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Did NBC’s David Gregory Violate D.C. Gun Law on National TV?

Dec. 23, 2012 2:30pm Madeleine Morgenstern

NBCs David Gregory Holds Up Magazine for Ammunition on National TV | D.C. Gun Law

NBC’s David Gregory held up a magazine for ammunition on Sunday’s “Meet the Press.” (Image source: NBC)

NBC’s David Gregory on Sunday held up a high-capacity magazine for ammunition on national television, a possible violation of Washington, D.C. gun law.

Gregory was asking National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre whether the NRA was willing to cede any ground on new gun legislation following the Dec. 14 elementary school shooting in Newtown, Conn.

“Here is a magazine for ammunition that carries 30 bullets,” Gregory said on “Meet the Press,” holding it up. “Now isn’t it possible that if we got rid of these, if we replaced them and said, ‘Well, you could only have a magazine that carries five bullets or ten bullets,’ isn’t it just possible that we could reduce the carnage in a situation like Newtown?”

As blog The Patriot Perspective pointed out, Gregory’s demonstration may itself have been a violation of existing D.C. gun law, where “Meet the Press” tapes.

“No person in the District shall possess, sell, or transfer any large capacity ammunition feeding device regardless of whether the device is attached to a firearm. A ‘large capacity ammunition feeding device’ means a magazine, belt, drum, feed strip, or similar device that has a capacity of, or that can be readily restored or converted to accept, more than 10 rounds of ammunition,” D.C. code states. Violations may include a $1,000 fine or imprisonment for up to a year.

A representative from NBC did not immediately return an emailed request for comment.

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TheRightSideBlog
Posted on December 23, 2012 at 3:30pm
No, wouldn’t make a nickels worth of difference. You carry more mags. Reloads take only a second. Clinton’s assault weapons ban didn’t prevent Columbine. Norway has strict gun laws, didn’t help them. It get’s tiring telling idiots the same thing over and over. http://www.facebook.com\therightsideblog

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- Bum thrower
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 3:38pm
  You are corect; reduce the capacity, and I just have to carry more mags; Gregory is an ‘elite lib-tard’ so he is excused from the law of the ordinary pesants he purports to represent.
  
  The AR is an excellent platform; for hunting and the range, 5 rounds is fine; for tac carb, or 3-gun I prefer the 30 rounders. cuts down on reload time…..and it’s all about time…..
  
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- rangerskippy
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 3:39pm
  and that thirty round magazine made of steel, plastic and a spring did not kill anyone. It has not even been shown that the latest shooter used these mags.
  
  For the first three days we were told that he was found with two pistols next to him, and that the AR was found in the back seat of his mom’s car
  
  Then the investigator claimed that all wounds had to come from a rifle??
  
  When is the MSM going to speak to Kevin Jennings?
  
  Kevin Jennings is Obama’s pick for safe school Czar. What did he do to make schools safe?
  
  Jennings claim to fame is teaching kids homosexuality in our schools. We know the gays have 64% of the syphilis, made up 57% of new HIV cases last year, but how does any of this make our schools safe?
  
  When is the MSM going to ask real questions?
  
  What video games did the shooter play?
  
  They claimed he was Goth. Pontificate on this?
  
  What music did he listen to?
  
  The MSM called him a marksman. Did he shoot 4H air rifle, how about CMP small bore. was he or his mom and NRA member?
  
  What movies did he watch?
  
  Did he ever play any sports?
  
  Did he ever go to church? What were his religious beliefs?
  
  What kind of upbringing did he get from his dad? How often was his dad around? Did his dad teach him what it is to be a man?
  
  What movies did he watch?
  
  Was he currently going to school, working, or did he just sit home all day?
  
  To my knowledge, the NRA has never shot anyone, but they do provide training for our police officers,
  
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- rangerskippy
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 3:42pm
  The MSM is such a joke.
  
  Has there ever been a mass murder, where the killer was a competitive shooter? An NRA member?
  
  Now check murder stats, and see how many killers we can tie to welfare? rap music? drugs? No father in the home? gang membership? liberal programs? violent video games? Eric Holder and Fast and Furious?
  
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- Glennda
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 3:47pm
  RANGER SKIMPY . . .And that heroin never killed anybody either. What’s your point?
  
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- robertusa123
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 3:54pm
  everyone know if shawn hanatey, rush limbo or glen beck had done this the arrest warent would allredy been ishued. im not holding my breath to see if the same standered are held to a liberal media personaly
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 4:11pm
  What happened Wango-Pants? I see you changed your name and avatar.
  
  Oh well, Merry Christmas Wango. We can put our differences aside for Christmas, right?
  
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- Techcon
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 4:12pm
  He committed a felony.
  
  Come D.C., arrest him, or are your guns laws just a joke?
  
  I think we know the answer to that.
  
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- Geems3
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 4:13pm
  Five rounds of 12 ga. 3″ mag OO buck shot @ 12 .33″ diam. lead balls is twice as many projectiles.
  
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- Alky
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 4:30pm
  I understood the shooter left the rifle in the car and went in with two pistols blazing (?)
  
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- lowerclassrepublican
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 4:31pm
  Most of those high cap mags have a higher issue of jamming. For the left this is not a issue of how many bullets a clip can hold. They are working the Moms against drunk driving angle. First you start with 30. After the next shooting you go for 15. After the next it’s 5. until your down to one bullet and are accused of shooting three people with it. I am referring to the lowering of blood alcohol limits down to the point you have some NyQuil and get arrested.
  
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- DarkJello
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 4:31pm
  Pass a million gazillion laws, and it STILL won’t stop criminals from doing whatever they want!! Why is that so hard for the “intelligentsia” to comprehend? And why do so many hang on every word of these propagandists? It is disheartening to say the least.
  
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- ginger100
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 4:37pm
  only the u.s, govt could lose track of a bunch of weapons used to kill over 20,000+ mexican people. they may as well have given them to the khmer rouge. who trust the crime syndicate in washington?
  
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- encinom
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 4:41pm
  Clinton’s ban didn’t go far enough, any band must be retro-active. We need to disarm the gun nuts and defang the gun lobby.
  
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- OKLAPatriot
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 4:43pm
  Ranger…..outstanding post with good questions.
  
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- pissantno.10
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 4:52pm
  i doubt we will ever know the truth of what happened the libs are making hay with this . sad part is there a bunch of sickos going to try and out do this guy. thats why we need cops or securtiey in the schools now .once they find out this is not a free kill zone they will look else where to be come net heroies
  
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- Al J Zira
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 5:02pm
  @ RANGER: For the first three days we were told that he was found with two pistols next to him, and that the AR was found in the back seat of his mom’s car
  
  Thank you! For the first time someone has said what I’ve been saying all along. Someone got to the coroner a made up the stuff about everyone was shot by the AR.
  
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- nighttrainno9
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 5:16pm
  The rifle (AR15) was left in the car and the children were killed with 223 rounds
  so now we find out about the other two shooters, one arrested on the inside and
  one arrested on the outside. Then today, we find out there were two shooters on
  the outside. This is turning to be another govt. false flag deal. Killing kids just
  to conficate firearms thats our wonderful WH, CIA and FBI. Our govt. is a sad
  joke.
  
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- valiant1776
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 5:21pm
  It doesn’t matter if he used a five hundred round drum magazine or loaded each round into the chamber himself. The problem was not the size or capacity of the gun, the problem was that children were left unsecured. The police got there ten minutes late. The maniac could have used a machete for all we know and it wouldn’t matter. The police got there too damn late. There’s nothing that could have stopped him from killing 20+ defenseless souls. The school was dependent on the Government to protect them. The school waited for the police to arrive, while 26 souls were left defenseless. These innocent souls could have been protected, but they got slaughtered because we have allowed our nation to be duped by the stupid progressive policies in place today. The problem was not that the maniac had firearms, the problem was that our children were not adequately protected in school. They were left with zero resources to oppose any intruder intent on causing great harm. This is the fault of senseless progressive policies. This maniac could have been put away way before any of his vicious intentions built up to this atrocity, but the closet Marxist organization, the ACLU, fought for maniacs to roam the streets freely.
  
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- Lordchamp
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 5:27pm
  Yep Eni that will do it. Just like all those speeding signs stop all speeders. All those drug laws stop people from using drugs. Like prohibition stopped all the drinkers. Oh, that’s right prohibition didn’t work either did it. Just caused other more serious problems and had to be repealed. Liberals never seem to learn that you can’t legislate morality.
  
  You will NEVER, EVER get rid of guns especially in the US unless you can figure a way to un-invent them.
  
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- Caballosinnombre
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 5:32pm
  But remember Mexico and how strict their gun control laws are. Don’t they have the violence problem solved?
  
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- NOT A CRAZY
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 5:44pm
  This leftist jackass committed a crime and I want him prosecuted. You all know the rest of us wouldn’t get away with it. Whoever else handled it where that law applies needs to be charged also. Why should I have to put up with that absolute idiot pushing for an infringement on the 2nd Amendment and at the same time not insist that he be prosecuted fully under the law?
  
  Join the NRA and fight the idiots that want to take away everything we have fought for: https://membership.nrahq.org/forms/signup.asp?campaignid=bonusgiftwy&EK=Y3ARPPBD&pubID=272.7&hid=19887291
  
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- RabidPatriot
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 5:45pm
  Fools! Murder is already illegal. Liberals have already banned high capacity magazines in their dens of stupidity and it has accomplished nothing. If you’re too dumb to understand that criminals don’t obey gun laws then your are too dumb for this conversation.
  
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- cessna152
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 5:54pm
  Hitler and Stalin were for gun bans as well…how’d that turn out?
  
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- Jive Mickey
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 5:56pm
  All academic drivel. A person of mal intenent will have those 30 round magazines regardless of the laws. Arrest David Gregory using the clip as prima-facia evidence. Lock his a$$ up for a year then ask him about magazine restrictions.
  
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- booger71
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 5:59pm
  If the citizens can’t them, neither should the federal, state or local police. If the gun laws work, why do they need expanded magazines or military type assault weapons? They especially don not need fully automatic weapons.
  
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- cosette
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 7:00pm
  @ Encinomoron…” We need to disarm the gun nuts”… define “gun nuts”. Are the people who feel the need for protection of equal proportion to those who would do us harm nuts? Does that include your Marxist Messiah ObaMao, who is perpetually flanked by armed secret service agents. How about the millionaires in the entertainment industry who also have armed protection. Should the value of ones’ life be measured by his ability to afford armed guards? Or should we ALL, regardless of income, be allowed the right granted us in the second amendment to protect ourselves our homes and our families from the criminals and our nation from the tyrants?
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 7:23pm
  Loughner, Red Haired Joker & Adam Lanza had one thing in common. They were all considered crazy the mental health system did not work.
  
  Even if the 1st 2 are not crazy enough before their rampages, they are consider acting crazy & spending life in a psychiatric unit preferable to hanging. Part of what is wrong is that we do not execute mass murderers caught red handed except with extreme difficulty. It took 10 or 15 years to execute Gacy and part of the reason was that he had a liberal fan club.
  
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- rangerskippy
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 7:41pm
  @ Glenda
  
  Your quote – “And that heroin never killed anybody either. What’s your point?”
  
  Are you stupid? Actually, lot of folks have overdosed on heroin, or the addiction has killed them, or the needles they were using were HIV infected.
  
  Our troops do not use heroine to protect the nation.
  
  Our police do not use heroine to protect the local population
  
  Home owners do not use heroine to protect their house
  
  The founding fathers did not recognize our right to heroine, but did recognize our right to arm ourselves.
  
  Any more stupid questions?
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 7:44pm
  Glennda
  
  I looked up drug overdose deaths from Heroin & cocaine at the CDC site. About 2,000 for heroin & 5,000 for cocaine. Until 2006 Cocaine had been trending up. Heroine is flat.
  http://www.cdc.gov/homeandrecreationalsafety/pdf/poison-issue-brief.pdf
  
  Then there is this.
  “Patrick K. O’Neil, who has been coroner since 1992, remembered overdose deaths being rare early in his career and growing steadily since 1999, before which more than one heroin-related death annually was unusual. Now, heroin overdoses are the second most common cause of accidental death in the area, preceded only by traffic accidents.”
  
  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/17/will-county-heroin-overdo_n_1890945.html
  
  I found dissenting (?) information so to speak, which I have some problems with its’ logic.
  http://www.peele.net/lib/heroinoverdose.php
  
  Plus addicts have been known to engage in burglary & that can escalate.
  
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- rangerskippy
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 7:49pm
  ENCINOM calls folks that arm themselves “gun nuts”
  
  do you think he realizes that most cops, many Army folks, federal law enforcement……. are folks that have plenty of personal firearms? they not only carry their issued weapon, but they buy rifles, pistols, shotguns for sporting, hunting, competitions, and home protection.
  
  What a moron he is.
  
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- jim375
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 8:04pm
  they dont care for the truth….they are just using these arguments to disarm us so we are easier to control. and the average democrat has been fooled or brainwashed into believing everything they hear on the liberal news
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 8:05pm
  So I take it Glenda = Wango = Pantloadin.
  
  Wow, either someone likes to troll for trolling’s sake or they are a sick, twisted freak.
  
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- GeorgieJo
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 8:45pm
  RANGER-SKIPPY?
  You think we could ask the same questions of BHO?
  Remember.
  EAT YOUR PEAS.
  
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- GeorgieJo
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 9:12pm
  EndSeeNoMan—”..any band (sic) must be retro-active…”
  ROFLMAO.
  “Clinton’s (that’s BJ not HR) ban didn’t do enough…”
  How many kids killed @ Columbine (Littleton CO) by Harris/Klebold?
  Check out their “homemade” videos.
  Schizophrenics can be high functioning.
  Thanks for the laugh EndSeenNo!!!!
  
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- Techcon
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 9:28pm
  @ENCINOM-AN
  
  You’re still here?
  
  I thought you were moving to North Korea. Ask your Mom to buy you a ticket, already–or are you driving?
  
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- SendTheMeteors
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 9:35pm
  I think we should put a few facts on the table here.
  - On the day of the Columbine shooting there were two police on duty at the school and one exchanged gunfire with the teenagers but he was outgunned. There was always at least one at the school. That didn’t stop the carnage.
  - Virginia State had University police on campus. That didn’t stop the guy from committing the largest mass murder at a school by guns in American history.
  - Jared Loughner kept killing people until he emptied his 31 bullet magazine. When he tried to put another magazine he was overpowered. Not before. If he’d had fewer bullets in his clip, he’d have killed and injured fewer people clearly. And there was a cop there, who never shot because he was was trained not to take a chance on killing innocent people.
  
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- Mojoron
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 9:55pm
  As Gregory said that we can replace a 30 rounder for a 5 or 10 rounder to reduce the carnage. So 5 or 10 dead people are OK but 30 isn’t? I don’t understand. What a dumb-wad.
  
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- rangerskippy
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 10:00pm
  SendtheMeatballs
  
  The Virginia Tech shooting is a completely different situation. Campus police, are just like city police. They enforce parking violations, speeding tickets, do investigations…… They do not have an armed policeman in everybuilding, and is much differnet than a policeman that works at a public high school, middle school, or elementary school.
  
  The Columbine school shooting did have an armed policeman, and he did exchange fire with the two killers, he slowed them down, and when he pressured them, they soon after turned their guns on their selves. Had he not been there, most likely more people would have died/
  
  Jared Loughner was not in a school, and like the other shooters, he was nuts.
  
  While he did have a thirty one round magazine (not a clip), most gun experts will tell you that the extra long mags generally do not function well. A well trained shooter can change mags in just over a second. Standard mags function better, are easier to conceal, and he could have just as easily done the same damage with two standard mags.
  
  You keep wanting to take the action of a couple of nuts and then throw away the Bill of Rights. The gov does not give us those rights, but is under oath to protect those rights.
  
  You can not get away from the facts. Socialist always take away guns. Hitler (yes, he was a socialist), Stalin, Mao, Castro….. They have to have a disarmed population.
  
  Blacks in America are 12.5% of the pop, and do half the murders. t
  
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- right field
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 10:01pm
  The MSM must be exposed.The MSM is responsible for every step made (with the help of the useful idiots) taking us down the liberal /Marxist road to total defeat. Think about the billons spent on the election that went to the MSM and the election handlers who took the money and lined their pockets and just lied about every aspect of the election. The MSM is more of an enemey of freedom than any terrorist group. The MSM is 100% responsible for getting Obama re-elected and they will continue to cover-up the truth on every front. We must develop a plan to fight the liars and get the truth out – We cannot change the narrative without a responsibe & honest press / media.
  If we want to stop the lies; stop Obama; stop the Democrats – We must expose the MSM and ‘connect the dots’ on these people.
  
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- rangerskippy
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 10:10pm
  SendTheMeatballs
  
  Every thirteen seconds, an American stops a crime with a legally owned firearm.
  
  This year there have been 7230221 criminal attacks stopped by good people with guns/
  
  I am 44 years old, and on five seperate occasions, me and my wife have stopped or prevented crimes with our own personal firearms.
  
  Keep it real meat ball.
  
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- valiant1776
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 10:11pm
  @youshouldgotopluto What’s the point of your babbling? Are you suggesting those police officers shouldn’t be there? Are you saying their presence didn’t make a bit of difference? Any resistance is better than no resistance. I know liberals would rather kneel and live like slaves instead of having to stand on their two own feet and fight for their freedom, but can you idiots at least make some logical sense and show some kind of willingness to go beyond the call of duty when it involves protecting the lives of school children?
  
  Are you suggesting that having no police officers present, or any formidable opposition, is better than having at least some resistance present and a chance to fight back? La Pierre doesn’t represent the majority of gun owners. From what I can observe, most Conservatives and gun owners would rather we allow local school districts to decide their own security policies, some of which may include allowing certified, train, and licensed school staff members to carry concealed in the case of such emergencies only. But what we can not allow is for there to be no security measures in place. Please prove to me, by facts, that incidents like these, wherein no formidable opposition was present, outcomes are less deadly and severe. Are you willing to demand that courts, state capitols, banks, large events, celebrities, wealthy citizens, mayors, politicians, private schools, dance clubs, and airports forego the use of armed guards?
  
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- rangerskippy
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 10:12pm
  http://www.pulpless.com/gunclock/noframedex.html
  
  Americans using guns to stop crimes
  
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- Evileye
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 10:49pm
  Most Gun Violence Crime are Black People Killing other Black People.
  If the Socialist want to ban high capacity Magazines and believe it will stop the carnage.
  Then it only stands to reason that we should ban Black people.Well not ban them completely Just the one over Four foot tall. Soon the NFL would all be midgets.
  After all they are doing most of the shooting. This I just as stupid as blaming the weapon what ever it my be, as the perpetrator not the person bent on violence while using it..Then Ban Fat People because drink 16 oz Sodas.Hell soon we could ban each other. We surrey can find some thing wrong with anyone.
  
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- 1TrueOne55
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 11:01pm
  And if education is the answer to all the worlds ills then why is it that it is schools or student aged children that are doing most of the carnage in Chicago (Gun Free Zone), D.C. (extremely Gun Free Zone). And why is common sense not required to graduate to a College? Is that so the Liberal Revolutionary Teachers like William Ayres and those he organizes feel its harder to indoctrinate children with the ideas of HATE when they are high on drugs like pot and Heroin.
  
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- Advection
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 11:09pm
  When a Hannity walked across the Mexican border on TV, there were serious calls by the left to prosecute him. How is this guy above the law?
  
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- Techcon
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 11:25pm
  @SENDTHEMETEORS
  
  Since we’re laying facts on the table:
  
  Cho, the VA Tech shooter, was inspired by Columbine, carrying out his attack on it’s anniversary. Prior to the attack, he was adjudicated as mentally ill, yet was still able to purchase firearms thanks to the ACLU.
  
  http://www.governor.virginia.gov/tempcontent/techPanelReport-docs/8%20CHAPTER%20IV%20LIFE%20AND%20MENTAL%20HEALTH%20HISTORY%20OF%20CHOpdf.pdf
  
  Months prior to the Sandy Hook massacre, the ACLU gloated over the defeat of a CT mental health bill.
  
  http://connecticut.cbslocal.com/2012/12/17/connecticut-mental-health-bill-defeated-months-before-deadly-school-shooting/
  
  You wanna talk magazine capacity when an evil organization like the ACLU is fighting to keep these psychopaths secret under the veil of privacy rights?
  
  What’s worse: One psycho with a 30 round magazine or three psychos each with a ten round magazine?
  
  We MUST be able to commit those who are a threat to themselves and others so they can get the treatment they need or these mass killings will continue.
  
  WE MUST DEFEAT THE ACLU!
  
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- Captain77
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 11:41pm
  “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the PEOPLE to KEEP and BEAR Arms, shall not be infringed.” 2nd amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America
  
  Lets be very clear. The second amendment has NOTHING to do with shooting animals for hunting. It has NOTHING to do with shooting robbers and rapists. The purpose of the 2nd Amendment is to simply enumerate the God Given rights I have to protect myself (shoot) from would be tyrants. It is either through ignorance, naivety, or ulterior motives to argue otherwise. So yes, I just may NEED that thirty round magazine to do so, though I pray I never will.
  
  As for those of you who think I am paranoid or eccentric, you either have a pale understanding of history or you care not for liberty.
  
  “If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.” Samuel Adams
  
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- Trigus
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 11:43pm
  Laws that forbid the carrying of arms… disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes… Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man. Jefferson’s “Commonplace Book,” 1774_1776, quoting from On Crimes and Punishment, by criminologist Cesare Beccaria, 1764
  
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- TexasKnight
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 12:10am
  Is that really a 30 bullet magazine?
  It is much shorter than the 17 magazine I use, and mine is for the fun cheap, but very small 22LR rounds.
  
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- Maji
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 12:22am
  Only changes in gun laws that should be made
  is “repeals”!
  The laws that would make difference would
  be in the area media fraud (aka NBC..etc) as in
  monetary compensation
  
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- Glennda
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 12:46am
  Oh, so that heroin, those needles, they all just jumped into those people’s arms all on their own. Good, I didn’t know heroin was a mindful being with a will of its own. I thought it was an inanimate object, like a gun, possessing no evil of intent but only consequence of use. My mistake. I shall have to name this small bundle in my wallet . . . I have it . . . Wally!
  
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- Glennda
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 1:07am
  WALKABOUT . . . Yeah, yeah, I see you already. be patient. Quit being so needy. I’ll get around to you in due time.
  
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- pavepaws
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 1:16am
  Arrest him. Everyone wants enforcement, make him number one.
  
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- Dunedainn
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 2:04am
  @ Encinom
  
  A retroactive ban, eh? Thanks for volunteering to take point on the first ATF confiscation team to go into a heavily armed citizen’s house!
  
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- Becks_Art_Obama_In_PeePee
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 3:08am
  Children? Democrats are worried about … children? Pro-abortion Democrats? Worried about children?
  
  On that day in Connecticut, a poultry xx children were murdered by a psycho-teen with a gun. On that same day, 3,288 babies were murdered (national average) by State licensed “doctors” with scalpels and dilators and suction probes. Which is the more heinous crime? WHICH IS EVEN A CRIME?!?
  
  No, it’s not about murder or children. It’s about Progressives(communists) tyrants in government (from the top down & in every department in between) using any excuse to disarm the American populous for the final take-down. Saddle up, Patriots.
  
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- rpa49
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 4:02am
  How about demanding that David Gregory be charged with violating D.C. law? Let him find out exactly how ridiculous the anti-gun laws are. Let him go through the trouble of being interviewed by the police and prosecuters as well as hiring a lawyer to try and spin the facts. Let him understand the financial burden placed upon him. His head will spin and he will finally realise just how riduculous it is to assume that the empty piece of metal and plastic he held up on national television possed absolutely no threat to anyone whatsoever. I’ll be all his cronies will be espousing the stupidity in trying to prosecute Mr. Gregory. Then it will hit them that their stupid anti-gun laws are …stupid!
  
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- starman70
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 7:04am
  I bet he got permission from the far left liberal Washington DC elitest city administration. Any excuse for the ******** to try to make a point.
  
  Cities with the strictest gun laws, Chicago, New York, Washington DC, Los Angeles, Detroit – - and the list goes on – - have the highest per capita murder rates anywhere in the country. Why? Because the bad guys KNOW that the average law abiding citizen cannot protect himself so they are free to commit crimes at will. This liberal clap-trap about gun control is just wasted airtime. Licensed, open carry citizens is the answer.
  
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- rangerskippy
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 8:42am
  Glennda – so you really are that dumb to compare heroine to firearms.
  
  The Bill of Rights does not guarantee our right to heroine
  
  Guns can be used for evil, but then again, so can the kitchen knife, the golf club, the baseball bat, the automobile….
  
  Guns can be used for positive. 4H shooting clubs, Olympic shooting competitions, trap and skeet, hunting, IDPA, police use, military use, heck- the Secret Service use guns to protect the president and his family.
  
  Do you wish to take guns away from those that protect the president? If his little girls get armed men to guard them, do my little girls not deserve the same?
  
  Heroine has no positive uses. It is a non legal narcotic.
  
  Grow up, and go take a class on logic, critical thinking, and perhaps learn how to debate before you come hang out with adults and make a fool of yourself again,
  
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- kennycannon
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 8:47am
  Nobody ever mentions this but the ’94 ban didn’t prevent the worst shootout in American history either – the North Hollywood B of A robbery where 2 guys with fully auto AKs shot thousands of rounds. I don’t believe they killed anyone but they injured a whole bunch.
  
  Mags made post ’94 are the only ones that were banned under the ’94 law. Gregory (or any of us) could have gotten a ‘pre-ban’ mag and not be in violation. I live in NY where the AWB is still in effect and pre-ban mags are not out of the ordinary. I don’t have any but we see them at the range all the time.
  
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- repup
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 9:15am
  It’s amazing how people so educated can be so dense. They dont want crazy people or criminals locked up, but when responsible people buy weapons to defend themselves they say we are making it to easy for crazy people and criminals to steal guns and commit crimes.
  
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- AJBrad
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 9:27am
  good answer. The loon that shot up the theater in Colorado used a Rem 870 to do most of his damage. A shotgun holds 5 rounds with the magazine plug removed. He also had an M&P 15. He killed or shot 71 people, therefore he reloaded at least a couple of times. proves the point, that it only takes a sec to reload. Cops were there in 90 seconds, 71 people dead or injured….
  
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- Trigus
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 9:28am
  Everyone should stop blaming the instrument: Firearm, Box Cutter (9/11), Airplanes (9/11), Automobiles (36,783 deaths last year), …, etc.
  
  We should blame and start to look at the contributors that desensitize, and/or remove or lower inhibitions: Alcohol, Drugs, Hollywood, Violent Video Games, Music Genre, and Mental Illness.
  
  The instrument has never jumped up off the table by itself to cause harm, nor has the instrument started all by itself to cause harm.
  
  “Firearms stand next in importance to the constitution itself. They are the American people’s liberty teeth and keystone under independence … from the hour the Pilgrims landed to the present day, events, occurences and tendencies prove that to ensure peace security and happiness, the rifle and pistol are equally indispensable … the very atmosphere of firearms anywhere restrains evil interference — they deserve a place of honor with all that’s good.”
  George Washington
  
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- dwf1
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 9:37am
  Where did he get that clip? DC law enforcement need to answer this question ASAP.
  
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- Glennda
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 10:10am
  RANGERSKIMPY . . .You said, ” . . . that thirty round magazine made of steel, plastic and a spring did not kill anyone.” Your “argument” is that the device is not inherently evil. It is incapable of inflicting any harm on anyone unless there is a human force behind it. The same is true for heroin.
  
  Ah, but guns have the potential to be used for good. If that is your argument, then what to do about coffee? cigarettes? Since their use has no capacity for improving the human condition, should they be illegal. Let me guess – they fall under the right to “the pursuit of happiness.” Now we’re back to heroin. What about cocaine? It is used by health professionals in pain management. It’s legal, but it’s also illegal.
  
  Your problem, Ranger Skimpy, is that you want so badly to be right about guns that you’re willing to abandon logic and bastardize every other issue around it to sustain your personal fascinations. Here, I’ll show you . . .”The NRA has never shot anyone.” News flash! Neither has rap music. If you want to argue with the adults, then man up. Think and talk the truth. It’ll set you free!
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 10:22am
  SendTheMeteors
  
  Jared Loughner freaked out people at the local community college so much so that they strategically chose to sit next to the door. That is highly abnormal.
  What do people normally do in class. they figure out who they are going to sit next to, to be able to gossip, to be their study partner, or to see the board. For your average every day person to think of security in a community college is so beyond the norm.
  The point is that he should have been evaluated at that time.
  
  There were campus police at Virginia Tech. Send Meteors TELLS US. Yay, Meteors loves us,Yes Meteors loves us. She tells us so.
  Really Meteors? There were cops at Virginia Tech? Are you sssshhuuuure? It is not like we don;t know that there are campus police as universities & colleges.
  If Send the Meteors really wanted to be helpful, he, she, it would tell us how many cops there were. The total number. How many are on each shift. How many have desk jobs. How many are away on training & vacation. So how many cops were there really at Virginia Tech on duty that day?
  Universities have anywhere form 20,000 to 40,000 students. How do the # of cops at Virginia tech compare to other towns & universities of similar size? 20K to 40K is a small city.
  Are the cops there fully trained? I kind of doubt security at a community college has the training & credentials to have the authority to put a psych hold on a student.
  
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- Trigus
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 10:25am
  @Glenda – you are talking instruments and Contributing factors as if they are one.
  
  please tell me the last time a loaded firearm sitting on a table has jumped up and killed someone?
  
  We do know that Contributing Factors have lead to violence by desensitizing and/or reducing inhibitions. Alcohol, Drugs, Hollywood, Music Genre, Violent Video Games, Religion, and Mental Illness are all contributing factors.
  
  3000 people where murdered in 9/11 by people who used Box Cutters and Airplanes (instruments) to carry out this senseless act of violence. Yet, I see no ban on box cutters or airplanes. 353 murders where committed last year with a Rifle (FBI UCR 2011), 1668 murder with knives, 787 murders with Hands and Feet. Do we ban Hands and Feet or do we go after the contributing Factors. 36, 863 people were killed in automobile accidents last year. Yet, we still can buy cars.
  
  UK Home Office reported for 2011 that there was 11,749 crimes committed with Firearms in the UK and Whales. How do you think gun control is working there?
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 10:32am
  SendTheMeteors
  
  Yes lets focus in on community college security. Is the security at a community college the Walmart type or fully trained Law Enforcement Officers (LEOs) that people feel comfortable to approach & & confident that they have the authority to act?
  If a person is saying bizarre things & talking”word soup” & you have multiple witnesses & people feel the need to figure out their escape plan in case a classmate pops offs, are the LEOs at a community college authorized to put a psych hold on them. Or are these rent a cops?
  I bet you have a high number of psych cases going into college than have it figured out where they are going to work after high school. They are away from home at least part of the time. It they have poor social skills college will be where they start spiraling faster down hill. In a number of classes it really helps to work cooperatively to pass. Yes some psychiatric problems start soon in adolescence & become apparent no later than the 20s. You would see it in college. So I ask you how are community college LEOs or security trained?
  I figure that Meteors has the time to look it up. Yes she said she was traveling for business last week. Was it for a liberal non-profit advocacy group. It would explain their ability & willingness to go to a site where everything she hears is anathema to her world view.
  Either that or she has no significant other, is not paying them attention, or is cheating her employer of time.
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 10:38am
  SendTheMeteors
  
  Meteors was to focus on guns. She doesn’t want to mention the shrine or whatever Loughner & friends had in their backyard or was it his parent’s backyard. The one with the school & candles.
  
  If Guns are the problem, then their should be no reason to take down the skull shrine & hide it. By hiding it, admits that you do not want to discuss it, because sooner or later you might ask if that is part of the problem.
  I feel bad for Loughner’s parents. But I believe that they were part of the problem. They had at least 33% input into what he became. I believe that Loughner’s father put a lot of anti-social views into his head judging from his record.
  Who puts up a skull shrine in their backyard?
  
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- Glennda
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 10:38am
  TRIGUS . . . I didn’t discuss “contributing factors” at all, so to suggest I conflated them – with anything – is simply wrong. But if you’re gonna trot out Hollywood, you gotta trot out Clint Eastwood, too. That’s the problem with “contributing factors” – they’re level of evil is just a little too susceptible to personal interests.
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 10:41am
  SendTheMeteors
  ***
  
  Meteors has been continually posting this. So my recommendation is to learn it, Research it & then refute it. She puts out a partial list of facts. Typical. It is how you lie. It is why weak a person to”Give the truth, the whole truth & nothing but the truth”. Encinom, Meteors & others typically violate the 2nd phrase. They don’t give the WHOLE TRUTH. Have at them.
  
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  I think we should put a few facts on the table here.
  – On the day of the Columbine shooting there were two police on duty at the school and one exchanged gunfire with the teenagers but he was outgunned. There was always at least one at the school. That didn’t stop the carnage.
  – Virginia State had University police on campus. That didn’t stop the guy from committing the largest mass murder at a school by guns in American history.
  – Jared Loughner kept killing people until he emptied his 31 bullet magazine. When he tried to put another magazine he was overpowered. Not before. If he’d had fewer bullets in his clip, he’d have killed and injured fewer people clearly. And there was a cop there, who never shot because he was was trained not to take a chance on killing innocent people.
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 10:57am
  Glennda
  
  WALKABOUT . . . Yeah, yeah, I see you already. be patient. Quit being so needy. I’ll get around to you in due time.
  ***
  Wow that is that exact phrase the Wango & Pantloadin use to use. They are the same.
  
  Got to change you post name because people will not listen to you because your demeanor & ideals suck. Must be hard to go through so many aliases.
  
  Wango, you need help. Seek help from a psychiatrist or priest.
  
  Also I provided stats to back up my arguments & links to back up the stats from reputable sites. You did not address those arguments. Your deflected. CUZ you got Nothing.
  
  Tell you what. Christmas is tomorrow. Whether you are Christian or not Christian, it is important that you gather around the meal time & socialize. Breaking bread your fellows (not necessarily in any religious sense) is more important than how fancy the meal is.
  Keep the discussion interesting but light. Keep it to hobbies & mundane things. Help out at the kitchen; learn your mothers or fathers recipes. See what they know about a computer that makes their life easier that you don’t know. etc.
  
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- Glennda
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 11:35am
  WANKALONG . . . Stats that show people die from abusing drugs? I didn’t know that was up for debate. If you understood the questions, you might be able to offer an answer. Burt you’re right, Merry Christmas. Let’s all celebrate the birth of Jesus, which by most scholarly accounts happened in April. (Would you like a reputable link? Well don’t you worry. It’s all wrapped up in a little red box under your tree.)
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 11:38am
  Glennda
  “But if you’re gonna trot out Hollywood, you gotta trot out Clint Eastwood, too. ”
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  No, not really. Clint portrays the good guy. Even when he portrays someone who doesn’t want to be the good guy, he is the good guy.
  
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- Winghunter
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 11:46am
  It’s like Sowell said, they’re invincibly ignorant.
  
  They have no clue what they’re talking about; they refuse to learn from repeated recent history; and when we bite our tongues and attempt to teach them, they throw outrageous insults.
  
  “To ban guns because criminals use them is to tell the innocent and law-abiding that their rights and liberties depend not on their own conduct, but on the conduct of the guilty and the lawless, and that the law will permit them to have only such rights and liberties as the lawless will allow…
  For society does not control crime, ever, by forcing the law-abiding to accommodate themselves to the expected behavior of criminals. Society controls crime by forcing the criminals to accommodate themselves to the expected behavior of the law-abiding.” – Jeff Snyder
  
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- Glennda
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 11:51am
  WANKABUNCH . . . “That’s the problem with “contributing factors” – their level of evil is just a little too susceptible to personal interests.”
  
  Thanks for proving my point. But take solace . . . “We all got it comin’, kid.” Translation: There are no good guys.
  
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- basicgov
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 11:53am
  He brings an ILLEGAL magazine on the air to say that it should be ILLEGAL, and we would all be safer. hmmm.
  
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- oneshiner
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 12:15pm
  I’ve never really liked David Gregory, but after his reaming out Wayne LaPierre on TV for everyone to see what a jerko Gregory is, I’ve made a note to never, never watch anything on TV this man is on.
  
  Maybe sounds silly, but these show-biz types, and others, have been on my list of those I avoid at all costs for years and I live by what I believe. No movies, no TV programs with those who are so ignorant I can’t let their idiocy affect my thinking, so I avoid them completely.
  So often, they spout off about things they don’t want us to do, but they do themselves. We can’t have a legal gun, but by dam, they can, or they hire people to protect them……’scuse me, you idiots.
  
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- SocialistSlayer
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 12:16pm
  They want to disarm the American citizens so they ( The Government) can assume compete control of the citizens and their lives ! The Government no longer represents it’s citizens and has therefore outlived it’s usefulness !
  
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- rangerskippy
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 12:18pm
  Glennda
  
  The founding fathers saw gun ownership as a right that already belonged to the people, and that is is the duty of the government to protect that right.
  
  Daily, law abiding citizens stop crimes using guns. Daily, police use firearms to stop crimes. Daily, our military usees guns to stop evil.
  
  We use guns to hunt, we use them for sport (to inclue the Olympics), and we protect the President with them.
  
  Non legal drugs to not benefit anyone.
  
  We can shot that gangster rap, violent video games, violent moves…. play a part in the violence in our society.
  
  Not one of the mass murders have ever been tied to the NRA, 4H shooting programs, CMP…. All of the recent ones have been heavinly tied to violent vidoe games, the Goth stuff, and violent movies.
  
  Once again, Kevin Jennings was Obama’s pick for safe school czar. His claim to fame was teaching homosexuality to school age children. He did nothing to keep our schools safe, but the MSM will not mention his name (neither will you), but you try to go after the NRA.
  
  Socialist nations in the past always take away guns. Hitler, Mao, Stalin, castro…. all take away the guns, then they murdered millions of their own people.
  
  The Rifle is what seperates the surf from the citizen.
  
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- rangerskippy
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 12:22pm
  Glennda
  
  So if I give up my rifle, is Obama going to give up his armed security?
  
  If his daughtes deserve amred security, do mine not deserve the same?
  
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- rangerskippy
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 12:27pm
  Glennda
  
  Tell us about black on black violence?
  
  Why is the liberal MSM so quiet on the subject?
  
  Blacks are 12.5% of the population, but do half the nation’s murders. If we lower their murder rate to the same as whites, we will lower the nation’s murder rate by almost 40%
  
  We in America lead the world in gun ownership. For every 100 people, we have 88 guns. There are 25 nations in the world with higher murder rates than us (including Russia, were it is very difficult to get a gun).
  
  Honduras has 6.6 guns per 100 people but they have the highest murder rate in the world.
  
  Lower guns in the hands of citizens does not lower murder rates, but it does increase the likelihood that the corrupt government will kill its own citizens
  
  The Swiss have one of the lowest murder rates in the world, and they have an “assault rifle” in every house.
  
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- DLV
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 12:28pm
  Okay as a conservative I must protest this blame video games and music crap coming from conservatives. Me and a ton of my friends are avid gamers and none of us have the slightest inkling to go on a shooting rampage. Blame who is responsible crazy people. You could also make an argument for the moral degradation of our society. But do not blame video games. It makes you look stupid.
  
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- ROYSTOLL2
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 1:01pm
  When are we going to end the mainstream media’s hold on the Democrat liberal ignorati? The media used to report the news after it happened, but not they create the events in their effort to increase their ratings and hold on the government. I quit watching the mainstream media news after the election because as long as they are able to ignore the law and can exert their influence on what happens, elections in this country are a joke. This last election was rigged but the losing party is too timid to fight it. It is statistically impossible to achieve a 100% vote for one candidate in any secret ballot election and yet the Democrats achieved that in Philadelphia which is why they won Pennsylvania, as well as 200 or so other counties and or precincts. The only people that can correct this travesty is the U.S. Supreme Court. The other big lie is that photo ID being required to vote is voter suppression. Does anybody other than Michele Obama really believe that? We have trivialized federal voting to the point that it is a joke. The media and the liberal ignorati are pushing gun control laws as the panacea to end all violent crime in spite of the fact that this shooter broke 41 laws in the course of his crime, including killing his own mother to take her guns. The mall shooting in Oregon was stopped by a concealed weapon permit holder who drew down on the shooter limiting the deaths to two. Was that reported on the media? No, because it was against their anti-gun agend
  
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- James
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 1:08pm
  If David is in possession of an illegal fire arm clip then yes.Where did he get that clip? From a friend “like he has some” or maybe it is his! David’s AR you think? Burn his Ass. He’s so special!
  
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- Annapurna
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 1:15pm
  Leave it to Pantloader Glennda to conflate drugs with guns. DUH. Time to ditch that diaper, Glennda, the ammonia is affecting your brain.
  
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- Ironknights
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 1:26pm
  I shoot in several different types of action matches both handgun and semi-auto rifle. I use high cap mags to get down range quickly to keep from having to reload more often. Those I shoot with as I believe in the 2nd ammendment and would never use a gun to commit a crime. We are the good guys who enjoy fellowship and sportsmanship doing something we love. But with that said it looks like the liberal element in this country is going to try and make us the American lawful gunowner out to be the bad guys. When inreality they are the bad guys for lying and saying the samething over and over again so those with the frigial egg shell minds will line up for more koolaid and little red pills and pray at the alter of big government and Obama’s big plan for American in name only. Fear for your Country Fear for whats to come.
  
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- Gnostyk
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 3:29pm
  These massacres always take place in “gun-free zones.” What do we have to do to convince Shumer, Boxer, and Feinstein that criminals don’t obey signs?
  
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- butthedd
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 4:07pm
  History shows, if you give them an inch they’ll take a mile…never give an inch! And Glennda are you on the wrong page?
  
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- eagle77
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 8:25pm
  Boy, what a missed opportunity for Mr. LaPierre…”Well, Davic, there’s a ban on that magazine here in D.C. and yet here you sit with one. Very effective legislation wouldn’t you say David?” Agree with all the comments about this having no effect, reload in a second or two provides no better outcome these horrible situations. Is he actually saying that it’s great that we could only have 10 dead?? That’s somehow acceptable?
  
  Also, Rangerskippy brings up a point I’ve been wondering about. It’s true the initial reports said the suspect was found with two pistols and that that a rifle and shotgun were found in the car he drove. I know early reports can be jumbled, but I don’t see how such a mistaken report could happen. I wonder if the school has CCTV? Will we be able to have verification of what was found at the scene?
  
  No amount of legislation will reduce crime. If it did, we should be absolutely crime free.
  
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- unendingsun
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 9:45pm
  @Ranger. Loved your comment. You saved me a lot of typing because I have had the same questions as well. These people are insane. Criminals do not care about others and a law on a piece of paper does not deter them from their crimes. When are people going to wake up? But then again, they ARE the same people who re-elected Obama, so need I say more……..
  
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- cyberconservative
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 10:33pm
  David Gregory not only looks like an idiot he is an idiot!
  
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- 4PERCENTER
  Posted on December 25, 2012 at 12:06am
  That’s what they want, to wear us out! QUIT TALKING TO THEM!!! THEIR MINDS ARE TOO WEAK TO HAVE AN ADULT CONVERSATION!!!!!!!!!! Guns have been around for hundreds of years. Suddenly they are shooting people by themselves! That means you have to pass a law that the gun can hear, understand, and obey. WHAT? If liberals ask another question about gun control, they should be told “Yes, I believe in gun control. Teach everyone in America how to aim, then issue them a gun like they do in Switzerland”! Seriously. Anyone that thinks more laws will stem gun violence, has issues. They are too immature to talk about the subject, or their ability to look at the data and propose rational solutions, indicates they should immediately put themselves on the ‘DO NOT SELL TO’ list! They believe these things because it is true in their life. I bet if you put them in a room with a gun, they would figure out a way to shoot themselves and blame the gun, the bullets being inside the gun, and the person that put the bullets in the gun!!!!!!!!!!!! Anyone that continues to sit at a table and discuss guns with these people, is a bigger fool than they are! You are discussing, “How to stop evil murderers from killing others” with a 4-year-old!!!!!!
  
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- dj_bonneromics1982
  Posted on December 26, 2012 at 6:32am
  So let me get this straight. Mr. Gregory shows the audience a magazine that he wants to ban, and gun-toters here on TheBlaze.com accuse him of violating….gun laws?
  
  You people sure are pathetically desperate.
  
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2dogs
Posted on December 23, 2012 at 3:26pm
The corporate fascist solution is to tyrannize the honest citizen , gain more power and control !!!!!!!!!!!!!

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- llotus
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 7:31pm
  glennda…….i am but any ageing old woman and the point was clear. Exactly where did you get lost on that comment? Just curious. Lotus.
  
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- DougHuffman
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 7:37pm
  @Cosette Trifle; all are licensed by the Second Amendment Right to Keep and Bear Arms, no further permission is needed. Better to be Righteous and Forgiven than to ask permission.
  
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- jollyroger62
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 7:24am
  You want more robberies, more violence, more rape, more mass killings of the innocent, ban guns.
  
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MrKnowItAll
Posted on December 23, 2012 at 3:23pm
I CAN Prove all Anti-Gun Folks wrong any time. Call me. I CAN get you ANY Weapon in Detroit, Anytime. No Questions ASKED. Give up your GUNS. You would be a IDIOT!
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NUTN2SAY
Posted on December 23, 2012 at 3:21pm
It is set in stone right there in the Second Amendment that We The People shall have the Constitutional Right to keep and bear “arms.” To change the Constitution of the United States of America requires a Constitutional Convention!

If the government employees of We The People have a problem with We The People carrying any kind of “arm” that we chose then those employees need to go through the Constitutional Convention process and not make things up as they go along! They should know better!

The Second Amendment is to protect We The People’s Constitutional Right to defend ourselves from an attack. We The People need to be as equally armed as out attacker even if that attacker might someday be members of our tax paid employees!

There is something very wrong with the picture of your attacker to tell you what weapons of self defense you are allowed to use against them!!!

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- Soulfire1975
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 4:14pm
  They just don’t give a rats behind. Hitler Stolin Mou Castro Che and countless others just don’t care.
  
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- mlgunner
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 4:22pm
  Please, PLEASE don’t spell BARE as B E A R. Bare arms is the ability to have weapons. BEAR arms are hairy with claws.
  Just sayin’.
  
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- hatchetjob
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 4:35pm
  Bear arms are scary too.
  
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- DougHuffman
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 5:00pm
  “A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” An armed bear is much more fearsome than bare arms.
  
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- PokeySD
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 5:08pm
  MLGUNNER
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 4:22pm
  Please, PLEASE don’t spell BARE as B E A R. Bare arms is the ability to have weapons. BEAR arms are hairy with claws.
  —–
  Actually, the right to BARE arms is the right to go sleeveless. The right to BEAR arms is the right to carry arms or to have arms in your possession.
  
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- proliance
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 5:10pm
  Bear:
  1.
  to hold up; support: to bear the weight of the roof.
  
  2.
  to hold or remain firm under (a load): The roof will not bear the strain of his weight.
  
  from dictionary.com
  
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- ColoradoDad
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 5:33pm
  @mlgunner, please, please, please don’t use the phrase “Bare Arms”. That would mean to have nothing on your arms, including guns. The second amendment reads A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
  
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- AZfreeman
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 5:45pm
  @nutn2say Well said.
  
  Tyranny !!!! – That’s the 800lb gorilla in the room that no one wants to talk about. There are millions of hunters in the U.S., but that’s not what the 2nd amendment was intended to be about. I would suspect that there are an equal number of guys who don’t hunt much who have a weapon set aside for when the SHTF. THAT’S WHY THE 2ND AMENDMENT WAS WRITTEN !!!!!
  
  When you have tyranny in government the next step is non-compliance, rebellion, chaos, revolution, or civil war. Why do you think they are pushing so hard for gun control right now? Well,,,,, the current administration has an agenda and they don’t want the people to be armed so they can force it on us. It’s in plain sight….you have three choices, submit to tyranny, arm yourself, or stick you head in the sand and kiss your @zz goodbye.
  
  “When the people fear government, there is tyranny….when the government fears the people, there is freedom”
  
  “If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not to costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case, you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves”. Winston Churchill
  
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- cosette
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 7:15pm
  @Azfreeman… Correct. I have no right to oppose anybodies desire to go hunting but, as an animal lover, I have no desire. However I am a gun owner and am licensed to carry. I do so because it is my right. I need offer no other explanation.
  
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- nonofmybiznez
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 8:14pm
  AZfreeman, well said…we cannot leave that thought silent. People must understand the real reason for the 2nd Amendment which was adopted on December 15, 1791, along with the rest of the Bill of Rights. The Courts ruled that the Second Amendment protects an individual’s right to possess a firearm, unconnected to service in a militia and to use that arm for lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home. The idea being we needed to keep the power separated in the states and not the federal government. They knew that if the federal government because too powerful it would lead to tyranny. Sound familiar?
  
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- TexasKnight
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 12:08am
  FYI, you do not need a constitutional convention to change the constitution.
  All you need is to pass an ammendment. Of course this has not been done in my lifetime (50 yrs).
  This is how the left SHOULD be doing this. All there other nonsense is in direct violation of their sworn oaths to protect and defend the constitution. It is a shame, that congressmen are not being brought up on charges for violating their oath.
  
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- dcoopsd
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 2:04am
  @TexasKnight – Actually there have been 3 amendments made to the Constitution since 1962 (the 50 years mention in your post) – the 24th (revocation of voting rights) in 1962, the 25th (defining the process of presidential succession) in 1965, and the 26th (modifying the voting age to 18) in 1971.
  
  As for a constitutional convention, only 1 has ever been called by the states – for the 21st amendment in 1933 repealing the the 18th amendment and effectively ending prohibition.
  
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merk-0331
Posted on December 23, 2012 at 3:20pm
Petition to deport Piers Morgan for attacking the Constitution: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/deport-british-citizen-piers-morgan-attacking-2nd-amendment/prfh5zHD

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banjarmon
Posted on December 23, 2012 at 3:20pm
Blame the politicians that made the laws that made the schools soft targets for crazy killers. Solution.. ARM Responsible Teachers!!!!

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- DougHuffman
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 4:08pm
  Dog damn it! Who decides which teacher is responsible is the tyrant. What of “shall not be infringed” eludes you statist grinches?
  
  Good people ought to be armed as they will, with wits and Guns and the Truth. God Bless Bitter Clingers, damn know-nothings, progressives.
  
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- jim375
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 8:17pm
  i agree….took the cops ten minutes to get there, one armed teacher could have stopped this. just remember this…..when seconds count the cops are only minutes away
  
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- Glennda
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 11:58am
  JIM375 . . .Just like the armed guard at Columbine stopped that massacre . . . oops, never mind.
  
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weareskrewed
Posted on December 23, 2012 at 3:15pm
I seriously doubt that mag belongs to Gregory, although he is technically in possession of it at the time. La Pierre better hope its not his or maybe Gregory will say its La Pierre’s fault he was holding it in his hand.

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- 338lapua
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 5:54pm
  LaPierre is WAY too knowledgable of gun laws do do something as stupid as that. JUST THINK…….DC banned something that is a lot more likely to jam than a standard mag. More mags is the answer. I had several 15 rd. mags for my Glock 22. They were WAY hard to load, jammed whenever I started firing hard. They just had to go. Really improved me as a shooter. I place shots better. I keep a better count of shots fired and am ready with the next when she locks open. NO-ONE has the right to tell me I cannot have them, I just like the more reliable mags better. Choke on that emotional little magazine haters……you know…..STOP THE HATE MAN! WHAT HAVE THESE MAGAZINES DONE TO YOU ANYWAY?????? Go ban Prius’s or something.
  
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- OlefromMN
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 9:08pm
  David Gregory is on tape possessing it. Arrest him and show him how silly the laws are. I don’t give a rats behind who owns it (we all know David Gregory doesn’t), but the law is the law.
  
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- bannedfromCNN
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 8:55am
  Gregory must be excused – he thought it was a g ay sex toy.
  
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dosdelgados
Posted on December 23, 2012 at 3:09pm
It takes mere seconds to change out a magazine.

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- SaveAmericaFromLeftists
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 3:33pm
  So what you’re saying is that since he had a good reason in his own mind to break the law, & because it fits in to the leftist media narrative, he can pick & choose when a law is a law.. Oh I see. Well then so can gun owners I guess.
  
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LeadNotFollow
Posted on December 23, 2012 at 3:07pm
Hey liberals, criminals will use knives to murder people, if they can’t get a gun. Story below.

BREAKING STORY- Charlotte N.C.- 3 Blacks arrested for assault, stabbing death of “deaf” White man (Michael Victor Shull age 21, from Conover N.C.)

Another Black on White murder. Why is this not being called a hate crime? This young man was deaf. He could not even call out for help.

http://www.wcnc.com/news/crime/CMPD-investigates-mans-assault-death-184555271.html

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- repairsea
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 3:23pm
  Very sad. The real people who should be in jail are the hate-filled, racist politicians who tainted the civil rights movement and killed Martin Luther King’s message of love for all.
  
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- TCPatriot
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 5:16pm
  Another hate crime that will go unpunished as such
  
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The Scarecrow
Posted on December 23, 2012 at 3:01pm
A thousand dollar fine is nothing to this guy and as far as 1 year in jail I’m sure the network lawyers would get him off. The other thing is, it only takes a couple seconds, if that, to change a magazine whether its 5 rounds or 30.

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- TSUNAMI_22
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 3:17pm
  CA’s Dianne Feinstein tried to manipulate that as well by having a mandatory “bullet button” instead of the standard magazine release installed. It’s another “safety” measure that can be easily defeated.
  
  Feinstein is no genius by any measure of sanity, and the application of such devices defeat nothing.
  
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- Armyof One
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 4:15pm
  Tsunami
  Our “Bullet Button” was our answer to DiDi and her draconian law. Despite federal law dissolving in 2004, California kept our slightly less strict law on the books. The law reads “…remove feeding device with tools. A bullet tip is a tool”.
  
  A rather ingenious device, the bullet button, replaces the standard magazine push button with parts that block normal manipulation of the magazine release without inserting a tool…or bullet tip. We are still restricted to 10 round magazines (that has not deterred criminals, re: North Hollywood bank robbery) in standard configured rifles. Make your AR15 “featureless” (not having enough features that create a so-called assault rifle, like “deadly” flash-hiders), and it is now totally legal to use your 20, 30, or 100 round magazines all day and night. Yes, legal to own, possess, and use standard capacity magazines here.
  
  No state law covers or mentions the Bullet Button, it is solely a private invention. The DOJ has made no ruling on it…because they can’t. It not only renders the rifle legal by statute, but follows the letter of the law exactly.
  
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- Mustanger
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 4:34pm
  Now I’m not a rocket surgeon. But can’t you take a glove and put a “nub” or one of those “spikes” like the goths have on their coats on it? This could be an integrated tool. I’ve not seen on of those Feinstein widgets. I’m just throwing it out there.
  
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- TSUNAMI_22
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 7:28pm
  Mustanger
  
  They have numerous items that do exactly that. I chose the Radlock version of the bullet button – it lets me alternate between active mag release and CA compliant. They have nubs that can be attached to magazines, fingertip tools, magnetized covers…etc.
  
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- Redcatcher21
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 10:27pm
  Report crimes in Wash, D.C. at: http://mpdc.dc.gov/. It’s the DC police website. It is important to turn in those thar break gun laws.
  
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jungle J
Posted on December 23, 2012 at 3:01pm
if you want to blame someone blame the parents, They knew that this mentally ill man was troublesome at best.

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- chips1
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 3:14pm
  That’s probably why they got rid of him. Oh! I’m sorry. I thought you mean’t Obama’s parents. The “mentally ill” part confused me!!!
  
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- valiant1776
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 5:24pm
  The mother tries, but the commie left wants to grant rights to maniacs.
  
  I kid you not: http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/12/16/Recently-Defeated-Connecticut-Mental-Health-Bill-May-Have-Stopped-Friday-s-Shooter
  
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CathyvanDyke
Posted on December 23, 2012 at 3:01pm
The Double Standard

If the principle of armed security applies as a either a deterrent or protection in regards to the school that Barack Obama’s daughters … it should apply likewise to ALL public schools.

The entire “opinion” article by Gayle Trotter is a good read … common sense. IMO .

Mother of six says school kids deserve to be protected by armed, trained guards
By Gayle Trotter
Published December 22, 2012

Already, gun-rights opponents have begun scoffing at the notion of armed guards in our children’s schools. That doesn’t prevent the gun-rights opponent-in-chief from relying on a government-provided security detail to protect his own children.

On any given school day, no fewer than 6 marked Secret Service police cars surround the Sidwell Friends School, where the Obama girls attend. In these cars, good guys are ready to respond with deadly force to any threat of harm to the first daughters.

The Secret Service’s mere presence deters anyone who would attempt violence at the school founded by Quakers, who adhere to pacifism and nonviolent principles. In this haven of Northwest Washington, D.C., the pacifists depend on guns for protection.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/12/22/mother-six-says-school-kids-deserve-to-be-protected-by-armed-trained-guards/

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jungle J
Posted on December 23, 2012 at 2:59pm
lock that sissy up!

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- CatB
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 3:26pm
  I agree … and it has been a DISGUSTING display how Obama and the MSM jumped on these MURDERS of CHILDREN before they even got the bodies out of the school … absolutely VILE .. the way they are using these poor children who were victims of a mad man.
  
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Dano.50
Posted on December 23, 2012 at 2:56pm
The laws are even stupider in Canada.

I can have a federally approved gun cabinet yet, if a crook breaks into my home and manages to break into said federally approved gun cabinet, I will be charged with unsafe storage of guns.

And what about that Marine who took his gun to, New York was it? about a year ago, and ASKED how to go about checking his weapon, and then got charged for a weapon’s violation?

The rules are, even if you don’t know a particular law, if you break it, you get charged so…

Since this pinhead didn’t do his research, he better be hauled off to jail.

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TSUNAMI_22
Posted on December 23, 2012 at 2:55pm
There is no law that could EVER prevent someone from acquiring a high capacity magazine. Case in point – David Gregory just proved it. He acquired a high capacity magazine.

I live in CA that has a 10 round limit on magazines and I can get as many high capacity magazines as I want.

Fences only keep honest people out. Criminals don’t care about the law, dammit.

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Lordchamp
Posted on December 23, 2012 at 2:52pm
This again shows the ignorance of their argument.

They, the ignorant media and liberals, have no idea how guns operate. It takes mere seconds to reload even a 5 or 10 round magazine, so what if you have to do it multiple times if you are intent on killing people.

So what if it added 15-30 seconds for the lunatic to fire the same 30 rounds. This argument is ridiculous and as always just a smokescreen for their real purpose…to BAN all LEGAL guns and only allow the ILLEGAL ONES that lunatics and criminals will always have.

Let’s see ALL government officials give up ALL their ARMED guards, secret service, etc, if guns aren’t important for self defense. If guns aren’t needed, give em up Obama. Lead the way. Never Happen.

Disarm ALL secret service, guards, FBI, police, ALL of them then let’s talk.

Lead or shut up.

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- valiant1776
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 5:30pm
  Exactly. While liberal’s are arguing whether maniacs should have the capacity to kill 5 children instead of 15, us conservatives are actually trying to put forth solutions that would better secure our schools and ensure that no kids are killed, but then again, that wouldn’t put blame on guns, and push forth an anti-gun agenda, would it?
  
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Armyof One
Posted on December 23, 2012 at 2:52pm
Proving the fallacy of the anti-gun, anti-freedom of the progressive left. Gun laws CANNOT stop those intent on breaking the law, nor those who may inadvertently break the law!

Since this was a deliberate and successful attempt to secure, transport, and possess a “banned” item, David Gregory should be fined and jailed just like all other persons in DC would be, and NBC charged with conspiracy to commit.

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- 70S_KIDS_FIGHTING_SOCIALISM
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 10:23pm
  Yep, this moron is a first class but whole. Obviously libs don’t want homicidal maniacs shooting people they would prefer the old fashioned burning the School down with the doors blocked. The scariest thing is these people have kids. Some of these liberals children are going to be the next Hitler Stalin or Mao.
  
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LIBSALWAYSLIE
Posted on December 23, 2012 at 2:50pm
I saw the interview, Gregory was being a smarmy, snarky, smirking little jerk, interrupting constantly. Mr. LaPierre made an excellent point, what is another law, on top of thousands of laws, going to do to make schools safer? NOTHING! The only gun control that would do anything is to go back in time and un invent guns and make them all disappear. You cant unring a bell, but liberals want to try..

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- chips1
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 3:27pm
  They would have to go back in time before the tribes used arrows and spears to attack neighbors and sell them into slavery. How long ago did they invent the rock?
  
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- CathyvanDyke
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 3:49pm
  It appears that talk hosts of liberal media have all been given instructions from higher up not to allow guests the opportunity to articulate views opposing gun control.
  
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4dogsandagun
Posted on December 23, 2012 at 2:49pm
You can bet your bottom dollar that David Gregory knew he was breaking the law and was doing what all the corrupt media do, flaunt it, knowing full well he would get a pass. According to the law, Mr Gregory broke it and he should be arrested and prosecuted as should anyone else that transported that magazine on the way to the studio.

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- skunkbear
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 10:31pm
  Funny how petty tyrants want to see petty rules strictly enforced on everyone but themselves. Dick Gregory wants strict gun control laws strictly enforced? Then give him what he wants – and how! Prosecute him to the fullest extent of the law – one full year in the hooscow and a $1000 fine. Careful what you wish for there little Dicky, you just might get it.
  
  And BTW 4dogsandagun, I dig your screen name. You are one safe dude.
  
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exfire
Posted on December 23, 2012 at 2:47pm
I’ve yet to hear anyone in the MSM blame the shooter !…..A gun is just a tool,fool, all depends on what you use it for !!….http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qpUaYyBQrOI/TsP97U9-owI/AAAAAAAAQrU/bT9BT4Friss/s1600/Obama%2Band%2BGun%2BControl.bmp

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- Glennda
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 1:10am
  And who did Frenchy LaPierre blame? A 2-year-old video game. Here. I’l give you a taste of your own . . . “50 million kids played video games today and didn’t kill anyone.”
  
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taintso
Posted on December 23, 2012 at 2:40pm
If they don’t cuff and stuff him they shouldn’t be allowed to enforce that law on anybody. In a true Nation of law there should be no selective enforcement. And everyone convicted of this law should bring that up.

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DougHuffman
Posted on December 23, 2012 at 2:38pm
He, a lamestream media talking-anus, is an only-one responsible enough to do this, shoot himself in the foot, and not be charged. A la Lee Paige.

Good people ought to be armed as they will, with wits and Guns and the Truth. God Bless Bitter Clingers, damn know-nothings, progressives.

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- cosette
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 8:50pm
  Want more hypocrisy from these elitist pinkos’? David Gregory sends his children to the same exclusive school that ObaMao sends his children, the “Sidwell Friends” school in D.C. Research it online. They employ 11 full time armed guards. Message to serfs….. My children are of more value than yours and, as such, deserve more protection. Disgusting puke libs’.!
  
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semihardrock
Posted on December 23, 2012 at 2:38pm
Which just PROVES the NRA response, there are already thousands of gun laws on the books and NONE. are ever taken to court and prosecuted…

Just like this one WONT BE!

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nojoke
Posted on December 23, 2012 at 2:35pm
Throw in jail and inforce the law or don’t create another law that won’t be inforced.

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- chips1
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 3:40pm
  Any politician that introduces a new law, must forfeit 1 months salary. That should fix it!!!!!
  
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LoveBringsTruth
Posted on December 23, 2012 at 2:34pm
David Horowitz is the only person who has the right solution to the communist problem. History shows us the answer how to get rid of the evil.

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- Glennda
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 1:08am
  “History shows us the answer how to get rid of the evil.”
  
  Then why is is still here?
  
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- henryKnox
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 9:07pm
  Unfortunately, the Progressives don’t even realize that they are the problem. They don’t realize that if you trace the history of the loss of character, morals and empathy in our society that it all comes down to the steady degradation of our society by the Progressives, starting with Teddy Roosevelt and accellerating with Woodrow Wilson. The great society of the sixties destroyed the black family and further destroyed our sense of community.
  
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