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Gun sale surge driven by fear, Obama says
The San Francisco Chronicle ^
| January 14, 2013
| Charles J. Lewis
Posted on 01/15/2013 4:29:06 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
One month after the school massacre in Newtown, Conn., President Obama attributed the recent surge of weapons sales to efforts by gun control foes to arouse fears that the federal government would seize firearms.
Obama said he would unveil details of his "sensible, common-sense" program for tighter gun controls later this week. The president, responding to questions at a White House news conference Monday, said those steps would include "an assault weapons ban that is meaningful," stronger background checks and measures to keep high-capacity magazine clips "out of the hands of folks who shouldn't have them."
Asked at his news conference about the boom in weapons sales amid administration efforts to tighten gun rules, Obama said gun control opponents "have a pretty effective way of ginning up fear on the part of gun owners that somehow the federal government is about to take all your guns away."
The administration's gun control agenda is being fashioned by Vice President Joe Biden...
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; biden; economy; fascism; guncontrol; gunsales; obama; secondamendment
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You'd think a noted "constitutional scholar" would be able to understand a short sentence in the Bill of Rights.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Gee I wonder why Gun owners are worried..maybe because every day we hear more and more evidence that Obama wants total destruction of our 2nd Amendment..gee Obama, ya think maybe, just maybe THAT’S the reason
To: 2ndDivisionVet
If he doesn’t really want to bankrupt America then why is he trying to shut down the only sector of the economy that is working. Guns
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01/15/2013 4:33:05 PM PST
by
cquiggy
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
01/15/2013 4:33:05 PM PST
by
Red in Blue PA
(When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
So the president said that we have an irrational fear that he is going to take our guns away, then says he’s going to propose banning guns?
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posted on
01/15/2013 4:33:37 PM PST
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
The administration's gun control agenda is being fashioned by Vice President Joe Biden...What could possibly go wrong there?
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posted on
01/15/2013 4:33:37 PM PST
by
facedown
(Armed in the Heartland)
To: facedown
Should have said, “Driven by fear OF Obama.”
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Whaddya know, the idjit finally stumbled into a truth!
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posted on
01/15/2013 4:35:13 PM PST
by
COBOL2Java
(kak-is-toc-ra-cy: Government by the least qualified or most unprincipled citizens. See: GOP-e)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
i wish he’d be forced to answer what the definition of the word “infringed” means.
i wish our lawmakers would shoot these eo’s down as unconstitutional. because they are.
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posted on
01/15/2013 4:36:44 PM PST
by
Secret Agent Man
(I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
01/15/2013 4:37:01 PM PST
by
SENTINEL
(Kneel down to God. Stand up to tyrants. STICK TO YOUR GUNS !)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Obungu is like all Democrat hacks and tyrants, they know that every gun purchase is a vote against them and their criminal coddling policies. That each purchase is a check on tyranny even if the buyer doesn't know this
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posted on
01/15/2013 4:37:51 PM PST
by
dennisw
(The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
To: Yo-Yo
yup, it’s totally rational. the dude needs impeachment and removal.
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posted on
01/15/2013 4:38:08 PM PST
by
Secret Agent Man
(I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I want to hear from Obama ONE MORE TIME how the NRA is driving fear into people and not Andrew Cuomo, Barack Obama, or our new tyranical government!
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posted on
01/15/2013 4:38:45 PM PST
by
Obadiah
(Those who will not hear the messengers of peace, shall be made to hear the messengers of war.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
How can he even be trusted to enter this debate when he doesn’t even know the difference between a clip and a magazine?
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
01/15/2013 4:39:25 PM PST
by
Eric in the Ozarks
(In the game of life, there are no betting limits)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Statement: "Gun sale surge driven by fear, Obama says"
Response: True enough.
Comment: However, the mental incompetent fails to understand that a fear can be "reality based."
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posted on
01/15/2013 4:39:32 PM PST
by
AEMILIUS PAULUS
(It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
It's called "voting with dollars."
People who feel like they are no longer being heard are sending a message any way they can.
-PJ
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posted on
01/15/2013 4:40:07 PM PST
by
Political Junkie Too
(If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Just wait till gun owners hear about the Marxists’ gun-grabbing plans tomorrow. There will be such a stampede to gun shops that the shelves will be cleared by noon.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Gun manfacturers, gun shops, the NRA, gun shows, and the entire weapons industry owe Obastid a great big thank you.
The more he, Biden and other useful idiots piss and moan about those eeevil guns...
..the more sales go up.
I was just reading the NRA have gained 250,000 new members thanks to the leftists preening over gun control.
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posted on
01/15/2013 4:41:28 PM PST
by
Responsibility2nd
(NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Gun sale surge driven by fear, Obama saysWell damn, the Kenyan told the truth for once.
5.56mm
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posted on
01/15/2013 4:41:51 PM PST
by
M Kehoe
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