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How Many Bullets Are Enough?
American Thinker ^ | 01/15/2013 | William Sullivan

Posted on 01/15/2013 7:58:50 AM PST by SeekAndFind

Gun control advocates, in their infinite wisdom, seem to think they have the definitive answer to this question. The answer is "less than ten."

Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York is seeking extensive gun control legislation to "tighten the assault weapons ban" and "ban all large-capacity gun clips." To these ends, he addressed the gun "extremists" by quipping, "It's simple -- no one hunts with an assault rifle. No one needs ten bullets to kill a deer."

The first time I remember being introduced to this feeble (yet somehow, incredibly persistent) argument for gun control was while watching an Eddie Murphy movie called The Distinguished Gentleman as a kid. In the film, Eddie Murphy's character is a con artist who scams his way into a vacant seat in Congress. He initially chums up to the House chairman of the energy committee, who is your stereotypical greedy, right-wing, oil-sucking politician that Hollywood loves to portray. He's anti-gay, anti-environment, anti-cancer prevention, and he also happens to be in bed with (you guessed it!) the pro-gun lobby. So he and Eddie Murphy go duck hunting with military-grade rifles to promote such weapons' recreational use.

The whole thing is purposefully absurd, with Eddie Murphy puzzling over these gun nuts firing hundreds of rounds in the air only to have one duck fall from the sky, which Eddie Murphy suggests "must've had a heart attack."

The implication is simple. Like Cuomo, the filmmakers expect the people watching to assume that the gun control debate centers on whether or not weapons capable of delivering large numbers of rounds have a legitimate recreational use. And if they do not have such utility, there is simply no need for Americans to have access to them.

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KEYWORDS: armedcitizen; banglist; bullets; democrats; guncontrol; guns; tyranny; youwillnotdisarmus
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1 posted on 01/15/2013 7:58:56 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

As many as I say is enough.


2 posted on 01/15/2013 8:00:37 AM PST by chris37 (Heartless.)
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3 posted on 01/15/2013 8:01:23 AM PST by deoetdoctrinae (Gun free zones are playgrounds for felons.)
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To: chris37

I use the same formula we used as combat engineers for C4: P for plenty!


4 posted on 01/15/2013 8:01:54 AM PST by rfreedom4u (I have a copy of the Constitution! And I'm not afraid to use it!)
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To: SeekAndFind

“And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.” — Thomas Jefferson

Our Founders had very specific intentions in regard to firearms and the protection of the people’s right to own them. And the intent had little, if anything, to do with hunting or sport. The more practical use of guns is to kill or wound people who want to harm you, should that unpleasant and unthinkable need arise.


5 posted on 01/15/2013 8:02:18 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

The 2nd Amendment is not about hunting. It is about the defense against tyranny and self-defense.


6 posted on 01/15/2013 8:02:55 AM PST by RoosterRedux (The 2nd Amendment is our defense against tyranny.)
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To: SeekAndFind

So that makes the old Iver Johnson and Harrington Richardson 9 shot .22 revolvers illegal?


7 posted on 01/15/2013 8:05:08 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Click my name! See new paintings!)
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To: SeekAndFind

The way the Left frames this is still just to make it appear that the gun issue is only about hunting, recreation or (reluctantly) self-protection.

The real question is this: How many bullets does it take to stop a tyrannical government?


8 posted on 01/15/2013 8:05:20 AM PST by newheart (The greatest trick the left ever pulled was convincing the world it was not a religion.)
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To: SeekAndFind

For the federal government, the answer is “many billions” - and not simply target rounds.

For the serfs, the answer is “none”.

Any questions?


9 posted on 01/15/2013 8:05:34 AM PST by dagogo redux (A whiff of primitive spirits in the air, harbingers of an impending descent into the feral.)
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To: chris37

The government within the last two years has purchased enough ammunition to shoot each and every American 4 times over (conservatively). This does not include the US Military. These are for the IRS, the Post Office, DHS, et al.....


10 posted on 01/15/2013 8:05:48 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: SeekAndFind

How many bullets are enough?

How many tyrants and their lackeys are there?


11 posted on 01/15/2013 8:07:10 AM PST by EricT. (The GOP's sole purpose is to serve as an ineffective alternative to the Democrat Party.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Being as cartridges are unitary, most integers are very large.


12 posted on 01/15/2013 8:07:21 AM PST by Scrambler Bob ( Concerning bo -- that refers to the president. If I capitalize it, I mean the dog.)
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To: SeekAndFind

So NY lowers magazine capacity to 7 in direct response to the Sandy Hook shooting.

What will they lower it to after the next mass shooting?


13 posted on 01/15/2013 8:08:00 AM PST by umgud
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Much like the axiom that 'experience is something you never get until just after you needed it,' an adequate number of rounds can not be determined until after the shooting stops.

Only then will you be able to determine whether or not you had enough.

14 posted on 01/15/2013 8:09:06 AM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: SeekAndFind

I believe that it is time to order more.


15 posted on 01/15/2013 8:10:54 AM PST by An Old Man
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To: SeekAndFind

Tell me, in all seriousness, would the world not be a better place with armed citizens and disarmed governments? Who has killed more innocents, governments or citizens?


16 posted on 01/15/2013 8:11:00 AM PST by muir_redwoods (Don't fire until you see the blue of their helmets)
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To: SeekAndFind
Enough to overthrow a tyrannical government.

www.OathKeepers.org

17 posted on 01/15/2013 8:13:40 AM PST by ThermoNuclearWarrior (www.OathKeepers.org/oath/)
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To: SeekAndFind
"It's simple -- no one hunts with an assault rifle."

But they want to label our hunting rifle as 'assault rifle'

"No one needs ten bullets to kill a deer."

When '10 deer' attack, you need more. LOL

18 posted on 01/15/2013 8:14:11 AM PST by cotton
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To: chris37
As many as I say is enough.

This^

Are we now the old Soviet Union?? I cannot believe people are just lying down and getting steamrolled by these Marxists!

19 posted on 01/15/2013 8:14:21 AM PST by Obadiah (Those who will not hear the messengers of peace, shall be made to hear the messengers of war.)
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To: SeekAndFind

How many fricking politicans do we need?


20 posted on 01/15/2013 8:14:50 AM PST by Starstruck (The police carry weapons for self protection)
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