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GOP Rep. Peter King says ‘religious fervor’ blocks common-sense gun fix
New York Daily News ^ | February 15, 2018 | Denis Slattery

Posted on 02/23/2018 5:10:16 PM PST by GuavaCheesePuff

A troubled teen — dubbed “mentally disturbed” by President Trump — opened fire at a Florida school nearly one year after a law undid a regulation making it harder for people with mental illnesses to purchase a gun.

Most Republicans — and the National Rifle Association — cheered the repeal of the Obama-era measure meant to prevent future massacres as experts question what can be done to prevent such tragedies.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Florida; US: New York
KEYWORDS: banglist; guns; king; northeast; peterking
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1 posted on 02/23/2018 5:10:17 PM PST by GuavaCheesePuff
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Two sentences - two lies. Won’t click on the link to tally the final score.


2 posted on 02/23/2018 5:14:33 PM PST by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: facedown

King is off his meds.


3 posted on 02/23/2018 5:19:07 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA!!!)
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To: facedown

In didn’t know King was a writer for the Jimmy Kimmel show.


4 posted on 02/23/2018 5:19:21 PM PST by gibsonguy
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To: GuavaCheesePuff
There was no law that "undid a regulation making it harder for people with mental illnesses to purchase a gun".

They lie. Again.

The law that closed down the mental hospitals, and gave us free-range crazy people who live in cardboard boxes in the street, who **** and *** in the street, and who (rarely) buy AR15s, is the Community Mental Health Act of 1963.

This bill was signed into law on October 31, 1963, by President John F. Kennedy.

5 posted on 02/23/2018 5:19:53 PM PST by Sooth2222 (O'Rourke's Circumcision Precept: You can take 10 percent off the top of anything.)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Peter King is a horse’s ass. We are told over and over to never make an important decision during periods of great emotional stress. King and his ilk know none of their uncontitutional laws can survive rational thought. But they are willing, like the bolsheviks, to let innocents be killed to push their anti-American agenda.


6 posted on 02/23/2018 5:20:44 PM PST by bravo whiskey (Never bring a liberal gun law to a gun fight.)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

The cited law had nothing to do with the Florida shooting. It was abut SSDI and the kid was not collecting SSDI.

All points about gun control are moot when the FBI knew this kid was a time bomb, the local police knew Cruz was a time bomb, the FBI were tipped off weeks before, local police were on the scene and did nothing.

This has NOTHING to do with guns or gun control. This was preventable and the system didn’t work for crap.

It doesn’t matter how many laws were not enforced or if we make new laws that will not be enforced. If you won’t enforce the laws, and if criminals won’t volunteer to follow the laws, you can’t fix these problems.

It is NOT about guns.


7 posted on 02/23/2018 5:21:14 PM PST by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (What profits a man if he gains the world yet loses his soul?)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Just renewed my membership in the NRA.


8 posted on 02/23/2018 5:23:37 PM PST by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping list.)
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To: bravo whiskey

Great Post!
And 100% accurate!


9 posted on 02/23/2018 5:24:32 PM PST by Roman_War_Criminal (This country & world is living on borrowed time (Luke 17:26-27))
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

“Common sense”

Another one of those subjective, unmeasurable terms that Liberals use to push their agenda.


10 posted on 02/23/2018 5:24:45 PM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Free Republic has been reduced to primarily a gathering place for the inane, banal, and obtuse.)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

“Common Sense gun fix” = A path to bans and confiscation.


11 posted on 02/23/2018 5:26:37 PM PST by LIConFem (I will no longer accept the things I cannot change. it's time to change the things I cannot accept.)
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To: LIConFem

He may be just right for his district but he’s still an ass. Indulge him my friends.


12 posted on 02/23/2018 5:29:44 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

I have a “religious fervor” for upholding the 2nd Amendment. I refuse to give up our RKBA. They are as fundamental to freedom as freedom of speech and the press and the right to worship God as I wish.

I refuse to surrender to demagogues and close-minded fanatics who are not interested in common-sense solutions but to take away our right to defend ourselves. That right is non-negotiable.

Our opponents may badger and scream us down all they want but we will not yield. We care far more about protecting human life than they do.

We stand ready to seek solutions that prevent a mass slaughter - but we will never agree to a situation of temporary safety in exchange for our freedom because a people that agrees to it deserve neither. That is our line in the sand.


13 posted on 02/23/2018 5:30:49 PM PST by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Forever))
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

sickening.
and a common sense fix will be to end all of the ‘gun control’ crap
(all illegal anyway)
and
issue or make sure all high school students have firearms and know how to use them (give them good safety and operating classes, with certified instructors) for defense and yes, for shooting sports and competitions... just like we used to have at so many schools


14 posted on 02/23/2018 5:33:26 PM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicans aren't born, they're excreted." -Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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To: gibsonguy

King comes from Long Island, the area where in 1993, a black nutjob, Colin Ferguson shot and murdered white and Asian suburbanites in a Long Island railroad car.

http://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/09/nyregion/death-on-the-lirr-the-confrontation-3-credited-in-capture-of-gunman.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Long_Island_Rail_Road_shooting#Shooting


15 posted on 02/23/2018 5:34:00 PM PST by GuavaCheesePuff
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To: Sooth2222

“”””The law that closed down the mental hospitals, and gave us free-range crazy people who live in cardboard boxes in the street, who **** and *** in the street, and who (rarely) buy AR15s, is the Community Mental Health Act of 1963.

This bill was signed into law on October 31, 1963, by President John F. Kennedy. “”””””””””””

I have herd many libs over the years blame Reagan for letting them all out.


16 posted on 02/23/2018 5:34:56 PM PST by shelterguy
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Mr. King, we are not the problem.

You are the problem. You are not the solution.

Please stop talking.


17 posted on 02/23/2018 5:35:16 PM PST by chris37 (Take a week off racist >;-)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

It said in the article that Sessions was going to do something... well that would be a first.


18 posted on 02/23/2018 5:35:56 PM PST by HighSierra5
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Northeastern liberals are anti-2nd Amendment and anti-gun even if they wear an R jersey.


19 posted on 02/23/2018 5:42:25 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff
If I was to somehow jump the wall surrounding Zuckerberg’s estate and walk toward his house how far would I get before I was shot dead by his security force?
20 posted on 02/23/2018 5:43:15 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Obama & Hillary: The Two Most Corrupt Politicians of My Lifetime.)
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