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Toomey: Background Checks Are Not Gun Control
RCP Video ^ | 4-10-2013

Posted on 04/10/2013 4:54:19 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot

SEN. PAT TOOMEY: I’m a gun owner, and the rights that are enshrined in the Second Amendment are very, very important to me personally, ..... I don’t consider criminal background checks to be gun control. I think it’s just common sense. If you pass a criminal background check, you get to buy a gun, no problem. It’s the people who fail a criminal or mental health background check that we don’t want having guns.

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TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: backgroundcheck; banglist; guncontrol; secondamendment; toomey; toomeyguns
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To: American in Israel

I’m with you.

Upsidedown world we live in, this is.


21 posted on 04/10/2013 5:32:59 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Sadly, I am from Pennsylvania and I voted for this double crossing bozo.

That won’t happen again.


22 posted on 04/10/2013 5:35:08 PM PDT by Poor Richard (Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield. - Poor Richard's Almanac)
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To: rollo tomasi
BTW, if more law abiding individuals carry, the less likely nuts will be successful with their killing sprees. I would like to know where the responsible adult with a firearm was when the shooting started at a) Newtown, b) Aurora c) Virginia Tech etc. etc. We know the answer - they weren't allowed to be there.
23 posted on 04/10/2013 5:36:44 PM PDT by trubolotta
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To: Poor Richard

It’s not just you. Don’t feel bad. I donated to Toomey via Senate Conservative Fund (Jim DeMint).

Endorsement(s) really don’t amount to a lot of beans.


24 posted on 04/10/2013 5:49:30 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: American in Israel

Background checks are not gun control, just like Republican Senators are not treasonous slime -— oh, wait, they are...

These guys are definitely off my Christmas list.


25 posted on 04/10/2013 5:53:43 PM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: DustyMoment

He is getting slammed on his Facebook page.


26 posted on 04/10/2013 5:55:16 PM PDT by jersey117
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To: Sir Napsalot; All

So, Why do the need the serial number of the firearm?


27 posted on 04/10/2013 5:55:48 PM PDT by marktwain (The MSM must die for the Republic to live. Long live the new media!)
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To: Sir Napsalot
I would cut yourself some slack. Toomey probably was a solid conservative but I think he has been seduced by that Washington wheeler dealer elitist mentality that has afflicted so many establishment Republicans. There is a chance he could be convinced to recant and return to solid Constitutional principles. He will be there for some time so he needs a constant series of reminders of why he was selected.
28 posted on 04/10/2013 5:56:21 PM PDT by trubolotta
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To: Sir Napsalot
"If you pass a criminal background check, you get to buy a gun."

= If the government clears you, you may exercise your Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.

This guy Toomey also supported the sodomization of the US military.
He is dead to me.

29 posted on 04/10/2013 6:04:42 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Sir Napsalot

...and just WHO is deciding who “fails” and by what criteria? Being conservative? Actually exercising one’s liberty? BS! We have too many gun laws now.

Actually, I would make this compromise, let them “expand” checks a little. In return, do away with the Gun Control Act of 38. If you pass the check, buy what you will. Full auto, silencers, whatever, as long as it ain’t crew served. Maybe even then, to a degree, Ma Duce, for example.


30 posted on 04/10/2013 6:19:45 PM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: Sir Napsalot
With all due respect, you are a turd.

I don't think this turd deserves any respect at all.

31 posted on 04/10/2013 6:22:01 PM PDT by Mark17 (My body is in California, but my heart is in the Philippines)
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To: Sir Napsalot; All
Should have linked to this 2ndDivisionVet thread earlier, sorry.

Sen. Lee: Backgound Checks Could Allow Holder to Create Gun Registry Using Regulations

32 posted on 04/10/2013 6:27:11 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: Sir Napsalot

We need to see the fine print on this one.

First, a check would be OK if NO records were kept. Do I trust the government not to keep records? Probably not.

Second, one should not be able to be declared mentally unfit on the word of a mere doctor or shrink, but should have to be added to the “no-buy” list by a Judge in a Court, with the opportunity to present your case. Do I think this bill requires a Judge’s order to declare a citizen mentally unfit? Probably not.

Do I think a Judge can be trusted to do the right thing in all situations? Probably not.

Therefore, the whole thing STINKS.


33 posted on 04/10/2013 6:27:58 PM PDT by ez (Laws are for little people. Criminals, politicians, police, and David Gregory are exempt.)
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To: jersey117; fatima; Fresh Wind; st.eqed; xsmommy; House Atreides; Nowhere Man; South Hawthorne; ...
his Facebook page

https://www.facebook.com/patricktoomey

PA Ping!

If you see posts of interest to Pennsylvanians, please ping me.

Thanks!

34 posted on 04/10/2013 6:29:11 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Remember when conservatives were excited to get this fool elected? Is there a single Republican in Washington that can be trusted for ANYTHING????


35 posted on 04/10/2013 6:31:57 PM PDT by WeatherGuy
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To: Sir Napsalot
Toomey: Background Checks Are Not Gun Control

What we have here is a Pol doing the crawdad. He got tuned and played like a cheap fiddle by the Dems and is now into the 4th version of the "yeah buts." What a dumb ass.

36 posted on 04/10/2013 6:33:07 PM PDT by IamConservative (The soul of my lifes journey is Liberty!)
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To: Sir Napsalot

If they are not Gun Control, what would their purpose be?


37 posted on 04/10/2013 6:33:47 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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38 posted on 04/10/2013 6:34:24 PM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: wastoute
If you need government permission to do something, it is not a freedom. What part of simple English “shall not be infringed” does he not understand?
39 posted on 04/10/2013 6:35:01 PM PDT by Buffalo Head (Illigitimi non carborundum)
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To: BCR #226
Yours is a most salient point, and the fact that these bastards don't institute checks on voting, federal registration/checks exposes them as damnable hypocrites. But then, we knew traitors are hypocrites don’tchaknow.
40 posted on 04/10/2013 6:36:15 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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