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Murdoch calls for automatic weapons ban
politico.com ^ | December 14, 2012 | DYLAN BYERS

Posted on 12/14/2012 8:07:15 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe

News Corp. chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch expressed support for an automatic weapons ban tonight following today's shooting in Newtown, Conn.

"Terrible news today. When will politicians find courage to ban automatic weapons?," Murdoch wrote on Twitter.

Murdoch made a similar call following the theater shooting in Aurora, Colo., in July: "We have to do something about gun controls. Police license okay for hunting rifle or pistol for anyone without crim or pscho record. No more," he tweeted.

News Corp. owns Fox News, where contributors have been objecting to calls for gun control throughout the day.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: guncontrol; sandyhookpolitics; sandyhookshooting; secondamendment
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To: holymoly

“Someone at the school buzzed in a maniac, armed with two handguns, and carrying a rifle.”

I’m not sure he was buzzed in and here’s why. On Greta’s show, the tape was played of the police radio band. This was from the beginning of this. At one point, a cop says the glass in front of the school was out. That makes me think he may have blasted the glass and stepped through the opening and he was in.


41 posted on 12/14/2012 9:00:14 PM PST by Marcella (Prepping can save your life today. Galt is freedom.)
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To: Marcella

That’s interesting. And that’s what I get for believing what I hear on the “news”.


42 posted on 12/14/2012 9:02:44 PM PST by holymoly ("A lot" is two words.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Hey Rupert at least get it right you moron. Its semi automatic weapons.


43 posted on 12/14/2012 9:07:12 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Marcella

ABC News reports it was two pistols and a semi-automatic rifle belonging to his mother, who he had already murdered. There was apparently no automatic weapons.

The news report also seems to indicate the shooter could have been taken down by an armed teacher before the shooter could have reached most of the children, but were instead killed because they were unarmed.


44 posted on 12/14/2012 9:09:48 PM PST by WhiskeyX
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Faux News has jumped on the bandwagon although I felt years ago that they were already on the bandwagon. Today I saw a short ‘holiday greeting’ on Faux that said, “Happy Holidays” instead of “Merry Christmas”.


45 posted on 12/14/2012 9:14:28 PM PST by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Learn three chords and you, too, can be a Rock Star!)
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To: Chickensoup
Ban cars....

Ban swimming pools....

Ban stair steps....

Ban Bath tubs

Ban plastic Bags...

Ban electricity...

Before anyone bans guns

46 posted on 12/14/2012 9:14:42 PM PST by RedMonqey (Kwanza is just as real a "holiday" as " Festivus. ")
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To: sanjuanbob

Ban alcohol. Ban freedom. Ban free speech. Ban anything you can think of.

working on free speech. prohibition worked just fine.


47 posted on 12/14/2012 9:17:54 PM PST by 1st Division guy
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To: Marcella

Thanks. It sounds like the “media” and politicians have got it all wrong again.


48 posted on 12/14/2012 9:18:02 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (It's not about the guns. It's about the control.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Millions of children are murdered each year in abortion clinics. When are we going to ban them?!


49 posted on 12/14/2012 9:21:50 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (It's not about the guns. It's about the control.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Obviously, Rupert doesn’t know that automatic weapons were NOT used in the Aurora and Sandyhook deaths.

I really wish these liberal twits would just go away. That includes fools like McCarthy, Cuomo, Bloomberg, Obama, etc.


50 posted on 12/14/2012 9:24:23 PM PST by octex
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To: octex

They will never go away, UNTIL we make this a civil rights issues, just like the minorities, gays, abortion rights people and all the rest of the other “civil rights” groups do.

Its time to get up in their faces just like the gays do, its time to take a day off from work and protest like the occupy idiots do. Its way past time to make even uttering the slightest hint of gun control toxic to the American people.

Enough is enough.. we sit here and panic buy stuff, complain online, meanwhile the left plots and plans and carries out their plans.. well its time to get in their faces just like the union thugs do.

All of us did not go on a killing spree, and we should NEVER tolerate being punished for someone else who did.


51 posted on 12/14/2012 9:34:10 PM PST by eXe (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

The ONLY people who would be effected by such a ban in a free society are the kind of people who would never do this

Everytime one of these tragedies occurs ghouls like Murdock and Bloomberg come slithering out of the woodwork to advance a personal agenda.

The Second Amendment protects a basic human right- the right to self defense. And as long as people have any rights at all Lunatics like Lanza will abuse them. And if we allow our rights to be abridged or restricted in any way when lunatics abuse them we can be sure we will soon have none left at all


52 posted on 12/14/2012 9:34:59 PM PST by ZULU (See video: http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-first-siege-of-vienna.html)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

The ONLY people who would be effected by such a ban in a free society are the kind of people who would never do this

Everytime one of these tragedies occurs ghouls like Murdock and Bloomberg come slithering out of the woodwork to advance a personal agenda.

The Second Amendment protects a basic human right- the right to self defense. And as long as people have any rights at all Lunatics like Lanza will abuse them. And if we allow our rights to be abridged or restricted in any way when lunatics abuse them we can be sure we will soon have none left at all


53 posted on 12/14/2012 9:35:44 PM PST by ZULU (See video: http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-first-siege-of-vienna.html)
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To: sanjuanbob

As long as it doesn’t apply to them.


54 posted on 12/14/2012 9:37:20 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: Joe 6-pack

Beat me to it.


55 posted on 12/14/2012 9:39:27 PM PST by Jeff Winston
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To: Tailgunner Joe

How is a gun better than Murdoch, Costas and your spouse?
You can put a silencer on a gun.


56 posted on 12/14/2012 10:00:46 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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To: Tzimisce

They’re not illegal — you just have to pay a “tax” to legally own one. Same thing for suppressors.


57 posted on 12/14/2012 10:00:54 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Don’t want to waist a good crisis..../sarc

The shooting happened in a gun-free zone again.

God bless the children and adults who died.

God help us and keep us safe from the liberal gun-grabbers.

If anything needs to be done, it is that we should improve our mental health care system. Hopefully, we can do a better job of identifying these ill people before they go off the reservation.


58 posted on 12/14/2012 10:01:14 PM PST by 3Fingas (Sons and Daughters of Freedom, Committee of Correspondence)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
... automatic weapons ...

"And we're not stopping until we get the crew-served weapons as well ..."


59 posted on 12/14/2012 10:11:11 PM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

It’s a class war thing, alright. Really conservative and brainy, aren’t they...not.


60 posted on 12/14/2012 10:43:41 PM PST by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
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