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Jan. 19, 2013 4:10pm Erica Ritz

Massive Crowds Turn Out for Rallies Against Gun Control Nationwide

A man holds a sign at a gun rights rally at the Capitol in Hartford, Conn. , Saturday, Jan. 19, 2013. (Photo: AP)

(TheBlaze/AP) — Concerned citizens gathered in state capitals nationwide Saturday to rally against stricter gun control measures, days after President Barack Obama unveiled a sweeping package of federal gun control proposals.

Roughly 800 people turned out in Austin, Texas, many carrying signs with messages like “An Armed Society is a Polite Society” and “The Second Amendment Comes from God.” Police in Connecticut said about 1,000 people showed up on the capitol grounds in Hartford, about 50 miles from the site of last month’s mass shooting at Newtown’s Sandy Hook Elementary School. Roughly 2,000 turned out in New York.

The event’s primary Facebook page lists more than 20,000 people as planning to attend.

Texas pilot Eric Reed, who organized the event, explained his motivation: “…I realized I’m part of the problem. It takes somebody to stand up and say, ‘Hey, we’re not going to accept this. We’re against it.”

He continued: “We want Americans who feel the same way to come out. We want to stand up, be united and get our point across.”

First-term Texas state Rep. Steve Toth is among attendees in Austin. He’s one of several state officials nationwide who’ve proposed trying to curb federal gun restrictions in states.

“The thing that so angers me, and I think so angers you, is that this president is using children as a human shield to advance a very liberal agenda that will do nothing to protect them,” Toth said at the rally.

Texas resident William Lawson drove more than four hours to attend the rally with his family. Once there, they held a sign reading “Modern Musket” over the image of an assault rifle and the words, “An American Tradition since 1776.”

“I’m not some wild-eyed person who wants to fight in the streets,” Lawson said. “This is a country of laws. But I want to protect our Constitution.”

Authorities reported no problems at early rallies, which remained peaceful Saturday afternoon.

Here are some images from rallies across the country:

Hundreds of gun supporters rally at the Statehouse, Saturday, Jan. 19, 2013 in Concord, N.H. (Photo: AP)

Gun rights supporters rally at the Capitol in Hartford, Conn. , Saturday, Jan. 19, 2013. (Photo: AP)

Naphtali Rothrock, left, and her sister Naomi Rothrock, both of Sprakers, N.Y. , join a rally outside the Capitol in Albany, N.Y. , on Saturday, Jan. 19, 2013 to assert their right to own firearms and to denounce recent gun-control efforts. (Photo: AP)

Hundreds of gun supporters rally at the Statehouse, Saturday, Jan. 19, 2013 in Concord, N.H. (Photo: AP)

Gun rights supporters rally at the Capitol in Hartford, Conn. , Saturday, Jan. 19, 2013. (Photo: AP)

Michael Rugh, left, carries his AR15 rifle while listening to speakers next to Luchie Wooten during a Guns Across America rally on the Georgia State Capitol steps, Saturday Jan. 19, 2013 in Atlanta. (Photo: AP)

Demonstrators rally outside the Capitol in Albany, N.Y. , on Saturday, Jan. 19, 2013 to assert their right to own firearms and to denounce recent gun-control efforts. (Photo: AP)

Norman Prather of Clanton, Ala. , joins several hundred people at the Alabama Capitol in Montgomery, Ala. , for a rally against gun control on Saturday, Jan. 19, 2013. (Photo: AP)

Gun rights supporters stand outside the Capitol Sat, Jan. 19, 2013 in Phoenix during a Guns Across America rally. (Photo: AP)

Gun-rights advocate Anna Riding, of Lehi, Utah, holds a sign outside the Utah Capitol during the national Gun Appreciation Day Rally Saturday, Jan. 19, 2013, at the Utah State Capitol, in Salt Lake City. (Photo: AP)

Gun rights supporters stand outside the Capitol Sat, Jan. 19, 2013 in Phoenix during a Guns Across America rally. (Photo: AP)

Chance Novak, 18, left, and his father Chet Novak, both of Boise, stand outside the Idaho Statehouse after a pro-gun rally on Saturday, Jan. 19, 2013 in Boise. (Photo: AP)

Gun rights supporters gather in Boston. (Photo submitted by reader)

Larry Barnett, right, listens to a speaker at a rally by gun rights advocates on Saturday, Jan. 19, 2013, in Nashville, Tenn. (Photo: AP)

Nine-year-old Summer Stayton got wrapped up in a United States flag while sitting on her father Jason’s shoulders during a Guns Across America rally on the Georgia State Capitol steps, Saturday Jan. 19, 2013 in Atlanta. (Photo: AP)

NRA supporter Kenny Deal of Stafford, Conn., hugs his son Daniel at rally at the Capitol in Hartford, Conn., Saturday, Jan. 19, 2013. (Photo: AP)

Bob Hunt stands for a portrait during a pro-gun rally on January 19, 2013 in Olympia, Washington. (Photo: Getty Images)

An attendee of the Guns Across America rally holds his hat over his chest at the state capitol, Saturday, Jan. 19, 2013, in Austin, Texas. (Photo: AP)

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Comments (448)

DSTSS2010
Posted on January 19, 2013 at 5:11pm
Claire, take your SPAM and SCRAM! This site is not for your personal or commercial business.

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Chrisrob63
Posted on January 19, 2013 at 5:06pm
I love that GOD, GUNS, GUTS picture! The way the guy is holding the sign makes it appear there is a gun in his hand, and he is holding it aloft. But it is just a silouette. Totally cool.

Good artist, as well. Looks a lot like my Browning Hi-Power(13 & 20+ round capacity mags)

Sorry Obama, you can only get it/them bullets first.(Spent cartridge casings are free, though.)

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- AmericaMustBeFree
  Posted on January 19, 2013 at 5:22pm
  Looks like a toy gun to me.. but if you are right it came from a good artist!
  
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- Chrisrob63
  Posted on January 19, 2013 at 5:41pm
  On second glance, it does look like a toy. Secured with string or panduits.
  
  But it will give me ideas for a sign, as I am pretty fair at drawing.
  
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- USALOVER2011
  Posted on January 20, 2013 at 2:45am
  If people voted for Romney instead of this dictator, we wouldn’t be here today!!!!
  
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SocialistSlayer
Posted on January 19, 2013 at 5:06pm
The people in these pictures are the ones that make me proud to be an American !

Give me Liberty or Give me Death ! ( If the Death option is chosen I will take dozens of Commies with me)

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- Keatonc333
  Posted on January 19, 2013 at 5:08pm
  please man, Ive asked you this a million times and you have never been able to answer. What exactly makes the Obama administration communist?
  
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- CathyvanDyke
  Posted on January 19, 2013 at 5:17pm
  Impeach Cuomo!
  
  Guns Across America: NY law draws activists to Albany rally
  January 19, 2013 3:46 PM
  
  Days after Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed into law the nation’s toughest gun restrictions, gun owners and Second Amendment activists gathered at the state Capitol on Saturday as part of a series of nationwide rallies in support of firearms rights. About 2,000 people, many carrying American flags, banners reading “Don’t tread on me” or “IMPEACH CUOMO” signs, turned out for the chilly outdoor rally. Others honked car horns as they drove by, and the crowd chanted “We the people,” ”USA” and “freedom.”
  
  http://newyork.newsday.com/news/region-state/guns-across-america-ny-law-draws-activists-to-albany-rally-1.4476075
  
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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on January 19, 2013 at 6:11pm
  Keaton33 I’ll be glad to answer you,since Barry’s father and mentor were communists that gives us a good starting point. Take Barry at his word,in college he said he was drawn to radicals and he identified with them. Look at the laws he’s signed,socialized medicine,the regime controls banking,auto companies,insurance industry and he won’t allow oil companies to drill on public land. He’s infringing on our right to bear arms with an illegal EO,you might say all presidents write EO’s,they sure do but any president writing ANY EO to regulate what kind of firearm we can buy is unconstitutional,see ‘shall not be infringed’ in the second amendment. Everything Barry has done since coming to power has been to strengthen the governments power and control over us,see above.
  
  His ‘FORWARD’ campaign has been used by Marxist’s throughout history and he’s flaunting it because he knows most Americans are too stupid to realize what he’s doing. He’s a Marxist it’s just too bad for the country that not enough people could see it before he came to power.
  
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- Unix
  Posted on January 19, 2013 at 6:16pm
  keaton, ‘redistribution of wealth’, social justice, ObamaCare, welfare for life to buy votes. ties to Bill Ayers, Rev. Write, his mother was CPUSA, his father hated America due to his belief it was imperialist, and was also a communist. His close association with Frank Marshall Davis, also a communist (was his mentor). He supports the muslim brotherhood, or islamo/fascists. He hides fast and furious (to try and foment anti-gun sentiment), Benghazi deaths (treasonous that he went to bed when he should have ordered out the support). His ever flowing EO’s that go against the constitution…he wants to disarm us, so he can subjugate us, see Stalin, Lenin, Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot, etc…first they registered then banned then confiscated the guns, then they murdered millions in the name of social justice. get the picture leftist, you support him so you should already know, quit playing dumb? you know full well what is going on plant…
  
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- 2ndrevolution
  Posted on January 19, 2013 at 6:47pm
  Amen!!!!!!
  
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- barber2
  Posted on January 19, 2013 at 6:53pm
  UNIX: Thank you. Sure wish KEATON would wake up , but doubt that will happen.
  
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- Mil-Dot
  Posted on January 19, 2013 at 7:21pm
  Keaton is a rat. He will be forced from his hole with swift pokes from sticks. He will be driven from his enclave and captured like the vermin he is. A big mouthed commie hiding behind a keyboard. Probably paid by the Obamo goons to do so. He is a fink. A rodent.
  
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- truthnstuff
  Posted on January 19, 2013 at 7:21pm
  People like Keaton are incapable of learning because you can’t fix stupid. They are devoid of individual thought and have been told that what they hear from their commie leaders is “sophistication”, and when they repeat it they too are “sophisticated”. So, every time they repeat the babble, they become smarter and more sophisticated. Facts and reality have no room in their diminutive minds.
  
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- garylee123
  Posted on January 19, 2013 at 8:09pm
  Here is some more ammo for you……the intended meaning of “well regulated”.
  http://www.lectlaw.com/files/gun01.htm
  
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- Keatonc333
  Posted on January 19, 2013 at 9:21pm
  Ok let me try and refute this point by point. what his father did really doesn’t matter. my father is a republican, and he’s been with me my whole life. Obama’s father was an a** and didn’t even raise him. I don’t see how bailing out banks and the auto industry is communist.. if anything its patriotic. it saved hundreds of thousand, if not millions of jobs. Also, why should oil companies be able to drill on public land? can you name one business that can operate on public land? and Obamacare, which isn’t even socialized medicine, is no more socialist than our military. so if you want to start calling our forefathers commies or socialists for founding the military then i’ll see your point. otherwise its nonsense! Also.. about the EOs.. your right to bear arms is not being infringed, for a law abiding citizen, If it is infringed, in the form of assault weapons being banned, it will be the fault of the GOP controlled house and the senate. Obama did not make an executive order that infringed on a law abiding citizens rights to bear arms. congress might, but Obama did not!
  
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- LIBSALWAYSLIE
  Posted on January 20, 2013 at 9:18am
  KEATON, just because you cant see it, doesn’t mean it isn’t so. Obama had no right, and no authority to spend my tax dollars on private business such as the auto industry. The president has no authority to pick and choose private companies to give tax money to(solyndra), that is a communist type of approach. Redistribution is another of obama’s favorite terms, and its also anti American. Open your eyes, get your head out of the sand, and then, perhaps you will see the truth: obama is the worst president in history, and not because of his skin color, its his policies.
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on January 20, 2013 at 11:03am
  Lil Keatie is a troll extroidinaire and 0 fluffer. Give these trolls nothing.
  
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- conserve
  Posted on January 20, 2013 at 2:05pm
  @Keatonc33 here is a article on just two companies allowed to work on public land. Also timber is logged on national forest by private companies. There are also all the companies that provide services on public land that run campgrounds, canoe and kayak trips, work visitor centers and gift shops and on and on and on. Try to do a little research before you post nonsense.
  
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- conserve
  Posted on January 20, 2013 at 2:10pm
  http://www.cohunter.com/news/2012/nov/26/colorado-companies-receive-federal-contracts-impro/
  
  link for my prior post
  
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nighttrainno9
Posted on January 19, 2013 at 5:01pm
God Bless these people, but I think we are to late. I think the war is here.
Washington does not care about the constitution and neither does the idiot in the WH.
When our govt. is no longer following the constitution of this country, it is
time to replace said govt. We have taken more crap off this govt. than
we did from king george. It’s time to replace this govt. if they can’t do an internal audit
and fix this situation. They have to follow the constitution if they want to avoid another
revolution.

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- Jinglebob
  Posted on January 19, 2013 at 5:43pm
  Obama stated early on that he wanted his own Civilian SS, well trained, equiped and led. The major questions for us are; how much will the Military leadership stand for from this President and his destruction of the Constitution? Which side with the Rank and File police, National Guard and active military come down on in the coming troubles. Does anyone doubt that Obama is hoping for another event so that he can say, ” I tried to control guns my way and now we have no choice but to take them by force.”
  
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- Mil-Dot
  Posted on January 19, 2013 at 7:27pm
  Jingle,
  He has to get though the US Marine Corp first. They have flat out made veiled threats saying that they will not put up with any commie BS. I have heard them on the radio with my own ears. Then, I never heard them again. Once the Obama goons were aware of them the chain of command promptly yanked them. They were trying to send a message. It got through. I am hear to tell you what they said. Maybe someone caught it and stuck it on YouTube. The Marines do not take any commie crap. They will not stand down on this. Jarhead 88 is a prime example. A real American hero and soldier for good. They are out there by the thousands.
  
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thegreatcarnac
Posted on January 19, 2013 at 4:55pm
God bless these people. They are just the tip of the iceberg of Americans who will never surrender their weapons. Now the kenyan will try and round up his base to counter demonstrate. They will say ‘guns be bad’ but all of them will be armed.

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- Mil-Dot
  Posted on January 20, 2013 at 5:14am
  Exactly Carnac,
  For every 1 man or women (God bless the girls) there are 10 more that could not participate but are on their side. The goons know this.
  
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OlefromMN
Posted on January 19, 2013 at 4:53pm
MN had a good turnout as well. You won’t see any pictures from the “media” however as the AP could not get a good shot from their car. God knows they wouldn’t want to get outside in our cold temps.

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- guz75
  Posted on January 19, 2013 at 5:09pm
  What exactly constitutes a good turn out. It would seem attendance was in the hundreds at most events. 600 in Austin??!!?? Texas, a state with over 25,000,000. Over 820,000 in Austin alone. Guess there’s not quite as much support for your position as you thought?
  
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- BIG_G
  Posted on January 19, 2013 at 5:30pm
  Shut up GUZ ya fk bubble, I guess 110 million gunowners nationwide owning nearly 200 million firearms is not as much support as we think? FFFFT!!!
  
  We had over 1200 true american patriots at our rally in our small town north of Tampa Bay Florida.
  
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- lawrench
  Posted on January 19, 2013 at 5:41pm
  Well, It is TEXAS! I imagine some people did not want to drive the 2-6 hours from other larger cities to attend a rally in Austin. And lets be honest, most Texans do not want to be caught in Austin after dark, especially at the Capital. Too many leftist in Austin.
  
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- OlefromMN
  Posted on January 19, 2013 at 7:44pm
  A lot of replies mentioning Texas when I clearly stated Minnesota. Looks like the liberal media will be playing on one site that was comfortably warm and a liberal bastion to claim low turnout. I can hardly wait for the anti-2nd Amendment rallies to show the vast support of that idea. Let me guess, all photos of the anti will be taken in Berkeley.
  
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- 338lapua
  Posted on January 19, 2013 at 9:11pm
  Protests at government buildings were only a PART of the festivities planned for today. Appreciating retailers, shooting at ranges,networking amongst ourselves were all sanctioned events for today. Screw those who are keeping a count,we know who we are. We know how many we number. Watching the paranoid meltdown on the left……..PRICELESS!
  
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- AxelPhantom
  Posted on January 20, 2013 at 12:50pm
  Guz,
  
  Texas is a big state : Baltimore to NYC 4 hours. Cleveland to Detroit 3 hours. Chicago to Detroit 4 hours. Indianapolis to Pittsburgh 5 hours. Bridgeport, ct to Richmond Va 7 hours (speed limits 55-65)
  
  Dallas to Austin 3.5 hours. Houston to Austin 3 hours. Amarillo to Austin 8 hours. Lubbock to Austin 6 hours. Brownsville to Austin 6 hours. El Paso to Austin 8 hours. Tyler to Austin 4 hours. Abilene to Austin 4 hours. (these travel times are on roads with posted speed limits between 65-75mph)
  
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soybomb315_II
Posted on January 19, 2013 at 4:50pm
wednesday i was listening to glenn beck radio and he was telling all his listeners to NOT march at your state capitals…..What is up with that?

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- lassiegirldawn
  Posted on January 19, 2013 at 4:57pm
  Because Glenn has shifted to the other side of what he represented when he was on Fox. Does money corrupt or purchase silence, you decide.
  
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- barber2
  Posted on January 19, 2013 at 5:01pm
  Divide the Conservatives Campaign again..
  
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- OngoingFreedom
  Posted on January 19, 2013 at 5:18pm
  @LASSIEGIRLDAWN …pffft!
  
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- Totally Domestic
  Posted on January 19, 2013 at 5:29pm
  There was a definite change in Glenn the day after the Nov 6 election.
  Right off the bat came out in support of Homosexual Marriage.
  That was when I knew I’d had enough.
  
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- lisalake
  Posted on January 19, 2013 at 5:31pm
  Yes, Glenn has been in “disneyland” and far as Sandy Hook and guns go…. he may have shot himself in the foot..
  
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- Frederick_Douglass_Republican
  Posted on January 19, 2013 at 5:37pm
  Whats the point? The midstream media will only publish photos which make the crowds look small and composed of scary white people. The small sample of pictures here show only one black man. I’m sure there were more, but it this was midstream there would be none. Midstream reports don’t show young women either. I went to tea party rallies back in 2009 and saw quite a few, young women, blacks and other non-whites but the news media eliminated any non-whites from their photo and video coverage. In fact they had a cropped picture of a man with an AR15 slung over his back to show only jeans and the rifle. I think it was The Blaze which found the un-cropped picture and right there at the rally was a black man with his rifle.
  So long story short: the midstream media uses these rallies against us. The way to fight is politically, and primarily local politics. Rallies have little effect when the media covering it only publishes a distorted rendering of the event.
  
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- truthnstuff
  Posted on January 19, 2013 at 7:29pm
  @Totally Domestic
  
  You may have misunderstood. Beck did not come out and support homosexuals. He took the Libertarian position that what they do in their own lives is their business and we need not be for it or against it. If it neither picks my pocket or breaks my bones leave it alone. It is actually a position we would all do better to adopt.
  
  Having said that I also think Beck has taken a “I’m not gonna fight anymore” attitude. Too bad because he was on the forefront in the fight for freedom. No worries we still others who are in the fight, like Mark Levin.
  
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- ObserverOnTheHill
  Posted on January 19, 2013 at 7:44pm
  TRUTHNSTUFF – maybe if your family lived under true threat of constant violence ( which I have no doubt Glenn’s does ) you may mellow your tune a little. He still gets out some good info but I don’t like his more and more frequent use of Alinsky ridicule tactics such as making fun of Alex Jones and the fluoride / GMO dangers. Anyone who does just a little research into either of the two will see they do pose a very serious threat to our health. Read up on the most evil company in the world – MONSANTO and their efforts to control food production through terminator seeds and GMO’s.
  
  Kissinger: “Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people.”
  
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- Mil-Dot
  Posted on January 20, 2013 at 5:24am
  Soy and others,
  I am convinced that Beck has sold out. He is living in the lap of luxury and does not want that to end. I now believe he was created by the NWO to push a butterfly, flowers and love crock of BS on the patriots to pacify us. It was nicely done you have to admit. Very clever. But, as with all liars, they are eventually discovered.
  
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- Mil-Dot
  Posted on January 20, 2013 at 5:34am
  Frederick,
  The “point” is that rallies serve to let others know that they are not alone. It gathers the troops in spirit. Can you imagine if NOBODY showed up? What message would that send? It would state that “hey buddy, you are on your own” It is a multiplier. A way to speak to like-minded patriots to say that there are many of us. Do not be dissuaded. Stand your ground. We got your back. Get it now?
  
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Catfish
Posted on January 19, 2013 at 4:47pm
I just dont understand,We can all see that the democrats are the ones on the wrong side of every issue, so why the heck do people keep voteing for them , surely there are not that many living off the rest of us. I have been think about (community organizers) we are going to have to organize in every communioty to take our country back. EVERY politican up there is dirty to the core.The other day there was a piece on here about Ried taking a bribe, The reason none of them will procuite him is because they are all dirty, we should demand that he be procuited. What do you all say.

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- salvawhoray
  Posted on January 19, 2013 at 4:58pm
  Because of the news media.
  I sure wish the Uni-bomber was still free, but instead of hating technology he hate MSM.
  
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- Lars Skipole
  Posted on January 19, 2013 at 5:30pm
  Why do they keep voting for him? Because he is Santa Claus
  
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- wethepublicans
  Posted on January 19, 2013 at 10:27pm
  we all know whats what. the reason why statists keep getting elected is two fold. partly because they are the santa clauses, and partly because the media won’t report on the reasons and repercussions of the statist policy.
  
  when i am talking with my friends (the massive majority of whom think people like us on this blog are “extreme” or “radical”) none of them know what is going on with any particular event or issue. so after long explanations and providing facts about democrats, my friends tell me “ok thats not right… but all politicians are bad… government sucks.”
  
  HERE LIES OUR OPPORTUNITY! This is where i ask them “well if you think government sucks and politicians are bad, do you want more government with more control? or the opposite?”
  
  so catfish -to explain my thus far lengthy post- WE NEED TO BE THE ACTIVISTS. activists doesn’t have to be a bad word (mlk, ghandi….. the og patriots circa 1776). Get out there. if it is obvious that the democrats are on the wrong side of the arguments,THEN ARGUE PUBLICLY AND CONFIDENTLY. know the issues inside and out. have numbers and facts waiting for their liberal retorts which you will also be waiting for. To quote rush limbaugh “passionately and well articulated conservatism will not lose.”
  
  Godspeed, and goodluck everyone
  
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1FreeVoice
Posted on January 19, 2013 at 4:45pm
Look at the slippery slope argument in a wider context. If you read the constitution, you have some idea how far the fed gov has expanded it’s power beyond what they were authorized. There are other governments which have quite nice constitutions – on paper- and that’s where they stay. Their governments are not bound to obey what is written there. Do we want to see the same creeping federalism overtaking our private liberties and rights? Look at some of the things that have happened, and tell me I have nothing to be concerned about over the long haul.

It’s not about gun rights, it’s about ALL of them. Tyranny CAN happen here, because it has. Think of the Japanese-Americans in internment camps, and the sedition act of 1918. The sedition act was upheld by the supreme court. Those were frightened times, and we were at war. Take a long hard look at Obamacare. Do you REALLY think it is constitutional? Where was the emergency, the broad public support? The second amendment is the canary in the coal mine. When one of our enumerated rights is infringed, they all become less secure.

Freedom of speech, the press, privacy (freedom from unreasonable search and seizure) and all the rest. Do you value THEM? This isn’t about gun rights, it’s about YOUR rights.
When people want to ignore the constitution because it is too hard to change, they are saying that most people don’t like what they want to do, but they should do it anyway, D@ m what the public wants. Demo

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- GLJones
  Posted on January 20, 2013 at 4:39pm
  This post is exactly right. I often explain things using government agencies that most people agree with but violate the constitution. Take the FAA. I think we can all agree that having 50 states with different rules for pilots would be a problem. I think we need the FAA to set safety and procedural rules to make flying safe. Where in the constitution is the federal government authorized to regulate this? Same goes for the FCC, FDA and many more. Now, what SHOULD have happened? As regulation of the air is a states rights issue, they should have crated an amendment to the Constitution granting the federal government authority to create the FAA and regulate the airspace. They did not do this. The federal government has ignored the limits set in the Constitution. I fear we are all too comfortable with many of the infringements that have occurred.Until we go after ALL the infringements, no matter how much we may agree with the concepts, we live under tyranny.
  
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resme
Posted on January 19, 2013 at 4:45pm
Should be storming congress while in session.

It is “our” property.

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- Catfish
  Posted on January 19, 2013 at 4:51pm
  And drag them out of our house and send them packing
  
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hatchetjob
Posted on January 19, 2013 at 4:43pm
Boy! It really pays to be one of those Acorn subsidized prostitutes.

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Margyt
Posted on January 19, 2013 at 4:40pm
The amusing…while disturbing as well…thing about all of this is how they are trying to demonize the NRA. They tried to do the same thing with the Tea Party thing. They tried to blame it on some Washington political figure whose name I can’t remember right now. The only people they can fool with that is ignorant liberals. The NRA is a single voice in this issue. Silencing them would only make the other voices louder. It is a shame that guns become the proxy for freedom but I will take a fight for freedom and cherish it. Thank you, gun advocates for standing up and being counted.

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barber2
Posted on January 19, 2013 at 4:39pm
CLAIRE : What’s a ” wanser ?”

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DarkJello
Posted on January 19, 2013 at 4:38pm
Fantastic pictures of patriots standing up against Obama’s tyranny!

Would watch again.

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momrules
Posted on January 19, 2013 at 4:36pm
God bless real Americans like these. Also to all of you who constantly whine about the baby boomers being such takers, just look at all the gray **** in these crowds.

There is not one amongst us that believe this gun grab is about dead children in classrooms. We know that this is a chance to disarm real Americans using those dead children as a stepping stone. The left finally got socialized medicine after many years of trying and they will continue their efforts to remove God and guns from America too. With Obama as their leader they know their time is now.

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- Trigus
  Posted on January 19, 2013 at 5:03pm
  THe Giant is awake – Thank you Barry Obama. This is about the only thing worth while you have done for America- The Giant has been asleep way to long.
  
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- Charbet
  Posted on January 19, 2013 at 5:34pm
  @MOMRULES
  
  All excellent points, thank you for setting the record straight!
  
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- JeffMT
  Posted on January 19, 2013 at 6:04pm
  I noticed the age of the crowds as well. There do not appear to be many people in the ’40 and under’ demographic at these rallies, regardless of gender or race. They are the ones who need to wake up to what is going on in this country more than anyone since they are going to have to live with it longer, yet they do not seem to be very concerned. I’m afraid it will be too late before they are willing to wake up to what is happening right in front of them.
  
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- BlueStrat
  Posted on January 20, 2013 at 1:04am
  @ JeffMT
  
  The “40-&-unders” were there, and in significant numbers.
  
  You will never see the LSM ever publish photos showing that, however.
  
  That would harm the Leftist propaganda narrative.
  
  Search YouTube for videos from rally attendees.
  
  What, you thought a press that would PhotoShop a black man carrying an AR-15 into a white man would publish any photos that disagree with the Leftist’s propaganda?
  
  However, I do agree that more effort needs to be taken to educate more of the younger generations. All they’ve had is ~12 years of Leftist propaganda & indoctrination that masquerades as the US Public Education System, and then are inundated with propaganda from the LSM and HollyWeird.
  
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NoMoMrNiceGuy
Posted on January 19, 2013 at 4:35pm
The gun debate right now is a smoke screen for worse financial problems. This is deversionary tactics. The annointed one knows that they can say guns are banned, however, no one will ever disarm us. This is all just shuck and jive. We need to be focusing equally on the financial crisis.

Germany and Netherlands want their gold back and Japan has devalued it’s currency. We can only give back 5% of Germanys gold over 7 years. Could it be because we have sold so much of other countrys gold reserves that there is not as much available as we were given by them ?

Hang on kids it is getting a little bumpy !

HOOAH !

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- thegreatcarnac
  Posted on January 19, 2013 at 4:49pm
  You are right. We have sold this gold over and over again…mainly for the democrats to buy votes.
  
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- PROUD_2B_American
  Posted on January 19, 2013 at 5:18pm
  RIGHT ON……….. You hit the nail right on the head.
  
  Also diversion for O signing the new H.R.347. Making free speech illegal anywhere the Secret Service is….. and, as far as I CAN SEE, that opens up ALL OF US to a risk of accidentally violating the law.
  
  The NEW law makes it unnecessary to prove, we KNEW we were in violation. So, anyone anywhere can be grabbed and taken away. A FELONY that carries one year in jail, TEN YEARS if you have a gun! THAT APPLIES to a legally licensed and carried concealed weapon!
  
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- spirited
  Posted on January 20, 2013 at 2:54am
  How right you are.
  
  What it also does, is make what ever other executive actions –planned and laying-in-wait–
  seem far less enchroaching and restrictive.
  
  > There are after all, 4 more years to get ‘it’ don.
  
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barber2
Posted on January 19, 2013 at 4:35pm
SLOW day at Obama headquarters, Claire ?

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PIGSWILLNEVERFLY
Posted on January 19, 2013 at 4:34pm
Watch this video….even Anonymous is on our side:
http://www.westernjournalism.com/strange-bedfellows-hacker-group-anonymous-threatens-obama-with-treason/

This is well worth watching all the way to the end. They even go after the Supreme Court.

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- nesmond
  Posted on January 19, 2013 at 7:26pm
  That was an awesome video by Anonymous. Chilled me to the bone.
  
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- Hotconchick
  Posted on January 19, 2013 at 9:18pm
  They have a good one on the New World Order as well.
  
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- 65Mustang
  Posted on January 19, 2013 at 9:23pm
  The video did not come up, has it been pulled.
  
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barber2
Posted on January 19, 2013 at 4:34pm
I’m sure Obama’s new tax exempt organization , ” Organizing For Action, ” is hard at work to push gun control. Just what they were formed to do : Push Dear Leader’s Agenda. These guys are all steeped in community ” organizing ” skills. Are conservatives catching on to what they are up against in dealing with the Chicago radicals who already have the MSM in their control ? Are conservatives getting equally organized ?

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stopprintn
Posted on January 19, 2013 at 4:32pm
Yippy !

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MidWestWingedOne
Posted on January 19, 2013 at 4:27pm
Our school district is using a recently passed bond (intended for sports upgrades) to enhance “security” measures. This means buzzers, locks and keeping the kids inside. Apparently the strategy for protection is Hide & Hope. My letter to the editor has helped to engage a security discussion where locals can request other means of protection. Apparently if your school isn’t declared GUN FREE – you lose some federal funds! In our little town, there are 5 thriving shooting ranges. God Bless these Patriots!

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- Sumrknght
  Posted on January 19, 2013 at 4:56pm
  Better warn your school that Lanza shot his way in through the ‘locks’. Hire a retired State Patrol officer…
  
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shorelineliz
Posted on January 19, 2013 at 4:24pm
@Naphtali and Naomi Rothrock (pictured above): Right on sisters. This is exactly what the lady down in Georgia with the 9 year old twins needed too! Give that lady in Georgia and these two sisters in New York a freakin elephant gun y’all! Have you ever seen a white tail buck? They can weigh up to 250 or 350 pounds!

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gyro
Posted on January 19, 2013 at 4:16pm
is there a posability that this will backfire on obama and bring the conservatives together again?

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- Keatonc33
  Posted on January 19, 2013 at 4:23pm
  I’d give the possibility of you learning to spell possibility a better chance.. we live in a world of spell check man!
  
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- lel2007
  Posted on January 19, 2013 at 4:36pm
  No.
  
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- dirtypolitics
  Posted on January 19, 2013 at 4:42pm
  Have you heard of Chris Christie?
  
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- jcldwl
  Posted on January 19, 2013 at 4:53pm
  Real conservatives are together. It’s the Republican party that is part of the problem. Too many progressives such as Chris Christie have infiltrated it. We need a true conservative party. It is time to clean house and that will take a third party and extreme vetting of it’s candidates.
  
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- barber2
  Posted on January 19, 2013 at 5:00pm
  GYRO: Have you noticed the Democrat Trolls here who work to divide conservatives over religion, spending, and just about anything ? They snipe and plant seeds of dissension..just like Alinsky trained radicals are taught. Division is one of the foundations of the Far Left – along with hate, anger, and destruction. Sound familiar ?
  
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- Totally Domestic
  Posted on January 19, 2013 at 5:37pm
  NO, but it is doing something better….it is SEPARATING THE TRAITORS FM. THE PATRIOTS.
  Especially in the GOP. They are losing their sheeps clothing in this. Just look at
  Christy, Rove, O’Reiley, sad to say Beck. Anyone who pours cold water on the NRA &
  the American’s patriots to stand and push back. Mark my words, there is just a small
  window of opportunity left to rise up.
  
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- gyro
  Posted on January 19, 2013 at 5:38pm
  barber2 = I have noticed
  
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- Haasbola
  Posted on January 19, 2013 at 11:59pm
  Keaton33 I have to say I enjoy reading your stuff, little interjections, dissing folks for spelling. You are the perfect Obama and Progressive Drone but you have the balls to take time out and read the Blaze so I give you Kudos. If you don’t know that Obama and the Progressives are just the same as Communist and that Progressivism gets all its ideological tenets from Communism then READ man, please, Saul Alinsky (community organizer) is one of the most famous Progressive influences on Obama. Barack Obama is also an Alinskyite. Trained by Alinsky’s Industrial Areas Foundation, Obama spent years teaching workshops on the Alinsky method. In 1985 he began a four-year stint as a community organizer in Chicago, working for an Alinskyite group called the Developing Communities Project. Later, he worked with ACORN and its offshoot Project Vote , both creations of the Alinsky network. Camouflage is key to Alinsky-style organizing. While trying to build coalitions of black churches in Chicago, Obama caught flak for not attending church himself. He became an instant churchgoer .
  
  That Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama share an Alinskyite background tells us two things. First, they are leftists, dedicated to overthrowing our Constitutional system. Second, they will go to any length to conceal their radicalism from the public.
  
  That is the Alinsky method. And that is today’s Democratic Party…The constitution is hated by the left
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on January 20, 2013 at 11:06am
  Haas
  Keatie is too far gone. Let that troll learn the hard way. Kudos for spelling it out, but too much koolaide is at work.
  
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kickagrandma
Posted on January 19, 2013 at 4:16pm
Soooo proud of REAL AMERICANS!!!

May GOD IN HIS INFINITE GRACE AND MERCY CONTINUE TO POUR OUT HIS BLESSINGS ON US as we do indeed turn from our “wicked ways and seek HIS FACE”, humble ourselves before HIM.

GOD BLESS AMERICA.
AMERICA BLESS GOD.

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- CathyvanDyke
  Posted on January 19, 2013 at 4:58pm
  Rallies against stricter gun control draw hundreds
  Jan 19, 2013 12:49 PM PST
  
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Hundreds of gun owners and Second Amendment advocates rallied in state capitals nationwide Saturday, days after President Barack Obama unveiled a sweeping package of federal gun-control proposals.
  
  Some 600 attendees in Austin, Texas, carried signs bearing messages such as “An Armed Society is a Polite Society” and “The Second Amendment Comes from God.” About 2,000 people – many carrying American flags and “Don’t Tread On Me” banners – turned out for the chilly outdoor rally at the New York state capitol in Albany.
  
  http://www.kmph.com/story/20630747/hundreds-join-pro-gun-rallies-in-state-capitals
  
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- CathyvanDyke
  Posted on January 19, 2013 at 5:00pm
  allies against stricter gun control draw hundreds
  Jan 19, 2013 12:49 PM PST
  
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Hundreds of gun owners and Second Amendment advocates rallied in state capitals nationwide Saturday, days after President Barack Obama unveiled a sweeping package of federal gun-control proposals.
  
  Some 600 attendees in Austin, Texas, carried signs bearing messages such as “An Armed Society is a Polite Society” and “The Second Amendment Comes from God.” About 2,000 people – many carrying American flags and “Don’t Tread On Me” banners – turned out for the chilly outdoor rally at the New York state capitol in Albany.
  
  http://www.kmph.com/story/20630747/hundreds-join-pro-gun-rallies-in-state-capitals
  
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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on January 19, 2013 at 4:13pm
Here is the core truth of the matter – we have the Constitutional right to have firearms.

The DEMOCRATS DO NOT CARE what the Constitution says in any way and intend to do what they can get away with. Step by step we are losing our freedoms as they are undermined.

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- gyro
  Posted on January 19, 2013 at 4:19pm
  Snowleopard = What happens when you bend over a small tree to far ?
  
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- Keatonc33
  Posted on January 19, 2013 at 4:21pm
  No one is trying to disarm you.. how do you all not get that? you delude the issue to make it seem like people are trying to disarm you and then reasonable common sense laws on gun restrictions and background checks are met with so much irrational opposition that it makes it borderline impossible to do whats right.
  
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- Lt_Scrounge
  Posted on January 19, 2013 at 4:38pm
  It’s not a Constitutional right, it’s a God given right that predates the Constitution. The Constitution doesn’t give us the right to owns the means to protect ourselves, it only recognizes and enshrines a right that we are born with.
  
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- barber2
  Posted on January 19, 2013 at 4:38pm
  GYRO: The Chicago radicals are hoping for a reason to declare Martial Law . Might even be entrapping somebody as I imagine the video dude was….
  
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- Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
  Posted on January 19, 2013 at 4:40pm
  @gyro:
  
  Exactly what Obama and the Democrats want to have happen – it snaps completely.
  
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- lel2007
  Posted on January 19, 2013 at 4:43pm
  What happens when you bend over a small tree to far ? It remains bent over until it is released. In case you haven’t noticed, obama & Co. have Lady Liberty by the throat and they have no intention of letting go. America will not be the first democracy to be destroyed by evil doers, it may well be the last.
  
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- WykkedWiggz
  Posted on January 19, 2013 at 10:13pm
  If society falls asunder due to disaster or shortages of food and supplies, we all need to be armed to fight off the zombie hordes that will come from the inner cities looking outward to rape and pillage.
  Ironic that all of the democratic voters will be the first to cut your throat to survive in a state of emergency.
  Funny how in the end…their blood will still run RED, not blue.
  
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- VanceUppercut
  Posted on January 20, 2013 at 2:27pm
  Obama wants universal background checks, and studies to look into the relationship of mental illness and gun violence. Oh, what tyranny! Fun fact of the day: Thanks to Republicans, it’s not against the law for a gun dealer to sell a weapon to someone who is visibly drunk or high. Thanks NRA!
  
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