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Civilians have no reason for owning assault weapons
New York Daily News ^ | 6/15/16 | Seth Moulton

Posted on 06/16/2016 1:07:31 PM PDT by Winged Hussar

Gun shop owner talks AR-15 NY Daily News BY Seth Moulton SPECIAL TO THE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Tuesday, June 14, 2016, 8:26 PM

I’m a Marine. I carried guns every day in Iraq, guns very similar to the ones used to perpetrate the Orlando murders and many other mass shootings in America. I’ve used guns in combat. On more than one occasion, guns have saved my life.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2a; banglist; guncontrol; guns; moulton; secondamendment; sethmoulton
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To: Winged Hussar

Happyland fire killed 87 in a nightclub in 1990. The Cuban that murdered all those people used gasoline. That’s why they don’t say Orlando was the nation’s biggest mass murder. More people were murdered by gas. I don’t even want to get into foreigners getting their hands on pressure cookers.


121 posted on 06/16/2016 3:12:16 PM PDT by DocRock (And now is the time to fight! Peter Muhlenberg)
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To: DocRock

Interesting:

The Cocoanut Grove was Boston’s premier nightclub during the post-Prohibition 1930s and 1940s. On November 28, 1942, this club was the scene of the deadliest nightclub fire in history, killing 492 people (which was 32 more than the building’s authorized capacity) and injuring hundreds more. The enormity of the tragedy shocked the nation and briefly replaced the events of World War II in newspaper headlines. It led to a reform of safety standards and codes across the country, and to major changes in the treatment and rehabilitation of burn victims.

It was the second-deadliest single-building fire in American history; only the 1903 Iroquois Theatre fire in Chicago had a higher death toll, of 605. It was only two years after the Rhythm Club fire which had killed 209.

Wikipedia


122 posted on 06/16/2016 3:17:16 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Winged Hussar

Milo Yiannopoulos:

“The American Left, the Progressive Left, the Social Justice Left hates women, gays and minorities. It is a band of spoiled brat white liberals who care for nothing except their own self esteem. They don’t care about anything but feeling good about themselves and advertising their own moral virtue to everybody else.” And, while they’re doing it they are denying the rights of minorities to protect themselves, they are denying minorities to be informed about the risks that are out there.”


123 posted on 06/16/2016 3:18:58 PM PDT by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental disorder: A totalitarian mindset..)
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To: lacrew
I have a Browning .308 which works much like the Rifleman's. For all those assault rifle hating spoiled brats, my Browning will defend their asses just as good as an assault rifle:


124 posted on 06/16/2016 3:26:54 PM PDT by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental disorder: A totalitarian mindset..)
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To: Winged Hussar

I have an AR-15, but I don’t own an assault weapon.


125 posted on 06/16/2016 3:30:43 PM PDT by zipper (In their heart of hearts, all Democrats are communists)
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To: Winged Hussar

Rights stealing politicians aren’t enough of a reason? And no I don’t own assault “weapons”.


126 posted on 06/16/2016 3:45:27 PM PDT by Crucial
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To: Winged Hussar

We don’t need a reason. We just want to.


127 posted on 06/16/2016 3:55:21 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Winged Hussar

To become a Marine, Moulton swore an oath.

To become a progressive pinko, Moulton violated that oath.

The words “shall not be infringed” appear in that Constitution you swore to “support and defend” sir.


128 posted on 06/16/2016 4:08:07 PM PDT by DNME (The only solution to a BAD GUY with a gun is a GOOD GUY with a gun.)
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To: Winged Hussar

I live in a state in America where many of ‘ the locals ‘ [ read: people of color - non Caucasian ] proudly display on the vehicles small and large decals stating “ Defend Hawaii “ Others wear clothing expressing the same message . Having lived here over 40 years I have to ask myself “ defend from whom or what ?” Sadly , I can only assume that the messaging refers to ‘haoles’ , to ‘defend Hawaii from Haole ‘ Now guess what the main feature of this message is , the ‘logo’ as it were ? A CAR-15 ( or M-4 ) carbine . The direct implication is that all ‘locals’ will be prepared ( and willing?) to confront ‘haoles’ with assault carbines , if & when necessary . And so are all the good white folks expected to hope that day never comes and take no counter measures in the meantime ? I wonder .....But I will tell you this ; No matter what laws get passed in D.C. by the politically correct pinhead sheep politicians , there wil noto be one armed ‘local’ in Hawaii turning in nothing , should any bans be instituted . And I doubt there will be darned few Hawaii law enforcement going around to their cousins trying to round up any that happen to be registered . They might go around to the ‘haoles’ , but not to the ‘locals ‘ . You can take that to the bank.... News from the far western front of the information battlespace


129 posted on 06/16/2016 4:14:53 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse (America First !)
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To: cld51860

“Militia” referred to all the able bodied men of military age, which at the time the 2nd amendment was written would have been about ages 16 or so through age maybe 45 or a little older,


130 posted on 06/16/2016 4:15:19 PM PDT by hawg-farmer - FR..October 1998
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To: mouser

I worked with a former army guy who never called guns ‘guns’. Always ‘rifles’ or ‘weapons’.

‘this is my rifle, this is my gun, etc...’

even I remember that little diddy and the difference in terms between the two.

maybe this marine was dropped on his head recently?


131 posted on 06/16/2016 4:18:57 PM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: Winged Hussar
So, I guess there is such a thing as an ex-Marine after all...
132 posted on 06/16/2016 4:40:59 PM PDT by Garth Tater (What's mine is mine.)
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To: Winged Hussar

The second amendment is to protect against a tyrannical government. I should be allowed to posess and carry anything a US soldier is issued. Period.

Would I want a full auto rifle? No. They are notoriously hard to fire and hold on target. But that is beside the point. The second amendment is absolute. It does not give a right to keep and bear arms except (fill in the blank)
We should as a citizenry be able to match our government troops in fire power.


133 posted on 06/16/2016 4:48:11 PM PDT by Mom MD
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To: jonrick46

Love watching re-runs of that show!

As you point out, some people are pretty quick with the lever. One of the reasons this whole assault weapon business is so stupid.


134 posted on 06/16/2016 4:53:16 PM PDT by lacrew
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To: Winged Hussar

If he was a Sr Officer it is highly unlikely he carried anything other than a 9mm side arm


135 posted on 06/16/2016 6:06:38 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (Idiocracy used to just be a Movie... Live every day as your last...one day you will be right)
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To: CygnusXI

**** “Civilians have no reason for owning media outlets” ****

POST OF THE YEAR BUMP!


136 posted on 06/16/2016 6:08:08 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (Idiocracy used to just be a Movie... Live every day as your last...one day you will be right)
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To: Winged Hussar

Keep and Bear arms is about overthrowing the govt.


137 posted on 06/16/2016 7:58:26 PM PDT by Carry me back (Cut the feds by 90%9)
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To: BitWielder1
 
 
Leaders of western nations have turned on their citizens, importing what amounts to irregular shock troops, extending every accommodation to them which includes assaulting and suppressing the culture and civil rights of native citizens. At some point, those imports will coalesce into guerrilla units and the final decline of civil order in the West will begin.
 
 

138 posted on 06/16/2016 9:39:14 PM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: Winged Hussar

The purpose of the 2nd Amendment is to ensure that the average citizen can be an effective member of a militia to protect the COUNTRY and not just themselves. From threats both foreign and domestic.

Where in the Amendment does it say that citizens should only be allowed weapons inferior to potential invaders ? How could any militia be effective if they were outgunned ? To deny the average citizen automatic weapons, or, yes, even a bazooka or rocket launcher or tank, is to deny the 2nd Amendment has any value.


139 posted on 06/16/2016 9:50:57 PM PDT by Kellis91789 (We hope for a bloodless revolution, but revolution is still the goal.)
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To: Bryanw92

Demilitarize the police!

Then demilitarize Hollywood!


140 posted on 06/17/2016 12:59:55 AM PDT by Nailbiter
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