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Obama talks of limiting some gun use in wake of Colorado massacre
FoxNews ^ | July 25, 2012 | FoxNews

Posted on 07/25/2012 8:10:49 PM PDT by Innovative

President Obama has added his voice to the push for limits on Americans' gun use in the wake the massacre last week at a movie theater in Colorado.

Obama, speaking Wednesday evening to the National Urban League, affirmed his belief in Americans' right to own guns, but he singled out assault rifles as better suited for soldiers than civilians.

"I believe the Second Amendment guarantees an individual the right to bear arms," Obama said. "But I also believe that a lot of gun owners would agree that AK-47s belong in the hands of soldiers, not on the streets of our cities."

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012; backoffbarry; banglist; bhofascism; constitution; democrats; elections; guncontrol; gunrights; guns; obama; obamatruthfile; socialistdemocrats; tyranny; waronliberty; youwillnotdisarmus
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To: FlingWingFlyer
Someone needs to send the Kenyan ***hole a copy of the Bill of Rights.

Wouldn't help. Communists/statists just can't get their head around it. Better to just bury them in the "ashbin of history".

161 posted on 07/26/2012 4:13:06 PM PDT by Max in Utah (A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
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To: StevieRay20
"And no true American would have an AK-47, the communist weapon of choice."

Actually, many American contemporary and prior real combat soldiers (the kind who do thousands of patrol and ambush drills and fire quite a variety of weapons for many hours on ranges--far less than 5% of all military personnel) prefer to own semi-automatic AK-47s.

I don't prefer either in general. Semi-auto AK-47 variants and AR-15 variants each have their better attributes.

But FNs are downright too ugly. ;-) [Wife will bark at me for that, because she used them in her service.]


162 posted on 07/26/2012 5:51:19 PM PDT by familyop ("Wanna cigarette? You're never too young to start." --Deacon, "Waterworld")
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To: tacticalogic

Another fine theory dreamt up by some goof who assumed civility on the part of our enemies....

I like the description, posted by a New Zealander on a Youtube video, from his veteran RSM who took part in Operation Claret in Malaysia in the early 1960s...he said you could always tell the difference between a “nog” who got shot with an AR-15 and one who got shot with an L1A1...the ones shot with the AR would slump forward and into the boat (that they were using to infiltrate)...the ones shot with the 7.62 NATO round of the L1A1 would fly backwards and OUT of the boat!


163 posted on 07/26/2012 6:58:52 PM PDT by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy... and call it progress")
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To: familyop

That’s why we have M14s...or M1As, take your pic. ;-)


164 posted on 07/26/2012 7:07:16 PM PDT by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy... and call it progress")
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To: M1903A1

Great rifles...at huge prices, though.


165 posted on 07/26/2012 7:57:17 PM PDT by familyop ("Wanna cigarette? You're never too young to start." --Deacon, "Waterworld")
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To: familyop

Quality costs.


166 posted on 07/26/2012 8:39:54 PM PDT by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy... and call it progress")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

167 posted on 07/26/2012 9:38:51 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: StevieRay20
And no true American would have an AK-47, the communist weapon of choice.

I'm an Afghanistan and Iraq veteran (military member 15+ yrs), and I have a collection of the things and really like them.

Can't help that the commies made a rugged, dependable weapon.

168 posted on 07/26/2012 9:47:04 PM PDT by SIDENET ("If that's your best, your best won't do." -Dee Snider)
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To: Innovative

Sometimes it’s ok to politicize a tragedy, right?

Just when Democrats do it, of course.

Because they care.

/s


169 posted on 07/27/2012 3:56:55 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: Sola Veritas

“The 2nd Ammendment protects the right of individual citizens to have “military” type arms like “assault” rifles. Any other reading of the language would be ridiculous.”

You’re correct. The USSC decision in “Miller” clearly states that the 2nd Amendment is meant to protect civilian possession of military type weapons.


170 posted on 07/27/2012 5:41:25 AM PDT by Forty-Niner (The barely bare, berry bear formerly known as..........Ursus Arctos Horribilis.)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

Damn right!


171 posted on 07/30/2012 10:50:53 PM PDT by Impy (Don't call me red.)
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