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WH: Americans Should Talk About Gun Control 'Around the Thanksgiving Table
cnsnews.com ^ | 11/24/2015 | Susan Jones

Posted on 11/24/2015 7:55:13 AM PST by rktman

Instead of voting to "encumber and bog down the refugee process," Republicans should go along with a Democrat demand to bar people on a secret government list from buying guns, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said on Monday.

Earnest said the Republican plan to beef up the vetting of refugees will not improve national security: "Again, if Congress were actually interested in doing that, they'd pass a law that would prevent somebody who's on the terror watch list from being able to buy a gun. That's what Congress should do.

"And as people are sitting around the Thanksgiving table, talking about these issues, as they should, and as I'm sure they will all across the country, I hope that's a question that will be raised, and asked by members around the table--that if we're going to have a serious discussion in this country about national security, let's talk about some pretty obvious things that Congress can do

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: 2a; banglist; fubo; guncontrol
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To: rktman

WH said this exact same thing last yr.


61 posted on 11/24/2015 8:55:12 AM PST by billyboy15
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To: rktman

The only question I would be asking about guns would be this: Where is the best place to purchase a weapon; and where is the best place to get the proper training ..??

Otherwise, I would not be discussing anything else about any type of weapon.


62 posted on 11/24/2015 8:56:33 AM PST by CyberAnt ("The fields are white unto Harvest")
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To: rktman

Count on it! Gun control will be a subject of discussion around our dinner table, but not from Obama’s perspective.


63 posted on 11/24/2015 8:56:57 AM PST by ManHunter (You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
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To: rktman

WH: Americans Should Talk About Gun Control ‘Around the Thanksgiving Table

W will but it will be more about grouping and the best calibers for illegals and the other invaders.


64 posted on 11/24/2015 8:58:43 AM PST by JayAr36 (How much more corruption will we willing to take from the Washington???????)
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To: rktman
Josh Earnest: "Again, if Congress were actually interested in doing that, they'd pass a law that would prevent somebody who's on the terror watch list from being able to buy a gun. That's what Congress should do..."

Josh Earnest failed to explain, however, exactly why the White House would have permitted people on the terror watch list to enter the country in the first place.
65 posted on 11/24/2015 9:00:40 AM PST by Milton Miteybad (I am Jim Thompson. {Really.})
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To: rktman

A few years ago the Obamistas called on people to bother the crap out of their relatives at the Thanksgiving table about Obamacare. I told my wife, because there was one particularly idiotic 20-something, college-going female invited. I was careful not to start...instead, a friend of mine asked me what I thought of O’care. Let’s just say that the conversation turned, uh, interesting. I got the last laugh when I asked this brain-dead idiot why she wasn’t against it, and why I wasn’t for it - after all, she and her whole generation were subsidizing the medical care of all of us old (early 50’s, but for a 20-something that’s old) conservatives. I told her that I was against it, despite it being in my financial interest to be for it, because it was utter crap and would bankrupt the country while providing worse care for almost everyone.

Note that I won’t invite any more libtards to the TG table - I look forward to the meal too much to have it spoiled by shitferbrains idiots like that...

...but, should anyone care to raise the gun issue, I’d let them have it: The “no-fly” list has no judicial review whatsoever, you can be put on it with a simple accusation, or with mistaken identity...so there is no due process whatsoever involved. Banning people on that list from legally acquiring guns is a CLEAR violation of the 5th Amendment, plus the 2nd, of course.


66 posted on 11/24/2015 9:01:30 AM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: rktman

We use to talk gun control around the Thanksgiving table, because grandpa, my uncle, dad, and us cousins took shotguns out on Thanksgiving morning and walked the rail road tracks scarring up birds, it was a tradition along with Dallas Cowboys v Detroit Lions and then grandmas dinner.


67 posted on 11/24/2015 9:04:47 AM PST by Jolla
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To: rktman

I’ll be dropping hint about that Hi-Point compact for less than $175. Need a truck gun.


68 posted on 11/24/2015 9:05:17 AM PST by fungoking (Tis a pleasure to live in the Ozarks)
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To: rktman

The white house WANTS a terrorist attack on our soil. They dream of another 9/11.

Yes, I am serious.


69 posted on 11/24/2015 9:15:49 AM PST by CSM (White wine sipping, caviar munching, Georgetown cocktail circuit circulating, Perrier conservative.)
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To: rktman
And as people are sitting around the Thanksgiving table, talking about these issues, as they should...

Only if one is a complete doofus with no sense of social decorum, but someone who feels it necessary to browbeat people at the dinner table.

70 posted on 11/24/2015 9:18:39 AM PST by Flick Lives (One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. -- Heinlein)
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To: rktman

Here we will thank GOD for so many blessings.
Watch a little football, eat too much and talk politics.
Mostly that being how pathetically bad Senore’ Obammy is and has been.


71 posted on 11/24/2015 9:22:57 AM PST by Joe Boucher (the only good mooselimb is a dead mooselimb.)
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To: LMAO

There will probably be talk about gun control around our table, but not in the manner Obama wants. Hunting, reloading ammo, and ballistics are common topics around our table.


72 posted on 11/24/2015 9:29:41 AM PST by nobamanomore
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To: rktman

Americans Should Talk About **buying** Guns ‘Around the Thanksgiving Table.

sanitized for you protection.


73 posted on 11/24/2015 9:45:08 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacted the most.)
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To: rktman
WH: Americans Should Talk About Gun Control 'Around the Thanksgiving Table'

They never learn. I'm getting flashbacks. Arghhh!:


74 posted on 11/24/2015 9:45:20 AM PST by Oatka (ES)
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To: rktman

We will be talking gun control. I think the emphasis will be handguns, with a trip to the range thrown in.

I am all in favor of sensible gun laws, starting with a repeal of almost every single gun law in existence since almost all of them are useless and foolish. I am also in favor of proper gun control, including breath control and trigger control. Practice is the key.


75 posted on 11/24/2015 9:53:29 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: lesko

Everyone at my Thanksgiving table will be conservative......and we don’t talk politics or guns (unless someone bought a new one lol). We just have a great, if somewhat dysfunctional, family get together.


76 posted on 11/24/2015 9:59:34 AM PST by sheana
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To: rktman

There will be lots of gun control talk at our tablle; talk about how to defeat and/or circumvent any communist action. After dinner, some will be grouse hunting and others will engage in rifle and pistol exercises from the front porch. God Bless America.


77 posted on 11/24/2015 10:05:44 AM PST by Lion Den Dan
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To: rktman

Visiting my Mother’s in Phoenix area and mission accomplished! Just talked with her about the proper two handed stance when using a hand gun. Also explained the advantage of a two point sling and EOTECH optics (with magnifier) for quick, accurate, reflex shots on those in dire need of it. Last but not least discussed the four rules of firearm safety.

So White House Staffers are we good?


78 posted on 11/24/2015 10:10:02 AM PST by KC-10A BOOMER (Cry Havoc and Let Slip the Dogs of War!)
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To: rktman

How is it that this administration has to ruin every fricken holiday by trying to tell us what to talk about.


79 posted on 11/24/2015 10:11:12 AM PST by Cyclone59 (Where are we going, and what's with the handbasket?)
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To: rktman

They should. Hey, the turkey is already dead so no need to shoot it again. And there needs to be someone in control of the guns, knives and forks when the cousins start fighting over the last drumstick.


80 posted on 11/24/2015 10:35:50 AM PST by bgill ( CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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