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Al Sharpton: Next Up, Knife Control

Rev. Al Sharpton told a radio caller that it could be time for knife legislation in addition to gun laws.

“In any civilized society you do not see massacres continue to happen, from Tucson to Aurora to Columbine to Virginia Tech to where we are now in Newtown to Chicago and you keep the same laws when clearly they’re not working,” the MSNBC host said on his radio show Friday.

“What happens when the criminal goes to knives, Al?” the caller asked.

“Then you deal with knives,” Sharpton replied. “The same thing as if you have a head cold and the same thing you do if you have a head cold and the cold is gone and you have a headache. Then you take headache medicine. The job of society is to deal with whatever problem confronts it.”

(h/t Weasel Zippers)

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Comments (323)

  • twistin
    Posted on December 31, 2012 at 11:39pm

    Al Sharpton is a rare combination: He IS as stupid as he Looks!

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    • spirited
      Posted on December 31, 2012 at 11:48pm

      More from
      Mr. if man ain’t right he must be wrong
      Mr. man lives till he dies

      >Oh, what wisdumb

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    • DadRocked
      Posted on December 31, 2012 at 11:55pm

      Happy New Year to ALL of the BLAZERS

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      And never brought to mind?
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      For auld lang syne. ♪♪

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      And surely I’ll be mine!
      And we’ll tak a cup of kindness yet,
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      We’ll tak a cup of kindness yet,
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      And pu’d the gowans fine;
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      Frae morning sun till dine;
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      For auld lang syne,
      We’ll tak a cup of kindness yet,
      For auld lang syne. ♪♪

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      And gie’s a hand of thine!
      And we’ll tak a right guid-willie waught♪♪

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      For auld lang syne,
      We’ll tak a cup of kindness yet,
      For auld lang syne. ♪♪

      KEEP THE POWDER DRY IN 2013…
      My Dad Sure Did Rock… Miss ya Pops

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    • SCREW-WINDOWS
      Posted on January 1, 2013 at 1:43am

      Al never was the Sharpest knife in the drawer.

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    • rangerskippy
      Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:43am

      he may be stupid, but I guess he knows that in America, more people are killed with knives than with rifles.

      Do you think Al knows that in America, blacks make up 12.5% of the population, but are doing half of the nation’s murders. If we lowered black murder rates to the same as whites, we would lower the nation’s murder rate by almost 40% and save a whole lot of black lives.

      The libs are about their agenda. Saving black lives is not important to them. Check the location of where libs place abortion clinics, and see how many innocent black babies are dying daily to the lib murder machine.

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    • 1776freedomofspeech
      Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:47am

      Dumb and Dumber, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpon.

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    • 1776freedomofspeech
      Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:51am

      Jesse Shoutin and Al Harp-on……

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    • wayner4162
      Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:10am

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KejIHMyYhI

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPtPN-pSuco

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    • Conkuur
      Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:53am

      Next there will be a ban on pointy sticks! lol PENCILS! forget it!

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    • G-WHIZ
      Posted on January 1, 2013 at 10:11am

      Aah, Yes…a 1%er … worth millions on his small congressional sallary!! He’s got many guns of many types and so do his bodyguards…which are payed for by YOUR TAXDSOLLARS–100%!!

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    • 1389AD
      Posted on January 1, 2013 at 10:22am

      Al Sharpton wants to treat law-abiding citizens as though we’re inmates in mental hospitals or jails who aren’t allowed to have metal tools or utensils. Shame on him.

      Larry Correia refutes the gun controllers once and for all!

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    • turkey13
      Posted on January 1, 2013 at 10:30am

      I just want to know if this means the Rev. al Sharpton is going to fire his 2 body guards. The Rev. should also ban car & trucks since they are the # 1 cause of death. GM, Ford, Chrysler can make just electric buses and like China we can all ride a bike. The old can ride a bus or have special electric mini buses for the elderly.Here in S. Oklahoma we have Call-A-Ride and foe $.25 you can ride to Post Office or Wal-mart. Our local Taxi’s all went out of business. Can you imagine how money can be saved by not buying fuel? Death by Guns & knives is almost zilch compared to death by car wrecks.

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    • HumbleMan
      Posted on January 1, 2013 at 10:42am

      @Dad … thanks for the poem (not kidding) …

      When I was a freshman in college, there was a psychology quiz for “masculinity” and “femininity” … and among more than 100 students in a lecture hall, my room-mate (he) scored highest for feminine. I remember the critical question was “are you afraid of knives?”.

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    • Proverbs17-12NLT
      Posted on January 1, 2013 at 10:54am

      Hey Al, How am I suppose to eat Steak then?

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    • black9897
      Posted on January 1, 2013 at 11:07am

      We must be 100% safe 100% of the time. So we need to all stay home. Studies show going outside the home increases your chances of injury and harm. Stay in the bed covered with bubble wrap and pillows all around you.

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    • Comcast3
      Posted on January 1, 2013 at 11:14am

      @TWISTIN….Well, said!

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    • KeystoneState
      Posted on January 1, 2013 at 11:36am

      Alcohol abuse, that’s my conclusion, these guys have to be drunk-driving this country, there’s no other rational explanation.

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    • Trigus
      Posted on January 1, 2013 at 11:57am

      @ranger – yes 1688 people murdered last year (FBI) with a knife, 768 murdered with hands or feet (Al may want to ban these instruments of destruction), 353 people murdered with a rifle.

      Does Al know that 38k people where killed last year by automobiles? Does Al know 146 people where hit by subway trains in NY City last year and 46 people died? Does Al know 3k people where killed on 9/11 by airplanes and box cutters?

      Does Al know: “William Charles “Bill” Ayers, in 1969 he co-founded the Weather Underground, a self-described communist revolutionary group that conducted a campaign of bombing public buildings. Ayers participated in the bombings of New York City Police Department headquarters in 1970, the United States Capitol building in 1971, and the Pentagon in 1972, as he noted in his 2001 book, Fugitive Days.” Al I think we should ban all communist revolutionary groups.

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    • Cemoto78
      Posted on January 1, 2013 at 12:49pm

      What is really needed is Al Sharpton control. Please make a law this guy cannot be in front of a camera or have a microphone again ever. Maybe all of us American patriots should take out a restraining order against Sharpton and MSNBC.

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    • ken420
      Posted on January 1, 2013 at 1:09pm

      Yeah, Big Al – just outlaw knives. Check out how well that’s worked in the UK and get back to us. Just one of the many blithering idiots determined to undermine every one of our rights. GFY.

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    • Independent4233
      Posted on January 1, 2013 at 1:15pm

      rangerskippy
      Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:43am
      “he may be stupid, but I guess he knows that in America, more people are killed with knives than with rifles.”

      I haven’t checked that stat, but I’m pretty sure that more blacks are killed with guns by other blacks than anything else.

      In a column by Pat Buchanan wherein he cites FBI stats:
      “Blacks commit more violent crime against whites than against other blacks.” Forty-five percent of the victims of violent crime by blacks are white folks, 43 percent are black, 10 percent are Hispanic.

      http://townhall.com/columnists/patbuchanan/2007/08/21/the_color_of_crime/page/full/

      “Overall, the new Justice findings jibe with previous studies,” said the Post. “For example, a review of FBI data from 2004 by the Violence Policy Center, a liberal-leaning group that campaigns for stricter gun control laws, found that blacks accounted for about half of the nation’s murder victims that year.”

      Homicide Type by Race, 1976-2005
      Victims Offenders
      White Black Other White Black Other
      All homicides 50.9% 46.9% 2.1% 45.8% 52.2% 2.0%

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    • seeker9
      Posted on January 1, 2013 at 1:17pm

      Al quote: “Resist we much!”

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    • old white guy
      Posted on January 1, 2013 at 1:54pm

      brother al is as dumb as a bag of rocks. maybe al is becoming concerned that his corruption is going to bring retribution

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    • waspanglosaxon
      Posted on January 1, 2013 at 2:19pm

      @Dadrocked – Thank you. I always did want to know the full lyrics to that traditional New Year’s song.

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    • toto
      Posted on January 1, 2013 at 6:24pm

      Well, you stole my thunder! ‘Tis true.

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    • Mojoron
      Posted on January 1, 2013 at 7:15pm

      How about outlawing itinerant preachers.

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    • sillyfreshness
      Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:35pm

      The commies are coming for your guns.

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    • LibertyOrDeath12
      Posted on January 1, 2013 at 11:05pm

      Knives? Really? I can create anything into a knife.

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    • @leftfighter
      Posted on January 2, 2013 at 9:40am

      Sharpton’s not stupid. He’s just blindly following ideaology.

      I’ve been saying (on Twitter) since Sandy Hook that the idea of this-or-that rifle as an “assault weapon” is laughable, being that any weapon used in an assault is an assault weapon.

      Sharpton’s following the same logical path. The difference is, I’m using it as a tool to show how rediculous the phrase is and seems to want to ride the wave to ban everything up to and including toe nail clippings.

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    • 1592
      Posted on January 2, 2013 at 10:19am

      I think We need to “Control Hypocrites” and the rest will fix everything else.

      Maybe water control. More Kids are killed in a POOL than by a gun.

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    • Livia
      Posted on January 2, 2013 at 1:25pm

      Al Sharpton’south is what needs to be controlled. He is one fo the driving forces behind crime today.

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    • ccfonten
      Posted on January 2, 2013 at 1:57pm

      He is not only stupid, he is an idiot.
      And next he will be the first one to recommend we ban sporks!

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    • pc1
      Posted on January 2, 2013 at 3:01pm

      Amen to that.

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    • Dismayed Veteran
      Posted on January 2, 2013 at 3:16pm

      There are going to be a lot of ticked of Latinos.

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  • spirited
    Posted on December 31, 2012 at 11:33pm

    His ideology must be applied to anti-Americanism.

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    • eagledown
      Posted on December 31, 2012 at 11:47pm

      I’m the 33rd post. Let’s make that the last; please.
      This race baiting piece of garbage doesn’t deserve any more keystrokes or hard-drive space.

      “…build a movement of resistance. But resist we much, we must, and we will much about that be committed.”

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    • spirited
      Posted on December 31, 2012 at 11:57pm

      >STOP it !

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    • Proverbs17-12NLT
      Posted on January 1, 2013 at 10:57am

      Man it pays good to be one stupid dumb down democrat, manipulating a race. Blacks slaving Blacks who would of thunk it?

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    • horseman43
      Posted on January 1, 2013 at 2:04pm

      eagledown
      Posted on December 31, 2012 at 11:47pm
      “I’m the 33rd post. Let’s make that the last; please.
      This race baiting piece of garbage doesn’t deserve any more keystrokes or hard-drive space.”

      On the contrary…with all due respect…it is vitally important to read and learn what those who are a danger to our society are saying, because ignoring the words….then ignoring the violence and threats of violence…..would place us in a position of defenseless sheep waiting for the slaughter.

      Too, ignoring the hate from those like Sharpton, the Black Panthers, Cornell West, Farrakhan, et al, won’t make it go away. It will, in fact, encourage more of it, which is EXACTLY what has caused the situation to accelerate as it has….at least in part. Hussein’s election upped the dangers many times over. I’m wondering to what degree his re-election is going to embolden Al, Farrakhan and others to increase their actions and rhetoric to greater levels of outrageousness.

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  • DeVain
    Posted on December 31, 2012 at 11:32pm

    How about “**** control”?

    seriously….Al…..have you ever seen a freaking mirror?

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  • DeVain
    Posted on December 31, 2012 at 11:31pm

    what about “**** control”.

    seriosly…Al….have y

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  • angeleyes63
    Posted on December 31, 2012 at 11:31pm

    What America needs is moron and con artist control but alas it is the moron con artists who run the show.

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  • Hotconchick
    Posted on December 31, 2012 at 11:30pm

    Al is the problem with this society. He needs to get a grip.

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  • BlackCrow
    Posted on December 31, 2012 at 11:29pm

    Any country kid with a barbque grill and a couple hammers can make a knife. Can’t do it.

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    • stumpy68
      Posted on January 1, 2013 at 11:15am

      Anything flat that can take an edge can be turned into a knife
      so is he going to ban sheet metal, plastic, stones (ones that can be flaked and ones that can be used to sharpen other materials), not to mention ceramics and the many other things im not thinking of right now
      if you want to know how many things can be weaponized ask prison officials http://thespecialistsltd.com/files/Prison_Shanks.jpg

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  • dirtydog1776
    Posted on December 31, 2012 at 11:27pm

    Can we outlaw Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, Jr.? They both make me want to go berserk, smash things and do harm to myself and others. LOL!

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  • HollyRye
    Posted on December 31, 2012 at 11:26pm

    For once Al Sharpton is speaking the truth: just as with the common cold, they are treating the symptoms, not the cause.

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  • stopprintn
    Posted on December 31, 2012 at 11:26pm

    There has to be only one thing dummer than MSNBC, and that would be the fools who watch it.

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  • rl
    Posted on December 31, 2012 at 11:21pm

    Then baseball bats, tire irons,chains, glass bottles , forks, rocks, fists, boots, pipes, any pointed object, bricks, ropes, wire,cars trucks, booze, drugs and the list gooooooooos on. OH HOW PC WE ARE…………

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    • Maji
      Posted on December 31, 2012 at 11:23pm

      Al Sharpton!!
      aka “Wondering Wi-i-ne-oo-o-o-o-o-o”!!!

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on December 31, 2012 at 11:48pm

      The British are talking knife control. They do not want anything over 3″ long. I watched my spouse cook. they often use a knife over 3 inches long

      I looked an article about proposal for British knife control. I found one date 2005. The like a bad dream it showed up n the British papers again this month. F/cking bad dream & we are stuck in it.

      The only strategies the left offers is harm mitigation. They never get at the root, self control & personal responsibility.

      The left can succeed, but only in the short term. their ways defy reality.

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    • dnewton
      Posted on January 1, 2013 at 2:45am

      My state has a knife limit of 3.5 inches long and it is also illegal to carry a club for the purpose of going armed.

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  • Frogginit
    Posted on December 31, 2012 at 11:18pm

    I guess when it gets down to choking people to death, we’ll all lose our hands.

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    • spirited
      Posted on December 31, 2012 at 11:36pm

      Isn’t that how things are handled in some counties –to date?

      >Everthing old is new –ahh, sustainable progress.

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  • jd9215
    Posted on December 31, 2012 at 11:17pm

    Why give an idiot like Sharpton a microphone?

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  • TADTAD
    Posted on December 31, 2012 at 11:15pm

    We need dried up, tired old, washed out, haggered looking, ignorant, MSM, racist black man control.

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  • banjarmon
    Posted on December 31, 2012 at 11:15pm

    HEY Al…How about teaching your race p e N i s control…then my taxes wouldn’t go up!!!

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    • Polarized America
      Posted on December 31, 2012 at 11:19pm

      .
      ……………..LMFAO……Thumbs up for BANJARMON …..LOL

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    • CatB
      Posted on December 31, 2012 at 11:30pm

      Amen!

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    • civilwarcometh
      Posted on December 31, 2012 at 11:51pm

      Yours should be the only post on hear lol….

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    • barber2
      Posted on January 1, 2013 at 12:40am

      BAN: Agree. But it ain’t the making ; It’s the raising ( lack of moral training ) that is the problem. Easier to create them then it is to raise them….properly. Generation after generation of clueless, aimless, anchor less , lost souls…

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  • marine249
    Posted on December 31, 2012 at 11:13pm

    Al Sharpo has gone off the mental cliff.

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  • lel2007
    Posted on December 31, 2012 at 11:09pm

    We much need knife control. And remember to never run while carrying scissors ….. much.

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  • whatthecrazy
    Posted on December 31, 2012 at 11:08pm

    Oh i freaken give up,when is this ugly ignorant racist going to shut up.By the time they come for the knives most of us may be dead from them trying to take our guns so i guess it will be the Constitutional traitors who will be dealing with that problem.Pardon i have had a few totties.

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    • Eternal
      Posted on January 1, 2013 at 10:23am

      I overheard this in a bar. Think these guys had to be former military or related because they used the word WE: “If we are stupid enough to send cops/troops to go door to door to remove weapons there will be tens of thousands of dead cops n troops. Anyone in uniform will become a target and the citizens will win by using the guerilla war-type models citizens in Afghanistan, Vietnam use(d) to beat US troops. Random acts of civilian armed uprising and random bombings coupled with the fear it creates shuts down the economy, too, because consumers decrease spending, unemployment rises to unimaginable levels ( Greece) . Think, just one car set on fire on California’s 405 or on any highway would stop traffic n people don’t get to work. Think of multiple car fires on highways in the big cities. Department store explosions and who wants to shop? Think of mayhem at basketball games using this scenario….who ever goes out to spend? A bullet thru any terminal window at Lax and the airport shuts. Any airport.” These guys went on but then it got too creepyand i left. Their focus was on shutting down the economy not hurting civilians. Pyrrhic victory is the final result.

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  • right-wing-waco
    Posted on December 31, 2012 at 11:08pm

    It’s Buses fault. What was the question??

    Ok, Al, how about registering all those rocks and hammers too?

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  • TSUNAMI_22
    Posted on December 31, 2012 at 11:06pm

    “What happens when the criminal goes to knives, Al?” the caller asked.

    “Then you deal with knives,” Sharpton replied. “The same thing as if you have a head cold and the same thing you do if you have a head cold and the cold is gone and you have a headache. Then you take headache medicine. The job of society is to deal with whatever problem confronts it.”
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    Good advice on dealing with worthless poverty-pimps and politicians. They are definitely a problem that needs to be dealt with………..even by their own admission.

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  • barber2
    Posted on December 31, 2012 at 11:06pm

    “The job of society is to deal with whatever problem confronts it.” How about a balanced budget ? DUH.

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  • nesmond
    Posted on December 31, 2012 at 11:06pm

    What an f’n tool.

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  • J-M-S
    Posted on December 31, 2012 at 11:05pm

    Baseball bats, cars, and Doctors kill more than guns. Are we going to deal with them as well?

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  • BHOHG2G
    Posted on December 31, 2012 at 11:04pm

    Hold on a minute…… I’m not done laughing yet………

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    • BHOHG2G
      Posted on December 31, 2012 at 11:10pm

      Nail Clipper Control…. ?

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    • 3monkeysmomma
      Posted on January 1, 2013 at 12:37am

      The TSA once confiscated my tiny plastic travel-sized corkscrew.

      In the history of the world, how many people have been corkscrewed to death? If we can find even one, we better outlaw those too!

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    • 702TruthSeeker
      Posted on January 2, 2013 at 10:41am

      not for the “ruling class” like al and his progressive buddies, they’re the only ones who should be able to protect themselves

      hey, I got an idea! ban blunt objects, anything toxic, flamable, explosive, sharp, ropes, hands, feet, baseball bats, cars, electricity, heck, why not just ban people?! or better yet promote a culture which encourages population decrease so that our society is more sustainable? again, does not apply to al or ruling class, they should reproduce as much as possible

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  • BasketFullOfPuppies
    Posted on December 31, 2012 at 11:03pm

    So, people won’t be able to cut their steak, and anyone with a file or a grinder can make his own knife. What kind of mentality (or lack thereof) thinks this stupid stuff up?

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