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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

41 posted on 06/16/2016 1:21:40 PM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: Winged Hussar

There has always been and there will always be an underlying current in the Military that does not think anyone should have a gun except them and those they approve of to have a weapon.


42 posted on 06/16/2016 1:21:47 PM PDT by BBell (calm down and eat your sandwiches)
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To: Winged Hussar

Then by all means, mount a campaign to change the Constitution, Seth.


43 posted on 06/16/2016 1:21:57 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: Winged Hussar
Wounded Knee....
44 posted on 06/16/2016 1:23:18 PM PDT by GraceG (Only a fool works hard in an environment where hard work is not appreciated...)
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To: Winged Hussar
And while we're at it, the filthy, running-dog, capitalist-lackey bourgeoisie don't need private transportation or housing.
45 posted on 06/16/2016 1:23:29 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: Winged Hussar

I get so sick of this “on our streets” crap, like they are lying around on the asphalt like land mines or something.

For this arsehole to use his service to further political ambitions is sick. I carried one daily as well, before he was born, but I do not use that fact for personal advantage.

If I was to be armed now, it would be to prevent those like him from imposing their will on me and depriving me of my rights.


46 posted on 06/16/2016 1:23:59 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: G Larry; Winged Hussar
As noted in the Federalist Papers, “To protect against Tyranny.”

And to protect the trannys.

47 posted on 06/16/2016 1:24:08 PM PDT by BBell (calm down and eat your sandwiches)
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To: Mr. Mojo

48 posted on 06/16/2016 1:24:30 PM PDT by GraceG (Only a fool works hard in an environment where hard work is not appreciated...)
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To: GregoTX

As a former Marine, it is my opinion that moulton is a disgrace.


49 posted on 06/16/2016 1:24:32 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

I have no reason to own half the things I do own, but for my firearms I have a reason.


50 posted on 06/16/2016 1:24:36 PM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

262 Million people murdered by their own governments since 1900*

*and those are just the documented ones.


51 posted on 06/16/2016 1:24:37 PM PDT by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: Winged Hussar
When we have as many Leftists in unison tell us that we don't need assault weapons, believe me, we definitely need assault weapons. . . .

Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.- Daniel Webster

52 posted on 06/16/2016 1:24:43 PM PDT by RatRipper (The biggest threat to US national security is our government and those in it.)
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To: Winged Hussar

Only an officer would come up with this stuff. I’m surprised he didn’t say enlisted men shouldn’t have assault weapons.


53 posted on 06/16/2016 1:24:46 PM PDT by AppyPappy (If you really want to irritate someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
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To: Winged Hussar

People cant buy “assault weapons”.


54 posted on 06/16/2016 1:25:01 PM PDT by cassiusking
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To: Winged Hussar
From Federalist #8, Alexander Hamilton writes:


"But though the scheme of disciplining the whole nation must be abandoned as mischievous or impracticable; yet it is a matter of the utmost importance that a well-digested plan should, as soon as possible, be adopted for the proper establishment of the militia. The attention of the government ought particularly to be directed to the formation of a select corps of moderate extent, upon such principles as will really fit them for service in case of need. By thus circumscribing the plan, it will be possible to have an excellent body of well-trained militia, ready to take the field whenever the defense of the State shall require it. This will not only lessen the call for military establishments, but if circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude that army can never be formidable to the liberties of the people while there is a large body of citizens, little, if at all, inferior to them in discipline and the use of arms, who stand ready to defend their own rights and those of their fellow-citizens. This appears to me the only substitute that can be devised for a standing army, and the best possible security against it, if it should exist."
If you, Mr. Marine, have an assault rifle, that alone is enough reason for others to have one, too.

-PJ

55 posted on 06/16/2016 1:25:22 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Winged Hussar; All

DC lawmakers are claiming that civilians have no reason for owning assault weapons while illegal aliens are simultaneously bringing anything that they want to through open borders.

November and Trump cannot come fast enough.


56 posted on 06/16/2016 1:25:36 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: Winged Hussar

Moulton is a VERY ambitious guy. I’ve had my eye on him for a while.


57 posted on 06/16/2016 1:25:37 PM PDT by lodi90 (Clear choice for Conservatives now: TRUMP or lose)
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To: Winged Hussar

GFY, Seth.


58 posted on 06/16/2016 1:25:58 PM PDT by paddles ("The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates." Tacitus)
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To: Winged Hussar
You nailed it with your #1.

Moulton may have been a competent USMC officer, only those NCO's under his command would know. However, it now clearly appears he is inclined to deprive his constituents of their hard-earned constitutional entitlements.

59 posted on 06/16/2016 1:28:50 PM PDT by frog in a pot (That our commander-in-chief can be foreign born to a foreign father thrills the one-worlders.)
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To: Winged Hussar
I trained for years in order to use my weapon properly.

So I See Seth is a slow learner and because of his handicap he thinks everyone is as slow to learn how to use a firearm properly and safely as he is.

60 posted on 06/16/2016 1:29:09 PM PDT by BBell (calm down and eat your sandwiches)
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