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Obama urges tighter background checks on gun buyers after Aurora massacre
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| July 25, 2012
| Olivier Knox
Posted on 07/25/2012 10:16:56 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Didnt the Aurora massacre gunman use an AR-15? How can the leader of the most powerful nation on Earth not be briefed on the particulars of a situation? Yeah...and some idiot pol...either Schumer or Biden wants a ban on high capacity magazines....
...Ha ...the shooter got a 100 capacity magazine that apparently jammed.
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posted on
07/25/2012 11:49:55 PM PDT
by
spokeshave
(The only people better off today than 4 years ago are the Prisoners at Guantanamo.)
To: rarestia
Considering that outside of pick-up weapons, AK-47s have been the weapon of choice of our enemies more often than our allies, I'd have to say he is advocating arming our enemies on the battlefields...
As far as criminals on our streets go, how about coming clean on Fast and Furious?
That piker should be impeached.
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posted on
07/26/2012 12:03:07 AM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
To: Free ThinkerNY
The streets of our cities, in many cases, are the battlefields of wars. Gun restrictions will have no bearing on this, and may have even been what caused it to be this way.
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posted on
07/26/2012 1:15:57 AM PDT
by
Category Four
(Joy, Fun, the Joke Proper, and Flippancy ... Flippancy is the best of all.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Is this guy as stupid as he talks? Brain damage is transitory at this age so that someone who is fine one month is loosing it a few months later. The nuts can't be separated form the killers.
To: mylife
When you are in the HIPPA system you loose a lot of rights and everyone is notified.
To: Free ThinkerNY
Exactly what kind of background check would have disqualified Holmes from obtaining the weapons and ammo he used?
He was squeaky clean, and purchased everything over a period of months.
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posted on
07/26/2012 1:30:08 AM PDT
by
papertyger
("And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if..."))
To: Free ThinkerNY
No amount of background checks would have prevented James Holmes, a man studying for his PHD in neurobiology. When he was still at Westview High School in San Diego, Holmes won an internship in neurobiology at the Salk Institute. All these tighter background checks are going to do is make it harder for good, law abiding citizens from owning guns.
This distraction of more gun control is getting sickening and takes us from the real question: Why did James Holmes do it? Is there a political reason like the Ted Kaczynski manifesto that drove Holmes to go into Joker mode? Is Holmes a OWS anarchist wanting to trigger a civil war? I want answers to the central question of motive and not distractions about guns, Hollywood violence, video games and Twinkies.
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posted on
07/26/2012 1:32:31 AM PDT
by
jonrick46
(Countdown to 11-06-2012)
To: Free ThinkerNY
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posted on
07/26/2012 3:09:08 AM PDT
by
4rcane
To: AmericanInTokyo
I don’t think this is their Reichstag Fire but alert, but it is certainly suspicious.
To: papertyger
That was my question as well. It leads directly to what zer0bama really means: to make purchasing any firearm so difficult for any squeaky clean citizen as to effectively remove that right.
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posted on
07/26/2012 3:34:51 AM PDT
by
Kevmo
( FRINAGOPWIASS: Free Republic Is Not A GOP Website. It's A Socon Site.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
What does Obama have to point to in the background check system we have now that is flawed?
To: Free ThinkerNY
The "background check" is the crux of the problem: first we were sold on the idea that it would be a minor inconvenience and only "felons and drug users and mental defectives" would be prohibited from owning firearms as is already the case. Then our lovely representatives add some more - the domestic violence/restraining order clause was slipped in in the dead of night - then people who had misdemeanors that would be classed as felonies today were added to the list, so the numbers of unqualifed grew. Now the so-called "instant checks" are taking longer and longer and you as a citizen have no right to know what the delay may be or to see your own record or to change or amend anything.
The Left/antigun forces are using the Brady Bill background check system to expand their power to limit firearms and the people who can possess them. When Obama talks about "improving background checks" he isn't talking about making things more efficient - he's talking about looking for more reasons to deny permission for our own rights.
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posted on
07/26/2012 3:52:38 AM PDT
by
Chainmail
(Warfare is too serious to be left to the amateurs)
To: Attention Surplus Disorder
Yep.
GREAT POST!
Have another on me!
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posted on
07/26/2012 3:56:05 AM PDT
by
spankalib
(The downside of liberty is the need to tolerate those who despise it.)
To: A Navy Vet
And how does a reputable gun-seller know if a person is “mentally unbalanced” while going through the waiting period?
It’s very simple. If they are a registered democrat they are “balanced.” If they are not a democrat they are “not balanced.”
Very simple.
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posted on
07/26/2012 4:15:26 AM PDT
by
DH
(Once the tainted finger of government touches anything the rot begins)
To: Free ThinkerNY
FU sparky... keep your evil hands off my guns.
LLS
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posted on
07/26/2012 4:37:15 AM PDT
by
LibLieSlayer
(Don't Tread On Me)
To: papertyger
Exactly what kind of background check would have disqualified Holmes from obtaining the weapons and ammo he used? He was squeaky clean, and purchased everything over a period of months.
I'm guessing that Barry's handlers want a larger version of what the VA did a few years ago, when the names of servicemen who *voluntarily* sought mental health treatment were dumped into the NICS background check computers.
Odds are, it's already hidden in the Obamacare text.
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posted on
07/26/2012 4:45:06 AM PDT
by
Charles Martel
(Endeavor to persevere...)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
He WAS briefed. He was told by John Brennan, IIRC, at approx 5:30 a.m. Friday, AND, when he flew back to DC, he cancelled all campaign activities and had a pow-wow with his henchman. He is just a narcissistic idiot who doesn’t pay attention unless it involves him, I assume.
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posted on
07/26/2012 5:23:22 AM PDT
by
PghBaldy
(Obama 07/22/12: "we all reflect on how we can do something about some of the senseless violence...")
To: harpseal; TexasCowboy; nunya bidness; AAABEST; Travis McGee; Squantos; wku man; SLB; ...
The One finally speaks.
We never saw this coming, eh?
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posted on
07/26/2012 5:35:24 AM PDT
by
Joe Brower
(Sheep have three speeds: "graze", "stampede" and "cower".)
To: spokeshave
The picture posted of the AR15 lying on the ground did not show a 100 round magazine. Maybe a 30 round at most.
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posted on
07/26/2012 5:43:30 AM PDT
by
meatloaf
(Support Senate S 1863 & House Bill 1380 to eliminate oil slavery.)
To: rarestia
The Second Amendment is not to protect deer and duck hunters.
Its to protect the ability of a free people to defend their country against invaders and their rights against government tyranny.
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posted on
07/26/2012 5:58:01 AM PDT
by
ZULU
(See: http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=D9vQt6IXXaM&hd)
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