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Gun Control Advocates March Across Brooklyn Bridge
NY1 ^ | Saturday, May 9, 2015

Posted on 05/10/2015 8:39:01 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Hundreds of people, including a teacher from Sandy Hook Elementary School, marched across the Brooklyn Bridge Saturday to call for better gun control.

The group Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America and other supporters marched across the Bridge to City Hall.

They say gun violence kills an average of more than 80 people across the country each day- and they want toughter laws on firearms.

"We have to keep fighting. We have to get safer gun laws for our children," one marcher said.

"Thirty thousand people a year are killed by guns in this country. It's outrageous. If it were a disease, we'd have all kinds of teams investigating why it happened and how," another marcher said.

One of the teachers from the Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut attended. It was in December 2012 that gunman Adam Lanza killed 20 children and six adults there.

This is the third year Moms Demand Action is hosting the march.


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Then they got mugged.
1 posted on 05/10/2015 8:39:01 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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“Thirty thousand people a year are killed by guns in this country. It’s outrageous.///

It’s true. I’ve seen it!! Guns just shooting themselves at people. Perhaps it’s bad parenting, not being cleaned, cannon envy, but guns are going crazy in this country, i tell ya!!! /s

BTW, the Romans were pretty good at killing without guns. So were the Hutus and the Tutsis, for a much more recent example.

The only idiots following NY gun laws are people who are afraid of jail, like me


2 posted on 05/10/2015 8:47:02 PM PDT by dp0622
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You think gun control makes us safer? I’ve got a bridge in Brooklyn...


3 posted on 05/10/2015 8:48:33 PM PDT by Hugin ("Do yourself a favor--first thing, get a firearm!")
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To: nickcarraway

I read on another thread a woman beat a guy to death with a baseball bat. How come baseball isn’t banned?


4 posted on 05/10/2015 8:49:37 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (B. Hussein Obama: 17 acts of Treason and counting.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Or wood? Couldn’t have made that damned bat without it.

Let’s just reach as ridiculous conclusions as possible.


5 posted on 05/10/2015 8:56:16 PM PDT by dp0622
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To: nickcarraway

Why protest in a city with some of the most restrictive gun laws in the country? Why not protest in the most Second Amendment friendly states?


6 posted on 05/10/2015 8:57:10 PM PDT by Sooth2222 ("In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve." - Joseph de Maistre, 1753-1821)
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nickcarraway wrote:
“Then they got mugged.”

And I’ll add...Then Muslims cut off their heads.


7 posted on 05/10/2015 9:02:11 PM PDT by right way right
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If there were that many protesters, and knowing in general that a large portion of Americans lawfully own at least one firearm, I’m a bettin’ man that there’s a few hypocrites in that crowd. I’m just saying.


8 posted on 05/10/2015 9:14:57 PM PDT by patro
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Bridge over water.

Boats in water, oops.

Water full of guns.


9 posted on 05/10/2015 9:18:04 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (an icon of resistance within the oppressed patriots, who represent resilience in the face of SSV)
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You don’t understand control. They don’t want YOU to have a gun. They can have one.


10 posted on 05/10/2015 9:18:46 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Oh My,......

Hundreds of people,

11 posted on 05/10/2015 9:25:28 PM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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>> including a teacher from Sandy Hook Elementary School

What did the marchers have to say about the community and father that neglected Lanza’s mental illness?


12 posted on 05/10/2015 9:29:30 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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So, it’s my understanding that even Dianne Feinstein owns a firearm. So at the end of the day, if these gun grabbers got their way, Feinstein and these folks would still be packing. They know that as long as we possess arms, they know we won’t let them infringe on our liberties, right?


13 posted on 05/10/2015 9:30:59 PM PDT by patro
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Liberal philosophy: Control the tool, not the criminals.

What’s next?

Are they going to take forks and spoons away from overeaters?

Are they going to take Air Force Two away from Moochie Obama?


14 posted on 05/10/2015 9:42:50 PM PDT by Iron Munro (We may be paranoid but that doesn't mean they aren't really after us)
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***HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE***
From pictures, it looked like fewer than a hundred to me.


15 posted on 05/10/2015 9:44:21 PM PDT by sockmonkey (Of course I didn't read the article. After all, this is Free Republic.)
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To: patro

Another view of the same event:

http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2015/05/epic-fail-of-disarmist-march-across.html


16 posted on 05/10/2015 9:44:48 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: nickcarraway

Whaddawee want?

Better aim!

Whendo we wantit?

When we shoot!


17 posted on 05/10/2015 9:59:19 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: marktwain

Small turnout. And as you noted, they demonstrated in a community that already has very strict gun laws in place. Facts interfere with their evil cause. They’re control freaks. It’s sick that they’re using a child as an object to push their agenda.


18 posted on 05/10/2015 9:59:38 PM PDT by patro
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To: nickcarraway

The irony of them marching for this in NYC escapes them.


19 posted on 05/10/2015 10:01:17 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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FBI statistics..... More people are killed with hammers every year than with semi-automatic rifles (”assault weapons” as the gun-grabbing libs would call them).

I’m tired of these Sandy Hookers.


20 posted on 05/10/2015 10:11:47 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (The so-called Southern Poverty Law Center is a hate group.)
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