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Nam Marine User ID: 1170522 United States 07/08/2011 11:41 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to content.usatoday.com] Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1449355White House spokesman Jay Carney said a special task force has been "working through these complex issues, and we expect to have some more specific announcements in the near future." Jay.....honey......you have no future! |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 1449355 United States 07/08/2011 11:49 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | On Sunday, March 13, 2011, the president of the United States began publicly call for new gun control limits against law-abiding citizens in hopes of curtailing the behavior of the lawless. Gun rights activists have known this day was coming since the day Barack Obama won his party's nomination (and since John McCain won his). In an op-ed published in the Arizona Daily Star, Obama pointed to the attempted assassination of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) in his carefully worded, no-doubt poll-tested call for "reform." (Note: That the newly-elected House leadership will stop any Obama "reform" item dead in its tracks is by no means a sure thing. Consider these recent headlines: "GOP to look at federal gun laws" and "Boehner meets with NYC Mayor Bloomberg") [link to www.buckeyefirearms.org] just pulling up more info from various links.... |
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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 1449355 United States 07/08/2011 11:52 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | In a development that ought to surprise no one, the Obama administration is planning to release its plan for new gun-control legislation within the next two weeks. The fact that Obama made no mention of such legislation during this week’s State of the Union address is hardly an indication that such a move is not on the administration’s agenda; it simply means that while the Democrat leadership is loath to let a crisis “go to waste,” that does not mean that they intend to broadcast their intentions, either. In the aftermath of Jared Loughner’s shooting spree in Tucson, many Americans took the understandable step of evaluating whether they should take further steps to see to their own personal safety: Many decided that it was time to purchase a firearm. But even as the crime led the public to realize that law enforcement had proven itself impotent to avert one man’s evil intentions, many of the nation’s elected representatives appear to think that the best way to stop future violence is to further hamper the ability of law-abiding citizens to exercise their Second Amendment right to self-defense. Rep. Peter King, a Republican legislator with a history of exploiting crises for policy aims, rushed to the fore with his scheme to create gun-free "bubbles" around "prominent politicians"— a nonsensical notion that would have done nothing to protect Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), and which has already been rejected by Republican leadership on Capitol Hill. [link to www.thenewamerican.com] |
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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 1449355 United States 07/08/2011 11:59 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Fearing Obama Agenda, States Push to Loosen Gun Laws When President Obama took office, gun rights advocates sounded the alarm, warning that he intended to strip them of their arms and ammunition. And yet the opposite is happening. Mr. Obama has been largely silent on the issue while states are engaged in a new and largely successful push for expanded gun rights, even passing measures that have been rejected in the past. [link to www.nytimes.com] |
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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 1449355 United States 07/08/2011 12:04 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ATF Gun Scandal The House Oversight Committee hearings on Project Gunrunner conducted by Chairman Darrell Issa (R.-Calif.) have exposed a plan by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to sell assault weapons to Mexican drug runners. This plan, “Fast and Furious,” has led to the killing of at least one federal border patrol agent, Brian Terry. Rep. Elijah Cummings (D.-Md.) conducted a fake hearing last week and released a report calling for more gun laws. The U.S. government sold thousands of guns to Mexican drug rings, yet the solution offered by Cummings and other gun grabbers is more gun laws. Acting ATF Director Kenneth Melson, meanwhile, still has yet to be fired for overseeing Fast and Furious. The Obama administration had planned to funnel guns to Mexican drug cartels, then prove that American-sold guns were being used in violent border incidents, and then use the evidence of the flow of guns from America to Mexico as a reason to change gun laws so that law-abiding citizens would have a harder time buying firearms. [link to www.humanevents.com] |
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LadyLeo User ID: 853309 United States 07/08/2011 12:10 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | it will never pass Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1332279Never say never he may do it by stealth! Gun Control by Stealth [link to frontpagemag.com] This has to be watched and stopped! Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it. INNOCENTS BETRAYED -- Just say NO to gun control |
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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 1449355 United States 07/08/2011 12:39 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Politically, Obama’s advisors may have determined that, because of the Tucson shooting – and specifically because it targeted a Member of Congress – the timing was right to check off the gun control item on his political agenda and leverage the Congress behind him. The advisors may believe that Obama can do this because of the public outrage at the shooting: That this would help mute the responses of traditional gun rights groups, who might otherwise focus on Obama’s past political record as a rabid gun banner, which is certainly a fair description of his positions on these issues as a state and federal legislator. Nevertheless, it’s a very risky cause for Congressional Members of either party to align themselves with, and many Democrats will be accusing Obama of already “sawing them off” for the next Congressional election. And, the effort might also be the final straw for many independents that supported Obama in 2008, turning them to vote against him in 2012. Here’s why. Because the right to bear arms is a Constitutional right – just as personal as freedom of speech and assembly - legislative restrictions on the right are among the most carefully evaluated and debated pieces of legislation there are. [link to www.ammoland.com] more at the link |
FieryFlies User ID: 1331993 United States 07/08/2011 12:47 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | All I have to say is, Come get em if you can. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1437607Hahahaha yup! Americans love their guns. If they try to take away our right to bear arms. . . aw man. . so not smart. . as all the people it effects actually have guns within their possession. How are they gonna take them away peacefully? -Sir, give us your guns please. ::locks and loads:: -Pardon me? -Sir, you are no longer legally allowed to have that weapon within your possession. -And you sir, aren't legally allowed to be on my property. ::crash bang boom!!:: Last Edited by FieryFlies on 07/08/2011 12:49 PM A Stubborn Libertarian. Neither left, nor right, A Proud Texan. Veritas Liberabit Vos. |
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Tols User ID: 1410244 United States 07/08/2011 12:55 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Something is bothering me here. This Casey Anthony case is much more than what most see. This case is going to affect the outcome of the Constitution. Thats the only thing that keeps us the right to bear arms. This innocent untill proven guilty is going to be attacked....connect the dotts.. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1449355You are absolutely right and it will be used in light of "Fast and Furious" being exposed to the public. I can see where Congress will pass whatever he has on his agenda concerning this, just as those morons have introduced HR 2411 to help people make "voluntary" payments on the Federal Debt, straight out of their wages. "If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy"- James Madison "Joining the military does not mean that you will be defending the country. The purpose of the U.S. military should be to defend the United States. Period. Yet, one of the greatest myths ever invented is that the current U.S. military somehow defends our freedoms. First of all, our freedoms are not in danger of being taken away by foreign countries; if they are taken away it will be by our own government. It is not a country making war on us that we need to fear, it is our government making war on the Bill of Rights. And second, how is stationing troops in 150 different regions of the world on hundreds of U.S. military bases defending our freedoms? It is not the purpose of the U.S. military to change regimes, secure the borders of other countries, or spread democracy at gunpoint. The Department of Defense should first and foremost be the Department of Homeland Security."--Laurence Vance-- |
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