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Fox News’ Gretchen Carlson Doubles Down On AR-15 Ban
Breitbart.com ^ | 6-15-2016 | AWR HAWKINS

Posted on 06/15/2016 10:18:27 AM PDT by servo1969

Gretchen Carlson is renewing her push for an AR-15 ban, firing off a series of tweets further criticizing AR-15s and pointed to her daughter’s work with a Newtown charity. Breitbart News reported that Carlson said that AR-15s are not needed “to hunt or kill deer” and suggested they only serve to enable terrorists to carry out their attacks with greater efficiency. She quoted a December 2015 poll showing majority support for an “assault weapons” ban and said, “I’m with the majority today, taking a stand.”

When confronted by Second Amendment supporters on Twitter, Carlson doubled down on her pro-ban stance, sometimes conflating an AR-15 with the 30-round magazines that can be used in such a firearm.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 201606; 2ndamendment; banglist; foxnews; omarmateen; stupidpeople
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To: lacrew
Good Gun


Bad Gun


Same Gun Different Stock. Ruger Mini-14

81 posted on 06/15/2016 11:16:35 AM PDT by itsahoot (Trump kills PC-Hillary kills USA-Pick one.)
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To: dfwgator
If a patron had a gun and shot the killer

The patron would probably be in jail.

82 posted on 06/15/2016 11:20:28 AM PDT by itsahoot (Trump kills PC-Hillary kills USA-Pick one.)
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To: 17th Miss Regt

I use a .308 for dear at 1000 yards. ( also handy for other things) But my semi autos are for killing bad guys intent on killing me and my family. I have a constitutional right to do that . Otherwise, I would be out gunned, I also recommend 2000 lumin flash lights attached to the barrel. ( my shot gnns have those. Bad guys are blinded real bad and then are dead. Ban Wahhabis - not guns, idiots.


83 posted on 06/15/2016 11:24:08 AM PDT by WENDLE (Ban Wahhabi sect Sunnis here not our GUNS!!)
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To: servo1969
There is no way we win on this issue. This is just like "gay marriage". The MSM cast it as "conservatives oppose marriage equality!" The MSM is running 24 hours a day with the story that "republicans oppose keeping assault rifles out of the hands of terrorists!".

I know a lot of people thought Trump could destroy the power of the MSM, but they have flat-out circled the wagons on this. A story that should be about radical islamists is now 100% about guns and the evil NRA.

84 posted on 06/15/2016 11:25:04 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte ('''Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small''~ Theodore Dalrymple)
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To: servo1969

Motorcycles account for just 1% of all road travel but account for 15% of all road deaths (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motorcycle_deaths_in_U.S._by_year). THEY MUST BE BANNED!


85 posted on 06/15/2016 11:37:18 AM PDT by pabianice (LINE)
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To: WENDLE
I use a .308 for dear at 1000 yards.

OMG! What did she do afterwards? Divorce you???

Oh, you meant 'deer', didn't you?

86 posted on 06/15/2016 11:37:48 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: servo1969

But.....but.....but.....what about pressure cookers, fertilizer, and passenger jets?


87 posted on 06/15/2016 11:40:18 AM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: WENDLE

Actually, I wouldn’t kill a deer. But I don’t have the same warm feelings about somebody breaking into my house.


88 posted on 06/15/2016 11:43:00 AM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag ( Anything FREELY-GIVEN by the government was TAKEN from someone else.)
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To: dfwgator
Whatever. Opinions are like assholes, everybody’s got ‘em.

And they all stink.

89 posted on 06/15/2016 11:55:52 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (#BlackOlivesMatter)
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To: Talisker
No, just ignorant stupidity.

She's too damned dumb to be evil and even if she were evil, she's too stupid to be aware of it.

Nope, just plain ol' dumbassedness.

90 posted on 06/15/2016 11:57:02 AM PDT by OldSmaj (Voting for Hillary because she is a woman is like eating a turd because it looks like a Baby Ruth.)
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To: WENDLE
That was not even and AR15 You have even that wrong.


91 posted on 06/15/2016 11:57:55 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (#BlackOlivesMatter)
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To: servo1969

What is an assault rifle? It has a pistol grip and magazine! I guess me and millions of others have assault Pistols:-)


92 posted on 06/15/2016 11:58:57 AM PDT by Harpotoo
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To: servo1969

She’s as airhead....unwatchable.


93 posted on 06/15/2016 12:04:53 PM PDT by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: servo1969

Why is she not out doing something important like getting her eyebrows waxed and her Brazilian freshened up for her next Maxim appearance? She’s obviously not up to the task of using any sort of reason or logic.


94 posted on 06/15/2016 12:06:34 PM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

"...Journalist's Guide To Firearms Identification..."


Oh, wait! I thought everything on the left of that graphic is an AK-47 and everything on the right is a Glock?
President 0bama said the Glock used by the terrorist in Orlando had "lots of clips in it" so we should definitely be concerned, either way.


95 posted on 06/15/2016 12:09:31 PM PDT by Blue Jays
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To: Snowybear

I’ve had my Ruger 556 since 2011.

I am notoriously bad about cleaning after I shoot.
According to my records, I have put 2,800 rounds of Federal .223 through that carbine since I last cleaned it.

It works every time. Stop trying to make me feel guilty about it!


96 posted on 06/15/2016 12:17:57 PM PDT by GRRRRR (He'll NEVER be my President, FUBO! Treason is the Reason! Impeach the Kenyan)
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To: servo1969
This reminds me.

Should get a semi-clone AR-10 kind of rig.

Only 2/3 as dangerous "assault-y" as an AR-15. Which means it would be 1/3 more safer.

Do the math.

Am I right, or am I right?

It's only common sense...

97 posted on 06/15/2016 12:21:50 PM PDT by 7MMmag
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To: 17th Miss Regt
[My semi auto rifles are not to kill deer] At 700 rounds per minute you would shred them!

Name a semi-auto rifle that fires 700 rounds per minute. Semi-autos fire single shots. I tell the gun-ignorant that they're "single-shot" weapons because "single-shot" is more correct than "spray-fire".

98 posted on 06/15/2016 12:22:24 PM PDT by Spirochete (GOP: Give Obama Power)
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To: Brooklyn Attitude

Yes its ergonomics make it more effective...but is it orders of magnitude more effective?

The left acts like we jumped from muskets to the AR-15 over night...and like to point out the discrepancy between the two when talking about constitutional intent. But of course there were a lot of technological innovations in between, and some of these have been around for a very long time - a lot earlier than the current era of mass shootings.

That’s why I’d like her to spell it out. Heck, you could buy a fully functional machine gun before the first firearms act. How does she explain the scarcity of mass shootings in that era?


99 posted on 06/15/2016 12:24:24 PM PDT by lacrew
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To: Flavious_Maximus

The Second Amendment defends the First Amendment that gives her the freedom to spew her desk. She and others like her needs to understand and remember that fact.


100 posted on 06/15/2016 12:27:17 PM PDT by NCC-1701 (You have your fear, which might become reality; and you have Godzilla, which IS reality.)
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