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I'm a Republican who served under Bush and Whitman: Let's ban AR-15s
Newark Star-Ledger ^ | February 19, 2018 | Alan J. Steinberg

Posted on 02/19/2018 2:02:11 PM PST by GuavaCheesePuff

I need not dwell on the catastrophe of the Parkland, Florida mass murder last week. Such killings have become the new normal in America.

In five of the six deadliest mass shootings of the past six years in the United States (Newtown, San Bernardino. Las Vegas. Sutherland Springs, and Parkland) the gunman used an AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle.

This is a weapon that was banned for individual ownership and usage by the 1994 Federal Assault Weapons Ban. This 10-year ban was legislatively enacted by a Democratic President, Bill Clinton and a Democratic Congress.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Florida; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; alanjsteinberg; alansteinberg; anti2ndtroll; banglist; florida; gop; newark; newjersey; nra; parkland; republicans; rino; secondamendment
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Cause getting shot with ANY other sort of gun would be SOOOOOO much better! /sarc


41 posted on 02/19/2018 2:23:06 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: dead

His shadow looks like Jesus!


42 posted on 02/19/2018 2:23:21 PM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

School shootings are awful but totalitarian governments are worse and the 2nd Amendment is the only thing that prevents a totalitarian government from coming to power.


43 posted on 02/19/2018 2:24:01 PM PST by libertylover (Kurt Schlicter: "They wonder why they got Trump. They are why they got Trump")
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To: GuavaCheesePuff
Get Out Of Here Bill Murray GIF
44 posted on 02/19/2018 2:26:49 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Great. Some guy I’ve never heard of has given himself the authority to decide how the rest of us must live our lives. These people are less than worthless. He’s a clueless egomaniac.


45 posted on 02/19/2018 2:27:38 PM PST by ilgipper
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

He’s a POS Jim..


46 posted on 02/19/2018 2:27:40 PM PST by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff
Zazz GIF
47 posted on 02/19/2018 2:27:48 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Why does this guy get to claim he’s a Republican if he wants something only democrats want?


48 posted on 02/19/2018 2:27:51 PM PST by ilovesarah2012 (I)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff
This guy can make his own decisions; he doesn't need to be making mine.

If he wants to ban some guns or all guns in his house, let him do it. He has no right to tell me what I should do in my house.

49 posted on 02/19/2018 2:28:22 PM PST by Repealthe17thAmendment
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To: Pinkbell

Blue state Republicans are still needed to win elections.

Rudy Giuliani, George Pataki, Tom Ridge, Christie Whitman are needed because they win suburbanites-—people who are leaving the GOP.


50 posted on 02/19/2018 2:33:39 PM PST by GuavaCheesePuff
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Amazing ignorance. The AR-15 was NOT banned by the 1994 Assault Weapons law.


51 posted on 02/19/2018 2:34:23 PM PST by myerson
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To: fella

They want absolute control. An armed population is the problem.


52 posted on 02/19/2018 2:34:50 PM PST by Bogie
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Yeah? Well I served beginning age 17 under Nixon and I say let’s repeal the 1987 FOPA that banned MGs made after 1987.

It’s not about the guns, or knives, or trucks, or whatever. It’s about the mentally ill—which already are not allowed to own firearms. We used to have institutions that took care of these people to keep them from hurting themselves or others. Then the “do-gooders” closed the institutions and dispersed the nutjobs into the general population. What did they expect? Guess they really didn’t think that through.

Anyway, the 2nd Amendment isn’t about hunting, or home defense. It’s to keep the Government afraid of the the People, not the other way around, and that was actually brilliant of the Founding Fathers. It is the only reason this country is as free as it is.


53 posted on 02/19/2018 2:35:12 PM PST by xcct838
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

I’d rather ban big government statists.


54 posted on 02/19/2018 2:35:28 PM PST by TADSLOS (Alex Jones isnÂ’t quite the wing nut now, all things considered.)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

The AR15 doesn’t do anything different from 60 million semiautomatic weapons in the USA.


55 posted on 02/19/2018 2:37:09 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (DACA is going to be a riot!)
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To: Pinkbell

Yeah, Bush was a big neocon, Paul Wolfowitz kind of a guy.


56 posted on 02/19/2018 2:37:40 PM PST by Bogie
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Actually, MA is still operated under the AWB.

I bought an AR15 a few years ago. This person might want to review their facts.


57 posted on 02/19/2018 2:39:27 PM PST by Vermont Lt (Burn. It. Down.)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

I love how they say “I’m like you” before they go into their gun grabbing dialog. All these people announcing they would now be willing ban the AR, never were for the 2nd amendment in the first place.


58 posted on 02/19/2018 2:41:59 PM PST by dgbrown
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To: Bogie

So was Clinton:

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/06/opinion/sunday/are-neocons-getting-ready-to-ally-with-hillary-clinton.html?smid=fb-share


59 posted on 02/19/2018 2:42:01 PM PST by Bogie
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To: Vermont Lt
Actually, MA is still operated under the AWB.

Ain't Myth Romney a swell fella?

60 posted on 02/19/2018 2:48:26 PM PST by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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