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This Is How the NRA Ends The bigger, richer, meaner gun-control movement has arrived
New Republic ^ | BY ALEC MACGILLIS | BY ALEC MACGILLIS

Posted on 05/28/2013 6:13:03 AM PDT by vg0va3

But then something unexpected happened. Some of the senators who’d voted “no” faced furious voters back home. Even before Erica Lafferty, the daughter of murdered Sandy Hook Elementary principal Dawn Hochsprung, confronted New Hampshire Republican Kelly Ayotte at a particularly tense town hall, Ayotte’s disapproval rating in the state had jumped from 35 to 46 percent—half the respondents said her “no” vote made them less likely to support her.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: alinskytactics; banglist; democrats; donttreadonme; gopprimary; guncontrol; liberalfascism; nra; secondamendment; teaparty; tyranny; waronliberty; youwillnotdisarmus
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To: demkicker
Please get it right so gun owners are not depicted as tin foil hat loons. The police took a Saiga shotgun out of the trunk of the car. The AR-15 was found next to Lanza and the building was littered with .223 shell casings. This is the shotgun recovered from the trunk:




21 posted on 05/28/2013 7:43:51 AM PDT by MtBaldy (If Obama is the answer, it must have been a really stupid question)
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To: Gaffer
Just because you can threaten, browbeat, wrongfully shame and stupidly give away YOUR freedom, doesn’t mean the rest of this country is going to accept it. Come and take them.

You've nailed it, Gaffer.

One of the stupidest things President You Didn't Build That has ever done was squander a huge portion of his political capital on leftist extremist so-called "gun control." The "gun control" laws being hotly debated are nothing but an expression of hatred for:

• The Second Amendment.

• All of us who believe "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed" means exactly what it says.

Expressing hatred does, indeed, fire up the Democratic [sic] party's base; concurrently, it has driven sales of firearms and ammunition to levels that couldn't even be imagined five years ago, and solidified resistance to YDBT, the Democratic [sic] party, and Marxism in general. NRA membership has topped 5 million. Millions of Americans now have concealed carry permits. There's no such thing as ammunition on gun shop shelves in many parts of the country, and modern sporting semi-automatic rifles are on back-order from coast to coast. Even Illinois, the last bastion of hatred of the idea that citizens have an intrinsic human right to defend our lives, is under federal court order to stop infringing the Second Amendment.

I don't doubt representatives of the Democratic [sic] party in the Senate will launch another attempt to pass "gun control" laws; I also don't doubt they'll go exactly nowhere in the House of Representatives, and drive more gun and ammunition sales, NRA membership, and additional resistance to leftist extremist hatred.

Blind hatred never sees very far ahead.

22 posted on 05/28/2013 7:45:50 AM PDT by Standing Wolf
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To: sickoflibs; vg0va3; Gilbo_3

“...This Is How the NRA Ends The bigger, richer, meaner gun-control movement has arrived...”

Yeah, good luck with that.

100+ million gunnies in this country. At least a third of whom will not give up their guns under ANY circumstances.

Welcome to Hell.


23 posted on 05/28/2013 7:46:50 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: Gaffer

If they want, those liberals can browbeat their representatives into capitulating to ‘feelgoodism’ and take away all their guns. Only, when they try to expand this in a Federal manner that affects thoses states that still have sane citizens who value freedom, they will reap the whirlwind of true internal war.
***Claire Wolfe’s popular admonition: “America is at that awkward stage. It’s too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.”


24 posted on 05/28/2013 7:59:32 AM PDT by Kevmo ("A person's a person, no matter how small" ~Horton Hears a Who)
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To: vg0va3

What does this have to do with preventing maniacs from committing atrocities? They are targeting law abiding citizens for further infringement. The NRA and other pro second amendment groups must inform people in regions where they have been brainwashed by gun confiscation leftists.


25 posted on 05/28/2013 8:20:50 AM PDT by orinoco (Orinoco)
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To: vg0va3; red irish; fastrock; NorthernCrunchyCon; UMCRevMom@aol.com; Finatic; fellowpatriot; ...
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26 posted on 05/28/2013 8:25:07 AM PDT by narses
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To: demkicker

“There is video of a policeman taking an automatic weapon out of Lanza’s TRUNK.”

There is video of a policeman taking a semiautomatic shotgun out of the trunk. That is not the same as the AR-15 that was the murder weapon.


27 posted on 05/28/2013 8:30:56 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Kevmo

Get your ‘lamp black’ ready.


28 posted on 05/28/2013 8:36:33 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Spirochete

“There was/is a website that has a photo gallery of UK traffic camera destruction, it’s hilarious. Usually they’re painted over or driven over. A few years back one of them was ‘necklaced’.”

Most GATSOs in the UK are “set alight” with a “tyre” filled with “petrol.” Frying the guts of them is what costs the money to repair.


29 posted on 05/28/2013 8:40:04 AM PDT by vette6387
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To: Kevmo
...too early....

Yeah...long way to go before that.

It reminds me of my favorite SyFy show, “Falling Skies”.....

It's not the aliens, the destruction, the devastation that is so hard to believe. It is the fact that the ‘heroes’ of this series is a group called “The Second Mass..[for Massachusetts]”.

Given this day and age, the homos and murderers they elect, nothing could be farther from the truth.

30 posted on 05/28/2013 8:43:41 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: old and tired
And the problem for him is that RINO Republican women aren’t going to vote for him even if grabs every gun in the country. Toomey is anti-abortion and they (the RINO women) are baby killers before they are gun grabbers.

Yes, and they will remain so unless they become convinced that AR-15s with large magazines should remain legal so that abortionists and their helpers could use them to "finish off" any babies who survive the abortion procedures. /s

31 posted on 05/28/2013 9:24:22 AM PDT by Col Freeper (FR: A smorgasbord of Conservative Mindfood - dig in and enjoy it!)
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To: Little Ray
For instance, if the UK lifted their ban, how long do you think it would take to sell a 100k Ruger LCP9s?

The primary reason for the Second Amendment is to safeguard against a tyrannical government. The second most important reason is defense of country, community, family and self. The trouble with that gumdrops and rainbows view of the problem is that that 100k Ruger LCP9s will legally be able to be used only once, if the brainless in government and in the no-information populace have their way.

32 posted on 05/28/2013 9:40:40 AM PDT by publius911 (Look for the Union label, then buy something else.)
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To: vg0va3

It’s possible to fight nonsense with actual facts.

We don’t have to convince skeptics that we’re all safer when law-abiding citizens are armed. All we have to do is recite the fact that gun crimes have gone down over the past decade while both concealed carry permits and overall gun ownership have gone up significantly. The facts refute the fears. Let them draw their own conclusions from the facts, but willingly supply the facts at every opportunity.

From such facts, it is easy to draw the conclusion that gun-free zones (like our schools) are a bad idea. A better policy would be to pay a cash stipend to any teacher or administrator in a building who agreed to carry and who met all of the school’s requirements for doing so. Allocate X thousand dollars per building and let those who agree to carry split it equally. If only one person is wlling, he or she will get the entire stipend that year. You’ll get takers.


33 posted on 05/28/2013 9:47:01 AM PDT by Norseman (Defund the Left-Completely!)
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To: Norseman

Perception matters more than facts.

That is why the GOP is failing.

You need to control the narrative to win. The GOP doesn’t have a clue on what to do.


34 posted on 05/28/2013 10:25:37 AM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: Gaffer

It’s not the aliens, the destruction, the devastation that is so hard to believe. It is the fact that the ‘heroes’ of this series is a group called “The Second Mass..[for Massachusetts]”. Given this day and age, the homos and murderers they elect, nothing could be farther from the truth.
***I thought exactly the same thing when I watched it. Oh well, at least it’s fun sci-fi to watch.


35 posted on 05/28/2013 11:45:34 AM PDT by Kevmo ("A person's a person, no matter how small" ~Horton Hears a Who)
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To: FreedomPoster

“There were a couple Lefties out in front of the Thursday night food truck roundup in our suburb”

What in the world is a food truck roundup?


36 posted on 05/28/2013 11:50:21 AM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: KeyLargo

You too can Freep the gun poll on the Telegraph website, hee, hee!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10071072/Telegraph-new-law-competition-vote-now.html


37 posted on 05/28/2013 12:02:30 PM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: dsc

A gathering of food trucks.

http://atlantafoodtruckpark.com/foodtrucks/

These are not the roach coaches that descended upon the construction site of your youth.


38 posted on 05/28/2013 12:12:16 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: publius911

Well... If 100K law-abiding people using 100K Rugers judiciously, once, what the odds that the UK would be back on track; legal gun ownership, low crime, effective sharia control, conservative government, etc...


39 posted on 05/28/2013 12:20:22 PM PDT by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it gettingthe so hot?)
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To: FreedomPoster

“A gathering of food trucks.”

Well, I’ll be dipped.


40 posted on 05/28/2013 12:23:44 PM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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