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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: 2ndDivisionVet

Possibly if he could read, but my guess is that he was an “affirmative action” graduate under the “everyone gets a trophy” program.


81 posted on 01/15/2013 7:06:46 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’m angry and disgusted, not afraid.


82 posted on 01/15/2013 7:36:20 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

...and that fear caused by statists like Obama is driving people to gun shops looking for a little bit of insurance.


83 posted on 01/15/2013 9:08:23 PM PST by Crucial (Tolerance at the expense of equal treatment is the path to tyranny.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Mr. President, you are mistaken. It’s not fear, it’s resolve.


84 posted on 01/15/2013 9:51:56 PM PST by Bshaw (A nefarious deceit is upon us all!)
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To: Travis McGee
You cannot defeat perfect utopian thinking with facts or logic.

Facts and logic cannot get a person out of a position that facts and logic did not get them into.

85 posted on 01/16/2013 4:42:48 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

You know rational thinking is lacking when Pravda, Russia’s communist political newspaper, makes sense. In a recent article, Stanislav Mishin writes that after the Bolsheviks seized Moscow in 1917, they promised to leave alone the well-armed citizens if they did not interfere. “They did not and for that were asked afterwards,” writes Mishin, “to come register themselves and their weapons, whereupon they were promptly shot.”

From Cal Thomas: [ he doesn’t always resonate with me], but his column today was good.

http://www.calthomas.com/index.php?news=3860


86 posted on 01/16/2013 4:47:08 AM PST by Daffynition (The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. — D.H.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

87 posted on 01/16/2013 4:49:29 AM PST by Daffynition (The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. — D.H.)
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To: Eaker

88 posted on 01/16/2013 6:04:31 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: vortec94
Good morning.

Have you read Uninteded Consequences?

Not yet, but it's on my list.

5.56mm

89 posted on 01/16/2013 6:28:03 AM PST by M Kehoe
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