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1 posted on 10/10/2017 5:07:14 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
like an automatic weapon, a kind of machine gun that's been illegal for quite a while now

You write stuff like this, your credibility goes right into the toilet, along with your article.

2 posted on 10/10/2017 5:13:05 AM PDT by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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Progressivism, trying to destroy America since the nation was birthed.


3 posted on 10/10/2017 5:14:51 AM PDT by exnavy (long live the .45 colt, the original handgun cartridge.)
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Or will they worry that it's the camel's nose under the tent, the first step to more restrictions that will ultimately gut what they see as their Second Amendment rights?

Camel's nose? We already have half of the camel in the tent with garbage like Schemer and botox face going for the whole thing (ie common sense gun control otherwise known as total confiscation of all firearms not in government hands)

4 posted on 10/10/2017 5:22:37 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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“Will anything change after Las Vegas? I’m not making any bets on that. But this much I’m pretty sure of: Americans, a lot of them anyway, love their guns. And politicians — few of whom are profiles in courage — love their votes. So you tell me if anything will change after Las Vegas. And if it did, would it make any real difference regarding gun violence in America?”

Insofar as the Second Amendment goes, Bernie, no! Besides, give Chicago a good month and they can equal, if not exceed the carnage we saw in Las Vegas, and no pious reporter like you is out clucking about “comprehensive” solutions to the violence there.


5 posted on 10/10/2017 5:25:27 AM PDT by vette6387 (LOCK HER UP! COMEY TOO.)
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I can’t understand why TownHall published this dross.


6 posted on 10/10/2017 5:26:54 AM PDT by gaijin
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"...Liberals say, give peace a chance. Conservatives say, 'Annie, get your gun'..."

This might be because this encapsulates the difference between "Good Hearted Liberal Useful Idiots" and Conservatives.

Note that I specify what kind of liberals, not all liberals. The ones who are not the "Useful Idiot" liberals have no intention of "giving peace a chance". They know stupid liberalism is all about power over others at its core, and also understand the 2nd Amendment is a barrier to total government subjugation of the citizenry.

Most Conservatives understand that all too well.

7 posted on 10/10/2017 5:29:48 AM PDT by rlmorel (Liberals: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette.)
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I firmly believe in gun control, which is why I use both hands when shooting my M&P Shield. Smaller handguns are simply harder to control. I'll be getting more practice at a local range this week.

I tried the Springfield XDs, but my hands are simply too big and my last two fingers couldn't find a purchase on the grip. That's why I love diversity!

8 posted on 10/10/2017 5:30:26 AM PDT by Pecos (A Constitutional republic shouldnÂ’t need to hold its collective breath in fear of lawyers.)
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There actually are reasonable steps that could be taken to much reduce these mass killings. They are well documented.
And, from Australia’s example, they seem to work:

They are:

Stop giving the mass killers fame and an incentive to kill.

Stop using the media to incentivise unstable people to become killing machines.

Here are specific things the establishment media could do, without *any* legislation:

http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2013/01/stop-school-shootings-hold-media.html


19 posted on 10/10/2017 6:23:38 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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So you tell me if anything will change after Las Vegas. And if it did, would it make any real difference regarding gun violence in America?

No and no. And what Bernie and the rest of the elites don't care to address is that criminals don't obey laws. Even gun laws passed with the very best of intentions by people who say they really, really care about the little people.

The end game of their strategy is to deny law abiding Americans of their ability to protect themselves and their families.

21 posted on 10/10/2017 6:29:03 AM PDT by InABunkerUnderSF (Dump Flake)
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liberals embrace the federal government, conservatives are deeply suspicious of all that power

The above little gem appeared in the article, and while it's not exactly about the topic, if there was ever any proof of reason to fear the concentration of power in the federal government, the Obama regime proved it.

The perfect example of a tyrannical federal government was "Operation Chokepoint." Using the power of the banking system, the government selected "objectionable" (objectionable to whom?) but perfectly legal businesses (or even people in professions that, again, were considered "objectionable,) and threatened the financial backers of the banks used by those businesses and people. Porn stars were informed that their bank accounts were being closed. Gun dealers and manufacturers were no longer able to accept credit cards.

This is a PERFECT example of the sort of tyranny from which the Constitution of the United States was supposed to protect The People.

Mark

23 posted on 10/10/2017 6:45:30 AM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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"I've been a gun-control activist for 20 years . . . There's always plenty of the garden-variety 'your dad would be ashamed of you' sexist nonsense

There is nothing sexist in saying that her father would be ashamed of her over that. If a man said something equally absurd and treasonous, the man would be told the same thing.

Still, she can't play the worn out race card, so she has to reach for the equally worn "sexist" card. America's anti-freedom enemies have no better defense and no other recourse on this question.

25 posted on 10/10/2017 8:25:59 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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The Las Vegas killer used something called a "bump stock" to turn his rifle into a something like an automatic weapon, a kind of machine gun that's been illegal for quite a while now.
Showed your ignorance right there. Federal law defines machine gun as firing more than one bullet per a single manipulation of the trigger. Semi auto requires one manipulation per bullet fired. Bump fire (aka: slide fire) just speeds that up. ATF gave their blessing on this stock as being legal and law abiding. No putting the cat back in that bag easily.
26 posted on 10/10/2017 6:30:57 PM PDT by Aut Pax Aut Bellum (Stay Calm and Carry.)
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