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Sen. Schumer: NRA Fringe Group, Doesn't Represent Average Gun Owners, "Very Extreme"
Big Government ^ | 1-20-2013 | AWR Hawkins

Posted on 01/21/2013 2:35:12 PM PST by Sir Napsalot

In comments made Friday, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said the National Rifle Association (NRA) is a "fringe group" that is "very extreme."

Moreover, according to Schumer, the NRA doesn't "represent average gun [owners]."

Schumer says that during the 1990s the NRA used their lobbying power to fill background checks with loopholes, thus leading to a situation where "40 percent of all guns sold in American have no [background] check."

You'll recall that Obama also used this "40 percent" claim when pushing for more gun control earlier in the week. This claim goes back to a 2011 study by Mayor Michael Bloomberg, where secondary, private guns were lumped in with new guns sales in an attempt to justify saying guns were entering the marketplace with no background checks whatsoever.

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 113th; banglist; bhobanglist; demagogicparty; flashbang; flashbanglist; guncontrol; lyingliar; michaelbloomberg; newyork; newyorkcity; schumwe; secondamendment
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To: Sir Napsalot
Schumer says that during the 1990s the NRA used their lobbying power to fill background checks with loopholes...

And trial lawyers don't do the same? Are they "fringe" with illicit lobbying efforts, too?

-PJ

21 posted on 01/21/2013 3:00:00 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Just as the TEA PARTY is a “fringe group” and “extreme” and the OCCUPY CROWD is a “mainstream movement of patriotic Americans”. - What little I saw of Obama’s Immaculation today, it looked like he was making a little effort not to stick his nose in the air and strike a “Stalin” pose.


22 posted on 01/21/2013 3:06:13 PM PST by Twinkie (JOHN 3:16)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Just wait till we are REALLY pissed Chuckie!


23 posted on 01/21/2013 3:07:07 PM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
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To: Secret Agent Man

He was implying that 40% was the mom and pop tables at gun shows and garage sales etc like private transfers and sales that use no 4473 ......

Schumer is a schemer of the nth degree as we all well know ....

He speaks he lies .

Doom on the polidiot POS.


24 posted on 01/21/2013 3:16:11 PM PST by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: Sir Napsalot

They do this to splinter our side...and with the help of their propaganda media they turn the peasant class against us. It works, so why think they will not say ever increasingly outrageous lies about us? Evil is pushing them and it will not be all that long till blood will be their sport.


25 posted on 01/21/2013 3:19:14 PM PST by Wpin ("I Have Sworn Upon the Altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny...")
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To: Twinkie

Here’s a blast from the past regarding extremism and count me in.

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=RVNoClu0h9M&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DRVNoClu0h9Mo


26 posted on 01/21/2013 3:24:13 PM PST by waredbird
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To: Sir Napsalot

Lolz....only the low information voters believe that nonsense. Of course, there were enough of them to subject us to 4 more years of B.O. Sigh...


27 posted on 01/21/2013 3:25:50 PM PST by TheDon (Criminalizing self defense contributed to the Sandy Hook massacre.)
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To: Sir Napsalot
OK, let's compare. How many gun owners are there in America, and what percentage of them are members of the NRA? Now, how many women are there in this country, and what percentage are members of the National Organization for Women?

OK, Senator UpChuck, based on the numbers, which group would you consider more representative of the members of its target group? I guess this means you'll have to ignore the NOW gang, since MOST women in this country have nothing to do with them.

28 posted on 01/21/2013 3:27:48 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: Sir Napsalot
And yet according to an NBC/WSJ poll recently taken the NRA is more popular than Obama.

What does that make his supporters?

29 posted on 01/21/2013 3:31:02 PM PST by skeeter
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To: Sir Napsalot

But wait! I’m a gun owner and I think the NRA is a fringe group. I think they are a left-wing fringe group that is far to the left of most gun owners.

So Chuckie, baby, I agree wit youse. We need to send a real right-wing lobbying group to D.C. to compete with it and nudge the NRA in the right direction.


30 posted on 01/21/2013 3:39:28 PM PST by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Need to get the word out that these gun-grabbing politicians are actually the fringe group. How many of these vocal tyrants are there really? I bet it’s a whole lot less than the NRA.


31 posted on 01/21/2013 3:43:50 PM PST by Kenny (<p)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Need to get the word out that these gun-grabbing politicians are actually the fringe group. How many of these vocal tyrants are there really? I bet it’s a whole lot less than the NRA.


32 posted on 01/21/2013 3:44:16 PM PST by Kenny (<p)
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To: Sir Napsalot

More propaganda for the zero information public. Schumer thinks that because he was able to talk his way out of complicity in the economic collapse of 2007, that he can lie about anything.


33 posted on 01/21/2013 3:45:32 PM PST by jonrick46 (The opium of Communists: other people's money.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

The 40% figure is the biggest bit of hokum I’ve ever read. I could just as readily say that 75% of Democrtats have an IQ under 65, and it would probably be more accurate.


34 posted on 01/21/2013 3:46:16 PM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: SENTINEL

go here to see what happens when schmucky get called to the carpet!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIeyn0-rdx4


35 posted on 01/21/2013 4:00:01 PM PST by ontap
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To: ontap

This is a much better copy:

http://my.opera.com/GT500/blog/2013/01/08/luby-s-massacre-survivor-advocates-concealed-carry


36 posted on 01/21/2013 4:10:28 PM PST by ontap
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To: Kenny

And how many are walking around with armed guards?


37 posted on 01/21/2013 4:12:19 PM PST by ontap
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To: Sir Napsalot

This myth that 90% of gun owners want more restrictive laws is just pure BS.


38 posted on 01/21/2013 4:18:15 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: Fee

Thanks for the link, Fee. I went there and filled it out for my wife and I, and sent a link to everybody that I know that shoots in my email list.


39 posted on 01/21/2013 4:24:11 PM PST by Dogbert41 (.)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Chucky like to call all conservative positions “extreme”.

Fact is, he’s a extreme flaming liberal, socialist.


40 posted on 01/21/2013 4:29:50 PM PST by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches and get with what's real.)
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