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Holder: We Must Answer 'Hard Questions' About Gun Rights
Breitbart ^ | 12/15/12 | Mary Chastain

Posted on 12/15/2012 9:35:32 PM PST by Nachum

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To: Nachum

What is all this c$$p about having a “conversation.” What they want is not talk. They want confiscation of all long guns other than bolt actions and muzzleloaders. And stamping of ammunition for the remaining guns to make it prohibitively expensive.

But I guess some focus group somewhere told them to call it a conversation.


41 posted on 12/16/2012 12:06:09 AM PST by ModelBreaker
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To: Nachum

What’s hard about “shall not be infringed” ???


42 posted on 12/16/2012 12:11:49 AM PST by Salgak (Acme Lasers presents: The Energizer Border. I **DARE** you to cross it. . . .)
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To: Salgak; All
What’s hard about “shall not be infringed” ???
he'll just issue another E.O....
ignore the USSC/Congress...like he always has...
He's a Marxist Dictator.

malignant narcissistic marxist ideologue with a messianic complex.
torpid low-class member of the Nomeklatura

43 posted on 12/16/2012 12:20:40 AM PST by skinkinthegrass (Who'll take tomorrow,spend it all today; who can take your income & tax it all away..0Bama man can :)
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To: Nachum

Holders main problem seems to be his lack of willingness to answer questions. He had no problem being ot front of the Jorge Zimmerman issue. Just the words of a dishonest racist, disregard.


44 posted on 12/16/2012 2:34:24 AM PST by JohnD9207 (Isn't freedom worth fighting for?)
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To: Nachum

I wonder if the Sandy Hook weapons are traced to FAST and FURIOUS if that would embarass the MSM to cover the story?


45 posted on 12/16/2012 3:02:21 AM PST by leprechaun9
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To: FlingWingFlyer

My first “hard question” is, why isn’t Holder in prison?
ditto


46 posted on 12/16/2012 3:29:41 AM PST by ronnie raygun (bb)
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To: Nachum

The only hard question Holder needs to ask is this, “Am I ready to kill thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of his people to kill thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of those damn bitter clingers?”. We are all waiting for his answer.


47 posted on 12/16/2012 3:41:00 AM PST by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: Nachum

Like anyone cares what Holder says.

He is merely Obama’s puppet, he says what Obama tells him to say.


48 posted on 12/16/2012 4:40:33 AM PST by Venturer
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To: Nachum

“COME AND TAKE IT”


49 posted on 12/16/2012 4:49:58 AM PST by Psycho_Bunny (Thought Puzzle: Describe Islam without using the phrase "mental disorder" more than four times.)
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To: HawkHogan
Perhaps he should shift his focus to all the children killed in the cease pool inner cities every night of week.

That's the funny thing here. If you watch the full "brainwash on guns" video (can be viewed here) he's clearly talking about black-on-black gun violence and the prevalence and acceptability of the use of guns in the black community being driven by black-targeted media.

So he actually gets part of it right - he starts off talking about being able to deal with a culture of violence and death perpetuated by the media. Then he talks about trying to get creative to make guns "uncool" within the black community.

Up to that, I agree with him. Guns aren't supposed to be "cool". They are incredibly dangerous and destructive tools, tools that have a right and proper place within our society from both a sporting/hunting and a personal security perspective. While the right to bear them needs to be maintained, firearms definitely need to be taken and treated seriously given their purpose and capabilities. The cavalier approach to them perpetuated by the media and existent throughout American society is very much part of the problem here.

The part where he loses me is where the logical leap that once people are "brainwashed" into seeing guns as uncool that they'll also see them as unnecessary (both for them and for others) ... making efforts to ban them much easier.
50 posted on 12/16/2012 5:01:26 AM PST by tanknetter
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To: Nachum
Atty General Janet (Waco/Ruby Ridge)Reno along with her trusty sidekick, deputy atty general Eric Holder had their lil boy’z in black with all their lil toy’z bust in on the home of Elian Gonzales's uncle and removed this lil boy to return him back to Cuba.

This is Eric Holder! 2nd amendment is an obstacle which must be removed.

51 posted on 12/16/2012 5:07:51 AM PST by servantboy777
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To: Nachum

One question I would have is why these events keep occurring in supposedly gun-free areas.


52 posted on 12/16/2012 5:08:33 AM PST by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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Holder: We Must Answer 'Hard Questions' About Gun Rights

Sure thing! Right after you tell us why you murdered American border agents, eh?

53 posted on 12/16/2012 5:10:20 AM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: maine-iac7

Two reasons they won’t ban the drugs.

First: Money. The majority of the type of SSRI drugs sold are sold in the US. By a large margin. The Pharma corps have been pushing for more, not less, sold.

Second: If we don’t drug up these people, there has to be a way to control and treat them. For many, that means an asylum or something similar. The public would rather that not happen.

After they ban all guns, and I fear they will, you will see knife and large vehicle attacks.


54 posted on 12/16/2012 5:12:24 AM PST by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: Nachum

I wonder how many kids are killed each year in auto accidents/biking accidents/ etc. I bet it’s way above the gun toll.


55 posted on 12/16/2012 5:20:17 AM PST by trebb (Allies no longer trust us. Enemies no longer fear us.)
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To: Salgak; TigersEye

“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

Seems to me that the last clause of that is sacrosanct if and only if the first one is also sacrosanct.

“A well regulated Militia”

In those four words, the Second Amendment does suggest there should be some kind of concept of what’s “well regulated”.

In my lifetime there have been four incidents of spree killing in Britain - Monkseaton, Cumbria, Hungerford and Dunblane. This is worth pointing out to the gun control advocates who’re fixated on the “thirty times as many deaths per capita in USA” statistic. Even though we’re major league controllers, these things still happen because we can still own firearms legally.

However, the British gun control advocates have the false premise that if we just did what Japan has done it’d solve the problem. It wouldn’t. Because in all four cases of spree shootings the failures weren’t in firearms control, there were some pretty obvious concerns about the mental states of the gunmen which weren’t dealt with. Whether they had legally owned weapons or illegally owned weapons is irrelevent. It’s a red herring.

Most of those kinds of guy didn’t spontaneously “snap”, they were on the wrong side of fruitloop for weeks if not months or years before they went on their rampages. The answer wasn’t to limit everyone elses’ access to firearms, it was to have their mental health issues spotted and dealt with.

But in the UK, as in the USA, I think there’s an awful tendency for people to “walk on by” even when they can see that someone in their own community is in serious - and I do mean serious - need of immediate help. And if people will “walk on by” when someone’s in the street bleeding, you can bet your boots they’ll also “walk on by” when that person’s having some kind of a mental breakdown.

Even good samaritans often can’t cross the street fast enough these days. They don’t want to “interfere” because all they get for trying to help is a bunch of grief.

That’s the problem.


56 posted on 12/16/2012 5:29:25 AM PST by MalPearce
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To: MalPearce

you can’t just confine people because they have behavior
issues unless those issues rise to the level of crime.


57 posted on 12/16/2012 5:48:09 AM PST by RitchieAprile (the obstreperous gentleman..)
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To: Nachum

Holder is not one of us.


58 posted on 12/16/2012 6:04:04 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (In the game of life, there are no betting limits)
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To: Nachum

WHAT PART OF SHALL NOT INFRINGE DO THEY NOT UNDER STAND!


59 posted on 12/16/2012 6:33:08 AM PST by GailA (those who do not keep promises to Military, won't keep them to U)
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To: Nachum

Last time I read the US Constitution these are STILL MY RIGHTS!

60 posted on 12/16/2012 6:36:44 AM PST by GailA (those who do not keep promises to Military, won't keep them to U)
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