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Forget Wal-Mart and skip your local gun show. The murderers of tomorrow will not be found wearing orange vests at your local sporting goods store. They won’t have NRA memberships or trophies on their walls. You won’t find them in America. Look for them in Obamerica. 67% of firearm murders took place in the country’s 50 largest metro areas. The 62 cities in those metro areas have a firearm murder rate of 9.7, more than twice the national average. Among teenagers the firearm murder rate is 14.6 or almost three times the national average. Those are the crowded cities of...

Socialism's greatest lie is that it promises the people something for nothing, services and programs of all kind that will either be "free" or more affordable than the free market variety. But just like the ads promising you a free iPod or a chance to make millions from home while you yawn, socialism is not something for nothing, instead more often it's nothing for something. The idea that the government will take care of you is appealing, entire nanny states have been built on that proposition. But the government can't take care of you, it can't even pay its own...

Everything this administration and Congress are doing, is done to destroy the middle class of this country. The massive taxes, the massive increase of government control over all aspects of life (health, business, personal) are all geared at control and also making everyone poor - thus achieving their 'equality of outcome' flawed view of what 'fairness' is. If everyone but the ruling political and a few 'progressive' businesspeople are poor, they can cement in anything they want to do and keep us all down and in control. They can continue to pass laws that make honest people criminals, and enforce...