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If Clinton wins, America, kiss your right to self-defense good-bye
Fox News ^ | October 20, 2016 | John R Lott Jr

Posted on 10/21/2016 2:09:22 PM PDT by richardb72

In terms of individual rights, there has probably never been so much at stake in a presidential election. If Hillary Clinton wins, Americans will soon lose the right of self-defense in their own homes.

Wednesday night in Las Vegas moderator Chris Wallace quickly started off the debate by asking Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton about the Second Amendment. Hillary was asked about her claim: "the Supreme Court is wrong on the Second Amendment.”

The 2008 Heller decision struck down Washington, D.C.’s complete ban on handguns. Before the decision, people in the District could own a rifle or a shotgun, it was a felony to load the gun. This amounted to a complete ban on guns, and the Supreme Court said that Washington went too far.

But then, on Wednesday night, Clinton suggested that Wallace had misunderstood her statement.

She explained: "I support the Second Amendment . . . I disagreed with the way the court applied the Second Amendment in that case because what the District of Columbia was trying to do was to protect toddlers from guns. And so they wanted people with guns to safely store them."

But the Supreme Court did nothing at all to stop safe-storage laws. And the Justices that Clinton promises to appoint to the High Court will, in all likelihood, again make it possible for the government to ban guns. . . .

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; cprc; guncontrol; hillaryclinton; johnlott; mediabias
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To: richardb72

Doesn’t matter what some leftist SCOTUS says, a corrupt President who should be in prison says, or what some global court, entity, UN, or body says. Americans aren’t surrendering their arms and they’ll die to protect their freedoms just like their forefathers have done throughout the course of this nation.


21 posted on 10/21/2016 2:41:21 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (TRUMP THAT BEYOTCH!)
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To: Luke21

If Hillary Clinton wins this election, we will no longer have a Government of the people, by the people, and for the people, but we will then have a Criminal Enterprise of the criminals, by the criminals, and for the criminals, and, yes, we will perish from the Earth.


22 posted on 10/21/2016 2:45:52 PM PDT by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: richardb72
Maybe the sheeple will wake up before it is too late.

I doubt it.

Be prepared my friends.

23 posted on 10/21/2016 2:51:10 PM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: richardb72
No skin off my nose. Apparently, I'm a damn lousy boater. 😢
24 posted on 10/21/2016 3:00:12 PM PDT by AFreeBird (BEST. ELECTION. EVER!)
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To: Jim Noble
The right of self-defense is a natural right. It is not granted by the government, and it cannot be taken away by the government.

That being said, it's my assertion that the 2nd Amendment applies to the entire planet.

25 posted on 10/21/2016 3:00:19 PM PDT by Disambiguator (Keepin' it analog.)
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To: richardb72

She can come fight me for it.


26 posted on 10/21/2016 3:02:17 PM PDT by chris37 (It's time to burn the GOP down.)
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To: richardb72

They will have to issue search warrants. Not just us, but Americans generally will not voluntarily turn over their firearms.
If it comes to that, they will have transmogrified into weapons.


27 posted on 10/21/2016 3:02:59 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers, all armed conservatives)
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To: richardb72

28 posted on 10/21/2016 3:17:28 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: KeyLargo

29 posted on 10/21/2016 3:22:16 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: richardb72

30 posted on 10/21/2016 3:25:35 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: maddog55

“If only 3 % of those (look up 3 % because it needs to happen again) who do own actually took up arms against a tyrannical government, that would be 2.4 million people.”

Only 3% raised arms against the British in the 1770s. Today that percentage would be much greater. I think it would be at least 30% (if not more) today.

I am the descendant of the revered 3%. I think you can guess where I’d stand, if worse came to worst.


31 posted on 10/21/2016 3:42:26 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: richardb72

The same for the any number of Rights...

Property being just one of said inalienable. Yet, I have a hard time remembering it being staunchly defended. In fact, I have a ‘pay stub’ showing how little of this Right, as they steal a goodly % to give to others and ‘save’...for ‘my benefit’ (should I live that long and they *allow*), of course.

I haven’t seen any roving bands of Patriots removing these tyrants from office nor head from shoulders. So, call me skeptical if one wishes


32 posted on 10/21/2016 3:59:21 PM PDT by i_robot73 ("A man chooses. A slave obeys." - Andrew Ryan)
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To: richardb72

We’re not Europe.

Many gun owners won’t take this lying down, unless it’s from a supported prone position.


33 posted on 10/21/2016 4:08:42 PM PDT by nonsporting
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To: richardb72; Travis McGee

Per Travis McGee (Matt Bracken):

“If you have 18 guns, and Hillary’s new gun laws ban 12 of them, how many guns will you have?

18 guns.

Your move, Hillary.”


FYI, there are about 400 million guns here...good luck collecting any more than a small fraction without overburdening the entire funeral industry. http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2015/09/us-will-reach-400-million-private.html

Best watch out, gun grabbers, for guys like this: http://www.badassoftheweek.com/whittemore.html They still exist, even up to his age at the time of the Revolution (that’s the “GET OFF MY LAWN” generation).


34 posted on 10/21/2016 4:10:05 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: TigersEye

Bring your own BBs? How about the Red Ryder too?


35 posted on 10/21/2016 4:27:03 PM PDT by FatherFig1o155 ("Most bad government results from too much government." -- Thomas Jefferson)
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To: richardb72

Uh, no. The right is inalienable. We only lose it at death (and in that event, all other temporal and mortal rights are also lost). The only way I will give up my rights — especially the right to defend me and mine — is with my death. And even then the right still exists, though I don’t (at least in the mortal coil).


36 posted on 10/21/2016 4:27:43 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: FatherFig1o155

37 posted on 10/21/2016 4:36:33 PM PDT by TigersEye (~Questionable Hillary thinks Putin made me post this!~)
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To: TigersEye

One of my favorite series of all time!


38 posted on 10/21/2016 4:47:13 PM PDT by FatherFig1o155 ("Most bad government results from too much government." -- Thomas Jefferson)
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To: DJ Taylor

“...and, yes, we will perish from the Earth.”

And you know that how?


39 posted on 10/21/2016 5:06:06 PM PDT by sergeantdave (Trump will give us 80% of what we want, while hillary will take 100% of what we have)
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To: i_robot73

“I haven’t seen any roving bands of Patriots removing these tyrants from office nor head from shoulders. So, call me skeptical if one wishes”

The propaganda press will embargo any local reports of thugs, government or otherwise, being neutralized by state or local governments.

In South Carolina, one of the big chiefs in BLM was arrested for attempted murder. He’ll get 5 to 10 years in state prison.

The propaganda press will also not report the ongoing race war between blacks and Mexicans. All is not sweet and pleasant between the rat’s favorite pets.

One example of many:

Gang rivalry grows into race war

http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-firestone18oct18-story.html


40 posted on 10/21/2016 5:25:29 PM PDT by sergeantdave (Trump will give us 80% of what we want, while hillary will take 100% of what we have)
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