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"Yes We Can . . . Ban Guns"--Obama Announces Gun Ban Agenda Before The Final Vote Count Is In
National Rifle Association ^ | November 07, 2008 | NRA-ILA

Posted on 11/09/2008 2:44:27 AM PST by Perseverando

Senator Barack Obama's presidential campaign slogan, "the audacity of hope," should have instead been "the audacity of deceit." After months of telling the American people that he supports the Second Amendment, and only hours after being declared the president-elect, the Obama transition team website announced an agenda taken straight from the anti-gun lobby--four initiatives designed to ban guns and drive law-abiding firearm manufacturers and dealers out of business:

"Making the expired federal assault weapons ban permanent." Perhaps no other firearm issue has been more dishonestly portrayed by gun prohibitionists. Notwithstanding their predictions that the ban's expiration in 2004 would bring about the end of civilization, for the last four years the nation's murder rate has been lower than anytime since the mid-1960s. Studies for Congress, the Congressional Research Service, the National Institute of Justice, the National Academy of Sciences, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have found no evidence that gun prohibition or gun control reduces crime. Guns that were affected by the ban are used in only a tiny fraction of violent crime-about 35 times as many people are murdered without any sort of firearm (knives, bare hands, etc.), as with "assault weapons." Obama says that "assault weapons" are machine guns that "belong on foreign battlefields," but that is a lie; the guns are only semi-automatic, and they are not used by a military force anywhere on the planet.

"Repeal the Tiahrt Amendment." The amendment--endorsed by the Fraternal Order of Police--prohibits the release of federal firearm tracing information to anyone other than a law enforcement agency conducting a bona fide criminal investigation. Anti-gun activists oppose the restriction, because it prevents them from obtaining tracing information and using it in frivolous lawsuits against law-abiding firearm manufacturers. Their lawsuits seek to obtain huge financial judgments . . .

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 111th; 2ndamendment; abuhussein; audacity; audacityofdeceit; banglist; bho2008; brady; cnsf; communist; confiscation; democrat; guns; legaltheft; lp; manthebarricades; marxist; nra; obama
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So he's not going to take away our Second Amendment Rights? Maybe he won't, but he didn't say anything about his Civilian National Security Force now did he?

Freepers, be sure and sign up for the NRA Legislative Alerts by e-mail while you're at their site.

1 posted on 11/09/2008 2:44:29 AM PST by Perseverando
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To: Perseverando

bump


2 posted on 11/09/2008 2:47:13 AM PST by lowbridge
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To: Perseverando

Drunk drivers and medical malpractice kill more people every year than guns do.

Ban alcohol, cars and quacks!


3 posted on 11/09/2008 2:49:08 AM PST by Salamander (Welcome to Obamageddon! The best apocalypse foreign money can buy!)
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To: Salamander

Stupidity kills more than that.


4 posted on 11/09/2008 2:51:28 AM PST by WorkerbeeCitizen (An inadequately policed Conservative)
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To: Perseverando; All
America Held Hostage- the Obama Files...
Click the picture:


5 posted on 11/09/2008 2:53:23 AM PST by backhoe (Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, Ridin' the Trakball into the Sunset of America...)
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To: Salamander
"Ban alcohol, cars and quacks!"

So, you would deprive me of the meds I need to feel good enough to drive a car I no longer have to a job that does exist anymore?

Thanks! I guess Tovarich Obama will have to redistribute something in my direction.

BTTT
6 posted on 11/09/2008 2:54:22 AM PST by shibumi (...vampire outlaw of the milky way...)
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To: WorkerbeeCitizen

Ban idiots!


7 posted on 11/09/2008 2:54:37 AM PST by Salamander (Welcome to Obamageddon! The best apocalypse foreign money can buy!)
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To: Perseverando

This is really a no brain er...how else is he going to retain power.DUH!


8 posted on 11/09/2008 2:55:46 AM PST by jrd
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To: shibumi

Walk!
Take a bike!

Your carbon footprint is killing us all!

Save Earth!

[collect the whole set of planets and win valuable prizes!]


9 posted on 11/09/2008 2:56:48 AM PST by Salamander (Welcome to Obamageddon! The best apocalypse foreign money can buy!)
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To: Perseverando

According to Obama, pump action shotguns, rifles that shoot further than 300 yards and handguns shorter than 8 inches will be banned as “assault weapons”.


10 posted on 11/09/2008 2:56:53 AM PST by autumnraine (Churchill: " we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall never surrender")
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To: Salamander
"Your carbon footprint is killing us all!"


I wear a size 13EEE.
11 posted on 11/09/2008 2:59:13 AM PST by shibumi (...vampire outlaw of the milky way...)
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To: Perseverando

The house-to-house search by the CNSF will happen after the Iranians blow up Tel Aviv and the Russians invade Eastern Europe once again, Oh and Chavez and Whichever Castro is breathing will co-opt all of So America....
When? I’ll get back to you, have to see how fast we descend into Facism..


12 posted on 11/09/2008 3:01:19 AM PST by Shady (The Fairness Doctrine is ANYTHING but fair!!!!)
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To: Perseverando

You can’t simply declare a law permenant


13 posted on 11/09/2008 3:04:42 AM PST by Always Right (Obama: more arrogant than Bill Clinton, more naive than Jimmy Carter, and more liberal than LBJ.)
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To: Salamander
Walk!
Take a bike!

Walking and biking cause me to emit harmful gases into the atmosphere.

14 posted on 11/09/2008 3:07:23 AM PST by roamer_1 (Proud 1%er... Reagan Conservatism is the only way forward.)
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To: roamer_1

“Walking and biking cause me to emit harmful gases into the atmosphere”.

Especially after eating Mexican Food.


15 posted on 11/09/2008 3:08:30 AM PST by Kickass Conservative (Democracy, two wolves and one sheep deciding what's for dinner.)
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To: Perseverando
Look, Obama is not going to ban guns.

He's only going to ban our guns.

16 posted on 11/09/2008 3:09:09 AM PST by Mojave (http://www.americanbacklash.com/)
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To: Salamander

you forgot “fill your tires” on that non-existent car


17 posted on 11/09/2008 3:10:33 AM PST by applpie
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To: Shady

This guy will be a one termer for sure.He can do a lot of damage in four years.Hopefully the mid terms will limit his power.


18 posted on 11/09/2008 3:11:03 AM PST by TLEIBY308 (Keep yer powder dry and watch yer top Knot.)
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To: shibumi

Several species just went extinct because of you.

I hope you’re happy.


19 posted on 11/09/2008 3:11:30 AM PST by Salamander (Welcome to Obamageddon! The best apocalypse foreign money can buy!)
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To: Perseverando; All
By the way- after much soul-searching ( and looking in the family grocery money checkbook to see if we could spare it ) we renewed our memberships in the NRA, GOA, and the 2nd Amendment Foundation.

If we'd had more to spare, we'd have re-upped Second Amendment Sisters and JPFO, but that was all we could manage here.

I urge all member to think on this, well.

You may not get another chance.

20 posted on 11/09/2008 3:11:43 AM PST by backhoe (Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, Ridin' the Trakball into the Sunset of America...)
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