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Harry Reid Mocks 'Imagined Tyranny' in Statement Supporting Assault Weapons Ban
Twitter ^ | 9:48 a.m. EDT, Wednesday, April 17, 2013 | Sen. Harry Reid

Posted on 04/17/2013 6:53:27 AM PDT by kristinn

"I will vote for assault weapons ban because maintaining law and order and saving lives is more important than preventing imagined tyranny."


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To: Darksheare

Democrats/Liberals would love nothing better than recreating the 3rd Reich of old Nazi Germany...or at least some kind of tyrannical oppression Police State. N.Korea a shining light on the hill for the hardcore leftists.


21 posted on 04/17/2013 7:04:13 AM PDT by OldArmy52 (The question is not whether Obama ever lies, but whether he ever tells the truth.)
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Nevada reporter Jon Ralston is live Tweeting Reid speaking:

Reid: "Protect your home and your family, to hunt, to target practice..you do not need an assault weapon to defend yourself or..property."

Reid: "We do not need to arm ourself against the army or the police. The United States is not out to get us." Wow. This will get blowback.

Reid talks about living in "the real world, not the conspiratorial world." I think his NRA grade is going down.

Reid talks about "keeping weapons of war off the streets." He is making a passionate (for him) defense of weapons ban.

Reid: "That's why I will vote 4 Dianne Feinstein's assault weapons ban." Derides those who "believe in conspiracy theories and false flags."

Reid also a YES on banning large magazines.

Reid says "when went bird-hunting you gave birds a sporting chance....don't people deserve as much protection as birds?" Um....

Reid: "I believe if we can save the life of a single American, we owe it to ourselves to try."

Reid talks of courage. "Today I choose to vote my conscience...." What about other days? #tooeasy

Reid appears emotional at end of speech. Very unusual for him, as was intensity and language of that speech on guns.

23 posted on 04/17/2013 7:05:24 AM PDT by kristinn (Welcome to the Soviet States of Obama)
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To: Truth29

“The government is us”

a phrase used by leftists - look for it.

It justifies, in their minds, anything the government does.


24 posted on 04/17/2013 7:05:43 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: kristinn

Funny how Harry doesn’t fear tyranny but whenever a Republican wants to do something he acts like it will lead to tyranny.....


25 posted on 04/17/2013 7:06:57 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: kristinn

I blame the morons in Nevada that re=elected this moron. He should be in a nursing home drooling and talking to himself and not in the senate where his decisions affect all of us who DID NOT vote for him.


26 posted on 04/17/2013 7:07:30 AM PDT by mardi59 (IMPEACH OBAMA NOW!!!!!)
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To: kristinn

Every level of our government is heavily infested with tyrants both grand and petty. Reid is one of them, invoking Saul Alinsky.


27 posted on 04/17/2013 7:09:46 AM PDT by Califreak (11/6/12 The Day America Divided By Zero)
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To: kristinn

Imagined?

Sure Harry!

Come down here where I live and I’ll show you imagined. The only cure for the Harry’s in the Senate...

Remaining comments self censored.


28 posted on 04/17/2013 7:10:35 AM PDT by wita
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To: OldArmy52

I noticed that they don’t seem to worship Cuba as much as they used to.
Heck, even China doesn’tget the fawning adulation it used to from the Left.


29 posted on 04/17/2013 7:10:43 AM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free.....)
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To: kristinn

I’m SO sick of the “If we can save just one life” meme. What’s a life worth? In Obamaville, not much.


30 posted on 04/17/2013 7:11:48 AM PDT by clintonh8r (Happy to be represented by Lt. Col. Allen West)
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31 posted on 04/17/2013 7:14:04 AM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: Lazamataz
The NRA was trying, and to be honest succeeding, in making the 2nd amendment a non partisan issue.

Many of the successes in the last ten years for gun rights have been non partisan. Iowa had a Democratic Governor sign a “shall issue” law.

But after Newtown, the Chicago machine went to work. The Dems are being pressured to fall in line.

The interesting thing is it isn't working as well as they hoped.

The bill will pass, and may pass the House (the only have to roll a dozen Rino’s), but it isn't going to be because of the NRA.

32 posted on 04/17/2013 7:14:16 AM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: Lazamataz

So, National Rifle Association... still going to grade this guy high?

There is an idea I can speak on.

Excuse me if I don’t.

Akin to waking the dead.

Not really possible.

With some notable exceptions found in scripture.


33 posted on 04/17/2013 7:14:49 AM PDT by wita
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To: kristinn

Imagined? We’re living through it right now.


34 posted on 04/17/2013 7:14:57 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: kristinn

"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. This is not to say that firearms should not be very carefully used, and that definite safety rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of citizens to bear arms is just one more guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible."

-- Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (D) Minn., "Know Your Lawmakers" Guns (magazine), February, 1960, p. 4.



35 posted on 04/17/2013 7:16:28 AM PDT by EdReform (Oath Keepers - Guardians of the Republic - Honor your oath - Join us: www.oathkeepers.org)
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To: kristinn

Harry Reid wouldn’t have perceived tyranny in 1776. He is what they called a Tory. He doesn’t see how we are starting to step over where the Founding Fathers drew the line.


36 posted on 04/17/2013 7:17:40 AM PDT by Starstruck (Question. What would the U.S. look like today if there was no 2nd Amendment.)
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To: kristinn

Just waiting for an imagined rope...


37 posted on 04/17/2013 7:18:05 AM PDT by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (Vendetta))
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To: redgolum

I don’t think any of the proposals are going to pass this time around. Stack of about 9 votes this afternoon, starting around 4 pm.


38 posted on 04/17/2013 7:18:12 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: kristinn

Ask anybody who has dealt with the IRS if this tyranny is imagined.


39 posted on 04/17/2013 7:19:37 AM PDT by Last Dakotan
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To: kristinn
Imagined tyranny:


40 posted on 04/17/2013 7:20:00 AM PDT by bamahead (Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
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