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Democrats Peddle Gun Control at Their Own Peril
townhall.com ^ | 5/23/2022 0923 hrs edt | Ted Harvey

Posted on 05/23/2022 8:37:21 AM PDT by rktman

Gun control! Gun control! Gun control!

Tragedy strikes in [fill in the blank], and Democrats immediately seize the opportunity to attack the Second Amendment. Rinse, repeat. Tragedy, exploited. It’s one of the most tiresome themes in American politics.

Recent events have certainly given Democrats their fair share of opportunities. Following the supermarket shooting in Buffalo, New York, President Biden again called for a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. Nearly 40 left-wing advocacy groups are now putting pressure on the Biden administration to extend background checks to all gun purchases, with the liberal media all too willing to publish supportive headlines under the guise of “gun safety.”

Fortunately for American citizens, President Biden is one of the most ineffective presidents in U.S. history, himself admitting that “it’s going to be very difficult” for Democrats to push gun control across the finish line. One of the reasons is Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV)—one of the only moderate Democrats left on Capitol Hill—and his insistence on reaffirming the Second Amendment rights of all Americans.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2a; 2ndamendment; banglist; kaba; nra; pewpew; secondamendment
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Well that should put a stop to guns and violins.
1 posted on 05/23/2022 8:37:21 AM PDT by rktman
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How can they continue referring to we Americans as Nazis? We’re not pimping for gun control. They are. Uncle Adolf would love them for it.


3 posted on 05/23/2022 8:39:37 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Don't blame me, I voted for President Trump.)
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Interviewer: Mr. Welk, what do you think about the increase in violence on TV?

Lawrence Welk: Violence are the most important instrument in my orchestra!

4 posted on 05/23/2022 8:42:53 AM PDT by real saxophonist (Hoplophobia will never be in the DSM, because the DSM is written by hoplophobes.)
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As long as Democrats won’t lock criminals away, every American should be armed and ready.

Democrats want innocent Americans to be the prey of the worst monsters among us.


5 posted on 05/23/2022 8:43:27 AM PDT by Gnome1949
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To: rktman

At some point even the Democrat politicians will realize that this country does not have a gun control problem......we have a gang and crime control problem.

The root cause of violence of any kind is not guns, it is criminal activity.


6 posted on 05/23/2022 8:55:00 AM PDT by Robert357
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To: Levy78
Only a small percentage of people wanted Obamacare, but we still ended up with it by having it rammed through by the Democrats. The Democrats have suffered no consequences from these types of actions, and they now have a blank check to steal elections since no one is doing anything about election fraud. If I were a betting man, my money would be on gun control happening sooner rather than later (I certainly don't support that, though).
7 posted on 05/23/2022 9:12:05 AM PDT by Major Matt Mason (Antifa/BLM = Azov Battalion.)
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And to think, just sixty years ago Thomas J. Dodd and Emanuel Cellar called for the registration of all handguns in the US.
“We don’t want to take your guns away, we ONLY want to register them! Rifles and shotguns will not be affected!”

That is sixty years of lies rolling off their lips.
I have a long memory.

1962 We ONLY want to register handguns. Rifles will not be affected!
1964, We ONLY want to register ALL firearms, not ban them.

1968 We ONLY want to register all guns, and ban the import of foreign Saturday Night Specials, and 5-shot bolt action army surplus rifles! (they got the ban).
1970, We ONLY want to ban small American handguns. Rifles will not be affected!
1976 We ONLY want to ban ALL handguns! Rifles will not be affected!
1981, Actress Lee Grant on Good Morning America screams and pokes holes in the air with her finger...”THE NRA IS A RIFLE ORGANIZATION! THEY SHOULD GIVE UP THEIR HANDGUNS AND THEY CAN KEEP THEIR RIFLES!”
1986, They came for the rifles.


8 posted on 05/23/2022 9:12:06 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (http://montypython.50webs.com/scripts/Life_of_Brian/8.htm)
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The states are going constitutional carry. They’re not going to let the Feds erase that.


9 posted on 05/23/2022 9:17:41 AM PDT by lurk (u)
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To: Gnome1949; All

Wanna stop this crap? Start by enforcing current laws and torturing mass murderers on tv. Right now, we feed, clothe, and house bad guys.


10 posted on 05/23/2022 9:20:23 AM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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To: rktman

I did my part and bought 2 more this week.


11 posted on 05/23/2022 9:27:20 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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My rural county in Ohio was largely Democrat when I retired here in 2009. Coal miners, small farmers, and gun owners.

Since the War on Coal the county is trending Republican. The War on Guns will only accelerate the change.

Keep flappin' your yaps, Dems!

12 posted on 05/23/2022 9:39:16 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan (qd4)
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To: rktman

Why are you excerpting Townhall? Did something change wrt them?


13 posted on 05/23/2022 9:58:30 AM PDT by sauropod ("We put all our politicians in prison as soon as they are elected. Don’t you?" Why? "It saves time.”)
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I click on all of them anymore. 😊🙌 Hands up don’t clik!


14 posted on 05/23/2022 10:00:09 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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Every far leftist we know has armed up.
They are afraid of the SorozNazi commieNazi mobs and “homeless” moving into their neighborhoods. They also are afraid of the communist district attorneys that SorozNazi has
been installing and paying off in some of their cities, counties of residence....no consequences for breaking and entering, rioting, assaulting and battering, or stealing.

no amount of scare tactics will convince them that they should not at least be able to defend themselves, even those that “hate gun violence” as a general principle

the commieNazi leftists have outsmarted themselves. all their lawlessness and rioting has scared their own political base into supporting the 2A!

(and, for the first time in a long while, these leftist voters are seeing things clearly... and choosing correct policies)


15 posted on 05/23/2022 10:02:09 AM PDT by faithhopecharity (“Politicians are not born. They’re excreted.” Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: rktman

OIO !


16 posted on 05/23/2022 10:03:42 AM PDT by sauropod ("We put all our politicians in prison as soon as they are elected. Don’t you?" Why? "It saves time.”)
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To: faithhopecharity

Thus the record background checks we see so often. And, with the out of control inflation, crime will also accelerate so....


17 posted on 05/23/2022 10:04:56 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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Well that should put a stop to guns and violins.

That should hopefully stop the Mantovani Crime Family who for decades, committed a crime against music.

18 posted on 05/23/2022 10:12:48 AM PDT by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis )
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Well that should put a stop to guns and violins.

I object to all this sex on the television. I mean, I keep falling off!

19 posted on 05/23/2022 11:13:30 AM PDT by Disambiguator
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#ComDem’s can Pound Sand.


20 posted on 05/23/2022 12:12:17 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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