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Panetta: People Don’t ‘Need’ Assault Rifles
PJ Media ^ | 1-17-2013 | Rick Moran

Posted on 01/17/2013 1:34:01 PM PST by Sir Napsalot

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told troops at a military base in Italy that only soldiers needed assault weapons.

From Reuters:

Asked by a soldier what President Barack Obama would do to protect school children from gun violence without infringing Americans’ right to own guns, Panetta said action was needed after the attack on a Connecticut school in December in which a gunman killed 20 children and six adults.

He told members of the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team at Vicenza that there were areas where steps could be taken,

“I mean who the hell needs armor-piercing bullets except you guys in battle?”

In the aftermath of the Connecticut shooting – the latest mass killing in the United States on a list that includes Columbine in 1999 and Virginia Tech in 2007 – Obama launched the biggest gun-control push in generations.

He asked Congress on Wednesday to approve an assault weapons ban and background checks for all gun buyers.

Panetta, who is on a week-long trip to Europe, was President Bill Clinton’s chief of staff when the United States banned the sale of assault weapons in the 1990s.

“Unfortunately that ban went out of effect,” he said.

He added that he was an enthusiastic hunter.

“I’ve been duck hunting since I was 10-years-old. I love to hunt and I love to be able to share that joy with my kids. But for the life of me, I don’t know why the hell people have to have an assault weapon.”

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KEYWORDS: banglist; guncontrol; gungrabbers; guns4meandnot4thee; secondamendment
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A good question, who the hell needs armor-piercing bullets from ordinary citizens?

“Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA– ordinary citizens don’t need guns, as their having guns doesn’t serve the State.” –Heinrich Himmler

Ghost of a past we don't want repeats. Sent chills to my being.

1 posted on 01/17/2013 1:34:04 PM PST by Sir Napsalot
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To: Sir Napsalot

We don’t “need” a pResident like Br0nc0. (Or a War Secretary to lecture us.)


2 posted on 01/17/2013 1:35:58 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Sir Napsalot

Panetta’s own SON is a Navy intel guy:

Would you trust the word of a guy who let his son’s co-workers DIE..?


3 posted on 01/17/2013 1:36:37 PM PST by gaijin
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To: Sir Napsalot
"..who the hell needs armor-piercing bullets from ordinary citizens?"

Rioting SWAT teams?

4 posted on 01/17/2013 1:37:23 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Sir Napsalot

He’s read the Declaration of Independence and understands the Second Amendment.

He is one of the oppressors disarming the patriots who would remove the oppressors by force. He knows this is not about hunting or “the children”.


5 posted on 01/17/2013 1:38:09 PM PST by DBrow
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To: Sir Napsalot

Aren’t armor piercing bullets already banned for the general public? H.R.3132 became Public law on 8/28/1986 Law No: 99-408


6 posted on 01/17/2013 1:38:40 PM PST by frogjerk (Obama Claus is coming to town!)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Only Mexican drug cartel members need them...


7 posted on 01/17/2013 1:39:26 PM PST by rfp1234 (Arguing with a liberal is like playing chess with a pigeon.)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Seizing weapons and ammunition was the prelude to the Revoltionary War.


8 posted on 01/17/2013 1:39:55 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Sir Napsalot
Hey, Leon....It's a Bill of RIGHTS. Not a Bill of Needs.

Douche

9 posted on 01/17/2013 1:40:21 PM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: Sir Napsalot

UNLESS you’re being assaulted, pinheadda.


10 posted on 01/17/2013 1:41:52 PM PST by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Taking away assault guns is proof in itself that people need assault guns.


11 posted on 01/17/2013 1:42:21 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper (Better safe than sorry.)
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To: Sir Napsalot
Says the pansy SecDef who insists that any soldiers in his vicinity be unarmed.
12 posted on 01/17/2013 1:42:36 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (TYRANNY: When the people fear the politicians. LIBERTY: When the politicians fear the people.)
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I would like to ask Panetta if he has any information regarding Fast & Furious...under oath (as if an oath matters to a democRAT/socialist/liberal).

5.56mm

13 posted on 01/17/2013 1:43:16 PM PST by M Kehoe
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To: Sir Napsalot

He’s right. They don’t need them but they want them and the point is that banning them is either just a symbolic act or just the beginning.


14 posted on 01/17/2013 1:43:41 PM PST by bkepley
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To: Sir Napsalot

needs?

nobody needs a government that runs massive deficits, funds abortion, Solyndra and gives foreign aid to our enemies either.


15 posted on 01/17/2013 1:43:49 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: frogjerk

Define armor piercing.


16 posted on 01/17/2013 1:43:58 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Sir Napsalot

Pan Pizza NEEDS to get a different job.


17 posted on 01/17/2013 1:44:00 PM PST by 3Fingas (Sons and Daughters of Freedom, Committee of Correspondence)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Since when is there a needs test for Bill of Rights protection?


18 posted on 01/17/2013 1:44:17 PM PST by lacrew (Mr. Soetoro, we regret to inform you that your race card is over the credit limit.)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Why should a sec of def have an opinion that matters on domestic policy?

And besides, if i was a politician like him, i would worry more about a scoped 308 waaaay more than some silly assault rifle.


19 posted on 01/17/2013 1:46:04 PM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: Sir Napsalot

“I’ve been duck hunting since I was 10-years-old...”

Don’t Duck Hunters use the ultimate assault weapon: a semi-auto shotgun?


20 posted on 01/17/2013 1:46:11 PM PST by lacrew (Mr. Soetoro, we regret to inform you that your race card is over the credit limit.)
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