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GOP Senator Says We Have To Sacrifice Our Gun Rights So Democrats Don’t Take Them
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Posted on 09/08/2019 3:58:18 AM PDT by WWG1WWA

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To: datricker

Never said I did not understand.


81 posted on 09/09/2019 4:01:18 AM PDT by MachIV
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To: MachIV

Apologies for implying you didn’t. That was not my intent


82 posted on 09/09/2019 6:04:01 AM PDT by datricker (Cut Taxes Repeal ACA Deport DACA - Americans First, Build the Wall, Lock her up MAGA!)
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To: editor-surveyor
"Let’s offer Braun to be primaried."

Agreed, we need to sacrifice some RINO's so Democrats don't take over the Republican party.

83 posted on 09/09/2019 11:06:21 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: WWG1WWA
A far better answer would be to fully embrace the subject, as George Washington advocated, by training our teen aged youth in the safe and responsible use of firearms, provided to the respective households.

Right & Duty To Keep & Bear Arms.

Those who doubt Washington's wisdom, should study Swiss crime statistics, as a multi-century long demonstration of his point. (Or, at least let's talk about it.)

84 posted on 09/09/2019 11:15:32 AM PDT by Ohioan
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To: M.K. Borders

I hope you will call his office and let his staff know what a coward and a traitor he is. They don’t take calls from people outside their states.


85 posted on 09/13/2019 5:28:52 PM PDT by Luke21 (Vote, vote, vote doesn't work, work, work.)
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To: datricker

Not any good ones since Senator Helms retired


86 posted on 09/16/2019 8:05:00 PM PDT by Theodore R.
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To: Theodore R.

When we had Helms in the Senate and guys like Phil Crane and Larry McDonald in the House we has some hardcore conservatives that we could really count on. Nowadays, we have lots of Republicans but few strict-constructionist conservatives. The internet helped break up the power of Big Media but we’re having a difficult time getting really strong people elected.


87 posted on 09/16/2019 8:12:20 PM PDT by Monterrosa-24 (...even more American than a Russian AK-47 and a French bikini.)
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To: WWG1WWA

How the the Anti-gun groups plan to do it, they spilled their guts in a magazine interview back in 1976. They tried to walk this back but it was too late.

From 1976.

Nelson T. ‘Pete’ Shields
Founder of Handgun Control, Inc.

“I’m convinced that we have to have federal legislation to build on. We’re going to have to take one step at a time, and the first step is necessarily — given the political realities — going to be very modest.

Of course, it’s true that politicians will then go home and say, ‘This is a great law. The problem is solved.’ And it’s also true that such statements will tend to defuse the gun-control issue for a time.

So then we’ll have to strengthen that law, and then again to strengthen that law, and maybe again and again. Right now, though, we’d be satisfied not with half a loaf but with a slice. Our ultimate goal — total control of handguns in the United States — is going to take time.

My estimate is from seven to ten years. The problem is to slow down the increasing number of handguns sold in this country. The second problem is to get them all registered. And the final problem is to make the possession of all handguns and all handgun ammunition — except for the military, policemen, licensed security guards, licensed sporting clubs, and licensed gun collectors — TOTALLY ILLEGAL.”

-Pete Shields, Chairman and founder, Handgun Control Inc., “A Reporter At Large: Handguns,” The New Yorker, July 26, 1976, 57-58

“Yes, I’m for an outright ban [on handguns].”

-Pete Shields, Chairman emeritus, Handgun Control, Inc., 60 Minutes interview

HCI, around 1984, suddenly made a grab for the semi-auto rifles and shotguns, and missed But they showed their hand. As a result all gun owners know we are always up against a stacked deck.

NEVER GIVE AN INCH!


88 posted on 09/17/2019 10:41:20 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: WWG1WWA

Giving up a few gun rights is like throwing the baby to the wolves in hopes of the wolves eating you last.


89 posted on 09/17/2019 10:49:41 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: WWG1WWA

“Civil rights”? From an org calling itself conservative?

Sheesh.


90 posted on 09/17/2019 10:54:01 AM PDT by savedbygrace
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To: WWG1WWA
Republican Indiana Senator Mike Braun

Great... another flake?

He's the guy who flipped the seat held by Joe Donnelly in 2018.

-PJ

91 posted on 09/17/2019 10:54:52 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: skimbell
Today that "simple, common sense" request has morphed into talk of entire states being smokeless.

Except for smoking marijuana, of course, because THAT smoke is absolutely harmless < /s>

92 posted on 09/17/2019 10:59:18 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Orchides Forum Trahite - Cordes Et Mentes Veniant)
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To: skimbell

Indeed. I always say the country was a better place when many people smoked. That’s not a comment about how wonderful smoking is. It’s a comment about how far the Nanny State has come, trying to micromanage every aspect of your life. IMO, smoking was where they kicked everything up a notch, and they haven’t slowed down since.


93 posted on 09/17/2019 11:04:09 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Exactly. Incrementalism. They are masters of it! I’m with you, not one single inch! Not one! Good find.


94 posted on 09/17/2019 5:13:56 PM PDT by WWG1WWA ("Brothers, what we do in life echoes in eternity." - Marcus Aurelius)
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To: WWG1WWA

What an idiot, you cannot compromise with the democrats on anything. He needs to resign.


95 posted on 09/17/2019 5:16:13 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: riverrunner

I do not comply


96 posted on 09/25/2019 2:56:55 PM PDT by Hugh the Scot (I won`t be wronged. I won`t be insulted. I won`t be laid a hand on. - John Bernard Books)
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To: WWG1WWA
"...probably legislation will occur that we’ll regret..."

"att ställa någon mot väggen!”

97 posted on 12/18/2019 12:56:09 PM PST by Theophilus (Ich bin ein Hong Konger)
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