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is this hope..or just change?
1 posted on 05/30/2015 8:13:51 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey
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This is the change to have hope for more gun control/s


2 posted on 05/30/2015 8:15:39 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Americans have had things so good for so long that we are getting things backwards. This is what happens when you celebrate thugs and demonize cops.


3 posted on 05/30/2015 8:16:12 AM PDT by rbg81
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there is no crime wave. There is a news wave


4 posted on 05/30/2015 8:18:36 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... No peace? then no peace!)
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5 posted on 05/30/2015 8:21:36 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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Obama’s sons are running wild in the streets. Obama will have to declare a “national emergency”, federalize local police depts., and postpone the election.


6 posted on 05/30/2015 8:23:38 AM PDT by Signalman
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If the billionaire-funded protestors do their jobs, and the “you didn’t build that” zombies can be lured away from their free meals and wi-fi in the lavishly funded public schools to riot in the streets while black mayors tell cops to stand down, we can perhaps get to the Nationalized Police Barrack dreams of before his term is up ...


11 posted on 05/30/2015 8:34:18 AM PDT by spodefly (This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
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Violent crime is largely a function of demographics. Demographics which are seldom, if ever, publicly acknowledged.

Except that liberal morons can’t make the connection:

Atlanta, St. Louis, NY, DC, Baltimore, Milwaukee. DUH.


13 posted on 05/30/2015 8:36:21 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s, you weren't regally there....)
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To: MeshugeMikey
The state of the culture today, following decades of "progressive" actions to censor from the public square the ideas essential to preserving liberty, might remind us of an excellent 1992 essay by Dr. Russell Kirk entitled, Civilization Without Religion?

The following excerpt is taken from Kirk's closing paragraphs:

"In short, it appears to me that our culture labors in an advanced state of decadence; that what many people mistake for the triumph of our civilization actually consists of powers that are disintegrating our culture; that the vaunted "democratic freedom" of liberal society in reality is servitude to appetites and illusions which attack religious belief; which destroy community through excessive centralization and urbanization; which efface life-giving tradition and custom.

History has many cunning passages, contrieved corridors
And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions,
Guides us by vanities.

So Gerontion instructs us, in T. S. Eliot's famous grim poem. By those and some succeeding lines, Eliot means that human experience lived without the Logos, the Word; lived merely by the asserted knowledge of empirical science--why, history in that sense is a treacherous gypsy witch. Civilizations that reject or abandon the religious imagination must end, as did Gerontion, in fractured atoms.

Restoring Religious Insights

In conclusion, it is my argument that the elaborate civilization we have known stands in peril; that it may expire of lethargy, or be destroyed by violence, or perish, from a combination of both evils. We who think that life remains worth living ought to address ourselves to means by which a restoration of our culture may be achieved. A prime necessity for us is to restore an apprehension of religious insights in our clumsy apparatus of public instruction, which --bullied by militant secular humanists and presumptuous federal courts --has been left with only ruinous answers to the ultimate questions.

What ails modern civilization? Fundamentally, our society's affliction is the decay of religious belief. If a culture is to survive and flourish, it must not be severed from the religious vision out of which it arose. The high necessity of reflective men and women, then, is to labor for the restoration of religious teachings as a credible body of doctrine.

"Redeem the time; redeem the dream," T. S. Eliot wrote. It remains possible, given right reason and moral imagination, to confront boldly the age's disorders. The restoration of true learning, humane and scientific; the reform of many public policies; the renewal of our awareness of a transcendent order, and of the presence of an Other, the brightening of the corners where we find ourselves such approaches are open to those among the rising generation who look for a purpose in life." - Dr. Russell Kirk, Civilization Without Religion?

So said Dr. Kirk in the Year 1992.
18 posted on 05/30/2015 8:39:25 AM PDT by loveliberty2
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I honestly don’t know if these twittered Facebook social media planned events are really an actual increasing crime wave or just engineered activities designed to force hope and change on a slumbering electorate, to get them accustomed to seeing military vehicles on main street and willing to surrender their freedoms to that beast occupying the White House.

That is, the difference from being mere hoodlums and thugs protesting their right to tweet and take selfies in front of shattered storefront windows and flaming police cars vs. Christians in Iraq, Syria and Egypt being driven from their homes with nothing and left to wander about into the arms of Obama and John McCain’s ISIS monster, to certain death,

Which one really deserves hope the most,

Regardless, I do know that when we approach the end of the age, things will become bad, and certainly is increasing daily for believers in the middle east and other places right now,

“This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves,covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.” 2 Timothy 3:1-5

“And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; “ Luke 21:25


20 posted on 05/30/2015 8:42:24 AM PDT by captmar-vell
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Now, this is something Obama and Holder can legitimately take major credit for. Take a bow, Barack.


22 posted on 05/30/2015 8:43:23 AM PDT by Will88
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Gun violence....gun violence....gun violence.

Not gang violence. Not violence by black or Mexican thugs.
No sir-e-e, I’m sure Heather MacDonald thinks guns are the problem, whoever the hell she is.

I walked into a gun shop recently....none of those guns were “violent.” They were all well-behaved and didn’t move.


28 posted on 05/30/2015 8:56:05 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (The so-called Southern Poverty Law Center is a hate group.)
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The Millenials are a large cohort. More people, more crime. The black underclass component of that group is reaching it’s peak physically active years. In addition to being functionally illiterate, they’re just in time to be made economically obsolete and displaced by coming waves of immigration and automation. We’re about to live through some interesting times. Enjoy the ride!


30 posted on 05/30/2015 9:06:36 AM PDT by Poison Pill
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The New Nationwide Crime Wave

read it all here

31 posted on 05/30/2015 9:08:59 AM PDT by BBell (Pacifists are the parasites of Freedom)
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Brought to you by Barrack Obama.


32 posted on 05/30/2015 9:52:04 AM PDT by Parley Baer
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So now blacks are killing more blacks. Wasn’t the original complaint that white cops were killing blacks?

And the solution will be, in the minds of leftist idiots, what? take guns away from non-violent whites?


34 posted on 05/30/2015 10:00:21 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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Can we just go ahead and have the revolution already? All this nit-picky violence is getting boring and accomplishes nothing.

It’s like previews before a movie. Lets get to the feature film ASAP.


35 posted on 05/30/2015 10:03:19 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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Trying to rectify the imbalance in the population between homosexuals and normal people by raising up a generation ofchildren to be homosexual.


38 posted on 05/30/2015 10:46:48 AM PDT by arthurus (It's true!)
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I heard on the news yesterday that crime in our downtown is at its lowest in 5 years, and down by 50% in the last year.

Simultaneously, concealed carry permits continue their rapid increase, as has been the case for several years.

Coincidence? I think not!


41 posted on 05/30/2015 10:58:02 AM PDT by lonevoice (Life is short. Make fun of it.)
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This is the planned ‘change’, to persuade Americans that nanny government is the only force which can protect them. Now, if you will just surrender your tools of self defense so the government can operate without fear of interruption, your safety will be secured ...


48 posted on 05/30/2015 12:45:34 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Is it really all relative, Mister Einstein?)
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Analyze the stats and you`ll find that minus the progressive ‘utopias’ of leftist controlled big cities, the crime rates in America are really not bad. Add in these liberal sh!tholes and we make the big times as far as developed world crime stats go.


50 posted on 05/30/2015 2:12:03 PM PDT by nomad
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