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Rand Paul to GOP: It's Time to Move Beyond the Second Amendment
National Journal ^ | June 18, 2015 | Emma Roller

Posted on 06/18/2015 7:11:23 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: Tzfat

As I said, you have no idea.


21 posted on 06/18/2015 7:31:04 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: jospehm20

I suspect the 24% number is due to many people not telling. I would not answer any question about gun ownership asked by a pollster.

Neither would anybody in his right mind.


22 posted on 06/18/2015 7:31:42 PM PDT by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Rand Paul, that is just a stupid thing to say.

If even one of the people in that no-gun zone had been armed, all of those people would not have died.

Do I fear more the occasional nut, or a government that has control over all personal liberty?

It isn’t even a contest. Listen to the Obamas, Hillarys, Boehners, of the world. They are lying scum who would take the lives of slaves as easily as did the Pharaohs.


23 posted on 06/18/2015 7:32:41 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Pray for their victory or quit saying you support our troops)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It may not matter to those young people, or whomever, but it SHOULD.

As surely as it should matter whether companies can make what products they want and consumers cna buy them. Basically your issue so well spoken regarding toilets and curly-fry ligtbulbs.

As surely as it should whether we should be taxed or not, or marked with a SS #.

It all matters, however narrow-minded some voters are or not.


24 posted on 06/18/2015 7:33:52 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: Mollypitcher1

I’d also suggest that the 24% number is RIDICULOUSLY low! For crying out loud, they say 30% of the French own guns ( and the real figure in France is above that, I am sure.)


25 posted on 06/18/2015 7:36:05 PM PDT by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Paul told the crowd. “But the thing is that a lot of young people, that might not be their primary issue.”

Then it is your duty to educate them. Without the 2nd Amendment their 1st Amendment is meaningless.


26 posted on 06/18/2015 7:38:02 PM PDT by SECURE AMERICA (I am an American Not a Republican or a Democrat.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I would love to put the second amendment issue to rest once and for all. Unfortunately, there are a whole lot of liberals that won’t let us. so we aren’t getting beyond anything.


27 posted on 06/18/2015 7:39:57 PM PDT by RC one (Militarized law enforcement is just a politically correct way of saying martial law enforcement.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Rand Paul to GOP: It's Time to Move Beyond the Second Amendment

Yes, now lets discuss the Third Amendment.

28 posted on 06/18/2015 7:40:34 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Because I don’t buy into everything a candidate says, I have no idea? So 50 Repulicans that voted against it have no idea either?

Your insults only further convince me that Cruz screwed up. I am greatly disappointed, because I thought he was smart enough not to get cornered. He did this to himself.

Good luck with the primaries, you are going to lose, early, and big.


29 posted on 06/18/2015 7:41:00 PM PDT by Tzfat
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

Regrettably, Sen. Paul is correct, and the Third Amendment will be the next one to go when the fertilizer hits the ventilator.


30 posted on 06/18/2015 7:41:45 PM PDT by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This is Paul’s politics, he repeats it as he moves left on issues, it’s always for the “young people”.

“Everybody is for the Second Amendment. All 55 candidates running for president are for the Second Amendment—on our side,” Paul told the crowd. “But the thing is that a lot of young people, that might not be their primary issue.”

“I think that the Republican Party, in order to get bigger, will have to agree to disagree on social issues,” Paul advised. “The Republican Party is not going to give up on having quite a few people who do believe in traditional marriage. But the Republican Party also has to find a place for young people and others who don’t want to be festooned by those issues.”

“The thing is about abortion—and about a lot of things—is that I think people get tied up in all these details of, sort of, you’re this or this or that, or you’re hard and fast (on) one thing or the other,” Paul told Elliott. “I’ve supported both bills with and without (exceptions), you know. In general, I am pro-life.”


31 posted on 06/18/2015 7:44:48 PM PDT by ansel12 (Trump- I identify as Democrat-- favorite president?-Clinton-- your veep? "Oprah my first choice".)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If only someone in the church had been allowed a gun, they might still be alive. The government wasn’t their to protect them, nor the police. They should have been allowed and should have taken steps to protect themselves. It is really a shame and very unfortunate that every time some crazy person uses a gun to kill people, everyone around them are defenseless sheep waiting for the slaughter. Arm everyone.


32 posted on 06/18/2015 7:45:13 PM PDT by Reno89519 (For every illegal or H1B with a job, there's an American without one. Muslim = Nazi = Evil)
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To: ealgeone

Yep, those young voters Paul is hoping decide to actually register and vote for him in the GOP Primary, aren’t interested in the 2nd Amendment, they’re interested in getting high, getting drunk, getting laid (all for free, naturally) and getting us to pay off their student loans!


33 posted on 06/18/2015 7:51:01 PM PDT by zerosix (Native Sunflower)
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To: OKSooner
Yep, even though I'm not a gun owner, no way I would vote for Paul at this point. Let's start talking about the psychotropic drugs that are a common theme with these shooters.
34 posted on 06/18/2015 7:51:55 PM PDT by Major Matt Mason ("Journalism is dead. All news is suspect." - Noamie)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; Tzfat

Please enlighten us mere pond scum. Why do we need this “living” piece of crap that Obama and Boehner are drooling over that we cannot read, whose details cannot even be written down by our representatives in a sealed secure chamber in the bowels of hell, D.C.? Expound away ... start with how its good for truth, justice and the American way. Please.


35 posted on 06/18/2015 7:57:17 PM PDT by Tunehead54 (Nothing funny here ;-)
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To: Tzfat

http://freebeacon.com/issues/dem-operative-rallies-conservatives-against-obamatrade/


36 posted on 06/18/2015 8:01:52 PM PDT by right way right (Disclaimer: Not a prophet but I have a pretty good record.)
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To: xzins
Rand Paul, that is just a stupid thing to say.

If even one of the people in that no-gun zone had been armed, all of those people would not have died.

Which is not Rand Paul's point.

Paul is running for Veep -- positioning himself as the one GOP candidate who can bring the younger demo to the Republican ticket.

Unfortunately, he's attempting to do so by pandering to the demo -- rather than teaching them about the 2nd Amendment, as your point does.

We can do without Senator Paul, I believe.

37 posted on 06/18/2015 8:02:15 PM PDT by okie01
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

FYRP! I wouldn’t have voted for you anyway, but especially not now.


38 posted on 06/18/2015 8:10:12 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Tunehead54

See post #29.


39 posted on 06/18/2015 8:11:19 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

From the comments on this thread it doesn’t sound like anybody read what he actually said. He’s saying the other parts of the Bill of Rights matter also, not that we dump the 2A.

FR is rapidly becoming a knee-jerk echo chamber.


40 posted on 06/18/2015 8:13:42 PM PDT by Hugin ("Do yourself a favor--first thing, get a firearm!",)
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