying it do bad things and we need to recognize that and address it.”

Democratic New Hampshire Sen. Jeanne Shaheen said certain types of firearms like the AR-15 are the kind of guns that should be banned. She added that people trying to purchase the weapon — which is popular among American gun owners — are “buying it do bad things.”

“Well, I think people need to have their voices heard, and what I’ve heard from people in New Hampshire is they think there’s reasonable legislation that we can pass including things like looking at the types of weapons that so easy for people to get,” the New Hampshire Democrat said on Mitchell in the Morning on Monday.

“The fact is, the AR-15, the gun that (Omar) Mateen used, that’s a weapon of war; it’s advertised as being able do technologically advances in killing people that previous weapons have been unable to do and somebody who is buying that kind of a weapon isn’t buying it for target shooting,” she said. “They’re not buying it to go out and hunt deer. You don’t need an AK-47 or an AR-15 to hunt deer. They’re buying it to do bad things and we need to recognize that and address it.”

The National Shooting Sports Foundation says there are anywhere between 5 million to 10 million AR-15 rifles in the United States, according to CNBC. The gun used in the Olrando shooting was not an AR-15, but a Sig Sauer MCX rifle, a similar appearing rifle.

Here’s the full interview

(AUDIO-AT-LINK)


TOPICS: New Hampshire; Issues; Parties; U.S. Senate
KEYWORDS: banglist; democrats
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To: TribalPrincess2U

“Hey MF, a mom with at least one kid should have the same firepower as the scum coming at her and her child.”

God made man, but Sam Colt made them equal.

It would seem to be that equality that offends her so.


81 posted on 06/20/2016 7:17:54 PM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: All

“...Are these people on the left really THAT stupid or are they just following party lines????...”

Once I thought about my question I figured I’d answer it myself...

Yes they ARE that stupid....Otherwise they would not be liberal socialists....


82 posted on 06/20/2016 7:20:00 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Yea, smooth bore muskets were. The British infantry were mostly armed with them.

Our frontiersmen, farmers etc., were mostly armed with rifles. The assault rifles of the day.

And the Brits came to confiscate them.

They lost.


83 posted on 06/20/2016 7:20:27 PM PDT by AFreeBird (BEST. ELECTION. EVER!)
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To: Free in Texas

“That’s only so they can finance their musical careers as aspiring rappers...have some compassion”

No one possessed of compassion would commit rap.


84 posted on 06/20/2016 7:20:51 PM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: exDemMom
5 million to 10 million AR-15 rifles in the United States

THAT is a lie....there are 5-10 million ARs in the Ozark Mountains ;)

85 posted on 06/20/2016 7:21:11 PM PDT by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

There is no Bill of Needs, or Wants.


86 posted on 06/20/2016 7:21:53 PM PDT by AFreeBird (BEST. ELECTION. EVER!)
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To: EternalVigilance; All

With 10 to 30 million AR, AK, and M14 civilian rifles out there, this country would be a bullet pocked wasteland if what this nitwit said was even vaguely true.


87 posted on 06/20/2016 7:24:13 PM PDT by libstripper
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If I was going to buy an AR-47 or an AK-15
it would only be to do good with it, like kill
communists or traitors to the Constitution.
Ok, maybe smarmy grifters if they were really deserving.


88 posted on 06/20/2016 7:26:17 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: mrmeyer
The stupid is strong with this one.

Always has been.

89 posted on 06/20/2016 7:29:17 PM PDT by OldSmaj (Voting for Hillary because she is a woman is like eating a turd because it looks like a Baby Ruth.)
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To: DCBryan1

Lol.


90 posted on 06/20/2016 7:29:19 PM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
“The fact is, the AR-15, the gun that (Omar) Mateen used, that’s a weapon of war; it’s advertised as being able do technologically advances in killing people that previous weapons have been unable to do and somebody who is buying that kind of a weapon isn’t buying it for target shooting,” she [Jeanne Shaheen] said

Who are the police, local SWAT, and the federal LEOs at war with then, Jeanne?

91 posted on 06/20/2016 7:30:59 PM PDT by kiryandil (To the GOPee: "Giving the Democrats the Supreme Court means you ARE the Democrats.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Just in case we need to overthrown a corrupt National government who tramples on the Constitution and preys on the citizens of this once great Country.


92 posted on 06/20/2016 7:31:20 PM PDT by wetgundog ("Extremism in the Defense of Liberty is No Vice" -AuH2O)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Didn't Democrat Omar Mateen (D-Port St. Lucie) use pistols.


93 posted on 06/20/2016 7:32:11 PM PDT by MuttTheHoople (Yes, Liberals, I question your patriotism)
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To: AppyPappy
The police have a lot of AR-15’s. What bad things are they doing?

Who are the police at war with?

94 posted on 06/20/2016 7:33:07 PM PDT by kiryandil (To the GOPee: "Giving the Democrats the Supreme Court means you ARE the Democrats.")
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To: dsc

I was referring to mrsmith having compassion, not the aforementioned aspiring rappers, with compassion in this case being defined as all head or heart lung group hits, thus saving society from both mayhem and horrible rhymes.


95 posted on 06/20/2016 7:36:04 PM PDT by Free in Texas (Member of the Bitter Clingers Association.)
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To: jazusamo

“in all states that I know of you need a .25 caliber or larger”.
Not true. I’ve killed dozens of deer legally with .22 rifle rounds. They have to be center Fire, not rim fire rounds.
22-250 Savage 99 is one of my favorites, but my first year Ruger mini-14 was what I took my first deer with. It shoots .223/5.56mm.


96 posted on 06/20/2016 7:39:09 PM PDT by 9422WMR (Look, we are led by a man that either is not tough, not smart, or hes got something else in mind!)
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To: elcid1970

People become Democrat Senators to do bad things.


97 posted on 06/20/2016 7:39:28 PM PDT by kiryandil (To the GOPee: "Giving the Democrats the Supreme Court means you ARE the Democrats.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No, they’re buying them because THIS IS THE GOVERNMENT ABOUT WHICH THE FOUNDERS WARNED US AND IT’S PERFECTLY WILLING TO DO BAD THINGS TO US ONCE WE’RE DISARMED!

WHICH IS PRECISELY WHY WE NEVER WILL ALLOW IT!

Back in the early 80s, I attended a speech by the late Arkady Shevchenko, then the highest-ranking Soviet official to defect to the West. He had been their top guy at the UN.

He spoke, interestingly, at KENNESAW COLLEGE — and we all know what Kennesaw is famous for! I’m proud to have played a small role in helping Mayor Darvin Purdy get that legislation through the Kennesaw City Council.

Shevchenko’s talk dealt with the clear intent of the leadership of the old Soviet Union to somehow take America. He mentioned their ICBMs and the nuclear blackmail threat they posed.

Then he broke from his prepared remarks and offered the audience this wisdom:

“The leaders of my country are as AFRAID OF YOUR 200 MILLION PRIVATE FIREARMS as they are of your ICBMs. NEVER GIVE UP YOUR GUNS.”

Frankly — and, while he had to be careful as he was under FBI protection at the time, Shevchenko alluded to this in his remarks — I’m as concerned about some domestic tyrant (say, a Hillary, Nancy Pelosi, Barack HUSSEIN Obama or Chuck Schumer) as I am about some foreign enemy.

And it is THAT threat about which the Founding Fathers were concerned that prompted them to leave us the Second Amendment.

The BIG question is: WILL WE KEEP IT?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j73SsNFgBO4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg9q9sxJFnA
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98 posted on 06/20/2016 7:40:15 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (This entire "administration" has been a series of Reischstag Fires. We know how that turned out!)
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To: Free in Texas

“I was referring to mrsmith having compassion, not the aforementioned aspiring rappers”

Yeah, I know, but I hate to pass up an opportunity to slam rap, rappers, and rap fans.


99 posted on 06/20/2016 7:43:12 PM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: elcid1970
Eggs Freaking Zackly !!!

Gol Durn it ! The Dems had the house, the senate, and the presidency for freaking YEARS !!!

They could have cake walked any sundance sunshine bills they wanted to !!

What stopped them ????

ok, going to lay down and meditate now, thank you for playing

100 posted on 06/20/2016 7:55:11 PM PDT by onona (Honey this isn't Kindergarten. We are in an all out war for the survival of our Country !)
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