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NRA President: No Way an Assault Weapons Ban Will Pass…Unless Obama Uses ‘All the Power of His Office’

Jan. 13, 2013 12:03pm Madeleine Morgenstern

NRA President: No Way an Assault Weapons Ban Will Pass Congress Unless Obama Uses All the Power of His Office

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National Rifle Association President David Keene said Sunday he doesn’t think there’s enough support to get a new assault weapons ban passed in Congress, unless President Barack Obama uses “all the power of his office” and changes the game.

Keene said on CNN’s “State of the Union” that there’s not enough legislative support for another ban “right now,” but that might not necessarily hold.

“When a president takes all the power of his office and he’s willing to expend political capital, you don’t want to make predictions — you don’t want to, you don’t want to bet your house on the outcome,” Keene said. “I would say that the likelihood is that they’re not going to be able to get an assault weapons ban through this Congress.”

Keene said he doesn’t think regulations on high-capacity ammunition clips are likely either, saying they would be difficult to regulate because they’re so widespread.

“Even David Gregory could find one,” he said, after the NBC host was investigated by Washington, D.C. police for holding a magazine up on television last month.

Vice President Joe Biden is set to deliver his recommendations to Obama on dealing with gun violence following the elementary school massacre in Newtown, Conn. Recommendations could include universal background checks and restrictions on the types of weapons and magazines people are allowed to own.

“The fact is that we live in a society where first of all, we have constitutional rights, and secondly, there are millions upon millions of Americans who value the rights that they have under the Second Amendment…and we think they’re going to be heard,” Keene said.

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Cottoneyed77
Posted on January 13, 2013 at 5:21pm
The 2nd Amendment has nothing to do with hunting. And has everything to do with the patriots right to protect himself from the tyranny of the government. The government has high capacity magazines, therefore the patriot needs them as well.

“It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from the government”. Thomas Paine

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YOURSENSEI
Posted on January 13, 2013 at 5:07pm
This is what you must know:

No way Obamacare will pass.

No way the debt ceiling will be raised.

No way gays will be able to openly serve in the military.

No way Obamacare will survive the Supreme Court.

No way Romney will lose.

No way marijuana will be legal.

No way gays will be able to marry.

No way Democrats will hold the Senate.

No way Obama will win the fiscal cliff debate.

Face it, conservatives are on a losing streak of Biblical proportions. And it’s delicious and won’t end anytime soon. Clearly Jesus is more interested in answering our prayers than yours.

It is so.

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B-Neil
Posted on January 13, 2013 at 5:04pm
The Government had Muskets we had Muskets. The Governments has assualt weapons we have assult weapons. Whats so dificult to understand the strength and necessity of preserving Freedom? If you don’t like the Rules of Freedom, get your S-s across the pond. You’ll love it there.

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davidkachel
Posted on January 13, 2013 at 4:59pm
I’ve lost count of how many times the NRA has failed us and compromised with the devil. It’s about time you a**holes started standing up, standing fast, and going on the offensive. Obama and his pals are traitors. Why the he!! don’t you SAY SO OUT LOUD!!!????

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searching for the Truth
Posted on January 13, 2013 at 4:56pm
I’m very, very proud of these great fellows taking up for our Second Amendment Right, but, damn I sure miss Charlton Heston !!!

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ALISSTER
Posted on January 13, 2013 at 4:54pm
Now that was the best one yet. She refers to high capacity magazines as “these multi clips”. At this point in the discussion, she should know that they are not clips that they are trying to ban. It’s so obvious that once an interview about firearms is finished, she’s thinking about her beef sandwich in the office fridge.

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Magyar
Posted on January 13, 2013 at 4:52pm
Just read lots of “BRING IT ON” comments— If it comes to that, I wonder just how many will REALLY take a stand or turn tail and run…

Just asking…..

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- markprice
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 8:52am
  You are so right
  
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sandrunner
Posted on January 13, 2013 at 4:46pm
that lady is a hypocrite.

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Onesimus
Posted on January 13, 2013 at 4:44pm
The founders did not think themselves to be granting a right under the second amendment. They were codifying the limits on the government with regards to a right they already acknowledged as existing under natural law.

“Among the natural rights of the Colonists are these: First, a right to life; Secondly, to liberty; Thirdly, to property; together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can. These are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature. … it is the greatest absurdity to suppose it in the power of one, or any number of men, at entering into society, to renounce their essential natural rights, or the means of preserving those rights; when the grand end of civil government, from the very nature of its institution, is for the support, protection, and defense of those very rights; the principal of which, as is before observed, are Life, Liberty, and Property. If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up any essential natural right, the eternal law of reason and the grand end of society would absolutely vacate such renunciation. The right to freedom being the gift of God Almighty, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave.”

– Samuel Adams, The Rights of the Colonists, The Report of the Committee of Correspondence to the Boston Town Meeting, Nov. 20, 1772

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- Onesimus
  Posted on January 13, 2013 at 4:47pm
  “The laws that forbid the carrying of arms…disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Can it be supposed that those who have the courage to violate the most sacred laws of humanity…will respect the less important and arbitrary ones… 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.”
  
  – Thomas Jefferson, quoted from Enlightenment philosopher Cesare Beccaria’s On Crimes and Punishment, 1764; translated by Jefferson and copied into his Commonplace Book of great quotations.
  
  “No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms …”
  
  – Thomas Jefferson, Draft Constitution for Virginia; June 13, 1776
  
  “…in this country, every man is a militia-man…”.
  
  – Thomas Paine, The American Crisis series, # 9, dated June 9, 1780
  
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- Onesimus
  Posted on January 13, 2013 at 4:52pm
  There are multitudes of other quotes that are topically relivent, I commend to your attention the Federalist Papers and the counterpoints.
  
  To the question of the Second itself….
  
  “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.”
  
  The preamble establishes the reason for the need. The body, “the right of the people to keep and bear arms”, establishes to whom it applies and the action and object of the subject. The postcript makes a declaritive injunction.
  
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AlaskaBob
Posted on January 13, 2013 at 4:43pm
I fully expected photos of the crime scene at Sandy Hook to be “mistakenly” released (leaked) just prior to any major vote on the “crime” bill. George Will, years ago, noted that with such a soft society today, the Civil War would have resulted in a Confederate victory. All of the strengths people had in the past to withstand major hardships and sacrifices are all but gone in our present society that has the goal of superficial collective tranquility. The Left will see a ban as successful and turn a blind eye to the resultant skyrocketing crime played out in media ignored bits and pieces. If gun control is about crime, then why is England buying 30,000 Canadian M-4 rifles for their civilian police? At least we won’t have to attempt to swim the English Channel to escape Orwellian “great” Britain.

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TrueColours
Posted on January 13, 2013 at 4:34pm
“All the power of his office”?? Barry does not have the power to ban, regulate, confiscate or jack squat. We have a Constitutional right that shall not be infringed, period. Congress better weigh in here loudly and unambiguously that under the seperation of powers and the Constitution, this President is overstepping his legal boundries.

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Patriot Z
Posted on January 13, 2013 at 4:19pm
is this guy retarded? obama WILL use every bit of his power to pass this. once he does he wont have anything to stop himfrom ‘regulating’ the first. its happened many times, and it has happened here..remember slavery was the GOVERNMENT stating people could own others, jim crow was the GOVERNMENT stating certain people are better than others, it was the GOVERNMENT that interned the japaneese in WWII and forced people to turn in their gold…we can do what we need or we can be polite and non violent and become another example of the govt contolling the people

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Metallicat
Posted on January 13, 2013 at 4:02pm
This gun control debate has me angered. I was injured in an accident,and many less than reputable people falsely believe I’m sitting on a mountain of cash. The type of people who would wear ski masks and come to my house in the middle of the night to take it by force. I have the need for a semi automatic rifle and high capacity mags. My government wishes to leave me defenseless to thugs who would come to take what is mine,whatever they believe that to be. That doesnt include the thugs who would invade my home because they thought their might be prescription drugs in my home. Alot of home invasions and murders have happened to elderly folks in my area because some thugs followed them home from the pharmacy. My Father is one of these elderly people who make frequent trips to the pharmacy, and by God,I will have the means to defend his life and mine should the need arise. No one will take my right to self defense away,without taking my life first.

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- environmentalandawake
  Posted on January 13, 2013 at 4:11pm
  M-Cat you are absolutely correct….We are raising a nation of Victims, and it starts in our school where they are taught no to resist, and if they do they recieve the same punishment as the bully….The only plane that did no collateral damage on 9/11 was the one which occupants made a decision not to be VICTIMS
  
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individualrights1st
Posted on January 13, 2013 at 4:02pm
When Pennsylvania adopted the first right-to-bear-arms guarantee in the newly independent states in 1776, it did not do so in a vacuum. That it was an established right under common law or natural law seems to be suggested by Commonwealth v. Ray,22 which declared void a Philadelphia ordinance prohibiting the unlicensed carrying of a firearm on public property. The Pennsylvania Superior Court invalidated the city ordinance on the following grounds:

The right of citizens of Pennsylvania to bear arms in defense of themselves; their property and the State predates any Constitution of the Commonwealth, and has been embodied in every Constitution we have had and is in Article I, § 1, and Article I, § 21 of the present Constitution of Pennsylvania

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Chrisrob63
Posted on January 13, 2013 at 4:01pm
Aunty Gun and her nephews(in the media and govt.) tell us, “We don’t want your guns.”

What they are telegraphing is that they have all they need. They just don’t want us to have them and want us to turn them in voluntarily.

Having to go door to door, arresting and killing those who don’t comply is such a hassle and really puts a monkey wrench in their utopia machine. Resistance bogs things down, and can even stop it.

Sadly, many Americans will lay down and crawl to avoid trouble, but many will not.

Society can be broken down into three catagories: wolves, sheep, and sheepdogs.

Predators, prey, and protectors. I will not be the first two, but I will gladly be the last.

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environmentalandawake
Posted on January 13, 2013 at 3:59pm
Ms.Cupp exposed this fact; 5 incidents of murder with assult weapons last year….Congress and the President passed a No Protest Bill where they may be talking in future or at that time…President signed an Internet Control Pres. Order citing that, “It gives PEOPLE (meaning us) the ability to Assemble at a moments notice.” Now he is trying to pass “Sweeping Gun Legislation,” while having the safe haven of the S.S. in the name of KEEPING US SAFE!!!! Time to wake up and organize a new party

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- environmentalandawake
  Posted on January 13, 2013 at 4:05pm
  MY BAD—–So Called Assult Weapons
  
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TexBork
Posted on January 13, 2013 at 3:53pm
Well, I finally joined the NRA today! I chose the 5 year membership. It’s time to help those whom help save our Second Amendment. Our right to own guns is the second most important right in our Bill of Rights and it’s that right to own guns that ensures that Freedom of Speech rights remain in the top spot of our Bill of Rights, because it’s #1 with a bullet!

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TRK
Posted on January 13, 2013 at 3:51pm
I always browse through the gun dept. at Scheels when we are at the mall and yesterday I saw more people looking at guns and buying them then all the other times I have been there combined. The ammo shelves were almost bare and the salesmen were talking about waiting lists for firearms. The result of the politicians efforts to regulate/ban firearms is that there are more people carrying and more “assault” rifles being sold than ever before, which I find hilarious. Obama will probably soon take credit for the stimulas to the economy all the gun and ammo sales have added.

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jessieH
Posted on January 13, 2013 at 3:50pm
The real fun will be watching them try to take them. They can’t even take them from the gangs.

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- ledbythnose
  Posted on January 13, 2013 at 5:26pm
  I’m in your Camp. Heck this bunch can’t stop the Gangs with guns in the City where their Mafia Headquarters is. They can’t stop them in Afghanistan with the big bad Military. They are so stupid they got caught by Congress sending weapons to Mexico that killed a Federal Agent. This Obama fellow sent 200 billion dollars to the Palestinians to buy rockets with to shoot at Israel . Then turned around and armed the Rebels in Libya who killed our Ambassador. Yep this is going to be fun. This whole thing is starting to look like Blazing Saddles to me. I just hope they have a schit load of dimes on hand when they get to Ruby Ridge.LOL
  
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TSUNAMI_22
Posted on January 13, 2013 at 3:47pm
Is it just me, or does David Keene remind anyone of an older version of Ralphie from ‘A Christmas Story’?

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MPFree9999
Posted on January 13, 2013 at 3:44pm
Guitar Master has it right. Constitutional law trumps all city and state law. A registration is illegal as it is an “infringement” as stated in the 2nd amendment. When Fidel won the Cuban conflict with the help of ordinary citizens; his first act was to require all gun owners to register. 8 monthe later a truck full of soldiers starting to arrive at every “registered gun owner’s house. Confiscation of those guns assured that Cuba would never be free without bloodshed. A lesson in history should repeat itself again here- over my dead body! Our sociallist/communist leadership will gradually take your rights.
You are the FROG in the cool calm waters of a pot slowing starting to cook. Tastes just like Chicken!

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individualrights1st
Posted on January 13, 2013 at 3:33pm
Can we all agree that we have a natural right to defend ourselves, our family, and our property against anything that may threaten us? Arms are only a tool to do that and each of us need to be free to choose the best tool available for the Job.

A person who lives in a relatively crime free neighbor may decide he needs minimal protection.
A person living in the wilderness might only need something capable of stopping a bear.
A woman who feels vulnerable to rape or battery may just want a derringer.
A CEO who’s family and life are threaten by the OWS may elect something different.
Someone who lives in LA would need something to protect their property from damage and looting by the rioting OWS.
And of course we have prominent black leaders calling for a racial war.
Some living on the Mexican border would likely feel a need for some high powered arms with the Cartel running wild.
And finally people living under the threat of a powerful tyrannical government would feel the need to be armed with anything they can get their hands on.

So if you could eliminate all guns from society, then when a couple of crazed home invaders with knives crash my house, all I’d be left with to defend me and my family is a knife? I don’t think so.

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toomuchgovt
Posted on January 13, 2013 at 3:33pm
First this guys “political capital” should be empty, second we’ve already had a ban, third the rino’s are already jumping. Yes they will vote to not only ban them, they will “amend” the constitution. This government is out of control.

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Sloth
Posted on January 13, 2013 at 3:31pm
I had no idea Peter Billingsley was president of NRA. Has not changed a bit since A Christmas Story.

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Lee_in_PA
Posted on January 13, 2013 at 3:21pm
Tha last thing I read stated that 5% of the Colonials were Tories, 5% were Rebels, and the remaining 90% didn’t care.

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