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Harry Reid cites father’s suicide in gun debate
Politico ^ | 04/09/2013 | By GINGER GIBSON

Posted on 04/09/2013 12:27:10 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid again took the Senate floor to make a very personal plea on Tuesday morning for a vote on gun control legislation.

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“In Nevada, if you purchase a handgun, you have to wait three days to pick it up,” Reid said. “And it is believed that alone has saved the lives of many people. Sometimes people in a fit of passion will purchase a handgun to do bad things with it, Mr. President, even as my dad did — killed himself. Waiting a few days helps.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 113th; awb; banglist; guncontrol; harryreid; secondamendment; suicide
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To: allmendream

Biden also waited until after the guy was dead so that his family couldn’t sue for Libel.


21 posted on 04/09/2013 12:41:24 PM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Responsibility2nd

To get away from Harry, probably.


22 posted on 04/09/2013 12:43:15 PM PDT by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (Vendetta))
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To: Responsibility2nd

Sorry but I believe if a person is truly suicidal they will find a way to kill themselves, if not gun, a rope, slit their wrists, jump from a height, in front of a car or something else. I think Reid is just looking to lay the blame somewhere else because of his feelings of guilt.


23 posted on 04/09/2013 12:44:49 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: massgopguy
In Biden’s case it was probably just dumb luck that he wasn't (or wasn't caught) saying it before 1999 - when the truck driver died.
24 posted on 04/09/2013 12:45:47 PM PDT by allmendream (Tea Party did not send GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism)
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To: allmendream

There you would be wrong in your thinking. Biden tried to score sympathy points ...

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No kidding. When it comes to sleaze - its hard to beat Shotgun Joe.


25 posted on 04/09/2013 12:45:59 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

If I had a son like Harry...


26 posted on 04/09/2013 12:46:38 PM PDT by jps098
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

If Hairy Reed were my son I would swallow a pound of valium and then shoot myself.


27 posted on 04/09/2013 12:46:49 PM PDT by forgotten man (forgotten man)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Well now Harry....Just what sort of law would like to concoct, that might have prevented your Dad’s suicide?

Magazine Limits?

Universal background checks?

Assault Weapons ban?


28 posted on 04/09/2013 12:49:32 PM PDT by G Larry (Darkness Hates the Light)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Hmm. Interesting tidbit on Reis's family.

Could I be that Reid's daddy was depressed upon learning he wasn't goo enough to become a god with his own planet or universe?

Seriously, many LDS suffer from chronic depression over the feelings of never being good enough to do all that they are commanded by their faith.

Rotten of Reid to wash his family's linen as a sympathy ploy for Obozo's gun control fetish and make folks helpless in the face of out of control crime sprees!

29 posted on 04/09/2013 12:49:55 PM PDT by zerosix (Native sunflower)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Harry Reid IS a filthy lowlife SOB and a lier to boot. Always distorting facts to fit the occasion ie. it might a 3 day wait in Clark county NV (Lost Wages aka LA east) but not in the rest of the state, I was out the door in no more that 10 mins new weapon in hand last week. FKNG a$$hole!
30 posted on 04/09/2013 12:50:55 PM PDT by mongo141 (Revolution ver. 2.0, just a matter of when, not a matter of if!)
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To: ozzymandus

Now just wait one minute here. I’ll give you that Harry is clearly despicable. And, certainly he is little. But, um,... wait a sec... what was that third adjective thing you used?


31 posted on 04/09/2013 12:53:45 PM PDT by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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32 posted on 04/09/2013 12:54:07 PM PDT by onyx
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To: Responsibility2nd

Hey Harry, your dad ate a bullet cause he finally realized you were actually his.


33 posted on 04/09/2013 12:55:42 PM PDT by VRWCarea51
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To: MeganC

“Reid writes at length about a difficult childhood growing up in a dilapidated two-room shack with parents, he says, who both drank to excess. According to Reid his father beat his mother until, at 14, young Harry and his brother pinned Pop down to stop the violence.”
So is Harry sad or happy his father committed suicide?


34 posted on 04/09/2013 12:59:43 PM PDT by funfan
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To: MeganC

+1


35 posted on 04/09/2013 1:00:15 PM PDT by Joe Brower (The "American People" are no longer capable of self-governance.)
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To: Vendome

Wait. So yer pappy couldn’t wait to kill himself?

I’m thinking he was lazy and should done it 73, 74 years ago...

You brought him into the debate. Fair game.

Oh, and sorry you lost your father. In his next life he’ll probably figure he’d better use a map on whatever Kolob planet he landed on.


36 posted on 04/09/2013 1:01:23 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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Hey Harry, instead of spanking you at birth, maybe the doctors/nurses should have spanked your parents for having you.

I’m just sayin...........


37 posted on 04/09/2013 1:02:24 PM PDT by Kevin in California
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

+10


38 posted on 04/09/2013 1:03:14 PM PDT by CMailBag
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To: Responsibility2nd

Has the NRA changed this poser’s rating yet?


39 posted on 04/09/2013 1:05:44 PM PDT by MaxMax
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To: Responsibility2nd

Well Harry, does “waiting a few days” help the victims of domestic abuse, or other immediate threats of violence?


40 posted on 04/09/2013 1:05:47 PM PDT by G Larry (Darkness Hates the Light)
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