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Obama Goes Beyond Mere Gun Control, Hints at Confiscation
Breitbart ^ | 10/03/2015 | AWR Hawkins

Posted on 10/03/2015 6:58:46 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

When President Obama spoke in reaction to the heinous October 1 attack on Umpqua Community College, he went beyond his usual calls for more gun control and suggested instead that America consider following the path blazed by Australia and Great Britain.

In the mid-1990s Australia and Great Britain both instituted what were virtually complete bans on firearm possession.

Obama referenced the bans thus:

We know that other countries, in response to one mass shooting, have been able to craft laws that almost eliminate mass shootings.  Friends of ours, allies of ours — Great Britain, Australia, countries like ours.  So we know there are ways to prevent it.


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TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; News/Current Events; US: Oregon; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; australia; banglist; guncontrol; molonlabe; oregon; secondamendment; styg; umpqua; unitedkingdom; wolverines
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101 posted on 10/03/2015 9:22:37 PM PDT by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: midway1
I think you’ll find very few will fight. 1 - 3% at best.


102 posted on 10/03/2015 9:23:23 PM PDT by Rodamala
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To: DoughtyOne
Instead of “WWIII", make that Civil War II! Molon Labe.
103 posted on 10/03/2015 9:25:23 PM PDT by BatGuano (You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
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To: laplata

From your lips to God’s ears!


104 posted on 10/03/2015 9:27:23 PM PDT by BatGuano (You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
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To: midway1

You are just plain wrong. My bet is 70% will lock and load if the crisis hits.


105 posted on 10/03/2015 9:30:36 PM PDT by BatGuano (You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
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To: DJ Taylor

That doesn’t make us criminals, it makes the federal government illegitimate and time for the sovereign to deal with the wayward servant.


106 posted on 10/03/2015 9:32:21 PM PDT by gnarledmaw (Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servants.)
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To: MUDDOG

Even law abiding citizens are buying guns from car trunks, they are legal, but not on some back ground check list. Usually done between friends.


107 posted on 10/03/2015 9:33:32 PM PDT by GailA (Those who break Promises to Our Troops, you won't keep them to anyone. Ret. SCPO's wife)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Obama’s already confiscated guns from nearly 200,000 US vets and is going after social security recipients.


108 posted on 10/03/2015 9:34:30 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: midway1
I think you’ll find very few will fight. 1 - 3% at best.

A good guess. 3% did the fighting in the American Revolution. They were actively supported by 10% of the population, who in turned were inactively supported by another 20% of the population.

The 3% will know who they are.
109 posted on 10/03/2015 9:36:26 PM PDT by farming pharmer
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To: Pit1

Are you counting multiple gun ownership. Hell, owning 3 or 4 would be normal and that puts the total “gun ownership” much higher.


110 posted on 10/03/2015 9:36:46 PM PDT by BatGuano (You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
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To: midway1; cpdiii; American in Israel; Rodamala
I think you’ll find very few will fight. 1 - 3% at best.

The US Census 2014 Total population estimate 318,957,056. The gun ownership estimate (Statistic Brain Research Institute) sets forth ownership at approximately 34%, 108,445,400.

Even 2% would approximate 2,168,908 (many with multiple guns).
At 3% it would be 3,253,362 (many with multiple guns).

Depending on the scenario, if families, communities, the nation were threatened with the eradication of their way of life, I would surmise your 1-3% figure would increase substantially.

111 posted on 10/03/2015 9:37:08 PM PDT by Stand Watch Listen (When the going gets tough--the Low Information President Obie from Nairobi goes golfing/fundraising)
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To: akalinin

That would make us “threeper Freepers!”


112 posted on 10/03/2015 9:40:16 PM PDT by BatGuano (You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Lexington and Concord redux.

Try it, beotch!


113 posted on 10/03/2015 9:41:31 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
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To: Big Red Badger

You say that “Americans will not comply.” They meekly comply(with, as Mark Steyn says, the “Bureau Of Compliance”)everything else why should firearms be any different?

This is not the America of the 19th century. This is the New World Order and a nation of urbanized, feminized liberal drones and unassimilated, servile third world immigrants as far from the Minutemen of 1776 as you can get. As far from the men who landed at Normandy or Inchon as you can get.

The American people should be standing outside Planned Parenthood abortion camps with torches. Instead 69% of Americans want to continue funding PP. The same people voted for Barack Hussein Obama not once, but TWICE.

Whatever this nation is, it is not America anymore.


114 posted on 10/03/2015 9:46:31 PM PDT by TTFlyer
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To: Stand Watch Listen

I’ve got an old Lorcin that I can hand them when they come to the door.
Piece of shit gun.


115 posted on 10/03/2015 9:53:41 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (I was conceived in liberty, how about you?)
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To: laplata

Bath House has Slim Disease.


116 posted on 10/03/2015 10:05:08 PM PDT by bkopto
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To: midway1
Yep! 3 percent may be correct.

However the opening of the first revolution only had 3 percent active support. The second revolution is already 111-years overdue.

117 posted on 10/03/2015 10:08:26 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: BatGuano

“You are just plain wrong. My bet is 70% will lock and load if the crisis hits”.

I agree. People tend to forget to factor in the “pi$$ed off” mood people are in. And they’d lock and load with relish.


118 posted on 10/03/2015 10:09:46 PM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: cpdiii

In Maine, damn few will hand them over either.


119 posted on 10/03/2015 10:09:54 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Liberals are like the Taliban and ISIS....destroying cultural icons they don't like.)
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To: Stand Watch Listen; midway1
Even 2% would approximate 2,168,908 (many with multiple guns).

Hypothetically...

One well chosen shot each and go home.

120 posted on 10/03/2015 10:12:42 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
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