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Analysis: Why gun controls are off the agenda in America
CNN World ^ | 7-23-2012 | Jonathan Mann

Posted on 07/23/2012 7:54:47 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot

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To: Sir Napsalot
From the article: But in 2008 and 2010, landmark Supreme Court rulings gave that constitutional right sweeping new power, dramatically diminishing the authority of state and local governments to limit gun ownership.

This is palpable nonsense. The Court simply reaffirmed that the constitution means what is says, nothing more. This writer is trying to make it seem like the Court was acting in an ‘activist’ manner when it confirmed the original intent of the words and confirmed the rights of the people.

21 posted on 07/23/2012 9:06:25 PM PDT by Old North State
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To: muawiyah

It would be a step in the right direction.


22 posted on 07/23/2012 9:12:51 PM PDT by Dr.Zoidberg (With (R)epublicans like these, who needs (D)emocrats?)
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To: marygonzo

Hollywood had nothing to do with this either. That movie made a billion dollars and was watched by tens of millions of Americans. Somehow non of the others went on shooting rampages. Guess what, I watched this movie three times, and own guns, somehow I never shot anyone.

Here is a revolutionary idea, lets hold everyone responsible for their own actions, and not blame guns, movies, and other innanimate objects. Censorship and gun grabbing are never the answer.


23 posted on 07/23/2012 9:13:20 PM PDT by BurningOak (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2830849/reply?c=1)
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To: hoosierham
It IS a BAD thing;millions of people obviously have no guns at all.

I read an article at F.R. only a week or two ago about a judge that ordered a battered woman to conceal carry and to carry the court order with her to show to any inquisitive LEOs. The same judge, it was noted, had done this previously, even buying the gun and ammo, out of his own pocket, when the woman couldn't afford it

We need more judges like that.

24 posted on 07/23/2012 9:14:13 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Free people, when presented only with evil choices, create other choices.(EternalVigilance))
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To: muawiyah

“Back in the time of the Revolution it was common for private individuals to own and use cannon that could fire anywhere from 32 to 42 pounds of lead at one shot.”

Indeed.

In the summer of 1775, Col. John Moultrie, commander of the First and Second South Carolina Regiments, rolled 31 nine and 12 pound cannons out of his barn and set them in defensive positions at Fort Johnson on Sullivan’s Island to repel the British sea attack on Charleston, South Carolina.


25 posted on 07/23/2012 9:40:55 PM PDT by sergeantdave (Public unions exist to protect the unions from the taxpaying public)
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To: Sir Napsalot
In 2010, there were more than 30,000 deaths caused by firearms ...

Looks like Hizzoner quit pouring through the statistics before discovering how many of that thirty-thousand were serious miscreants who were permanently stopped in the midst of the commission of some bad behavior.

At least, he kept the information to himself if he did come across it.

26 posted on 07/23/2012 9:47:42 PM PDT by RobinOfKingston (The instinct toward liberalism is located in the part of the brain called the rectal lobe.)
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To: Sir Napsalot

You never hear them complain about the Swiss. Now why is that?


27 posted on 07/23/2012 9:54:20 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Maybe (just my guess) you don’t hear any report of gun violence in Switzerland?


28 posted on 07/23/2012 9:57:45 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: hoosierham

“It IS a BAD thing;millions of people obviously have no guns at all.”

Only one solution to that problem. Start an Adopt-A-Gun program! Don’t forget about the new Take-Your-Gun-To-Work program! Midnight-Range-Shooting will soon replace that failed collectivist Midnight-Basketball program.


29 posted on 07/23/2012 9:58:21 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: RobinOfKingston

Most of them were suicides.
A plurality of the rest were scum killing scum at no net loss to society.
The remainder is divided up between scum killing decent folks and decent folks killing scum.
Firearm accidents are vanishingly small part of that number.


30 posted on 07/23/2012 10:00:24 PM PDT by Little Ray (AGAINST Obama in the General.)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Goals for pro-gunners to obtain in the next ten years

National Constitutional carry.

Common legal ownership of full-auto firearms just like Switzerland.

Any others?


31 posted on 07/23/2012 10:00:44 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: Sir Napsalot
"I can tell you that I don't think there's any other developed country in the world that has remotely the problem we have," - Michael Bloomberg

Yeah, that Freedom is a stubborn problem over here.

Oh, and does Mr. Bloomberg recall a little problem that occurred over in Norway a short while back, when, oh, 6 and a half times as many people were murdered?

What a dumbass bitch Bloomberg is.

I hope the left tries to make gun control an issue this November. If they do, they will get bitch slapped back into the Reconstruction era.

32 posted on 07/23/2012 10:08:42 PM PDT by sargon (I don't like the sound of these "boncentration bamps")
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Disestablishment of the BATFE.


33 posted on 07/23/2012 10:09:01 PM PDT by GenXteacher (You have chosen dishonor to avoid war; you shall have war also.)
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To: sargon
I hope the left tries to make gun control an issue this November. If they do, they will get bitch slapped back into the Reconstruction era.

Thanks for the belly laugh.

34 posted on 07/23/2012 10:14:18 PM PDT by exit82 (Pass the word: Obama is a FAILURE!! Democrats are the enemies of freedom!)
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To: sergeantdave

There are cannons on George Washington’s lawn at Mount Vernon, as well! I can’t remember how many, but there are cannons facing the river!


35 posted on 07/24/2012 2:33:01 AM PDT by dsutah
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To: Sir Napsalot

“I can tell you that I don’t think there’s any other developed country in the world that has remotely the problem we have,” New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said after the shooting rampage in Colorado.”

It is a bad thing, because Commissar Bloomberg can’t have his subjects kowtow to his every whim. We have a limited government (though less so with each passing day) BECAUSE of those guns. The American Revolution didn’t start when England taxed their colonies too heavily; the war actually started when British troops were sent to seize an arsenal.

That fact should never be forgotten; without those weapons the colonists’ cause was lost.


36 posted on 07/24/2012 4:09:27 AM PDT by kearnyirish2
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To: Aglooka

Bloomberg’s utopia has plenty of shootings; it is an un-American toilet. He sought to lay the blame on states with easier access to guns; he can simply set up checkpoints at their toll booths into NYC to stop guns along with the large sugary drinks and trans-fats.


37 posted on 07/24/2012 4:13:49 AM PDT by kearnyirish2
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To: Sir Napsalot
But America seems to be the place the whole world thinks of when apparently ordinary people use guns for grotesque acts of violence.

For one, CNN doesn't know what the "whole world" thinks.

Two, for CNN to say the "whole world" thinks that, even while aknowledging that gun-owning Americans oviously don't think that, makes the CNN writer a liar or at bst illogical.

Three, it doesn't matter what the "whole world" thinks, or even what "part of the world" thinks, because our rights do not come from "the world."

Four, "ordinary" people do not use guns for grotesque purposes. "Ordinary" people know their guns are for stopping people who intend to do "grotesque" things, or for stopping elitists who intend to do grotesque things to our rights.

Five : The reason this "world" they are talking about associates ordinary Americans with using guns for grotesque purposes is the media. It's the same world which ties itself in knots trying to avoid associating muslims with using guns, and bombs, and machetes, and whatever for grotesque purposes.

Six: How come the people who claim carrying an ID to prove you are eligible to vote is a terrible thing and a violation of human rights, are the same people who think every law abiding citizen who owns a gun should be fingerprinted, eye-scanned, microchipped, ear-tagged, papered, photographed, tracked, put on a reservation without access to talk radio, and forced to attend sensitivity training?

38 posted on 07/24/2012 4:51:41 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Little Ray
There are firearms accidents though, and almost all of them involve OLDER weapons.

Almost all of them occur to African Americans ~ !

Which means we need a new gub'mnt program to redress the balance and enable African Americans to benefit from the safety and utility of NEW weapons, just like the white folk and Koreans ~ who you'd never catch without a new, working, still has the odor of packing grease firearm ~ with a supply of safe to handle, fresh off the boat, ammunition that fits the firearm!

39 posted on 07/24/2012 5:30:07 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: piasa
Both thumbs way up.

Except, may I suggest a slight adjustment for #5? - Not only just the media, but also entertainment media (tv, movie, gaming, some music, etc.)

40 posted on 07/24/2012 5:57:32 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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