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Dem Senator: Right to Keep and Bear Arms Is 'Not a God-Given Right'
Breitbart ^ | 8/6/13 | Awr Hawkins

Posted on 08/06/2013 1:51:54 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper

During a May appearance on Rachel Maddow Lean Forward Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) said gun rights are not "God-given" and any claim that the Founding Fathers wanted U.S. citizens armed so they could repel a tyranny "is insane."

Murphy said, "The Second Amendment is not an absolute right, not a God-given right. It has always had conditions upon it like the First Amendment has."

This is disturbing language from a sitting Senator, especially when you consider that the First Amendment opens with the phrase "Congress shall make no law" and the Second Amendment states that the right to keep and bear arms "shall not be infringed."

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Connecticut
KEYWORDS: 1stamendment; 2018election; 2020election; 2ndamendment; banglist; chrismurphy; connecticut; democrats; donttreadonme; election2018; election2020; firstamendment; guncontrol; guns; leanforward; liberalfascism; nocompromise; rachelmaddow; secondamendment; shallnotbeinfringed; youwillnotdisarmus
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To: publius911

keyhole-like tunnel vision... sad.


81 posted on 08/06/2013 4:10:00 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Whatever promise that God has made, in Jesus it is yes. See my page.)
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To: rfp1234
This comment is worse, and of far greater scope, than anything Akin or Mourdock said.

Nothing is worse than anything Akin or Mourdock said.


82 posted on 08/06/2013 4:11:52 PM PDT by itsahoot (It is not so much that history repeats, but that human nature does not change.)
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To: SunkenCiv
The Second Amendment comes right behind the First because some people are hard of hearing.

Actually, it is because the Founders knew that some people can live a long time without a functioning brain.

83 posted on 08/06/2013 4:19:42 PM PDT by publius911 (Look for the Union label, then buy something else.)
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To: NonValueAdded
He would have waited til he saw the whites of his eyes and then popped him. General Putnam was no man to be trifled with...fearless in battle and a great patriot.

Thanks for the ping!

84 posted on 08/06/2013 6:20:12 PM PDT by Pharmboy (Democrats lie because they must.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

The recent pronouncements by these Democrats is downright scary. Muphy like Keith Ellison see US citizens as mere wards of an almighty government who owns them, and gives them things, but removes every God given right of life, liberty and the pursuit of their own destiny. This is pure Marxist fascism.


85 posted on 08/06/2013 8:45:14 PM PDT by The Great RJ
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To: tumblindice

“This dooshbag wanted home invasions made a federal crime following a break-in in his district.
Just another ideologically knee-jerk, brain-dead, hyper-ambitious dhimmi
Ring around Uranus.”

Well stated!


86 posted on 08/06/2013 10:23:13 PM PDT by Bshaw (A nefarious deceit is upon us all!)
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To: Olog-hai

Chris Murphy is too stupid to be an idiot. The express purpose of the Second Amendment IS to protect We The People from a potentially over-reaching or tyrannical government and among all the Founders we have James Madison to thank the most for it being included in The Bill of Rights. And if this stupid Democrat doesn’t think that’s the reason someone should ask him what the real reason for the 2A is.


87 posted on 08/06/2013 11:54:12 PM PDT by jmacusa (Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

You swore to uphold and protect the Constitution, not to pick and choose, no, you knew it going in.


88 posted on 08/07/2013 12:16:10 AM PDT by MaxMax (If you're not pissed off, you're not paying attention)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
There is not one country on this planet that would even attempt to invade the USA. Miltarily.
It's not our leaders they should fear.
89 posted on 08/07/2013 12:22:48 AM PDT by MaxMax (If you're not pissed off, you're not paying attention)
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To: longtermmemmory; JimRed

I agree and I plan to take a hell of a lot of those SOBs with me! But I have no doubt that if it came down to it, 0bama and his boy Holder would have no qualms about using a Hellfire missile from a drone on ANY of us.


90 posted on 08/07/2013 7:38:00 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (Who in DC is looking out for The Constitution, Bill of Rights, much less ME?)
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To: TigersEye

Ya.. I made this a few months back (on the same conversation of course)... left off my (c) so that people wouldn’t worry about re-using it (Anyone can use any pics I do, I just add the (c) on so that peeps know it’s original)..

I wish there was a way to spread this (and similar) far and wide, to get important messages through their (libs) thick stone(d) heads.

Copy the pic... post it on sites, print it up.. make stickies for car windows, etc... I am starting to believe that this IS the end of our nation.. and we cannot give up now.


91 posted on 08/07/2013 8:02:40 AM PDT by Bikkuri (Molon Labe)
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To: TigersEye

Lol.. btw, I need to sub-categorize my pics bookmarks.. list is getting so long that it takes about 10 minutes to find the one I am looking for >.<) :p


92 posted on 08/07/2013 8:07:45 AM PDT by Bikkuri (Molon Labe)
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To: Bikkuri
Great job on it. I saved it to my hard drive for printing.
Ha, I have the same problem finding my files too.
93 posted on 08/07/2013 10:54:08 AM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" is more than an Army Ranger credo it's the character of America.)
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