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Obama Takes Shot at Gun Groups While Outlining New Firearms Laws He Supports: ‘Ginning Up Fear’

Jan. 14, 2013 1:33pm Erica Ritz

(TheBlaze/AP) — Signaling an all-of-the-above approach to reducing gun violence, President Barack Obama said Monday that he is reviewing a range of proposals from Vice President Joe Biden, including executive actions that would bypass Congress, and will present his plan within days.

Obama said that stronger background checks, a meaningful ban on assault weapons and limits on high-capacity ammunition magazines are all ideas he thinks make sense. He said he’s not sure how many of those measures can pass Congress, but that he expects the legislative body to set aside politics and focus on what he considers to be common sense solutions.

Responding to a reporter who asked what action he is willing to take through executive order, the president declined to give specifics but said he was “confident that there are some steps that we can take that don’t require legislation.”

Here is video of the president’s explanation, where he said he will “go ahead an take” what executive action he can if he believes it will reduce gun violence:

Soon after, President Obama weighed in on the record gun sales in recent months:

“As far as people lining up and purchasing more guns, I think that we’ve seen for some time now that those who oppose any common sense gun control or gun safety measures have a pretty effective way of ginning up fear on the part of gun owners that somehow, the federal government’s about to take all your guns away. And, you know there’s probably an economic element to that, it obviously is good for business, but I think that those of us who look at this problem have repeatedly said that responsible gun owners, people who have a gun for protection, for hunting, for sportsmanship– they don’t have anything to worry about.

“The issue here is not whether or not we believe in the Second Amendment. The issue is are there some sensible steps we can take to make sure that somebody like the individual in Newtown can’t walk into a school and gun down a bunch of children in a shockingly rapid fashion…but part of the challenge that we confront is that even the slightest hint of some sensible, responsible legislation in this area fans this notion that somehow, ‘here it comes,’ and that everybody’s guns are going to be taken away. It’s unfortunate, but that’s the case.” [Emphasis added]

The president asked Joe Biden to lead a task force on ways to reduce violence after the December massacre in Newtown, Conn., that killed 27 people – mostly children.

Over the past month, Biden has met with members of Congress, Cabinet members and advocacy groups on both sides of the issue to gauge support for measures such as reinstating the expired assault weapons ban. The NRA, one of the pro-gun groups that met with Biden, has made clear it will vehemently oppose such a ban and other measures that restrict gun access.

Talking Points Memo has video of the president’s jab at those who oppose “common sense” gun control:

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Babysmooth44
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 2:00pm
Once again the good, hardworking, and lawful citizens get punished and their rights taken away. The task force that he should be delvelpoing needs focus on going through the major cities and arrest the thugs who do not legally own a firearm. Oh wait you can’t because it violates thugs civil rights. The lawful citizen doesn’t commit the crime but will be punished. They should re-focus their efforts back on banning soda.

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- Gold Coin & Economic News
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 2:05pm
  Obama is turning into a dictator, no two ways about it. This gun grab craps is nonsense and I hope if he oversteps his authority and undermines the Constitution that Congress is there to impeach or stop his dictatorial moves:
  http://www.isthatbaloney.com/wild-bill-for-america-obama-establishing-a-dictatorship/
  
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- lawrench
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 2:06pm
  I do not understand where it states that “Shall not be infringed” that allows him to issue Executive Orders that violates the Constitution of the United States of America.
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 2:11pm
  My rights won’t be taken away, especially since I won’t be complying with any, note that…ANY…new law or regulation that tries to restrict my rights. Further, I will continue to openly exercise my rights as I see fit, I will trade with whomever I want on MY terms, and I will not hide my advocacy of firearms rights at all (I open carry). I will not comply, I will not submit, I will not hide. I urge others to do this as well. Let’s rub their nose in their own impotence when they find out that they cannot enforce any laws or bans against 110 million individuals.
  
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- 00100111
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 2:18pm
  Give them NOTHING! But take from them, EVERYTHING!
  
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- pavepaws
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 2:19pm
  What an azzzz.
  
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- Cavallo
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 2:48pm
  What is the best online site to purchase ammunition?
  
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- JQuentinEvermann
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 2:53pm
  Notice how he supports guns for those who hunt, or have one for self protection, but completely dismisses the reason we have them in the first place: to keep men like him from doing things like this.
  
  Wake up Mr. Obama, YOU ARE ABOUT TO START A REVOLUTION.
  
  To all the FBI and Secret Service bubbas reading our posts, this isn’t a threat, just an observation learned from history. This man is the greatest enemy America has ever faced. And soon enough, those tasked with protecting him may very well take the same actions as the Praetorian Guard.
  
  How do people currently in the service of this serpent-in-the-egg justify their livelihood? How do they sleep at night knowing they chauffeur around a man who is destroying this country? Shame on you, spooks.
  
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- Independent4233
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 2:57pm
  Plain and simply, children getting killed has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with this black geek’s desire to ban assault weapons. An assault weapon wasn’t even used in the massacre. It was in the trunk of the nut job’s car.
  
  NONE of the proposed legislation would prevent the same thing which involves someone deranged going into a classroom with multiple handguns, emptying one, then pulling out another, then another. It doesn’t matter too much the size of the magazine, especially since mags can be changed in the blink of an eye.
  
  No, this is gun control. And it’s for the purpose of disarming white middleclass citizens.
  
  77% of all gun deaths involve street gangs, with nearly all of them in urban areas, especially, Chicago, New Orleans, etc. But nothing these liars proposed will stop these people from killing each other….not even gun confiscation.
  
  This is part of their overall agenda of restricting or eliminating the ability to own firearms with which the people can use against a tyranical regime that assumes dictatorial powers, like raising the debt ceiling and gun control without going through Congress.
  
  My friends, we have a little, skinny black dictator on our hands.
  
  God help anybody I come in contact with who claims to have voted for this tyrant.
  
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- rangerskippy
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 3:03pm
  It is amazing how the MSM and libs always want to vilify guns, but never vilify the villain.
  
  The MSM will never talk murder statistics. They like to show scary pics of rifles with those crazy flash suppressors, plastic fore grips, and those big clippy things that they never seem to know from a magazine (magazines have a spring, a clip just holds ammo to put into a magazine).
  
  Notice that that Joey Biden is holding a counsel for gun violence, not for lowering murder rates.
  
  Democrats hate to talk murder rates, because they do not want it being discussed that cities like Chicago have the most murders, but also have the most gun control.
  
  Dems really hate when you mention the fact that black Americans are 12.5% of the population, and that they do 1/2 the nation’s murders. If we lower black murder rates to the same as whites, we will lower the national murder per capita rate by almost 40%, and save a whole lot of black lives.
  
  Hey savethemeteors, Glennda ENCINOM, and other lib trolls. Are you interested in saving black lives?
  
  Libs also do not want it mentioned that more folks in America were killed with knives, clubs than were killed with all types of rifles.
  
  Libs do not want you knowing that for ten years, murder rates are dropping.
  
  They want to hide that the US own 88 guns per 100 people, and there are 27 countries with higher murder rates. Honduras owns 6.6 guns per 100 people and lead the nation in murder rates.
  
  Socialists always want a disar
  
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- WarMunger_Al
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 3:04pm
  Apparently Obama hasn’t learned the lessons from history:
  
  Concord and Lexington…..
  
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- lawrench
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 3:05pm
  for anyone here interested in an opinion based on a good site to purchase ammunition, go to:
  
  http://www.sportsmansguide.com/net/sitemap/ammo-and-shooting.aspx?d=121
  
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- turkey13
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 3:13pm
  Does this mean he is going to shut down Hollywood Look at NCsI, CSI, Hawaii Five O and the old westerns? With a executive order he can make the writers write out the violence with guns. This should include all video shows & Games.I watched a kid at the Pizza arcade blow up the world with one bad Arse gun and the kid couldn’t have been over 10 Yrs old. With a computer TMC can make Matt Dillion point his finger at a bad guy & say “BANG.”
  
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- rangerskippy
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 3:14pm
  Comment from Obama – “people who have a gun for protection, for hunting, for sportsmanship– they don’t have anything to worry about.”
  
  NO MR OBAMA, WE HAVE LOTS TO WORRY ABOUT!!!
  
  For starters, the Founding Fathers did not recognize our right to keep and bear arms for hunting, and protection from burglars.
  
  THEY KNEW WE NEEDED GUNS AS PROTECTION FROM YOU AND YOUR FELLOW LIBS!!
  
  It is to prevent a tyrannical government from taking over.
  
  We know you were mentored at the feet of a card carrying communist named Frank Davis Marshall.
  
  We know you declared your run for the senate seat in the house of a known terrorst (Bill Ayers), who blew up bombs in our subways, trying to spur a communist revolution that would murder millions of American capitalists.
  
  We are not so much in fear of the Trayvon Martins of the world as we are afraid of you, Sen Feinstein, and the rest of the progressive libs.
  
  Is it just a coincidence that the same politicians aligning their economic policies with socialism, are the same ones clamoring about taking our guns?
  
  “No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.”
  –Thomas Jefferson
  
  “The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.”
  – Thomas Jefferson
  
  I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people, except for a few public officials.”
  — George Mason
  
  Mr Obama, it is your job to protect the cons
  
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- lillymckim
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 3:20pm
  WHERE in the HELL is the Republican Party on this and why in the hell don’t they speak up?
  
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- rangerskippy
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 3:26pm
  lillymckim
  
  you make the mistake of believing Republicans are conservative, and are looking to speak for conservatives.
  
  Those days are gone. Republicans today, do what Obama says, when he says, and how he says.
  
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- Maji
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 3:31pm
  While we’re banning things lets ban:
  Gov. financed transportation for Gov. Legislature travel.
  Let’s limit how many trips “Air force one” flies each year.
  Let’s limit how much the gov spends on first family
  Let’s ban the salaries for congress and senate ….let them donate their time.
  Let’s ban speacial health plans for congress and senate,let them use “Obamacare”!!
  Let’s have term limits for said offices
  Etc.!!!
  Just for starters…also make it retroactive for 3 years!!
  
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- rickc34
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 3:32pm
  Obama is the Fearmeister. And what ever he says the opposite is usually true. Have you ever noticed how much like Hitler he is.
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 3:55pm
  Make no mistake and entertain no doubts in your minds…this is not about gun control, this is about Obama’s attempts to take back the house in 2014. Obama’s home state and Rahm Emanuel’s city, Chicago is a war zone for gun deaths and Obama has sat on his hands for four years. This is all to do with politics and Obama wanting the house back in Democrat control in 2014. The biggest set back Obama sufferred was losing the house in 2010. He seethes over it. His massive ego cannot abide those “tea partiers” taking his legislative and monetary blank check away from him in 2010. The house republicans are all that stand between Obama and fiscal disaster for this country.
  
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- cessna152
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 3:58pm
  Sorry, but I’ve given up WAY too many freedoms already and the line in the sand is drawn. I need to protect me and my family. I’m an honest, taxpaying citizen. I have a right to defend my family and you do NOT have the right to confiscate my property.
  
  Sorry, but you have taken all I have and I will give no more!!! I have an obligation to protect my children…I care about them and I know you don’t. I took an oath to bring up my kids correctly. To love them, care for them, provide and protect them for the evils in the world. I take that oath seriously and I will not…repeat, will not sit idly by as my house, family and life is pillaged by the evil forces of this world.
  
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- encinom
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 4:01pm
  Name one right being taking away. No one is coming for your guns.
  
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- Swalker
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 4:03pm
  Washington is irrelevant, it no longer exist, We the people are not about to Comply any longer. We will remain Free and that is the end of the discussion. Black market is about to become the only way to live. Let them all go to hell….
  
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- encinom
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 4:04pm
  GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 2:11pm
  My rights won’t be taken away, especially since I won’t be complying with any, note that…ANY…new law or regulation that tries to restrict my rights. Further, I will continue to openly exercise my rights as I see fit, I will trade with whomever I want on MY terms, and I will not hide my advocacy of firearms rights at all (I open carry). I will not comply, I will not submit, I will not hide. I urge others to do this as well. Let’s rub their nose in their own impotence when they find out that they cannot enforce any laws or bans against 110 million individuals.
  __________________
  Actually, after you are hauled away in irons for violating the law, you won’t have to worry about your toys any more. I bet the site of those tiny caskets in Ct. gave you a hard on. Enjoy prison and let me know when you a bubba are tying the knot.
- rangerskippy
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 4:11pm
  ENCINOM
  
  You would do well to actually study up and read statements from Sen Feinstein.
  
  http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/01/01/Reminder-Sen-Feinstein-Said-She-Wants-All-Guns-Banned
  
  She does want to take guns, and has stated this desire. You might also want to check Obama’s voting record on guns.
  
  an “assault weapons” ban is lib language for outlawing semi automatic rifles, shotguns, and pistols.
  
  “Assault weapon” is not a gun term, it is a political term.
  
  The shotgun that Bill Clinton used to duck hunt with in Arkansas is a semi automatic, and would be included in the ban. The Ruger 10-22 that I use to squirrel hunt with, is included in this ban. the AR 15 in National Match configuration that I compete with at the President’s Hundred, NRA High-power matches, and the Nationals would be included in that ban.
  
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- rawmilker
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 4:13pm
  Thats their plan BABY, create false flags or animate crisis then punish everyone by stripping us of our rights. I personally believe Obammy & pogressives are behind Sandy Hook, Aurora, the Sikh shooting, Tuscon to push their gun control.
  
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- rangerskippy
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 4:19pm
  ENCINOM
  
  Are you looking to lower murder rates?
  
  Do you realize that blacks make up 12.5% of the population, and do 1/2 the nation’s murders? Do you know that if we lowered black murder rates to the same as whites, we would drop the nation’s murder rate by just about 40% and save lots of black lives?
  
  ENCINOM – Do you want to save black lives?
  
  Do you know that our murder rates are intrinsically tied to our democrat initiated welfare programs?
  
  Do you know that last year, more people were killed with knives than with rifles?
  
  Do you know that over six thousand people were murdered with pistols, and less than 350 were killed with all types of rifles?
  
  If rifles are used the least, why is it that you want to outlaw the rifles more than anything else?
  
  Can you describe the difference between an “assault rifle”, a sporting rifle, a hunting rifle?
  
  Are you a hopolophobe?
  
  Do you know that communist/socialist dictators throughout world history have always taken away guns from citizens, prior to murdering millions of their own people? Mao, Castro, Stalin, Hitler…. all took away guns.
  
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- grimmster
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 4:21pm
  Yea obammy, “ginnig up fear’,lets see how many of your gun grabbers, are willing to come to Texas,and take ours.You want to see fear?…….
  
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- rawmilker
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 4:22pm
  Well said GHOSTOF JEFFERSON. the peeps I know are 100% with you on that. Its tiime to just start ignoring this want to be dicctator and send a message to go pizz up a rope.
  
  He’s no american anyway.
  
  REMBER BENGHAZI, this guy needs to answer to that. That rabbit hole is deep!
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 4:23pm
  Oh, poor Enicom. It must steam you so to see people against your man child tyrant idol. :)
  
  Tough.
  
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- castious
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 4:26pm
  SIEG HEIL Obama : well he said he will use what ever EXCUTIVE ORDER that he deems nessecary and I do belive him so now we have a broken constitutional goverment like in Deutschland 19333…… SEG HIEL Obama ( so may he live in interesting times ) from now on ….. HAIL KAISER Barry …..
  
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- rawmilker
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 5:12pm
  ENCINUMBNUTS, HUFFPO GUY, SULLIVAN SUCK ASS, DAILY BEASTIE or wherever you post from, even some libs I know are having voter remorse since their healthcare & taxes went up last week. They are buying guns as well.
  
  We all know that voter fraud was massive. WE ARE GOING TO HAVE THE LAST SAY IN THIS. COUNT ON IT!
  
  Your boy dictator will not last his whole term this time around. He’ll go out by they way Nixon did….In disgrace. The we can begin the real investigations to just who this guy is.
  
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- muffythetuffy
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 5:38pm
  ANYTHING HE DOES REQUIRES A LAW
  
  He is acting like a dictator and that is High Treason.
  
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- Misty Williams
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 6:19pm
  “…shall not be infringed.” means Shall not be infringed. No compromises.
  
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- Wolf
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 6:20pm
  “…lillymckim
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 3:20pm
  WHERE in the HELL is the Republican Party on this and why in the hell don’t they speak up?…”
  
  Because, Lilly, the Rep. Party is just as concerned about people control as the Dims. And this issue isn’t about guns at all- it’s about controlling people. Guns are just the focal point.
  
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- the-most-interesting-troll-in-the-world
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 6:49pm
  I don’t often act paranoid, but when I do, I like to act paranoid by making large purchases that profit the fear industry.
  
  Stay terrified, my friends.
  
  And out a second mortgage the house.
  
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- dmerwin
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 8:40pm
  How about taking a look at these gun groups, crips, bloods and felons?
  
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- dmerwin
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 8:42pm
  How about requiring parolees have a full search of their person and residence randomly at least once a month?
  
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- dmerwin
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 8:43pm
  “ginning up fear”? Assclown is the best gun salesman EVER.
  
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- banjarmon
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 11:01pm
  LAW OF THE LAND
  The general misconception is that any statute passed by legislators bearing the appearance of
  law constitutes the law of the land. The U.S. Constitution is the supreme law of the land, and
  any statute, to be valid, must be in agreement. It is impossible for a law, which violates the
  Constitution to be valid. This is succinctly stated as follows:
  “All laws which are repugnant to the Constitution are null and void.” Marbury vs. Madison, 5
  US (2 Cranch) 137, 174, 176, (1803)
  “When rights secured by the Constitution are involved, there can be no rule making or
  legislation which would abrogate them.” Miranda vs. Arizona, 384 US 436 p. 491.
  “An unconstitutional act is not law; it confers no rights; it imposes no duties; affords no
  protection; it creates no office; it is in legal contemplation, as inoperative as though it had never
  been passed.” Norton vs. Shelby County 118 US 425 p. 442
  “The general rule is that an unconstitutional statute, though having the form and name of law, is
  in reality no law, but is wholly void, and ineffective for any purpose; since unconstitutionality
  dates from the time of its enactment, and not merely from the date of the decision so branding
  it.
  “No one is bound to obey an unconstitutional law and no courts are bound to enforce it.” 16
  Am Jur 2nd, Sec 177 late 2d, Sec 256
  
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- Proud Stray Dog
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 11:58pm
  @Insanemon
  
  I not only weep for those 20, I weep for the millions killed every year by “doctors”, depriving them of life before they even see the light of day. Liberals are quick to say, “It’s for the children”, while the hypocrites have the blood of millions on their heads. One day, all you Libs who condoned this will have to look every one of them in the eye while the Master says to you, “Depart from me, ye cursed, into the Everlasting Fire. I KNOW YOU NOT!!!!!!!”
  
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IndyGuy
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 1:59pm
Here it comes…Obama tells us it’s black when we can clearly see it is white…

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- CatB
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 2:35pm
  Yes and we were crazy when we said Obamacare (TAX) was bad and would cost MORE .. and that tax the “rich” would mean more taxes for all .. and on and on .. people wake up .. Obama doesn’t “misspeak” HE LIES!
  
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barber2
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 1:57pm
It’s that ” have nothing to worry about ” which tells me the guy lies like a rug. Look at our economy, Mr. President. If you think there is nothing for ME to worry about, you must think me stupid. For me to know that YOU aren’t worried about our economy tells me you are either a fool or a Marxist . I think I know which one you are. I have studied your past.

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- ConstitunalAmerican
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 2:06pm
  Right on, well said. Maybe Congress should take away his executive order rights too since he uses that measure to amend our Constitution.
  
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- LakeHartwellSailor
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 2:09pm
  When I hear someone start or end a point with the phrase “trust me”, I immediately distrust the person. This is the same thing.
  
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- 00100111
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 2:11pm
  When the govt tells you “Don’t worry, you won’t be affected” is exactly when you SHOULD worry.
  
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- barber2
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 2:15pm
  CONSTUTIONAL: Yes. Every congressman should be forced to read Rules For Radicals and a biography of Barack Obama. ( NOT his autobiography of composite characters ! ) If they don’t “get ” where this man is coming from, they should be prosecuted for stupidity and drummed out of office. WAKE UP, CONGRESS.
  
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engineerairborne
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 1:57pm
The issue here is not whether or not we believe in the Second Amendment. The issue is whether there are some sensible steps we can take to make sure that somebody like the individual in Newtown can’t walk into a school and gun down a bunch of children in a shockingly rapid fashion

Your proposal me. President infringes on my 2nd Admendment Right. How about asking Teachers and school officials to exercise their 2nd Adminidement right to protect these nationa assests rather than ask everyone to give up their rights.

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LC LaWedgie
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 1:53pm
Obama is the Jinn of bad smells. Must be his stale style.

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- LC LaWedgie
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 2:07pm
  Oh, yeah. Now they change the spelling from jin to gin.
  
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olfart
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 1:51pm
Any legislation or executive order that acts to impinge the 2nd Amendment is neither ‘reasonable’ nor ‘sensible’.

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- CatB
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 2:14pm
  nor Constitutional
  
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- planecrashlaw
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 3:11pm
  I think the US Supreme Court may not agree with you:
  
  On Sunday, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia caused quite the stir when he told Chris Wallace of Fox News Sunday that there “undoubtedly are” limitations on the right to keep and bear arms.
  
  The subject of guns and gun control came up when the two men were discussing the release of Scalia’s new book, “Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts,” a book he co-authored with legal scholar Bryan Garner.
  
  After referencing the mass shooting in Colorado, that left 12 dead and 58 more wounded, Wallace asked the conservative Justice about limitations to the 2nd Amendment.
  
  “Yes, there are some limitations that can be imposed,” Scalia, a constitutional orginalist, said. “What they are will depend on what the society understood was reasonable limitation” when the Constitution was written.
  
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- Wolf
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 6:37pm
  Planecrash cites Scalia saying, ““Yes, there are some limitations that can be imposed,” Scalia, a constitutional orginalist, said. “What they are will depend on what the society understood was reasonable limitation” when the Constitution was written….”
  
  The Founders had already discussed this and it’s readily obvious to any who can read. What reasonable limitation did the Founders conclude was ‘just’? Ummm, lemme think… how about, “…the right of the people to keep and bear arms SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED.”? Sounds reasonable to me.
  
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beardedjesse
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 1:51pm
I really don’t think they have the steam or the guts to come collecting anything…as far as an AWB…they will probably try & push a further left of center ban of some kind. I think one thing he needs to be extremely careful about is pushing Americans into a Constitutional corner where they feel like, “ok, that is the line…& you have now crossed it.” I hope & pray that he & Biden do not corner people like that because I know a lot of people will bite if that happens.

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- Max Power 1
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 5:07pm
  You are correct. They will do just enough to get some of what they want, but not push folks over the edge. They will use the IRS, BATF, EPA, & others to regulate as much as possible. There will be no singular event to start an armed uprising. Yet. However, if we’re smart, we’ll not let them dictate the terms. We can’t let them dictate where the “line” is. We should make it known that we will consider ANY further restrictions to be unconstitutional, and a tyrannical act against the American people. That removes their ability to nudge, threaten, bully, & incrementally eliminate our firearms. In addition, the man that calls himself obama, is setting up republicans in congress to take the “blame”, by failing to pass draconian gun control measures to “protect the children”. There is another school of thought, that they won’t try to pass feinstein’s bill, so that dems in congress won’t have that vote come back to bite them in 2014. IF there still are elections then.
  
  BTW, this is all set up as a distraction. Watch what the other hand is doing.
  
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- klopnuts
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 5:51pm
  i dont think they will bite when pushed into that corner. i think even if (ok when) he makes an EO about firearms whats going to happen is many people will become criminals and they will just bide their time picking us off one by one and locking us up. small steps. i dont think hes even got the balls to come and take them. maybe an amnesty turn in period and then you had better not go shoot at the range, or need to take anything to a gunsmith. i can aslo see full registration. then you better not buy ammo for anything you dont have on their paperwork. best way to disarm would be to take law abiding citizens and turn all of them into criminals. force them to give up their law abiding status….
  
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- AxelPhantom
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 7:18pm
  I don’t think they will do a door to door either. Just waiting until the gun is used at a public firing range or in an action of self defense will eventually do the trick.
  
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jessieH
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 1:50pm
This son of a bitch can have my gun, one bullet at a time. We are looking at war. War against a treasonous dictator, hell bent to destroy our Nation & our way of life.

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- encinom
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 4:20pm
  WE are looking at an insane gun nut, that is proving to be too ignorant and too mentally unstable. Another Alex Jones, compound dweller let the NRA and other fill your tiny little mind up with their lies.
ledbythnose
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 1:49pm
This Government and Congress is completely out of control. This is State Sponsored Terrorism against it’s own Citizenry. This guy is inciting a Civil War and joking about it at the same time. The American People are not bound to obey ANY LAW that conflicts with the Constitution PERIOD. They are clearly taking us to the brink without a peep from the Military. UNBELIEVABLE.

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- ranepowel
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 3:03pm
  Supreme Court decides what is and isn’t Constitutional, not the everyday citizen. That, too, is in the Constitution.
  
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- Cavallo
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 3:26pm
  Oh, Rane? Can you quote where in the constitution that it says that the Supreme Court has the right to determine which laws are constitutional? You might want to crack a high school history book.. well maybe make sure it was for a private school first…
  
  Marbury vs Madison the Court gave ITSELF the power to determine what is constitutional.
  
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Xiccarph
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 1:47pm
“responsible gun owners, people who have a gun for protection, for hunting, for sportsmanship– they don’t have anything to worry about.”

True, as long as they are restricted to muskets, though you may need a permit if you decide to use primer caps rather than flint to fire them. After all, the Founders never conceived of the types of firearms available today when they wrote the 2nd A. Naturally, tell the libs that likewise then, the 1st only applies to 19th C technology and methods, so free speech is only allowed for soapbox street-side talks, handing out fliers, and using hand-operated printing press produced newspapers. Using cellphones, computers, TV, radio, satellites, etc are not covered under the 1st A. because the Founders never conceived of such changes in technology.

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 2:00pm
  The flintlock was the assault rifle of it’s day.
  
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- Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 2:40pm
  Soon, we will have to house the English military in our own homes, sorry, UN military. But it will be for our own good and safety. Come on, he violates every other right, why not the 3rd amendment.
  
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FiscalBill
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 1:46pm
I present as evidence the entire state of New York and the City of Chicago as basis for our fears of government taking away 2nd amendment rights.

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lookes2003
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 1:46pm
I oppose ANY changes. Non are needed. Whatever the changes may be. I Will NOT Comply.

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- WarMunger_Al
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 3:09pm
  There are changes needed.
  Overturn the unconstitutional Firearms control act of 1968, and any other laws spawned because of the act. Dismantle the ATF.
  All governors should immediately form up state militias not beholden to the federal government. It is their duty and responsibility.
  
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- Wolf
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 6:51pm
  Sorry, Looks, but you’re wrong. We do need some gun control ‘changes’.
  
  We need to change any laws enacted since 1790 to be nullified.
  
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GhostOfJefferson
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 1:45pm
This idiot man child is stunning. He knows that Connecticut has draconian gun laws, as does New Jersey from whence came the monster that did the shooting. He knows the monster did not buy the firearms and none of the laws in either Connecticut nor New Jersey did one thing to stop him. Obama KNOWS this.

He doesn’t care about “solving the problem”, he cares about disarming you.

Comply with no law or illegal executive order he signs, continue to buy and sell as free individuals as you will, continue to carry whatever the hell you want to carry. Do not comply, stand your ground, hide nothing and show these b@stards how impotent they are in the face of unified defiance of their edicts.

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- WillG
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 2:06pm
  You and I once again find ourselves in total agreement. Your sensibility is Brutal. Keep up the informative and entertaining posts.
  
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- Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 2:06pm
  Well said, Obama in the end only cares for his own agenda and the means for achieving it. He will not stop until the nation is disarmed and at his complete mercy under a communist system of government.
  
  Honestly why will people not wake up and see what is going on around them? How much more time do we honestly have left until it all comes crashing down upon us?
  
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- barber2
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 2:11pm
  GHOST: Just like he doesn’t care about ” solving the problems ” in our economy. Obama, like Farrakhan and Wright, want to PUNISH America ! And Obama ‘s failed economic policies are The Great Avenger. So obvious that it hurts . WAKE UP, AMERICA !
  
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showmerancher
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 1:45pm
WalMart Suspends Ammo Orders Pending Gun Control Decision

http://cnsnews.com/blog/gregory-gwyn-williams-jr/walmart-suspends-ammo-orders-pending-gun-control-decision

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- Top_Contributor
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 1:59pm
  Despite this, Walmart is one business you won’t see conservatives even joke about boycotting.
  
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- WarMunger_Al
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 3:11pm
  so that is why the shelves are still empty. They know something that we have not been privy too.
  
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Top_Contributor
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 1:44pm
Obama is right again. This is why he WINS elections.

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- lukerw
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 2:00pm
  That Obama can be elected President twice… shows the expansion of a lowering of the IQ in the voting population… not that popularity makes one Right (re the French Revolution)!
  
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- ABO
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 2:01pm
  moron
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 2:04pm
  What I enjoy about you is your consistency. For example, you say this today, but if tomorrow Obama came out and said that every family should own full auto’s and that all Federal restrictions on Class III firearms were lifted, you’d be spouting how he was right and praising him. If he comes out tomorrow and says that laissez faire capitalism was the shizzle and that all taxes and regulations were lifted, you’d be here in a New York minute parroting him as if somehow, it was a position you held before he spoke. If spoke tomorrow and said that all people of Asian descent need to be rounded up and put in ovens, you’d be here telling us what he’s a wonderful man and how right he is.
  
  You, and all of your incarnations (ENICOM, MONICE, etc) are absolutely predictable and blind to your own slavish adherence to dogma. It’s so cute!
  
  More importantly, it makes defying you and your kind so easy. Without a thought-leader to tell you what to believe, you’re powerless.
  
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- barber2
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 2:08pm
  TOP: No. The fact that you support Obama’s economic policies shows that you are stupid.
  
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- RepubliCorp
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 2:10pm
  I can only hope that one day we have a Obama national holiday and streets named after him…. & maybe a airport
  
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- jblaze
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 2:14pm
  No Obama in a liar and a destroyer a cheater and a child and is not an American in heart or mind. Why and how he won the election will all be made known one day when everything he ever did to deceive this nation will be made public and laid bear for all to see. Unfortunately, it will not happen before the total downfall of the USA, unless by the grace of God, but I don’t believe God is going to forgive this time until we learn a big hard lesson and admit that He and only He rules.
  
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- barber2
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 2:17pm
  REPUBLI: An airport in his name ? How about in Tijuana or Detroit. A holiday in his honor ? Either April 1 or May 1 …either would be appropriate.
  
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- Top_Contributor
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 2:18pm
  @GhostOfJefferson, you are correct. What’s predictable is how many Blazers repeatedly swallow the bait. It’s almost not fun with such a gullible bunch. But I want to point out one thing, that I’m pretty sure you can agree with as well: even if Obama came out in support of full autos, Blazers would find some reason why this action would be anti-American, or socialist, or whatever usual load of pooh it is they fling in his direction. And that’s a fact, homeboy.
  
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- jblaze
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 2:30pm
  Top_Contributor
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 2:18pm
  “even if Obama came out in support of full autos, Blazers would find some reason why this action would be anti-American, or socialist, or whatever usual load of pooh it is they fling in his direction. And that’s a fact, homeboy.”
  
  Wrong again! Take a look at the poll done here on TheBlaze by close to 5 million people who frequent TheBlaze and you will see just how seriously wrong you are.
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 2:33pm
  @Top (and everybody else)
  
  “@GhostOfJefferson, you are correct. What’s predictable is how many Blazers repeatedly swallow the bait. ”
  
  I am actually a bit surprise. What a nearly unique moment of truth you just proclaimed in your entire post (of which I quoted just an excerpt).
  
  Please take note everybody, as to the reasons I generally ask y’all not to answer posts like Trolls (and Enicom and company). To call the admission pleasantly surprising is a bit of an understatement. I must honestly say that I thank you Top.
  
  And to be fair, yes there are no small number who would condemn Obama if he came out tomorrow and established a fully Constitutional government (fat chance). I’m not like that of course, giving credit when he rarely does something good (withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan being on the short list).
  
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- TIMEBOMB
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 2:34pm
  Ah yes top contributor it’s so good to see one of my worthless simpletons I mean supporters on a site that doesn’t want you here. Just keep telling them how magnificent I am,I know you can’t believe I’ve taken the time out of my busy schedule to acknowledge a worthless being like yourself but my loyal serf I want you to know that as your magnificent gay Marxist ruler I appreciate the propaganda you spew.
  
  If you continue I’ll allow you to get on your knees before me,gaze upon me and I might even allow you to kiss my ring. Of course you’ll have to thoroughly wash your grubby little hands and face before I allow you to come into contact with my magnificent hand. Regards your God BHO.
  
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- Top_Contributor
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 2:40pm
  @GhostOfJefferson, honest with you Ghost because you are one of the few (or even couple) on this site who seem to show a bit of integrity.
  
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- Top_Contributor
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 2:42pm
  Though I should quickly add that not ALL my posts are for the sake of watching the most hopeless conservatives froth. I do manage to engage more meaningfully than that from time to time.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 2:48pm
  TIMEBOMB, LOL, you are just in time to illustrate how firmly TOP_CONTRIBUTOR, aka PORK_ANVIL, aka ETCHASKETCH has his lips attached to your ass.
  Tick Tock TOP, only about two hours before you sign off and go home.
  
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- Farmhand82
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 2:51pm
  Oh please. Obama wins elections because he’s essentially running as Santa Clause, constantly promising to give out goodies to the majority off the backs of the minority. The left is great at promising and even delivering short term rewards with long term consequences. The left is very good at winning elections everywhere because it is very effective at manipulating human psychology in this way. Unfortunately that always bites you in the ass eventually as it’s doing in Europe and will eventually here. But hey, it’s cute that your sticking to your cognitive dissonance.
  
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- TIMEBOMB
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 3:01pm
  RJ Tops knees are bruised and battered from his constant groveling,but there’s good news for the puffer. With the new and improved health care I’ve given him he’ll be able to see a Dr. in 2 years for those battered knees,how’s that for response time? Aren’t you appreciative TOP ? Of course you are.
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 3:15pm
  Top Con
  By definition, conservatives have nothing but hope. And here is to hoping you have a bony chicken for din din.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 3:32pm
  TIMEBOMB, LOL, I look forward to the rest of your posts today!! Try not to hurt PORKY much. Like don’t made a sudden 90 degree turn if you happen to be walking fast today.
  
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dustbunnieskill
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 1:44pm
In a related story he said Debt Limit Has Nothing to Do With New Spending, Won’t Negotiate ‘With a Gun at The Head of The American People’.

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Rob
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 1:44pm
Hunting, Protection… AND TO DEFEND AGAINST YOU, OBAMA. But you forgot to mention that one…

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- Top_Contributor
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 1:52pm
  Rob, a paranoid among paranoids!
  
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- barber2
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 2:04pm
  The Troll in Mom’s basement is now awake.
  
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- jimbo_from_suwanee
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 2:15pm
  The more power and “flexibility” he gets, the more draconian is style of governance becomes.
  
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- Top_Contributor
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 2:27pm
  Oooh, a “mom’s basement” dig! No style points there.
  
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- thegreatcarnac
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 2:33pm
  Rob is right….guns are needed to defend against tyrants just as the founding fathers intended….and obama is a tyrant.
  
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- WillG
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 3:39pm
  I get the feeling that Top is one of those “My Mother lives with me!”crowd. Big difference,Right?
  
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mrunner
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 1:42pm
“responsible gun owners, people who have a gun for protection, for hunting, for sportsmanship– they don’t have anything to worry about.” I notice he does not mention the responsible gun owner who have a gun to ensure that a tyrannical government is kept in check… I guess he does not understand that is the PRIMARY reason for the 2nd Amendment.

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- FiscalBill
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 1:48pm
  He understands it just fine. Its why he understands it that everyone should be concerned.
  
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- CatB
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 2:24pm
  He “studied” the Constitution .. to destroy it!
  
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Cavallo
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 1:42pm
Bobo the wonder Marxist might want to have a talk with the Gov of New York, The Iowa Democrats and the Illinois State Legislature. ALL OF THEM advocated confiscation of firearms. First and foremost Bobo the Gay, Dog Eating Marxist is an autocrat. He wants to make damn sure you cannot oppose the tyrannical rule of his one true god, The State.

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- raabhimself
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 1:48pm
  Everytime I see you say Bobo the wonder marxist it reminds me of Leonard Nimoy’s “Bilbo Baggins”
  
  “Bobo, Bobo Bama… biggest marxist of ‘em all”
  
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BODYBAG
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 1:41pm
Step right up folks —— pay no attention to what was said before.
Nevermind what Feinstein said, or that Rep in Iowa, or Cuomo, or Dingy Harry, or Pelosi, or Schumer, or Center For American Progress, or Biden —–

Just ignore all that in the same manner that I ignore the US CONSTITUTION & Bill Of Rights

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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 2:04pm
  He’s a POS isn’t he,the man who’s supposed to be the constitutional expert doesn’t know jack about the constitution. Every law and regulation these constitution rapers dream up has one goal and we all know what that is,eventually a total gun ban. He’s a narcissistic Marxist psychopath with no regard for the constitution or the bill of rights. When will the community agitator be impeached and thrown into prison where he belongs?
  
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jackact
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 1:41pm
I suppose ‘Class Warfare’ is not ‘jinning up the public’?
Funny how third world anti-colonialism is never under the microscope.

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hauschild
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 1:41pm
The law of averages would state that there must be “some” truly intelligent leftists out there.

So, with regards to those people, how can they not cringe when they hear what this idiot spews forth on a daily basis? He’s like a 12 year old, snot-nosed brat who’s left at home for the week and even has access to pop’s car. Anything goes, for all intents and purposes.

Amazing.

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- barber2
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 2:02pm
  Agree. Where are the JFK Democrats ? How can they let their party be hi-jacked by these Chicago radicals ?
  
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DougHuffman
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 1:39pm
Federal Executive Obama Oedipus Rex hear this – the conspiracy of Congressional ignorance masquerades as common sense. MOLON LABE you Oedipussy.

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ExO
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 1:38pm
I really would like to know his interpretation of the Second Amendment.

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- shakedowncrews
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 1:42pm
  Irrelevant. We know what it means, and I wouldnt give a wad of used toilet paper to find out what he thinks.
  
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CHANGE IT BACK
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 1:36pm
Governmental Terrorism I say!

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- 1911a1
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 3:56pm
  I 2nd that !
  
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- CathyvanDyke
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 3:57pm
  Obama: Some Gun Control Measures ‘I Can Accomplish Through Executive Action’
  Jan 14, 2013
  
  President Obama said he’d take “executive action” to deal with guns at his press conference today:
  
  “My understanding is the vice president’s going to provide a range of steps that we can take to reduce gun violence,” said Obama. “Some of them will require legislation, some of them I can accomplish through executive action. …”
  
  Video:
  http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-some-gun-control-measures-i-can-accomplish-through-executive-action_695381.html
  
  Allen West:
  “I think right now, this shows that we are getting away from a government that’s based upon consent of the American people, and we’re starting to live under a rule by edict or executive order.”
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhpN9nvduoU
  
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