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Chicago Official Wants GPS Tracking Devices Required on All Guns: ‘Safety Is…a Much More Important Issue Than Privacy’

Jan. 17, 2013 11:00pm Jason Howerton

Credit: AP

A Chicago alderman is asking City Council to hold hearings on a controversial gun control proposal that would require GPS tracking of all firearms, CBS Chicago reports.

Ald. Willie Cochran, of the 20th District, wants GPS chips implanted in all new guns, as well as retrofitted on existing firearms, so police can locate them if they go missing. Cochran is also a former police officer.

“Just like if your car gets stolen,” he explained, “OnStar can tell you where your car is. If your gun gets stolen, and you report it, we should be able to find that gun.”

As far as responsible gun owners’ right to privacy, Cochran isn’t really concerned about that.

“[S]afety is…a much more important issue than privacy,” he said.

“It is extremely important that we look past this privacy issue, at this point, and understand how important it is for us to address the issue of safety,” Cochran added.

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djeffcoat
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 11:22pm
Someone should install a GPS in the honorable alderman where the sun don’t shine. Then we’ll know where he is. What a moron.

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- orecon
  Posted on January 18, 2013 at 1:17am
  Good Idea, but I’m afraid it’d fall out.
  
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- subic
  Posted on January 18, 2013 at 1:30am
  Keep an eye on that Rahm Emanuel too. He’s a sneaky little weasel!
  
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- CatB
  Posted on January 18, 2013 at 6:53am
  GPS tracking in all politicians! Great idea!
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on January 18, 2013 at 7:38am
  I’m sure all the gangbangers will jump right in line to have GPS installed on their weapons.
  
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- JimCS
  Posted on January 18, 2013 at 8:15am
  That’s not a bad idea. They are way more dangerous to citizens that guns.
  
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- rangerskippy
  Posted on January 18, 2013 at 8:18am
  Want to see a liberals go speechless on gun control? Ask these questions.
  
  Do you know that blacks make up 12.5% of the population, but do ½ of the nation’s murders?
  
  Do you know that by lowering black murder rates to the same as whites, we would lower the national murder per capita rate by 40%, we would also have a murder rate as low as the lowest nations in Europe, and we would save thousands of black lives?
  
  Would you like to save black lives? What do you suggest we do to lower black murder rates?
  
  Do you know that 70% of our murders in the US are gang related? Other than having his DOJ give “assault weapons” to Mexican drug gangs, what is Obama doing to combat gang violence?
  
  Do you know that that our violent crimes are intrinsically tied to liberal welfare programs? Do you suggest we start phasing out these programs, being they have not succeeded in lowing poverty rates, but have instead raised it.
  
  Do you realize that for three decades, MTV has continuously portrayed the black man as a thuggish brute that has bitches and hoes, walks around adorned in gaudy gold jewelry, wearing clownish clothes three times to big, is a gangster, and has contributed to blacks glorifying a criminal lifestyle?
  
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- rangerskippy
  Posted on January 18, 2013 at 8:19am
  I will bet ENCINOM, PubliusPencil, Glennda, SendtheMeteors…… will not be able to answer my questions above, nor will they even want to admit to the truth of those statistics
  
  Criminality is not genetic, nor has it ever been.
  
  Skin color is benign and non-behavioral. People do not commit crimes because of the color of thier skin.
  
  What we do know, is that democrat programs, welfare, multicultural education, MTV, violent rap….. have all contributed to a serious problem of violence and murder within the black communities in the US.
  
  Because of the liberal mandated laws of political correctness, no one is supposed to speak of these facts, nor do liberals want anyone to try to solve these problems. It detracts from their agenda
  
  Notice that over 500 people (mostly black) were murdered in Chicago, this year alone. The mass majority were killed via cheap or stolen hand guns. Less that 3% were killed with a rifle of any type, but Obama and the libs are clamoring for banning rifles. What does that tell us? It would seem to me that libs believe that rich white kids from Connecticut matter, but blacks from the South Side of Chicago do not, otherwise, Obama and crowd would be talking lowering murder rates, and not outlawing the least used weapon in crimes.
  
  Contrary to popular belief, most AR owners, use them for sport. we shoot national match at Camp Perry, do 3-gun, Varmint shoots, and NRA high-power matches. They are to expensive for criminals
  
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- lookatthefactsjack
  Posted on January 18, 2013 at 8:45am
  Maybe a better plan would be to put a GPS on all criminals It’s pretty much the criminals are the ones that are causing the crime
  
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- imsteph
  Posted on January 18, 2013 at 8:57am
  “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” Benjamin Franklin
  
  don’t worry — tagging people will be next.
  
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- Freedomtomakeupmyownmind
  Posted on January 18, 2013 at 9:25am
  G.O.P = Guns Over People
  
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- rangerskippy
  Posted on January 18, 2013 at 9:43am
  @Freedom
  
  Your comment “G.O.P = Guns Over People”‘
  
  Can you pontificate on this, and back it up, or is it just a foolish talking point?
  
  I would argue that Democrats = agenda over people.
  
  Of Obama’s 23 edicts on gun control, not one would have stopped the gun violence that happened at Sandy Hook.
  
  Obama and the libs refuse to even recognize black on black violence in America. How can they ignore the fact that blacks are 12% of the pop and do half the murders?
  
  Why is it the want to take rifles from law abiding citizens, when they know rifles are seldom ever used in crimes? More people were killed with knives last year, than with rifles. We had over 6000 murders iwth hand guns, and less that 350 with rifles? Show me the logic there.
  
  The majority of ARs are in the thousand dollar range. They are expensive, very seldoom ever used in crimes, but Obama wants them. Why?
  
  Obama and dems claim that ARs are not used for hunting or sport. This is absurd. The most used rifle in the National Matches at Camp Perry, Ohio is the AR. It is also used in IDPA 3-gun matches, and a variety of other marksmanship events.
  
  Dems are not looking to lower murder per capita rates. they are only looking to take away our constitutional freedoms
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on January 18, 2013 at 9:46am
  Nice example of inane leftist bumper sticker pablum Freedom.
  
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- Soulfire1975
  Posted on January 18, 2013 at 9:54am
  @rangerskippy
  
  How dare you confuse Progressives with truth and common sense!
  
  Freedomtomakeupmyownmind said
  Posted on January 18, 2013 at 9:25am
  
  G.O.P = Guns Over People
  ————————————————————————————-
  How about G O P stands for freedom over slavery. I mean they don’t want us to be taken out like Jews in Nazi Germany, They also help fight for civil rights why pieces of dog dung like Democrats want to enslave people and keep them in slaved. What do you think keeping people on welfare checks is about.
  
  You take the Devils money, you have to dance to his toon.
  
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- term limits for congress
  Posted on January 18, 2013 at 9:56am
  So,… now I’ll need to get a gun charger for the GPS unit? And, get a charger for my car?
  
  If the gun is pointed at a dim’ocrat…. recalculating,… turn right… recalculating,… recalculating…
  
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- texasoysterman
  Posted on January 18, 2013 at 9:59am
  @ORECON
  I’m sure I’m not the only one to GET your joke. But let me be the first to appreciate it.
  I laughed out loud. Thank you.
  
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- turkey13
  Posted on January 18, 2013 at 10:23am
  In Chicago the only people that have guns are the police, body guards, thugs and a few of the mayors friends. I like this since the only one that won’t let you put a gps unit on their guns are the crooks.
  
  “Politicians are the same all over.They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.” – Nikita Khrushchev
  
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- robpardee
  Posted on January 18, 2013 at 10:36am
  @Freedomtomakeupmyownmind
  You seem to be laboring under the dilusion that guns kill people instead of punishing the people who use them as TOOLS, that they are. That’s like saying a fork made Rosie O’Donnel fat!
  
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- texasoysterman
  Posted on January 18, 2013 at 10:37am
  PS. @ ORECON
  Dead fish is such a “manly” man, isn’t he?
  
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- rangerskippy
  Posted on January 18, 2013 at 11:02am
  We are getting less and less of the lib trolls trying to chime in on the gun control debate topics on the blaze.
  
  Reason being, is that they keep getting their butts handed to them in debate. The facts are just not on their side. They are seeing the reality that they actually do their side of the argument more harm than good. Every time they spout their talking points, conservatives come back with crime statistics, history, knowledge of the constitution, and facts concerning gun control in other nations. Libs are learning to just keep their mouths shut, and to go back and hang out on the huff po with their own types.
  
  FACTS:
  
  In America, we own 88 guns per 100 people, but there are 27 nations with higher murder per capita rates. Honduras owns 6.6 guns per 100, yet has the highest murder per capita rates in the world.
  
  Cities in the US with highest murder rates (Like Chicago, Detroit, DC..) have the strictest gun control laws.
  
  Nations like the UK that have banned handguns see a steep incline in gun violence and murder rates. Getting rid of gun makes criminals bolder and more aggressive.
  
  Socialist and communist throughout world history (Stalin, Mao, Castro, Hitler….) have always taken away guns from citizens. Then are the same dictators that in turn, murder millions of their own.
  
  Gun control is not about guns, it is about control.
  
  Slaves are not allowed to own guns for a reason.
  
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- joatesiii
  Posted on January 18, 2013 at 11:43am
  Hmmm, actually, since safety is more important than privacy, and the honorable elected officials of Chicago wish to infringe upon rights…it seems to me that they would be much more enthusiastic about putting GPS devices into criminals…
  
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- MazBrokes
  Posted on January 18, 2013 at 4:18pm
  GE has just announced a revolutionary
  new multiple sensor RFID Chip but there
  is no market for it, unless you make the public fear
  for their lives and the gov passes
  gun laws that say that you have to get
  your gun chipped BY LAW.
  then the stockholders of GE create
  a world wide market for their product.
  [link to http://www.rfidjournal.com
  Guess who’s dad worked or works for GE? (high profile gun case)
  
  Just as TSA Law and Chertof
  made millions off TSA Scanners.
  Follow the money in a similar fashion.
  
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- Maji
  Posted on January 18, 2013 at 11:09pm
  I say put GPS on our tax dollars!
  Lets find out where they go in Chicago.
  
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I SPY
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 11:19pm
Just look at this guy. Is anyone surprised?

https://twitter.com/ALDERMANWBC

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- BODYBAG
  Posted on January 18, 2013 at 12:58am
  LMAO!!!!!!
  Nuff said
  
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banjarmon
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 11:17pm
Three shots to shoot politicians and no one can shoot the same one twice!!!

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I SPY
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 11:17pm
Wow, I’m stumped. You Democrats are seriously some of the most idiotic people God created. This is one of the dumbest ideas…. ever.

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- Keatonc33
  Posted on January 18, 2013 at 12:36am
  why?
  
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- Colt.Roy45
  Posted on January 18, 2013 at 9:03am
  Why? Because Chicago leads the country in violent crime and has the strictest gun regulations for starters. Obviously more of their great ideas are needed to make that number go up. Secondly, this law will do nothing to prevent thefts, or in any way shape or form help recovery those guns that are stolen. Think about how expensive and difficult it would be to add a GPS to a firearm for a second. Now think how easy it would be to deactivate one, as in destroy it. This will end up being more costly and more infective than New York’s Combined Ballistic Identification System. Google that and see what happens when dumb liberals pass feel good laws and the tax payers end up suffering! Not a single crime was solved!
  
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- lukerw
  Posted on January 18, 2013 at 2:38pm
  Strange: a Gun is the only thing that you can Own… but the Law limits your ability to Modify.
  
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coldnorth
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 11:16pm
Let me bend over for you. You want a twofer. My fourth amendment right, right along w/ my second amendent rights. What are they feeding these guys from Chicago?

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- lukerw
  Posted on January 18, 2013 at 2:48pm
  Freedom is the opposite of Security… and one must trade some degree of One for the Other. Men tend to prefer Freedom… Women Security… so Socialists tend to be Nancy Boys, who give up their Rights, and offer themselves to Slavery.
  
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TSUNAMI_22
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 11:16pm
Sorry, but I forgot where I hid my gun from the government. I guess it won’t be…I, I, I mean ,cough, cough,…….can’t be chipped.

Short answer; No, I won’t consent or comply with this either.

Me = 1
Govt. = 0

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- tnman65
  Posted on January 18, 2013 at 1:16am
  TSUNAMI
  The reason you can’t find your gun after you hid it, is because I stole it. Sorry. But hey, someone stole mine. Fair is fair, is it not. If you have to have a chip put in it, I’ll take care of it. Please, no need to thank me.
  
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- WillG
  Posted on January 18, 2013 at 10:23am
  Mine fell off my boat last time I went Fishing. Searched and searched such a shame though to lose an extensive collection. If only mine were outfitted with those GPS chips.
  
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The Big Mick
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 11:15pm
p3
I would also suggest he is either in Clinical Denial, Guilty of Moral or Intellectual Cowardice, or, again, playing us for what he thinks is our own good, when he argues for Jesus/Gandhi Pacifism as the Obedient Theological Response to Tyranny.

A Biblical/Theological/Dogmatic case for Pacifism CAN be made. BUT, as C.S. Lewis points out, the Assured Endgame IS TYRANNY! In other words The End of the Jesus/Gandhi Road is ENSLAVEMENT to be entered into with full knowledge on the excuse that it is the “more excellent way.” And NOT just for oneself and one’s family, but for ALL ONE’S NEIGHBORS!

The Thoughtful Student is expected to follow the Logic all the way to a Rejection of ALL Violence including POLICE and to ponder the consequences in the Context of “The Good Samaritan” parable.

However, since before Augustine, and certainly after, the Theological Case has been made that Justice can REQUIRE violence, and thus, SOME Violence is a FORM of OBEDIENCE.

Obviously the Founders embraced the latter rather than the former, I call upon Glenn to clearly delineate ON WHAT MORAL and INTELLECTUAL and CONSTITUTIONAL basis, consistent WITH the FOUNDERS, he would have us make a different choice.

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- Kuurus
  Posted on January 18, 2013 at 12:20am
  Yep, an author wrote a story about Gandhi and the NAZI it ended badly for Gandhi. Peacefull protest only works against moral, peace loving, governments.
  
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Detox
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 11:14pm
“They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
Ben Franklin

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The Big Mick
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 11:13pm
Cogdis p3
But I would also suggest that Glenn is not being straight with us, though it may be for reasons he regards as in OUR best interests (avoidance of premature action, of not “tripping the booby trap”, of “not going off half-cocked” etc.).

I would suggest he KNOWS that he is promulgating a Falsehood re The Founders Long Suffering of Tyranny vis a vis our own.

I would also suggest he is either in Clinical Denial, Guilty of Moral or Intellectual Cowardice, or, again, playing us for what he thinks is our own good, when he argues for Jesus/Gandhi Pacifism as the Obedient Theological Response to Tyranny.

A Biblical/Theological/Dogmatic case for Pacifism CAN be made. BUT, as C.S. Lewis points out, the Assured Endgame IS TYRANNY! In other words The End of the Jesus/Gandhi Road is ENSLAVEMENT to be entered into with full knowledge on the excuse that it is the “more excellent way.” And NOT just for oneself and one’s family, but for ALL ONE’S NEIGHBORS!

The Thoughtful Student is expected to follow the Logic all the way to a Rejection of ALL Violence including POLICE and to ponder the consequences in the Context of “The Good Samaritan” parable.

However, since before Augustine, and certainly after, the Theological Case has been made that Justice can REQUIRE violence, and thus, SOME Violence is a FORM of OBEDIENCE.

Obviously the Founders embraced the latter rather than the former, I call upon Glenn to clearly delineate ON WHAT MORAL and INTE

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UnwantedFoe
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 11:11pm
Don’t know about you all… but I certainly would feel safer with the Government knowing exactly where I am every time I conceal carry /sarc

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- subic
  Posted on January 18, 2013 at 1:43am
  I believe it was Macy’s that was RFID’ng their shoes for inventory reasons. As customers bought the shoes, the GPS device was still in the shoes. As customers pay for the shoes with a credit card, they could match those shoes with the credit card if they wanted to track that particular person.
  
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gundylan
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 11:11pm
How about gps on all money so we can tell where the kickback money is going?

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Fubared
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 11:11pm
Why would a sane individual opt to live in Chitown with these morons? Why? They pay to have this ***** and progs and libs like him speak for them in every facet of their lives. That is so sad.

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The Big Mick
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 11:11pm
Cognitive Dissonance p2

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givemelibertynow
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 11:11pm
These people are so stupid….I can’t take them any longer!!!

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Scarybones
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 11:10pm
So if a criminal gets into the system he can locate guns to steal? I’m sure that the device can’t be that hard to remove. Another brilliant example of micro-management from the left.

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- FREEDOM_IS_NOT_FREE
  Posted on January 17, 2013 at 11:39pm
  By criminals you do mean city officials, right? I am sure they will all have the password and but would never use the system to track their spouses and spy on their enemies etc….
  
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- rinohunter12
  Posted on January 18, 2013 at 11:36am
  You are exactly right on the removal of the RFiD tracking (gps) tags. The many arrests from Bush’s “Linebacker” operation tipped the Mexican gangs off that something was up and they found and removed the tags from the weapons. “Linebacker’ was then cancelled. The Obama administration started “Fast & Furious” without the tags, which makes no since unless you plan to create a crisis to attack gun ownership. Tag guns legally owned by Americans after giving untagged guns to Mexican gangs? These Chicago leftists are a clear threat to own freedom.
  
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1TrueOne55
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 11:10pm
And then lets wage the cost of the first privacy lawsuit when the Poleece go to the wrong house…

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Trance
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 11:10pm
I know what everyone is thinking…

“They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

Benjamin Franklin

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- The Big Mick
  Posted on January 17, 2013 at 11:17pm
  Those who would abrogate MY God Endowed Unalienable Individual Liberties IN ORDER to achieve safety deserve a bullet in the brain.
  Or a baseball bat through the skull if the former is too expensive.
  
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The Big Mick
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 11:10pm
Given the Stark Naked FACT what we are REALLY talking about is an infringement/abridgement/abrogation of our GOD ENDOWED UNALIENABLE RIGHTS, does anyone find Glenn’s Jesus/Gandhi Non-violence shtick a Cognitive Dissonance of Clinical Denial proportions?
Is anyone buying his premise of The Founders’ “long suffering patience” with such attempted abrogations of THEIR Sacred Liberties?

Between The Sugar and Currency Acts (1764), the Stamp Act (65) which provoked street violence, etc and the Killing Fields at Lexington and Concord was a barely a decade. We’ve been being Victimized by the Tyranny of DC, enabled by our Fellow Dumbcits, since TEDDY and WILSON! A CENTURY of “long suffering”!

“Patience” as an EXCUSE for Moral and Intellectual COWARDICE?

Washington, upon receiving the news of Lexington and Concord at Mt. Vernon, wrote to a friend: “The once-happy and peaceful plains of America are either to be drenched in blood or inhabited by slaves. Sad alternative, but can a virtuous man hesitate in his choice?”

Apparently Glenn believes Hesitation, in this case a CENTURY of it, IS Virtuous.

Theologically, and my M.Div. from Duke gives me street cred for such a critique, Glenn has placed himself in what a British Thinker called a “logical cleft stick”.
continues in part 2 below

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merchantsailor
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 11:09pm
Let’s see, Chips in cards around students necks, chips in phones, chips in cars, now guns? Lets just move forward and embed chips in all humans that way they know were we be when a gun goes off a the bank at he grocery store wherever. Know way to turn it back now.

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- Eastinfection
  Posted on January 17, 2013 at 11:23pm
  Bingo… and then it will only be a matter of time before your health insurance company has access and says “gee, ..seems like you’ve been to McDonalds three times this week. we’re going to have to raise your rates”
  
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- 1776boy
  Posted on January 19, 2013 at 4:34am
  Obamacare has that written in it “scannable, readable devices” look out for it and refuse it !!!
  
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Aldo
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 11:07pm
Somebody got shot in Chicago today. Since Illinois has such strict gun laws, the shooter must have been from somewhere else. Right?

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lassiegirldawn
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 11:07pm
Here is the research that Jimmy Carter gave a grant to the University of Massachusetts to study gun control, there was only one problem, and their findings were that “Gun control laws do not reduce crime.”
http://www.wnd.com/2013/01/how-obamas-gun-order-will-backfire/

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- FREEDOM_IS_NOT_FREE
  Posted on January 17, 2013 at 11:45pm
  That was the Carter administration, this is the Obama administration. I know there are similarities but this is a totally different animal. This one seems to have a way of magically changing numbers and outcomes.
  
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sdd757
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 11:07pm
Gee, can anyone think of a way to get around this one?

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- Lord_Frostwind
  Posted on January 17, 2013 at 11:16pm
  It’s called a toolbox, choose what you need, find a convenient place to put the GPS device. Just make sure you can reattach them if the inspector comes by.
  
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OlefromMN
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 11:07pm
Chicago is obviously too dumb to understand that Germany exists. (If you have to ask, then you might as well sign on to “gun control” bans)

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Lord_Frostwind
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 11:07pm
Well guess which component is coming out of the gun as soon as I buy it.

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- sdd757
  Posted on January 17, 2013 at 11:12pm
  Or better yet. I didn’t even know I had to replace batteries…
  
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TruthTalker
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 11:05pm
Not the sharpest knife in the drawer, is he?

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