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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...

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; biden; economy; fascism; guncontrol; gunsales; obama; secondamendment
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Let me see; “folks” that shouldn’t have them . . would that be “Tea Party” “folks” and Conservative “folks”? Certainly not “Occupy” “folks”! Up is down. Down is up. Good is bad. Bad is good. - It IS scary.


61 posted on 01/15/2013 5:50:52 PM PST by Twinkie (The earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof; the world and they that dwell therein. Ps. 24:1)
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To: Travis McGee

Thanks Travis, I’ve been seeing and admiring your graphics.


62 posted on 01/15/2013 6:00:23 PM PST by potlatch (~One Heart Less In My Life~)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Frightened?

Of course we are.

  1. Governments have murdered 262 million of their own citizens in the past 113 years
  2. Gun control was always the first step
  3. The overwhelming majority of those murders were perpetrated by Socialist/Communist/Marxist governments
  4. Comrade Ubama is a rigid Marxist ideologue
Any questions?
63 posted on 01/15/2013 6:05:30 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (TYRANNY: When the people fear the politicians. LIBERTY: When the politicians fear the people.)
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To: pallis
Nero Caesar was what you described, and he was very dangerous.
64 posted on 01/15/2013 6:06:26 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's presidential run. What'll you do?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Obama said he would unveil details of his “sensible, common-sense” program for tighter gun controls”

Notice that they call it a program and not a proposal. The President can only propose laws, he has no authority to make laws himself, so anything proper that he comes up with should at most be a proposal, to be submitted to Congress. The fact that they are calling it a “program” is admitting right there that what he is planning is unconstitutional.

Someone tried to tell me today that he was going to do this through Executive Orders, and read something from wikipedia that says EOs are binding laws. Well, I replied that I don’t give a darn what wikipedia, or the Supreme Court says about it, there is no authority in the Constitution for the President to make laws. If he tries to do that, I will consider them unconstitutional and feel free to disobey them at my discretion with no worries of conscience.


65 posted on 01/15/2013 6:14:30 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: Yo-Yo
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?

We are not supposed to notice those things. Such as noticing that shooting someone in California has less consequences then shooting someone in Texas.

66 posted on 01/15/2013 6:15:15 PM PST by justa-hairyape
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Typical libs. I’m visitng my parents and dad had in on CNN (I know) and that Brit idiot Morgan came on and it was a “gun” special.

In the first 5 minutes they laid out some of the proposed ideas by the administration and the guest (some idiot mayor, Dem) actually said, “while these ideas won’t stop gun crime or violence, they are sensible”.

HUH? Orwell was a prophet.


67 posted on 01/15/2013 6:16:48 PM PST by Fledermaus (The Republic is Dead: Collapse the system. Fire all politicians and start over.)
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To: potlatch

Thanks, glad you like them, forward or copy them to your “moderate” friends and family.....it’s meme warfare.


68 posted on 01/15/2013 6:18:19 PM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Fledermaus

You cannot defeat perfect utopian thinking with facts or logic.


69 posted on 01/15/2013 6:19:49 PM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Travis McGee

It IS meme warfare... all we can do is turn the statehouses redder and redder since we lost national vote integrity.


70 posted on 01/15/2013 6:23:12 PM PST by txhurl
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Not by fear, asshole.


71 posted on 01/15/2013 6:23:53 PM PST by Gene Eric (Demoralization is a weapon of the enemy. Don't get it, don't spread it!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
http://www.newsmax.com/Surveys/Results/id/64

Should the federal government regulate guns of any type?
Yes, it should 20,366(23%)
No, it should not 64,655(76%)

Should Congress ban semi-automatic weapons?
Yes, it should 14,875(17%)
No, it should not 70,496(82%)

If Congress does not act, should President Obama use an executive order to ban or strictly control the sale of semi-automatic weapons?
Yes, he should 12,764(14%)
No, he should not 72,559(85%)

Do you agree that the Second Amendment gives citizens the right to own and bear guns without infringement?
Yes, I agree 73,634(86%)
No, I don't agree 11,755(13%)

Four to one against little bammy... .

72 posted on 01/15/2013 6:29:17 PM PST by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Gun sale surge driven by fear, Obama says

You got that right, doofus.
Fear that the wannabe tinpot african muslim dictator will finish going through the Bill of Rights and cancelling them all untouched by Congress, the Law, the Supreme Court and supported by his perceived mandate by the mob of fraudulent voters.

73 posted on 01/15/2013 6:40:38 PM PST by publius911 (Look for the Union Label -- then buy something else)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I love how they don’t want to take away my guns. Well, except for AR-15s. But that doesn’t count.


74 posted on 01/15/2013 6:45:00 PM PST by andyk (I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
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To: Travis McGee
"it’s meme warfare."
You bet it is, and there's more 'behind the scenes' stuff that most people aren't aware of.....


75 posted on 01/15/2013 6:46:21 PM PST by potlatch (~)
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To: M Kehoe

Have you read Uninteded Consequences?


76 posted on 01/15/2013 6:46:49 PM PST by vortec94
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.


77 posted on 01/15/2013 6:48:25 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Obama’s gun control efforts are driven by fear.


78 posted on 01/15/2013 6:54:03 PM PST by Hoodat ("As for God, His way is perfect" - Psalm 18:30)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He’s projecting the hysteria of his small anti-American, anti-Second-Amendment constituency on his enemies: Americans.


79 posted on 01/15/2013 7:02:58 PM PST by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
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To: SunkenCiv
Perfect little props for Nazi style destruction of the American Constitution.



80 posted on 01/15/2013 7:03:42 PM PST by Eaker (Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. — Robert A. Heinlein.)
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