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MSNBC: NRA "in the Business of Helping Bombers Get Away With Their Crimes"
The Weekly Standard ^ | Apr 17, 2013 | DANIEL HALPER

Posted on 04/17/2013 7:46:51 PM PDT by rickmichaels

MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell made the case this evening that the National Rifle Association is to blame for the slow investigation into the Boston bombings:

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"There are new developments tonight in the bombing investigation here in Boston," said O'Donnell. "But that investigation could be moving faster were it not for the successful lobbying efforts of the National Rifle Association.

The NRA's efforts to guarantee that American mass murderers are the best-equipped mass murders in the world is not limited to murderers who use assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.

The NRA is also in the business of helping bombers get away with their crimes. Gunpowder could be traced by investigators to a buyer at the point of sale if gunpowder contained a taggant, an element that would enable tracing of the purchase of gunpowder.

But thanks to the National Rifle Association, identification taggants are required by law only in plastic explosives. The NRA has successfully blocked any requirements for such taggants in gunpowder. So such supremely helpful evidence as taggants are not available to the FBI in this investigation."


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To: rickmichaels

Don’t worry Larry, AlQuada is “decimated” per your savior in the White Hut.

Oh, and smokeless powder is NOT an explosive.

You can bet if it is indeed some of the post Bin Laden crew, you’ll never hear about it.


61 posted on 04/17/2013 9:43:22 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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To: rickmichaels

O’Donnell: “Gunpowder could be traced by investigators to a buyer at the point of sale if gunpowder contained a taggant, an element that would enable tracing of the purchase of gunpowder.”

Somebody help me out here. After the bomb has exploded, is there enough taggant left to make this practical?


62 posted on 04/17/2013 9:44:02 PM PDT by upchuck (To the faceless, jack-booted government bureaucrat who just scanned this post: SCREW YOU!)
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To: rickmichaels

There are no tags in homemade TATP


63 posted on 04/17/2013 9:51:43 PM PDT by STD (One day closer to street justice)
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To: rickmichaels
Adding a foreign substance, like a taggant, to gun powder would change the consistency, and maybe even the chemistry of it. That could prove disastrous, when it's used in ammunition.

Even if these politicos don't care about us civilians, imagine if someone in law enforcement or the military needs to shoot, but they couldn't count on their ammo working right, because the gun powder was contaminated.

64 posted on 04/17/2013 9:57:34 PM PDT by raisetheroof ("To become Red is to become dead --- gradually." Alexander Solzhenitsyn)
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To: STD

If you can find the source, there is definite marker.


65 posted on 04/17/2013 10:05:11 PM PDT by RedHeeler
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To: rickmichaels

Larry O’Donnell is a liar, liar, liar, liar. . . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8zbv7I6cTs


66 posted on 04/17/2013 10:13:45 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: GOPJ
RE :”Do you think MSNBC;s Lawrence O'Donnell knows Paul Kevin Curtis - the guy who sent the Ricin Letters is an active involved Democrat?
Someone should tell the twerp before his network pulls the plug on the story...”

LOD is a hell of an actor.

When things are going bad for GOPs he many times gives very accurate and thought out analysis but whenever they lose BIG like with Swift Vet Jim O Neille vs Kerry 2004 or today on guns he goes into the Rev Al Sharpton psycho act like this throwing out nonsense accusations..

When he is mad that means Dems are losing and that means I am enjoying it. If he were calm then that would mean bad news.

67 posted on 04/17/2013 10:14:44 PM PDT by sickoflibs (To GOP : Any path to US citizenship IS putting them ahead in line. Stop lying about your position.)
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To: rickmichaels
Did he mean the National Restaurant Association? I think that they do pressure cookers.
68 posted on 04/17/2013 10:37:49 PM PDT by Redcloak (Winter is coming.)
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To: rickmichaels

I would guess that the explosive used contained very little if any gun powder because the ‘smoke’ was so white. This is from stuff a person can get as a fertilizer even possibly a drug store, no gun powder as such involved. Just goes to show how ignorant people on a crusade against guns will/can twist things.


69 posted on 04/17/2013 10:49:35 PM PDT by noinfringers2
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To: rickmichaels

If anybody wants to study mental illness in the US, just start with the staff of MSNBC. You’ll have more than a dozen PhD thesises to hand in, about 10 years of concentrated study, a big paycheck, and you will also go crazy studying these marxist/psycho-bastards and drunkards.

Lawrence O’Donnell: one of the few men on earth who can make Charles Manson sound sane.


70 posted on 04/17/2013 11:54:57 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: sickoflibs
But lib Mika has no answer as she is too dumb!

I'm not pleased that our former Conservative congressman is a more effective liberal than his co-host. He needs to be sent to a labor camp.

71 posted on 04/18/2013 12:46:07 AM PDT by Impy (All in favor of Harry Reid meeting Mr. Mayhem?)
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To: rickmichaels

Why don’t these screwballs just be honest about their desires for a dictatorship, rather than constantly whining “Freedom makes it hard for us to keep you safe”?


72 posted on 04/18/2013 3:13:46 AM PDT by RWB Patriot ("My ability is a value that must be purchased and I don't recognize anyone's need as a claim on me.")
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To: rickmichaels

Sue them for lible.


73 posted on 04/18/2013 4:24:46 AM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: RWB Patriot

They want us dead. We scare them more than muslim terrorists.


74 posted on 04/18/2013 4:28:21 AM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: CommieCutter; All

Well, obviously they are pretty damn good at that...Because whatever else they are doing isn’t drawing a lot of attention to their broadcasts since their inception...

I mean, who really watches their programs??? 10-15,000 people on average a day???

Can’t be enough to really make an impact, nor give them much credibility on their editorialism (opinions)...


75 posted on 04/18/2013 4:39:22 AM PDT by stevie_d_64 (It's not the color of one's skin that offends people...it's how thin it is.)
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To: Jet Jaguar

Brawndo! It’s got electrolytes. ;-)


76 posted on 04/18/2013 5:18:00 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: CommieCutter

I’m flicking through channels to see how other networks are covering the news and MSLSD has been talking gun control non stop, calling those who voted against it liars and cowards and the NRA are liars etc.

They have hardly mentioned the massive explosion in TX but then again the far left hates the south and small towns so they probably think people down here deserve this but I bet if this happened in Chicago, NY City etc then it would be news to them


77 posted on 04/18/2013 5:49:03 AM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: rickmichaels

Uh, Bozo O’Donnell: the NRA didn’t create gun-free zones. The NRA didn’t come up with light sentences at some funny farm for convicted murderers. The NRA did not cheapen the value of life by allowing abortion on demand. The NRA did not create sensationalized 24-7 reporting on every strait-jacket candidate who commits murder with a gun. Go find another answer, you’ve got all the wrong ones just like every other liberal retard in this country.


78 posted on 04/18/2013 5:49:59 AM PDT by NRA1995 (I'd rather be a living "gun culture" member than a dead anti-gun candy-ass.)
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To: BenLurkin

gone nuts, you should see them this morning, they have lost it because their back ground checks failed.

They are spouting off with pure venom, calling reps liars and cowards and in all this time this morning they are ignoring the massive explosion in TX as if that is not news to them.

The left see their agendas failing, so they see time is going by and they can’t use a certain crisis anymore as it;s old, they have gone nuts and Obama is losing support because of a failed forcing policy, failed economics at home


79 posted on 04/18/2013 5:52:02 AM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: jersey117

we should do what the left does and go and set a group up fill of patriots and go after their sponsors and be outraged when MSLSD harps on their hatred .

This morning they have ignored the explosion in TX and talked gun control and back ground checks all morning, seems TX is not important enough even when people die and get hurt because to the left the south is not real America and they we deserve it


80 posted on 04/18/2013 5:55:13 AM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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