Top 5 Reactions to President Obama’s Gun Speech
President Obama’s press conference on gun control is barely a day old and already, the reactions have been fierce. Naturally enough, most of the more entertaining reactions have come from the president’s supporters, who, judging by what we’ve seen, seem to think the best way to engage in a level-headed debate is to act as non-level-headed as possible. The following are the top five responses to the President’s proposal.
#5. Toure makes a point. We think.
Maybe we should say it in English, maybe then they’ll understand. No one is talking about taking away all civilian guns. No one but the NRA.
— Touré (@Toure) January 16, 2013
#4. E.J. Dionne complains about the NRA
Too often, moderation has become a synonym for cowardice. Too often, moderates lack the guts to define the sensible middle of the road themselves — as Obama has done on the gun issue — and then defend it. Instead, they yield to the temptation to calibrate where everyone else stands before deciding what they believe. This allows extremists who lack any shame to drag our discourse off the road entirely, into a ditch of unreason, fear and invective.
After the NRA’s vile new advertisement that uses Secret Service protection for the president’s daughters to make a small-minded political point, can anyone take the organization’s arguments seriously again? Aren’t politicians who continue to bow low before the NRA complicit with a crowd that lacks any sense of decency?
It tells us all we need to know that the gun lobby is deeply afraid of the facts and the evidence. This is why one of the most important actions the president took was to end the ban on research into gun violence by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that the weapons lobby had forced through a compliant Congress.
#3. Bob Schieffer makes odd comparisons
Let’s remember: there was considerable opposition when Lyndon Johnson went to the Congress and…presented some of the most comprehensive civil rights legislation in the history of this country. Most people told him he couldn’t get it done, but he figured out a way to do it. And that’s what Barack Obama is going to have to do…what happened in Newtown was probably the worst day in this country’s history since 9/11. We found Osama bin Laden. We tracked him down. We changed the way that we dealt with that problem. Surely, finding Osama bin Laden; surely, passing civil rights legislation, as Lyndon Johnson was able to do; and before that, surely, defeating the Nazis, was a much more formidable task than taking on the gun lobby.
#2. Piers Morgan is “sick”
The pair of you would like the right to have a tank and you don’t agree with a single–a single one of President Obama’s proposals for gun control. And you know what? It makes me sick when I hear people say that kind of stuff.
#1. Charles Krauthammer points out inconvenient facts
Democrats are going to be the ones who stop this. Harry Reid would like to put the blame on the Republican House. He said he’s not going to present anything to the Senate that won’t actually pass the House which is another way of saying, ‘I don’t want to force Democrats in the Senate who are from red states who are opposing this legislation to make a suicidal vote in support of this if it’s not going to pass.’ It is a Democratic issue, it is a Democratic problem.
I give the president credit for sincerity of this. There’s not a lot of political advantage in this as there is in a lot of other stuff he’s pushing. He didn’t have a plan to do this. This was not what he campaigned on last year, it wasn’t on his agenda. It was, I think, a genuine response to the massacre in Newtown which, I think, moved him.
The problem is he doesn’t know what to do and no one knows what to do. The things he signed today, the executive orders, are useless. It’s the appearance of motion. I think it’s sincere, he wants to do a little at the edges; a little research here, a little encouragement here. But everybody understands it’s not going to make any difference. So, he is saying that the three big items are the ban on assault weapons, on the big magazines and the idea of having the background checks. I think they are not going to pass. I think he will expend some capital, but the country simply isn’t ready to do anything near that.
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Comments (259)
Loveland55
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 9:21amPresident Obama wants background checks on all gun buyers.
President Obama has sealed his records so nobody can check on his background.
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georgette
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 10:16amI have a 5 words:
he will never be king
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Sosorryforyou
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 10:19amNot true, Love. That’s just a Conservative urban legend and has been debunked many, many times.
lfoa
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 10:23amI agree….
Would the President be able to pass a background check to purchase, own, carry a weapon.
(yet he has the launch codes……)
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OniKaze
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 10:35am@Sosorryforyou
I don’t doubt you fully (as I have not had the desire to research much about a person I don’t give a rats behind about… But if you know where this info is, can you please post a link, so that others (like fellow blazer’s or People in D.C., or others BESIDES the left) will have access to it??
Thanks….
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Liberalismsamentaldisorder
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 10:45am@sosorry
So you have his college transcripts?
Could you release them please?
I’d like to see that financial aide section, the one where he gets a nearly free ride for being a foreign exchange student?
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Cavallo
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 11:02amThe state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of
the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the
benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any
curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation. ” -Mein Kampf,
Adolf Hitler, Publ. Houghton Miflin, 1943, Page 403
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Bruce4671
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 11:02amIF the president applied for a CWP or to purchase a gun in Florida he would be asked a few simple questions. One of them is, in part, “have you ever used marijuana or cocaine” to which you answer yes or no. IF he checks yes then no gun or permit. IF he checks no the he is lying since he was very open on a public forum concerning his drug use as a college student in his book. So no he would not pass the background check.
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fingerprintguy
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 11:08amOblama will never buy a gun (legally) He’s from Chicago, he’ll buy his in a brown paper bag on a street corner.
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Jarhead 88
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 11:15amMINDMADEUP – Sorry to tell you, like liberals, guns do not have nuts. Guns are also inanimate objects, much like the gears in your commie-made brain.
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stage9
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 11:15am“Maybe we should say it in English, maybe then they’ll understand. No one is talking about taking away all civilian guns. No one but the NRA.”
The NRA is talking about taking away civilian guns? Radical marxists aren’t talking about banning assault rifles?
When a liberal speaks a demon gets his wings.
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iampraying4u
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 11:26amHe does not want anyone to know he is a demorat but they will find he is a commie
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mercenary4freedom
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 11:32amsosorry, stop lying. You sound like obama. lol, this ******** want to make all these law changes to America yet there’s no proof he’s even American himself.
obama is a Islamo facist plant working for higher ups with their eye on control of the BIG PRIZE
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turkey13
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 11:32amCome on folks – Obama is the most loved president we have ever had. I suggest the treasury make a coin with his likeness on it and sell them to all his fans for $500 in silver and a brass one for the little people for $5.00. Apply all the money to national debt and we probably can reduce it by 3 to 5 Trillon bucks.
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Sosorryforyou
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 11:41am@OKIKAZE – Here is just one website link. Please read the entire thing because it really clears up the difference between information that is always sealed from the public no matter who you are, and information that is sealed due to a court order. Pres. Obama has never gone to court to seal any of his information. That has just been a Conservative urban legend that gained steam by people who wanted to discredit him.
http://factcheck.org/2012/07/obamas-sealed-records/
@LIBERALISM – Pres. Obama did not seal his college transcripts. He just has not released them to the public, and neither has any other President. College transcripts are not made public unless released by the former student. Pres. Bush’s college transcripts were leaked to the public, but he did not release them himself.
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SquidVetOhio
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 11:53am@SOSORRYFORYOU
Citing factcheck.org is like us citing obamaisakenyan.org about “facts”. You gotta come better than that.
BTW, Romney released his college transcripts.
If only Obama cared about assault rifles this much when he was giving them to drug cartels to kill Mexicans. But, they still voted for him. Oh well….. That’s your man.
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AvengerK
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 12:01pmReally SOSORRY? Then by all means present Obama’s college records for us.
Good luck.
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guns-an-bibles
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 12:10pmI have to admit, Obummer may be partly correct when he linked guns to “health care.” I believe the link may be lead poison…
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k9tp
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 12:13pmThat plus he wants to trace all guns at crime scenes except for the ones fast and furious sent to Mexico, nothing to see there…He had nothing to do with that of course and neither did Holder…
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Xiccarph
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 12:21pmSosorryforyou
Well, actually it hasn’t been debunked at all. When you hide something, and you have the backing of the powers that be to help keep it hidden, it can be very hard to prove a negative…that he was NOT born in the US. Create a good enough paper trail with the “help of freinds’ and things can appear quite good…until you look closer.
….Or in a rather unsuspecting place….
http://thedailypen.blogspot.com/2012/07/obamas-kenyan-birth-records-discovered.html
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AvengerK
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 12:24pmYou see SOSORRY…if the empty chair didn’t enjoy “enhancing” aspects of his life perhaps suspicions about him wouldn’t be rife? For instance, during the 2008 campaign, Obama claimed that his dying mother had fought with insurance companies over coverage for her cancer treatments. This has been proven to be a falsehood. Yet Obama continued to perpetuate this lie. The WaPo called his assertions “misleading”.
Then there’s Obama’s claiming he got a 3.4 average at Columbia, yet we know he DIDN’T graduate with honors from Columbia.
One of my favourites…Obama during the 2008 campaign in Selma Alabama…
“This young man named Barack Obama got one of those tickets and came over to this country. He met this woman whose great great-great-great-grandfather had owned slaves; but she had a good idea there was some craziness going on because they looked at each other and they decided that we know that the world as it has been it might not be possible for us to get together and have a child. There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Alabama, because some folks are willing to march across a bridge. So they got together and Barack Obama Jr. was born. So don’t tell me I don’t have a claim on Selma, Alabama. Don’t tell me I’m not coming home to Selma, Alabama.”….yeah ummmm the only problem SOSORRY? The rally in Selma took place in 1965 and Barry was born in 1961, in fact by the end of 1961 his parents had split up. You
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IndyGuy
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 12:26pm@Jarhead 88…I hear ya…TheBlaze is becoming a wussified Censor happy site…I’m done with this pathetic site…
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DoOrDie
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 12:29pmThat is the best comparison of the day.
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michaelmoron
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 12:36pmGoldilocs
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 1:06am
United States Congressional Record March 17, 1993 Vol. #33, page H-1303
Speaker-Senator James Traficant, Jr. (Ohio) addressing the House: Mr.
Speaker, we are here now in chapter 11. Members of Congress are official
trustees presiding over the greatest reorganization of any Bankrupt entity in
world history, the U.S. Government. We are setting forth hopefully, a
blueprint for our future. There are some who say it is a coroners report that
will lead to our demise.
Goldilocs
Posted on November 9, 2012 at 1:05am
for the United States. This new form of government is known as a Democracy, being an
established Socialist/Communist order under a new governor for America. This act was instituted and established by transferring and/or placing the Office of the Secretary of Treasury to that of the Governor of the International Monetary Fund. Public Law 94-564, page 8, Section H.R. 13955
reads in part: The U.S. Secretary of Treasury receives no compensation for representing the United States.
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I hope this woman is still safe. She hasn’t posted in over 2 months.
This is the same thing I have been trying to tell you all for a long time.
You don’t understand how dangerous this is,to Disclose.
I RISK MY LIFE DOING THIS !!!!!!!
WE HAVE NO REPRESENTATION ANYMORE !!!!!
OUR GOVERNMENT IS GONE !!!!!
THESE ARE ALL CROOKS !!!!!
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ThemDemsLie2much
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 12:47pmThis is Obummers thank you to his Boss George Soros who if you remember, bought a lot of Arms Mfg. stock up a couple years ago. His fat azz is cashing in big time over Obamas get rich scam. Wonder how much stock he has himself?
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Xiccarph
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 1:08pm@RangerSkippy
Good point on the body language.
Another thing I’d love to do on more of this guy’s talks, interviews etc, is Reverse Speech analysis.
When you look at the reversals of him that are out there, he really seems to believe in what he is doing is right and he truly wants to change America to reflect his ideals, and his narcissism shows thru as well.
http://reversespeech.com/?post_type=reversal&s=Obama&search-category=&x=146&y=17
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IndyGuy
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 1:12pmHow pathetic is the Censorship on TheBlaze??? They even removed Jarheads post questioning the censorship…
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SUNTZU
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 1:12pmYou can call him President if you want.
To me he is just the resident,and I get his mail
about 3 times a week.
I would bet you have too…
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SUNTZU
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 1:15pmThe Dick act of 1902
I looked it up,you should too
Its a goodun…
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Touche Turtle
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 1:18pmIsn’t it interesting that the POTUS wants you and I to give UP our privacy as well as all of our rights without question or complaint. And yet, at the same time, he supposedly has spent millions of dollars keeping his own information (which we SHOULD have known before he was elected the first time) top secret!!! You have to really have a good sense of humor to appreciate the humor in his arrogant duplicity!!!
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Maji
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 1:21pmNEW !! FROM “TAPPSCO**”
Finally! Here! Now! TappsCo** “Political Tap Shoes”
Been looking for that proper footwear for dancing around political hot potatoes??
Need to get around a statement you or one of your “comrades” made in the senate?
You know where that “clarification of statement” just won’t cover!!
Or just need to Dance on someone’s graves to prove a political point that serves you purpose!!
(Mass shootings/Beatings or Death by Natural Causes.)
Now you have TappsCo**” Political Tap shoes”
Yours for the taking!
Will never wear out!
Backed by the Left….Sanctioned by the Media!!
Obama wears them 24/7 !! (OR DOES HE?)You will never know!
(TappsCo**Shoes Division of Demo Party and Subdivision of Liberal Left)
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ExtremeRight
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 1:27pmSosorry,
Can you please show me where i can find Barry’s medical records.. It was my understanding that he is the first president to not release them… Now please don’t forget.. I want to correct my misunderstanding of the facts.. Either you or I, is an IDIOT
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Alleghanyponygirl
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 1:45pmI absolutely agree! Why is the president, who is a public figure, allowed to have EVERYTHING in his background SEALED? I don’t remember any President’s before Obama, except for Bill Clinton, SEALING everything in his background. If I remember right, all of them have made their records public. This also goes for members of his cabinet and “advisers” . Do we even know if Geitner ever paid his back taxes with interest and penalities? What about Eric Holder? So why should the Federal Government, State or Local Governments have access to our Medical Records or any of our other background info? The background checks that my state does covers enough! I don’t want the Government nosing around in my information either.
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Teaparty_Grammy
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 1:54pm@ Cavallo, who “The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of
the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the
benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any
curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation. ” -Mein Kampf,
Adolf Hitler, Publ. Houghton Miflin, 1943, Page 403″
Obama, yesterday, 2013: “Let’s do this for our children.”
It is really CREEPY that virtually everything this lying dirtbag does is straight out of Hitler’s “playbook”. People tend to forget that Hitler was ELECTED by popular vote – during a time of great economic upheaval, because he promised to fix the economy and return the country to prosperity, and keep people “safe”. Sound familiar to anybody?
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Jarhead 88
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 2:01pmI would love to know the name of the coward that is deleting my posts. Whoever you are, I’m happy I’ve gotten under your skin, you pansy.
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NeoFan
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 2:12pmThe founders made it clear that the second amendment was to protect against a tyrannical government. When you understand what kind of weapons the government has like fighter jets, drones with hellfire missiles, nerve gas, biological weapons, nuclear weapons, tanks, artillery, mortars, laser guided missiles and bombs and thousands of other weapons then the claim that an AR15 with a 30 round magazine is too powerful is laughable. The idea that our government can never become tyrannical is just as laughable. We are seeing it before our very eyes. The only ones that can’t see it are the cultish worshipers that think the one is the messiah. Just look at the comments. Mindless worship all day every day. To moronic to even know the real history of their own country.
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simpletony
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 2:17pmWhy do you refer to him as ‘President’? He’s not. What he IS…is muslim
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DarkJello
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 2:19pmBy their fruits ye shall know them.
Obama is a supreme liar. But we should trust him this time?
LMBO!
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banjarmon
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 2:32pmBack ground checks to own gun but NO BACK GROUND CHECK TO RUN A NATION!!!
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cimiron
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 2:33pmyes a true dictator, how he ever got re-elected is a mystery to me there are to many people that hate his ideas and his dictatorship, I can only think that the election was fixed
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MittensKittens
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 2:34pmI hope the demoncrats try to pass radical gun law reform, that way in 2 years we’ll flush the turds down the toilet
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 2:47pmSee the opening shot for the video at the beginning of #1? 0bama with a handful of children. Reminds me of a couple of grainy TV shots that I watched back in 1990 before we even began to start Operation Desert Shield. At least Saddam Hussein was honest enough to call those children and others around him what they were….human shields. They are they as shields to fend off claims and observations made by the right. Still, lower than whale sh/t just like Saddam.
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Wyoming
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 2:55pmCAVALO – Hitler did not say the complete quote – it is false Internet misinformation – Only part of it is correct – ““The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people.”” the rest is fabrication.
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Jake_Green
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 3:06pmDitto, as soon as Obama goes through a “Thorough Background Check” I’ll support them for Gun purchases. As far as we know Obama is not even an American Citizen…oh and for those Kookaid drinkers, a forged BC is not proof of anything except a crime has been commited to make him President.
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DannyBoy13
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 3:16pmSoSorry, So sorry, but you are wrong. Research Obama’s very first Executive Order he issued s President of the United States.
His very first EO was to put his records out of reach of the general public.
As usual, actions speak louder than words.
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jowettusmc
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 3:46pmtouche!
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dwcote
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 3:54pmYou’re wrong SoSorryForYou. His records are sealed. We don’t know what his grades were in college. No explanation how he got into the Schools He got into since his family didn’t have any money and most of his education was obtained in other countries. No explanation how he got a Pennsylvania Social Security Number when he never lived in Pennsylvania. His draft card has been proven to be a forgery so there are questions if he ever registered for the draft. The so called birth certificate he presented has been proven to be a fake. The interview with his grandmother when she said he was born in Kenya. The advertisement for his first book that said he was from kenya. There was an interview with him where he himself said he was born in kenya. There has been no explanation for any of these things.
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Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 4:15pmI must admit, I haven’t posted a lot during December and went on vacation during the holidays. It looks like a WHOLE LOT of new people signed up to TheBlaze since then, probably in response to the shootings. Welcome, all you like-minded Constitutional conservatives. As for the progressives who signed up just to be contrarians, I have already read your stupid, non-thinking comments, you are nothing new and probably are just new usernames of existing members.
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cliff_pollack
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 4:20pmThe real discussion should be as to what has caused the increase in crimes with a firearm, not how to limit ownership or access. What kind of video games are children most interested in today? Answer, anything with violence. Maybe we should begin policing the entertainment industry’s exposing our children to violence. Naw, that ones too easy.
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RepubliCorp
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 4:34pmSOSORRYFORYOU where can I see those college record…….love
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Marj0120
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 5:43pmAbsolutely right! While I know that his kids are high risk targets and appreciate that they require some extra protection, our kids are just as special to us as his are to him. What about the celebritities whose children attend private schools with security officers in place? Are the value of the kids based on the income level of the parents?
There were three incidences of mass gun violence and the libs think that justifies the punishing of an entire nation of people. Had one person on the staff in New Town had a weapon, the punk could have been stoppped when he shot out the window in the locked door. Had a dead lock with the key out of reach from a broken window been in place this could have slowed him down long enough for the reaction for an armed teacher to defuse the situation. In all cases the perp had an established pattern of mental issues. In China, in 2010 a crazy entered a school and killed 20 small children and one teacher with a knife, in 2012 same country 20 small children were maimed with a knife before the crazy could be stopped.
Blaming the NRA and law abiding gun holders will not solve the problem, and either the libs have some mental issues unable to put the facts together or are inline with obam’s real agenda.
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Sosorryforyou
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 5:48pm@DANNYBOY
You are incorrect, by boy. Pres. Obama’s first EO did the exact opposite of what you are implying. It revoked Pres. Bush’s EO 13,233 which enabled former Presidents and Vice Presidents to limit access to their records. Pres. Obama overturned this in his first EO. His first EO was all about transparency. If you don’t believe me, go look it up yourself on credible sites. Read the actual text of the EO, then maybe you’ll understand.
Also, for those of you who have asked. Again – Pres. Obama has not sealed his college records – he just hasn’t released them. No Presidents have released theirs (Bush’s were leaked, but he did not personally have them released). If this doesn’t make sense to you, then I don’t know what to say anymore. But, NOT RELEASING RECORDS because they aren’t a requirement of the job and because NONE of his predessors ever had to, and SEALING them in court are TWO very different things. He did the former, not the latter.
Also, someone else asked me about his medical records. I have no idea about them, but I do know that in 2008 his most recent medical exam info. was released finding him in very good health.
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Salamander
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 9:10pmHow about a simple birth certificate?
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Grey Eagle
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 9:48pmExcellent comments. He wants to know all about us and any health issues we have, but ALL of his records of any kind are sealed.
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jjjddd
Posted on January 18, 2013 at 3:00amOBUMA would be King & Piers Morgan wants to be his Court Jester & FOOL!
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nothing2lose
Posted on January 18, 2013 at 1:38pmI’m confused. Where do I find out when Eric Holders going have his next GUN-GIVE-AWAY? I WANT ONE. IF IT’S FREE, IT’S FOR ME. I WANT SOME OF THAT FREE OBAMA GUNS. THAT WORKS TWO WAYS. THE BUNCH OF GLOBALIST IDIOT.
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savagenatn
Posted on January 19, 2013 at 1:47am@sorry pos
how about mixing in a few facts every now and then? You are such a clueless hack moron. It’s fine that you’re an obama sheep, but there’s no need to distort the truth. Yes the jackass has his college records sealed, under the watchful eye of several corrupt lawyers. You are a complete idiot
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Linreis
Posted on January 20, 2013 at 12:39amSoSorry, I’ve read quite a lot of your comments here, as well as those people who are pointing out your blind ignorance, and your stubborn refusal to provide anything but your words insisting that obam a has provided the information that we have a right to know about a president…your failure to provide any real info is apparent in your many comments, which seem to be a ‘broken record”…the same things over and over, and no facts come to the surface of your rhetoric…
fact: he has sealed his records to the point that no one is able to prove he even went to either college he claims he went to…fact: there are no people coming forward saying “I was in class with the president when…” or “I knew ole Barry when….” this president is an unequalled fraud in every aspect of his life…READ his own books…you don’t get 3 pages into them without lies surfacing…his own words…his own contradictions…sosorryforyou, ‘love’.
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fotoshp
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 9:13amEj Dionne’s complaint shows she is suffering from the criticisms of her own complaint. She states, “[the gun lobby] is deeply afraid of the facts and the evidence.” However, she ignores the blatant miss use or negelect of use of facts by ALL those advocating gun control. She also states, “After the NRA’s vile new advertisement that uses Secret Service protection for the president’s daughters.” However, if you watch the full NRA commercial it gives MANY more case examples than just the President kids whose school guards may or may not be exclusively Secret Service.
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MCON29
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 9:24amEJ Dionne is a guy. He only acts like a woman.
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SeekerEmerald
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 10:21amSidwell Friends school had a staff of 9 armed guards. Whatever secret service agents are there is another issue entirely. The staff of 9 are NOT due to Obama’s kids being there. That school has had armed guards long before Obama showed up.
More ignorance on the left… Either willingly, or not, it’s ignorance nevetheless.
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Curioso
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 11:59amI have read and heard people saying that The presidents children need special protection because he is the president. What Parent would think that someone else’s Children are more important and deserve more protection than their own. Can anyone tell me that these numbsculls including Krauthammer rationalize that someone else’s children are more important than yours. Idiots. I do believe that all children should have the same protection that is afforded the the rich and those that are politically connected. But not everyone has the financial means or the organization of the federal government as in politically connected or the rich to be able to provide armed security for their children. So what is the distinction that makes their children more important. Any one have a clue to this?
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Rickfromillinois
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 12:14pmYou don’t find it hypocritical that nearly all of the politicians in Washington D.C. who have children of grade or high school age send them to schools that have armed guards yet proclaim that the NRA’s suggestion for armed guards in school is somehow ludicrous? 78% of Americans actually think that having armed guards at schools is a good idea, and 27,000 schools already have them.
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Mil-Dot
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 1:12pmCurioso,
I am right there with you brother. I have heard progs put forth the argument that politician’s families need greater protection so that they are not kidnapped/harmed and used to extort some types of govt secrets or privileges from the politicians in exchange for their safety. No kidding, this is what they will tell you. What a crock. How would you like to be the dumb ass criminal that tries that?
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dwcote
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 4:08pmThere are a lot of important people politicians and alike that send their kids to that school. It’s funny for them Gun Free Zones is the solution for protecting their kids. It’s like those of us that believe that it’s safer if people are armed than when people aren’t. SIgns don’t stop crazies with guns only good guys with guns can do that and crazies won’t wait for the police to arrive before they start killing.
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GhostOfJefferson
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 9:12amWhere is “middle finger” listed? I don’t see “middle finger” anywhere in that list. It was my first response, am I alone in this? :)
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progressiveslayer
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 9:26amNo you’re not alone and since you brought it uo!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EW-i1LTDxR0
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00100111
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 9:31amCharles K was the only one who actually knew what he was talking about.
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Dougral Supports Israel
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 9:53amI raise my middle finger at the TV any time I see Obama on it.
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texastommy
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 9:57amFunny, so do I.
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WTFurnuts
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 10:04amI was in dc in November and while approaching the Washington monument early Sunday morning, had the pleasure of seeing Marine 1 come up from behind the white house and pass directly overhead. One can only imagine the satisfaction I enjoyed as I saluted the imposter in chief with a crisp single digit salute.
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YOURSENSEI
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 10:32amThis is what you must know:
That’s all you have left.
It is so.
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crazyrightwingmom
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 10:59amWhen I hear him I sng very loud….I am getting a lot of voice practice.
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GuruMeditation
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 11:50amNope. My fingers in the air and the flag’s still wavin’!
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AvengerK
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 12:43pmReally YOURSENSEI/WANGO/ENCINOM/MONICNE/ad nauseum?
Harry Reid just said he won’t put any gun control legislation to the senate that won’t get passed. In other words, he knows he doesn’t have even enough votes among democrats to get this through the senate. This is why Barry’s 23 flaccid executive orders are not much more than symbolic. He knows he’s impotent with this issue…just like you with your imaginary life.
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CathyvanDyke
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 3:26pm00100111
When did Charles Krauthammer backtrack and become an adovcate for Barack Obama. Gun Control … disarming the people … is always on the list of those in power attempting to further a Marxist agenda. Obama’s executive orders are all about taking advantage of a tragedy … not sincerely responding to it.
Krauthammer: Obama’s Gun Proposals Are Useless And Won’t Go Anywhere
Posted on January 16, 2013
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: I give the president credit for sincerity of this. There’s not a lot of political advantage in this as there is in a lot of other stuff he’s pushing. He didn’t have a plan to do this. This was not what he campaigned on last year, it wasn’t on his agenda. It was, I think, a genuine response to the massacre in Newtown which, I think, moved him.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/01/16/krauthammer_obamas_gun_proposals_are_useless_and_wont_go_anywhere.html
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RushEcho2
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 7:11pmGhost-of-Jefferson: . . . Many and Most are with you in spirit;
Best to learn from the strategy of Glenn Beck and not be OWS;
A.T.Irrelevant: . . . Good to have you back; I just skim down
the comments quickly and watch for avatars I know&love, not
wasting time with ‘trolls’ — they should get a life.
Watch for Rush Limbaugh’s insights at http://www.RushEcho.org
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Blitz
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 9:07amSnake oil get your snake oil. That is what they are selling and people capable of critical thinking know it. Some people will eat and drink anything as long as their guy is shoveling it.
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dwcote
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 8:38pmKathyVanDyke, It’s been Obama’s plan all along to go after our guns. That’s what Fast and Furious was supposed to be fore but it backfired when someone snitched on the Government. The purpose was to get Mexico so pissed at us as to demand we disarm our citizens but the death of our border patrol agent and the testimony of the whistleblower showed that it was the governments fault and not the fault of our laws. It backfired on the Administration. Shortly after Obama’s election in one of those open mike incidents his was heard telling Mrs. Brady of Brady Bill fame that he was working on gun control under the radar. For his agenda to work he has to get our guns.
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piper60
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 9:07amCBS is in love with Agenda 21.
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spudwhite
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 9:02amObama is ready for the next phase– the U.N. is coming to town to further global disarmament and is in lockstep with him.
http://thenewamerican.com/usnews/item/14237-un-general-assembly-votes-unanimously-to-hammer-out-global-gun-control-treaty
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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 9:07amAbsolutely, another aspect of the World Without Borders and Agenda 21.
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Zipit
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 9:57amSPUDS! A can of baby blue spray paint, and an old helmut from down at the surpluss store, will greatly enhance your time at the range, or of any outside target practice you may wish to partake!
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bigbear_awake
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 9:00amwhat were the 4 Americans that were killed on 9/11 was it what a BUMP IN THE ROAD?
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GroundZero is Nuclear Demolition x3
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 9:19amNo, it was a HOAX, as anyone who studies a REAL aircraft striking a skyscraper knows. Old John Feathermerchant is a good example.
“Truthers” like A Jones and J Ventura are in the business of keeping the lie alive.
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azitdad
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 10:20amI think Bear was talking about the attack in Benghazi where our Ambassador and three soldiers were killed defending the compound against an organized group of terrorists who were carrying morters and other heavy weapons. 9/11/2012.
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Seenya
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 4:20pmI think he meant 9/11 of 2012, the Benghazi embassy.
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walnutportconservative
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 8:59amBarack Obama, just before the elections, backed away from approving a ban proposed by the United Nations. The Liar in Chief knew that if America caught on,it would doom his bid for a second term. So he snaked around the issues, the GOP didn’t press and here we are folks. Dump the leaders of the GOP, because elections have consequences, within hours of hisre-election, his very first order of business was to restart the path to the gun ban. They pounced on the Newtown incident. They just needed that, and here they are, taking advantage. Why aren’t they going after the sensationalism toward thugging with guns found in what the entertainment industry calls “Entertainment”?
This is getting good!
As for me? I will “TUST IN GOD”
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TIMEBOMB
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 8:57amI’ve learned from history that all glorious dictators have used kids to advance their agenda and I’m no different. I’ll use whatever tool I need to end your republic and put you all into slavery to serve my regime.
Sure you’ll lose all your rights eventually but for now I’m working on your so called right to own a gun,as your magnificent gay Marxist ruler I simply cannot allow my serfs to own guns,it’s too dangerous to my regime’s existence and I’ve become accustomed to living in the lap of luxury while you grubby little insignificant serfs toil to support me and my beard and two illegitimate kids.
You will all come to heel and obey me,pops told me this would happen one day and it’s coming true pops,thanks for all your guidance and teaching me how to deceive the masses,I couldn’t have done it without you. Praise be to me BHO.
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TEARS FOR AMERICA
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 8:54amAn excellent email written by one of my friends:
Yesterday, President Obama issued some new guidelines for gun safety. Those of us who are decent and law-abiding people feel tremendous pain and loss through the recent shootings of innocent children. Satan is on the prowl and, in these latter days, wants to bring havoc to America. Someone who hated America once said, America will be defeated, but not by an outside power, rather, America will decay from the inside. That is quite possible for, in one generation, morality has sunk to an all-time low.
Among other things, the president made these five points …
we will update background checks and provide incentives for sharing information
we will keep dangerous people from buying guns
we will provide steps to follow before a seized gun is returned
we will provide guidelines for private sellers
we will launch a national safe and responsible gun ownership campaign
These may be well and good points to strive for. However, I wish he had made these five points instead …
we will encourage America to fast and pray and seek forgiveness for our past sins in the hope that our God will hear and heal our land
we will begin a drive to bring prayer and Bible reading back into our schools and institutions
we will create a task force to review video games that bring glory to killing and maiming in an effort to remove them from society forever
we will create another task
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walnutportconservative
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 9:06amTears for America…
That would be refreshing. Actually, your comment is refreshing.
Isaiah 40 refers to the “Nations” as “Dust on a scale”.
God does not need America to do the leg work. He needs us (Christians).
God Bless
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EllieR
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 11:28am…or he could issue two executive orders instead:
Prosecute Eric Holder for Fast and Furious
Impeach me for my blatant disregard for the US Constitution
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jst1425
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 11:37amOh and dont’t forget that he will keep us all soooo much safer by making all the speed limits on US roads 55 miles per hour.
Then he will make the new 2014 Corvette illegal to own because it has been designed to travel at sppeds in excess of 190 miles per hour!
Oh….wait…no…it will only travel that fast if a PERSON with BAD DECISION MAKING SKILLS…IS DRIVING IT!
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environmentalandawake
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 12:00pm“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly. But the traitor moves among those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not traitor, he speaks in the accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their garments, and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared.” – Cicero, 42 B.C.
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dublinthewagons
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 8:53amEveryone join hands as we stroll thru the streets of hell.
Don’t forget to take a number
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eat-more-bacon-USA
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 8:51amTOP 5 most idiotic REACTIONS TO PRESIDENT OBAMA’S GUN grab SPEECH –
Hey, Blaze – I fixed the title of the article for you.
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PIGSWILLNEVERFLY
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 8:49amMy number # reaction to the skinny zero’s gun grab of the NWO:
http://www.augustforecast.com
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Zipit
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 8:55amNice find Pigs!!!!!
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team1blazer
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 2:51pmThanks for the link, it’s new to me. Good read.
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jakartaman
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 8:48amOur fore fathers wanted civilians to have guns to over throw an over reaching tyrannical government – Hello!
The very existing bloated progressive secular socialist Federal government are the one wanting to take/limit our guns/ammo.
I don’t think so! – I am going to keep all my guns for when the SHTF and we need to do something about our out of control government
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Red Meat
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 8:55amI would think our Republican leadership would be echoing your sentiments. Unfortunately, they are not.
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TheePolitinator
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 11:52amWhy can’t people grasp that the two parties serve the same masters?. How many decades of no change is it going to take until you all get the fact that the Corporation of the United States has been usurped by a corrupt banking cartel? Is it that hard to get? WE HAVE BEEN USURPED.
Now pull up your big boy pants and go do something. Right/Left paradigm, It’s a two party tyranny. For the love of God please forget this whole party allegiance crap and start to see we are ALL being played for fools by a corrupt bunch of heartless, Godless criminals. We must UNITE on Liberty, Freedom, and put aside all this political demagoguery and hateful pre-designed socially engineered rhetoric. You are only falling for their agenda of divisiveness.
ABSORB THIS:
The Department of Defense Dictionary of Military Terms defines terrorism as:
The calculated use of unlawful violence or threat of unlawful violence to inculcate fear; intended to coerce or to intimidate governments or societies in the pursuit of goals that are generally political, religious, or ideological.
Sound familiar? Watch this video. It’s our military speaking to YOU, I suggest you listen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkJ_ZiX_Tek
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americanmama
Posted on January 18, 2013 at 1:39amThank you, Jakartman! I’m getting weary of people talking about how we need to keep our guns so that we can hunt deer. We need our guns to protect ourselves, our families, our lives and our Liberties. That is why or founders emphasized that our right to keep and bear arms ” shall not be infringed”. Our problem is that we have failed to organize a well regulated militia. Psychos of the past have stigmatized the idea of having a militia, but one militia or more are certainly necessary to the maintenance of a free state, and free people. No one will openly speak about organizing a militia because of crazies like Timothy McVay
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americanmama
Posted on January 18, 2013 at 2:02am(I’m sorry if this doubles.) Thank you. Your comment is right on. I am not particularly interested in hunting deer, and I’m quite weary of people pretending that is our issue. We need the right to keep and bear arms and ammunition so that we can protect our inalienable rights (namely; life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, and private property). What we lack is the well- regulated militia necessary to the maintenance of a free people in the occasion that those people are faced with an elitist and tyrannical government. Isn’t it ironic that we fear our government so much that we dare not say we want to have guns in order to protect our freedom? The courts must prosecute criminals for their actions when they have threatened or trampled on the inalienable rights set forth in the Constitution, and the media and our leaders must stop vilifying private citizens who cherish our Constitution and the freedoms and respect it guarantees each law-abiding individual.
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Zipit
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 8:47amI think this was a much better reaction!!!!! http://www.infowars.com/other-tyrants-who-have-used-children-as-props/
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bumfuzeled
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 1:41pmIt missed Saddam Hussein but your right, the tyrants often use children as the reason for them to disarm then eradicate a population.
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Chuck7884
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 8:47amIf they used the term military type or style in any law or ordinance means all firearms since the revolutionary war. legalese for all fire arms. and should be noted and reported on.Another term is assault rifle any rifle used in an assault on a person or nation would be considered an assault rifle. Again legalese for all rifles.
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MMCMswRET
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 9:56am“They” talk about “assault” and “military type” as though they are horrific entities. But the fact of the matter is, the 2nd Amendment was specifically about ensuring the civilian population (militia) has exactly the same arms as the standing army.
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SquidVetOhio
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 8:47amKrauthammer, don’t be an idiot. It’s every liberal’s wet dream to ban guns. Don’t ascribe some honor to Obama for doing this. He used this evil tragedy as a political tool to do what he has always wanted to do but knew it lacked the support. It’s “conservatives” like you that help give this fascist clown credibility he does not deserve.
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Sosorryforyou
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 10:34amAbsolutely not true! Although I’m sure there are many liberals that would like to ban guns, MOST do not. In fact, I live in the “land of liberals” and I also “live in the land of guns”, and I know of no one who wants to ban guns. We just want meaningful, enforced gun controls, which is what Pres. Obama is attempting to do. It is not unConstitutional for him to strengthen and enforce exiting gun laws, which is what most of his EO’s and legislative proposals are about. You’re just paranoid.
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brother_ed
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 11:15am@SOSORRYFORYOU
I must be missing something…
Why do we need an EO to “enforce exiting gun laws”?
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SquidVetOhio
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 11:47am“and I know of no one who wants to ban guns.”
Well then, let me introduce you to Michael Bloomberg, Dianne Feinstein, Rahm Emannuel, and THE REST OF DEMOCRAT FREAKING PARTY.
Secondly genius, Obama called for a new ban on “military style assault rifles” (whatever the heck that means). That’s not EXISTING gun laws.
How about back-ground checks on violent video game purchasers or Quentin Tarantino fans? Let’s have “sensible” laws on how violent a movie can be. Do we really need movies like Saw or Inglorious Basterds? You mess with my right, I’ll mess with yours.
And finally, you guys can throw around your cute little keywords like “sensible” but it’s a freaking joke. Keep in mind your president’s idea of “sensible” abortion laws was to ALLOW THE DOCTOR TO KILL OFF A BABY THAT SURVIVED AN ABORTION. It’s a scary world when left wing extremists get to define “sensible”.
If you live in the “land of liberals”, then the only people around you with guns are the conservatives the liberals hired as security.
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justangry
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 4:30pmIt’s not paranoia if similar actions haven’t been conducted throughout history. It makes more sense that what SquidVet, and many of the rest of us, fear is more likely than not because we’ve all seen it before with little deviation. You’re a fool if you don’t think this blatant Marxist/fascist and sociopath who’s murdering children on a daily basis wouldn’t chose the same path as the other Marxist/fascist sociopaths he’s emulating so very well.
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justangry
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 8:44am“I give the president credit for sincerity of this. There’s not a lot of political advantage in this as there is in a lot of other stuff he’s pushing. He didn’t have a plan to do this. This was not what he campaigned on last year, it wasn’t on his agenda. It was, I think, a genuine response to the massacre in Newtown which, I think, moved him.”
WTF is this crap? Does he really think it’s politically advantageous to go against the majority of the voting public? Last I heard most Americans are brain dead and think this is a good idea. He’s right about Obama not campaigning on this. He actually is doing what he said he wouldn’t do while he was campaigning. So he’s not genuine about ****, and I’ll believe he was moved by the kids in Newtown when he’s slightly moved by all the children he calls “collateral damage” or conveniently and wrongly re-designated as enemy combatants. Whose side is he on anyway? Neocon idiot.
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americanmama
Posted on January 18, 2013 at 10:20amOr what about the millions of babies aborted each year that Obama refers to as “burdens”? I guess if you give mothers and doctors the legal right to kill the most innocent among us, there is no tragedy in their deaths. No,… They must be school-aged children who are killed by a gun rather than a scalpel in order for us to view mass killing as barbaric and tragic. It’s really all about optics, isn’ t it?
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DougHuffman
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 8:41amThose may be the “Top 5 Reactions” in the privileged media/blogosphere where our screams of outrage are moderated.
Remember, when something on-line is free then YOU are not the customer but the product. No one pays for the privilege of posting out raged comments and no one has recourse for censorship.
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lel2007
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 8:38am“the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” Works for me.
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puravida56
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 8:36amIm ok with background checks as long as obama submits to one as well.
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FlagWavingPatriot
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 8:45amAnd a drug test.
None of our elected leaders or appointed judges drug test.
A private in the Army scrubbing urinals has to take a drug test, but the people in Washington with the most access, power and influence do not.
Write your reps. I do weekly.
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Cavallo
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 8:52amBackground checks mean government lists. Purchase all your firearms privately or inherit them. That’s what I do.
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mercenary4freedom
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 12:01pmAmen CAVALLO
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Xiccarph
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 1:43pmI’m still very curious and concerned, on how ‘they’ plan to enforce background checks of private sales, either at or not at gunshows.
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ryanalicia
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 8:35amthe kids are obamas human sheilds against reason
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noslave
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 8:34amthose that are not fixsated/worshiping obama as a messiah?their new king? then the top five reactions to his speach??vomiting,headaches,uncontrolled bowel movements,laughter,&destain?im sure there are many more reactions to this communist looter who now uses children as props for his propaganda??
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americanmama
Posted on January 18, 2013 at 10:32amI am so sick of his props—- have you ever seen another president exploit people so regularly? Or is it just easier to see through with Obama? He did promise transparency. Too bad so many Americans are completely blind.
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SamIamTwo
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 8:32amAnd Obama armed the entire nation! Everything sold out! He can now officially say. “I”, eh? Confiscation next, eh?
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Daniel
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 8:30amEver notice how dictators always surround themselves with children when they do something to reduce the rights of the people? Like the dictator is taking your rights away, FOR THE CHILDREN, don’t you know?!?! The idiot in the White House is most definitely a dictator and needs to be removed from office by all legal means possible.
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Cavallo
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 8:38amAll of them do it, Mao, Stalin, even Hitler had photo ops with children. While most presidents have photo ops with kids only fascists use them as props when stripping the rights of its subjects.
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progressiveslayer
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 8:43amDictators all over the world do that,it’s a tactic they find very effective on the uneducated and gullible.
That’s the first thing I thought as well when I saw the Marxist POS surrounded by his props,a vile disgusting man indeed. Of course the regime isn’t going to start rounding up guns today because they’re doing the slow death of the second amendment. It’s much easier to strip people of their rights over time so they don’t realize they’re losing their rights until it’s too late.
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scissorflash
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 1:38pm@ProgressiveSlayer, pretty sure a dictator wouldn’t let you say the things that you say on here. You live in a world of make believe. Obama didn’t make you a loser, you did that to yourself.
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progressiveslayer
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 1:54pm@ SCISSOR I can’t help it that you’re too stupid to see you’re being ruled by a Marxist POS. If you could tell the difference between a democracy and a constitutional republic you might have something of value to say,since you don’t stfu. Since you don’t know what a Marxist is I took the time to teach you,have a look you might even learn something although I doubt it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ing95CynJg&list=FLCREqE1DIvW0LqQD2GSWlww&index=9
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