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Wayne LaPierre: Obama Trying to Take Away Rifles, Shotguns & Handguns and Create a Universal Gun Registry

Feb. 3, 2013 12:20pm Madeleine Morgenstern

National Rifle Association’s executive vice president Wayne LaPierre on Sunday said the Obama administration is trying to take away rifles, shotguns and handguns and create a universal registry of gun owners

“During the campaign when [Obama] said to people, ‘I will not take away your rifle, shotgun, handgun,’” LaPierre said on “Fox News Sunday. “They leafleted the country with flyers, ‘Obama’s not going to take your gun,’ ‘Obama will protect gun rights’ and now he’s trying to take away all three.”

Host Chris Wallace said, “He’s not taking away shotguns.”

“Have you looked at the Feinstein bill that he’s supporting?” LaPierre said. “That’s exactly what it does. I think what they’ll do is they’ll turn this universal check on the law-abiding into a universal registry of law-abiding people.”

Wallace said there is “no indication” whatsoever that the White House wants those things.

“Forgive me sir but you take something that is here and you say it is going to go all the way over there,” Wallace said. “There is no indication…there is nothing that anyone in the administration has said that indicates they’re going to have a universal registry.”

“And Obamacare wasn’t a tax until they needed it to be a tax — ” LaPierre said.

” — it was the Supreme Court that said it,” Wallace said.

“I don’t think you can trust these people,” LaPierre said.

LaPierre testified on Capitol Hill last week in strong opposition to background checks. He repeated his criticisms Sunday, saying universal checks would amount to a bureaucratic nightmare that would “affect only the law-abiding people. Criminals could care less.”

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MaximumBobby
Posted on February 3, 2013 at 1:40pm
It was a good interview.
Some people may give Chris Wallace a hard time over it, but that’s his JOB and tough interviews give people to respond to tough questions. Lapierre stood up and answered them.

Compare and contrast with “60 Minutes” love-fest with Obama and Hillary. NOBODY in that room came across looking good.

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- SUNTZU
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 2:15pm
  My Wife passed her own gun control law
  in our home 01/01/2013 I am not aloud to get any more fire arms.
  We now have enough for each family member to have
  one long gun,one shotgun,and two pistols+leftovers for
  friends and neighbors.
  I was given new orders to use extra cash on
  more ammo and food.
  I love it when a plan comes together.
  New sign on front door reads
  No warning shot will be fired
  (Due to the rising cost of ammo).
  
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- Rowgue
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 2:23pm
  He wasn’t asking tough questions. He was playing stupid and ignoring facts. He couldn’t have possibly read any of the proposed gun control legislation and then proceed to say something as moronic as there is no indication anyone wants to take away any guns. That’s just intellectual dishonesty and propaganda, not a good interview.
  
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- oneshiner
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 2:44pm
  I don’t mind tough question from Mike Wallace, what I do mind is his snide attitude which shows up when you can tell he doesn’t approve of his guest or their answer. Pizz on Mike from now on.
  
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- antiprogressive
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 3:06pm
  The lack of a specific statement about TOTAL control is a lot like voting “present” for a record number of times in the senate.
  
  Deception has a lot of power.
  
  Or how about “we’ll read it once we sign it” ?
  
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- Lt_Scrounge
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 3:24pm
  Matthews was rude and obnoxious frequently cutting off LaPierre before he could finish his answer to the question.
  
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- oldguy49
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 3:25pm
  i agree……you can’t trust these people
  
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- integrican
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 3:30pm
  @Oneshiner, Mike Wallace is dead, this is his son Chris Wallace.
  
  …..carry on!
  
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- 000degrees
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 3:31pm
  If it walks like a duck……..
  
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- Uechi
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 4:39pm
  Chris Wallace doesn’t know his ass from his elbow. If you are going to interview someone on gun control you should at least know your facts. It is quite clear that Feinsteins bill would eliminate semi-auto shotguns.Wallace acted like he didn’t know this by saying it wasn’t so till La Pierre asked him if he had seen Feinstein’s bill. I was also quite obvious that Wallace is not 2nd Amendment supporter. He line of questioning certainly would lead you to believe he won’t be happy till no one can be killed with a firearm anywhere. Good luck with that Mikey.
  
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- oneshiner
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 4:56pm
  Oops! Sorry about that. Two peas in a pod and I paid no attention to their names.
  
  integrica
  @Oneshiner, Mike Wallace is dead, this is his son Chris Wallace.
  
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- UNINFORMED
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 5:09pm
  I would never trust Wallace. It was obvious Chrissy did not agree with Wayne. I’ll bet he shoots skeet just like the king.
  
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- techengineer11
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 5:30pm
  Yeh ole Chris’s inner Jew came out… His handlers are telling him how bad they need to confiscate our guns so he had to perform.
  
  Even though the average America sees how lame their argument is…they persist nonetheless.
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 6:00pm
  MorsiEngineer69
  Get on engineering your vest. The Jews are coming for you.
  
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- kenboo1
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 6:09pm
  It wasnt a tax until the solicitor general made that argument in the supreme court. All the while, the press was playing to the obama Admin and not reporting it as a tax… Obama said on many occasions it was not a tax… Why didn’t the SCOTUS not send it back and make it read tax in the bill… I don’t think Tax is found anywhere in the bill We the people (sheeple) have been let down too many times here and its time we wake someone up…
  
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- jcldwl
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 6:11pm
  Come on people just like republicans are democrats lite, fox news is MSM lite. They just want to create an illusion of two sides. They are all on the same team. If you don’t want to live in fantasy land thinking conservatives have their own media then that is your choice. I prefer to live in reality. They are all agenda driven and that agenda is power and money and control.
  
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- kenboo1
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 6:13pm
  Chris Wallace is liberal suck up that has zero common sense…
  
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- minorityconservative2
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 6:30pm
  Actually Chris, the government did argue in court that it was a tax. Does he not remember this?
  
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- techengineer11
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 8:23pm
  If nothing else this interview goes to show you that FOX News can not be trusted!
  
  Not one bit!
  
  FOX although to the right of other media is not the Conservative’s friend.
  
  Never trust them. Not even Hannity and certainly not Oreilly.
  
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- brother_ed
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 8:25pm
  “I don’t think you can trust these people,” LaPierre said.
  
  Phew! It’s about time someone said that!
  
  It seems as if LaPierre is switching the conversation from ‘gun control’ to ‘trusting the Obsma regime’.
  
  That is a debate worth having.
  
  The president has a different agenda than most people (other than us) want to admit.
  
  He was raised by radicals, he idolizes radicals, he surrounds himself with radicals… Yet no one in the media thinks he IS a radical!
  
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- Keatonc333
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 9:02pm
  “We’ve always supported instant background checks,”
  
  -Wayne LaPierre, May 1999
  
  haha hypocrite!
  
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- JohnofOregon
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 12:58am
  The NRA always and still supports a background check.
  
  A national background check and registry is not what is supported. National registrations always lead to government ability for confiscation.
  
  The basic example is “interpitation” of rules for government gain. What happened to Roy Rogers horse trigger being given to his son, OH government confiscation. Now imagine passing grandpa’s fire arm to you kid, first the government wil study your kid and “determine” whether the right is “ok” for them to have.
  
  We have seen this attack take place on speech and religion. I fully trust state government to do what is right. A bunch of crooks in dc don’t have a particularly good track record.
  
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- lillymckim
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 9:41am
  Chris Wallace is a first class ass.
  I will NEVER watch FOX when he is on.
  NEVER again!
  
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- techengineer11
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 11:50am
  mercenary4freedom
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 2:37pm
  Former Stasi & KGB agent hired by DHS to set up soviet block tyranny here in good ol’ USA
  
  1.6 bill rounds, 7000 new AR-15′s, armored up hum-vees & battle vehicles, flight ops within the city limits all over america, $70 plus billion brand new NSA spy facility in Utah, govt run healthcare, veterans seen as a threat, NDAA, gun grabbers, & on & on & on…..
  
  http://thechristianobserver.blogspot.com/2011/01/homeland-security-blueprint-for-tyranny.html
  
  But I trust GWB and Obama.. They love me.. They look kind.. They love America and they are only protecting us from those ole bad terrorists..
  
  we have to save the US from the terrorists then we will return your Liberty..
  
  Trust us. We love you. We love our Constitution. We even wear the flag on our coats to show our love and pride for America… So there you have it.. We love you.
  
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- TrueAmerican1775
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 12:54pm
  Stop believing that Fox news is conservative! They hang out with and send their children to school with the people from CNN and MSNBC. They are all part of the New York elite and they really don’t care about this country nor do they support the Constitution or the average traditional American family unit.
  
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Astalavistababy
Posted on February 3, 2013 at 1:40pm
There’s no double Wallace treated Mark Kelly with deference and respect but did not extend the same courtesy to Mr. LaPierre. But LaPierre has been the spokeman for the NRA for 22 years and the NRA is routinely villanized by the media. LaPierre brings this on himself by not being preparred. He’s just not good at being interviewed and he hurts the NRA by being the face of the NRA. That’s why the NRA should get a new spokesman.

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- MDECKER
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 2:11pm
  Who’s bankrolling Mark Kelly? The guy sounded as if he came to the show right from the White House.
  
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- mercenary4freedom
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 2:41pm
  Kelly is being played like a fiddle. We should all know why Holder targeted his wife and Judge Rolle.
  
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- firman
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 2:57pm
  I agree. I was disappointed with Wayne. He never once mentioned how many lives are SAVED by guns used by law abiding citizens. And why didn’t he mention the fact that only 323 people were killed with any kind of rifle last year? Then show some stats showing how many are killed by other means. We do need a better spokesperson.
  
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- DougHuffman
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 3:22pm
  @FirMan, “how many lives are SAVED by guns used by law abiding citizens” is a good thing NOT to mention because it’s not a number that can be publicly defended. Professor Gary Kleck’s “2.5 million defensive gun uses per year” is only sustained by the professorate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Kleck
  
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- oneshiner
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 4:15pm
  AND, who do you trust?
  
  Topic started on 5-12-2012 @ 03:49 AM by atopsecret
  While President Obama argues that lack of health insurance is a big problem in the U.S., no study has ever suggested that lack of health insurance contributes to more than 50,000 deaths in the U.S. each year. In contrast, Obama’s own Department of Health and Human Services reported in 2010 that 180,000 Medicare patients die each year as a result of medical errors. In addition, the report found 1.6 million were harmed by medical errors each year. However, more recent research suggests the 180,000 deaths per year may be a gross underestimate and Medicaid patients may receive even lower quality care.
  
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- firman
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 6:01pm
  Doughuffman: He can’t mention that MANY lives are saved without giving an exact scientific number? That’s ridiculous. But it’s ok for Mark Kelly to say that a girl wouldn’t had died had Loughner only had a 10 shot clip. Tha’ts pure speculation. Hence the need to counter that by speculating how many lives might be saved by guns. Kinda like how many jobs were “saved “by the stimulus. What’s good for the goose…Get it?
  
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- r3dbull4dd1kt
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 8:34am
  @doughuffman–wikipedia is NOT a reliable source for any argument–totally subjective and plagued by dis-information…
  
  try this instead as a reason why the numbers of gun related data are manipulated–its not a conspiracy its just a gap in the data collection by investigators…
  
  http://www.guncite.com/gun_control_gcdguse.html
  
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dynaflow1
Posted on February 3, 2013 at 1:31pm
Wallace is a kool-aid drinking Ovbambo maggot.!!!!!!!!!!!! FOX needs to get rid of him and sweet meat Sheppard Smith.

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- MaximumBobby
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 1:41pm
  ********.
  He was doing his job. Anybody who can’t ask, or ANSWER, the tough questions doesn’t need to be there.
  
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- VanceUppercut
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 1:58pm
  And Wayne LaPierre is a conspiracy nut who has now accused two different Presidents of purposely tolerating gun violence so that they can ban guns. Wallace hit it on the nose with his line: “Forgive me sir but you take something that is here and you say it is going to go all the way over there.” This is what Cons have been doing for the past 4 years, losing their heads over what they think is going to happen somewhere down the road based off of some crackpot theory they read in the Internet. If Obama were to propose a bill to raise funding for a cure for childhood leukemia, two minutes later some fearless “patriot” would already have decided it was really some plot to take people’s kids away from them and turn them gay. Cons have decide en masse to cease living in a fact-based world, and to instead wallow in a world of their own making, one of fear, conjecture, innuendo, racism and embarrassingly ridiculous conspiracy theories. (It was on this very site where I learned–thanks to the mental giants who post here–that an earthquake in Mexico was an attempt by Obama–using secret weapons to create the earthquake–to kill his daughter so that he would get sympathy votes in the election.) Happily for me, and sadly for you, the real world will not conform to your fictitious one, evidenced by the loss of a Presidential election that most on the Right were absolutely convince they could not lose.
  
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- jungle J
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 2:36pm
  progressives give them self away by name calling.
  
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- barber2
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 2:37pm
  VANCE: Pound salt. We are so tired of your constant, arrogant smears about all of the ” mental giants” who post here. Your comments are always more about smearing than clarifying. Would that your intelligence and common sense equalled your smug arrogance.
  
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- firman
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 3:04pm
  Hey Vance, you said- “This is what Cons have been doing for the past 4 years, losing their heads over what they think is going to happen somewhere down the road based off of some crackpot theory they read in the Internet”….You mean like when Bloomberg banned sodas over 16 ozs.? Yeah I’m sure you didn’t think that would happen either. Read a little history.
  
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- Lt_Scrounge
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 3:23pm
  Vance, you seem to have a seriously lacking knowledge of history when it comes to firearms. The DiFI has repeatedly said that if she could confiscate all of the guns in America, she would. The Democrats have repeatedly violated the Firearms Owner Protection Act of 1986 when it comes to trying to establish an unlawful national firearms registry and been called onto the carpet for trying to do so in violation of the law. Obamao has signed an Executive order requiring gun dealers to report multiple rifle sales despite congressional legislation to the contrary. DiFi has stated that the goal of the law is to prevent not only more guns to become available, but also to prevent current owners from transferring their weapons to anyone else, including their heirs upon death. How is that NOT confiscation? The DiFi law is unconstitutional. It is also a violation of EVERY Supreme Court decision concerning the Second Amendment to date. It absolutely violates the decision in Hughes v. US wherein the court ruled that the only reason that the government could ban sawed off shotguns was because the shotguns were not of particular use to a militia. Modern semi automatic rifles with large capacity magazines may not be as good as selective fire ones, they are certainly suitable for militia use and are therefore protected under both the Second Amendment and the Militia Efficiency act of 1902.
  
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- wowjustwow
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 5:15pm
  I love it…accuse the other side of doing what you do all day long…call ANYONE with opposing viewpoint pinko commies, ******** and everything else. And you wonder why this country is divided. You don’t know how to think or reason…just namecall. That’s what frustrated 6th graders do.
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 8:25pm
  LanceUpperButt
  If you take the 2nd and put mere trust in it’s place, you, LanceUpperButt promise that your dictator du jour won’t take anything else along with the 2nd? Trust and LanceUpperButt and a dictator are crap. Keep your crap and your dicktator, we’ll just keep the 2nd as it it. No thanks.
  
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Tom Ballard
Posted on February 3, 2013 at 1:20pm
Is Wallace belong to the Obama administration?

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- Plainview
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 2:52pm
  Wallace continually disrupted Wayne, and would not let him answer a question before asking another. Wallace the left wing radical, still will not accept the fact that there is no such weapons in the US that has a nomenclature of “Assault Weapon.” He continued to use the same stupid leftist radical talking points that his great friend, Feinstein uses!
  
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Astalavistababy
Posted on February 3, 2013 at 1:17pm
LaPierre invites the kind of treatment he gets on these programs. He’s easy to slap around because he is not prepared and just not good at it. So guys like Wallace and Schieffer and Gregory can’t resist to take shots at him. LaPierre needs to hire a debate coach if he continues to insist he be the spokesman for the NRA. Maybe hire a PR firm and find a new spokesperson. How about someone who is telegenic with a smile and with good body language. The guy looks so uncomfortable, like he’s having a prostate exam while he’s struggling to make his case.

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ziggrl
Posted on February 3, 2013 at 1:15pm
I’d much rather be paranoid, than be caught off guard and stupid.

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- searching for the Truth
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 1:20pm
  To be paranoid is an example of a pigeon hole !
  
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- searching for the Truth
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 1:21pm
  But, if you work for them – it’s OK.
  
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- searching for the Truth
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 1:23pm
  Please forgive – if one works for them.
  
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- bannedfromCNN
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 2:09pm
  I see the regime has their latest talking point out in force today. Hagel totally bombs during his ‘confirmation’ hearing, due to lack of knowledge and not being prepared, and the regime sends out the word to attack LaPierre for being ‘unprepared’. This playbook is getting a bit old and predictable.
  
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- barber2
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 2:32pm
  BANNED: Yes. The Obama Democrat Team is noted for ATTACK. They have brought a new level of political incivility to this country AND, using their Chicago Alinsky training, they always accuse the conservatives of doing what they, themselves, are actually doing.
  
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- pragmaticpatriot
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 10:49am
  just because im paranoid doesnt mean they arent after me…
  
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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on February 3, 2013 at 1:13pm
Disarm the people and you have a people at the mercy of the government.

I talked with a neighbor of mine who lived in Germany in the times Adolph rose to power, and she shook her head and explained that the same process of disarming the people and having a dictatorship arise is occurring here as well and most Americans are refusing to see it.

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- db321
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 1:27pm
  I will only serve one master and that is my savor Jesus Christ. Jesus has made a promise of life in eternity and Obama has broken all of his promises. It is simple, follow a man that lies or follow the truth.
  
  The Bible says that all men will have an opportunity to reject or except Jesus Christ and Obama is certainly not Jesus Christ.
  
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- MaximumBobby
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 1:45pm
  I was stationed in WEST Germany in the late 80s, early 90s and lived in a German house in a German neighborhood. A very nice lady next door was a child when the US Army Air Forces leveled the entire city of Hanau, thinking it was Frankfurt (intentional fake by Hitler). She said that Germany got what was coming to it and she’d wished the parents and grandparents of Germany had stood up to Hitler before all that was necessary. She lost a sister and all her cousins and she never showed a bit of anger. She even married a GI returning from Vietnam and bore him two SMOKING HOT daughters. Nuff said.
  
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- 1RealAmerican
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 2:05pm
  @db321
  Exactly..check out the song by Colt Ford – “Answer To No one” – that is my response to what is going on in this world right now…….
  
  @MaximumBobby
  Was also there from 83 to 90 and married to a German girl – the stories I was told are excatly parallel to what is happening here – problem is the same – no one will listen…….
  
  Just sayin……..with defiance……..
  
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- mercenary4freedom
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 2:37pm
  Former Stasi & KGB agent hired by DHS to set up soviet block tyranny here in good ol’ USA
  
  1.6 bill rounds, 7000 new AR-15′s, armored up hum-vees & battle vehicles, flight ops within the city limits all over america, $70 plus billion brand new NSA spy facility in Utah, govt run healthcare, veterans seen as a threat, NDAA, gun grabbers, & on & on & on…..
  
  http://thechristianobserver.blogspot.com/2011/01/homeland-security-blueprint-for-tyranny.html
  
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- oneshiner
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 2:57pm
  @DB321. I always love your posts. I agree with you 100%.
  
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- Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 3:36pm
  @DB 321 – Amen, God and Christ first, foremost and always.
  
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searching for the Truth
Posted on February 3, 2013 at 1:11pm
Too many pigeon holes to fall in , especially for those States who have legalized drugs !

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- oneshiner
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 5:46pm
  When they learn it really doesn’t work, they will change their laws on the legalized pot, I hope.
  
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barber2
Posted on February 3, 2013 at 1:11pm
Can’t wait to see the mayors’ ( Democrat, no doubt) ad on gun violence during today’s Super Bowl. Gee, wonder who paid for this ? Expensive bit of media time . Our Lefty’s learned Goebbels’ lesson about the importance of propaganda and media control !

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- Fubared
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 1:15pm
  Dude, now we will get a diatribe from jihad jerk on Goebbels’ actual message and intent to the true believers and work in several whack job pieces on Jews and Israel…. Jeesh Barber.
  
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- barber2
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 2:25pm
  FUB: Ha. Sorry !
  
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- barber2
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 2:28pm
  FUB: Have been wondering where Jerk/ Soyburger / Oh Brother were ?! Sometimes I wonder if the MaryBE set isn’t just them doing their Divide the ‘ Dumb ‘ Conservatives Troll role personas !?
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 6:06pm
  They do the vulture thing, salivating over each new story on a Jew, Israel, or any story they can infuse the nazi meme into. MorsiEngineer69 even got a Jew shot into this story-about “Chris Wallace” using his inner Jew. Inept lil nazis reaching at every turn.
  
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paulwbrown
Posted on February 3, 2013 at 1:04pm
For those of us in the know, we have long been aware of Obama’s intention to radically restrict the 2nd Amendment. It goes back to his days as a state senator. His anti-gun position has also been reflected in his appointments and his supporters. Now he has the opportunity to move on his anti-gun agenda. Hopefully we will be strong enough to defeat his efforts.

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marybethelizabeth
Posted on February 3, 2013 at 1:03pm
Wayne LaPierre is hurting gun owners.

Wayne La Pierre is delusional. He’s making stuff up to increase profits for the firearm manufacturers. This hurts the rest of the economy by transferring resources from where they would be normally allocated to fund hysteria.

This is the mechanism of the economic bubble.

Anyone buying a gun now is overpaying for it.

Wayne LaPierre is hurting gun owners.

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- woodyee
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 1:08pm
  Woman, we need to have a little talk…
  
  How is it that you an Encinut happen to show up at the same time so often? Keep it up, and I’ll drop you quicker than Obammy drops drawers at a gay bath house…
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 1:12pm
  BarryMeth
  You are hurting brain owners. “we cannot afford free training for teachers”.
  
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- guz75
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 1:40pm
  You know when someone’s made a good point and hit a nerve, when grown adults resort to talking like children. Why not man up and actually explain your issue with the point.
  
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- MaximumBobby
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 1:47pm
  Crazy broad. LaPierre didn’t introduce DOZENS of anti-gun legislation the first weeks of January.
  The NRA represents its members, including ME.
  Firearm and ammunition manufacturers produce a legal product AMERICANS WANT, as evidenced by the current shortages and price bubbles. Obama and Feinswine have sold more guns than the NRA ever could.
  
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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 2:12pm
  Do you have to work at making idiotic comments or does it come natural? The NRA doesn’t have the authority to strip us of our right to own a firearm. Legally the government doesn’t either but this regime is doing a pretty good job of eliminating our second amendment right,slowly chipping away. The NRA isn’t in your words ‘making stuff up’. I’ll simplify it for you because you’re a simpleton,the NRA good this regime BAD. Got it dummy?
  
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- Thundergod
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 3:16pm
  You are a moron Mary Beth. your blaming our economic situation on people buying guns instead of putting their moeny where you thing they should be putting it? You are not in favor of a free market system driven by consumer demand and are in favor of a government that requires the consumer to be forced to spend their money the way the government thinks best. your a moron and wouldnt want to live by the same rules you would force on others.
  
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- marybethelizabeth
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 3:31pm
  The shortcomings of the NRA have been well known for decades, especially to the patriot communities.
  
  Gun Owners of America must be about 20 years old by now.
  
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- r3dbull4dd1kt
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 8:56am
  Gun Owners of America has a base that are largely ALSO members of the NRA…and the ‘Patriot’ Community you speak of are ALL NRA Members, if they are in fact Patriots and not Sheeprogressives like you…
  
  The NRA has added a HALF A MILLION members in 60 days–thats a pretty clear message to me!
  
  BTW–your ‘Messiah’ is the Firearms Salesman of the Millennium!
  
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Chuck7884
Posted on February 3, 2013 at 12:59pm
ANY TIME you ban the citizen you band the GOVERNMENT. ANY time You EXEMPT the GOVERNMENT you EXEMPT The CITIZEN. WE THE PEOPLE then goes on to say FOR THE PEOPLE BY THE PEOPLE AND OF THE PEOPLE.

The citizen is the government Plan and True.

Constitutional Law 101. LOOK IT UP. Educate yourself.

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- 1stKENTUCKYREGULAR
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 3:21pm
  @CHUCK7884
  
  In theory you are correct, however the 16th and 17th amendments affectively made the constitution government of , by, and for the BENJAMINS
  
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SpankDaMonkey
Posted on February 3, 2013 at 12:58pm
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I don’t trust either side with my life or my guns…..

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Marine25
Posted on February 3, 2013 at 12:57pm
Mr. LaPierre comes off as a paranoid-delusional. He is the biggest PR boost to the gun-regulation movement. He does not represent the NRA members so much as the manufacturers that provide the lion’s share of the NRA income stream. The quicker the NRA admits this and finds a more sophisticated spokesman the better. Wallace tried several times to give him the opportunity to not repeat the rambling, illogical performance he gave at the congressional hearing and Lapierre instead forayed deeper into paranoid conspiracies. We can now add the Justices on the Court to his list of accused conspirators against the 2nd Amendment. That list already includes a popular (twice-elected with majorities) President, the media/press who buy ink by the barrel, the majority of Americans as judged by overwhelming polling numbers regarding background checks and semi-auto regulations, and his membership who overwhelmingly approve of the background checks he despises. Feinstein won’t pass, and he will claim that a victory. Meanwhile the political power and populist reputation of the NRA is eroding quickly, and it is increasingly met with the newly enthused and growing political power of gun regulators. Blame the media or Mr. Bloomberg or any number of mass-shooters, but LaPierre’s mouth provides them more fuel than the mayor’s millions or 3 column headlines.

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- Fubared
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 1:08pm
  Seems like they should get your permission first huh? The ranks of the NRA grow daily, but shirley they should again ask you if that is ok. Go to Ruger.com and sign up, sign for the 2nd.
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 1:27pm
  http://www.forbes.com/sites/brucerogers/2013/02/01/nra-winning-the-influence-battle-over-gun-control/
  
  http://www.ruger.com/micros/advocacy/
  
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- Marine25
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 1:35pm
  @fubared
  I’m sure Mr. LaPierre isn’t interested in my permission or that of any other NRA member. After all, as you say, his membership roster is increasing daily. But what will he say to Congressmen and Senators when they tell him that, for the first time ever, thanks to his wreckless remarks, an NRA endorsement costs them two voters for every one they gain?
  
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- DADDYWOREAWHITEHAT
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 1:42pm
  Wow the trolls are going crazy on this one. Soros must have upped his bounty budget to help out that guy’s big push.
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 1:49pm
  Dingle berry koolaid or radical red koolaid? Read the Forbes piece. Are these same 2 to 1 “voters” of yours pooing on the 1st too? All the old devil dogs I know have already come out for more control too. Uh huh. All the jarheads have zero respect for any of the bill of rights. Sure, all day, right, what ever 25 has said, surely it must be.
  
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- mercenary4freedom
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 2:52pm
  Marine two-five, if you spouted off that garbage in my unit I would see to it that my NCO’s haze you till you quit or went UA!
  
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- Marine25
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 5:30pm
  @mercenary
  Obviously you are not the first Marine to feel threatened by anyone capable of appreciating or even understanding politics. Unfortunately you are also not the first to forget Marine Corps Order 1700.28. Perhaps when Gen. Amos said before the Senate last March; “…hazing is absolutely, without exception, unacceptable behavior and if found out, it is my full intention to prosecute it in every case”, he was talking about you.
  
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- BODYBAG
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 6:58pm
  @MARINE25
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 5:30pm
  @mercenary
  Obviously you are not the first Marine to feel threatened by anyone capable of appreciating or even understanding politics. Unfortunately you are also not the first to forget Marine Corps Order 1700.28. Perhaps when Gen. Amos said before the Senate last March; “…hazing is absolutely, without exception, unacceptable behavior and if found out, it is my full intention to prosecute it in every case”, he was talking about you.
  ———————————————————-
  Watch out —— this ladyboy wants your bum.
  dont bend over for the soap
  LOL
  
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UBETHECHANGE
Posted on February 3, 2013 at 12:55pm
Washington currently has strong background check requirements in place. It’s already a federal felony for any private person to sell, trade, give, lend, rent or transfer a gun to a person they know or should have known is not legally allowed to own, purchase or possess a firearm. It should be noted that every year, tens of thousands of people fail to pass the background checks required for firearm purchases, yet only a fraction are prosecuted for providing false information. Before lawmakers begin creating more onerous rules and regulations, they should start enforcing the laws that are currently on the books.

Those who urge passage of so-called “universal background checks” fail to grasp the fundamental truth that this will only affect law-abiding citizens and not criminals. Criminals do not obey the law in the first place.

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- barber2
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 2:21pm
  Democrats have three solutions for every problem: One , throw tax payers’ money at the problem ; two, pass new laws to prohibit the problem ; and three, do both . Democrats always avoid the real solution which is ENFORCEMENT of the laws on the books . Why ? Because Democrats scream ” discrimination ” whenever the laws are enforced and because the Democrat Party has made a Media career out of playing the Discrimination Card.
  
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Astalavistababy
Posted on February 3, 2013 at 12:51pm
Watching Wayne LaPierre on Fox News Sunday this morning. Can’t the NRA find another spokesman with better communication skills? After 22 years its time to get a spokesman who presents himself and our second amendment point of view in a calm, sensible way that people can understand and accept. He always comes off bad and is hurting the NRA. Please have him step aside and get a confident man or woman who comes off as a happy warrior. He’s always on defense and looks guilty as hell defending the NRA. It pains me to watch him on TV. He’s hurting the good work of the NRA. I’m sure he’s a good man but he shouldn’t be on TV. Apparently nobody else wants the job. Is everyone there afraid to tell him how bad he comes off on TV. For the good of the NRA hire a PR firm and find another spokesperson.

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SendTheMeteors
Posted on February 3, 2013 at 12:42pm
If Chris Wallace is calling out your BS, you are really out of the mainstream.

Americans overwhelming, btw, support universal background checks. And that includes NRA members and Republicans. This guy is speaking solely for the gun lobby, not We the People.

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- UBETHECHANGE
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 12:50pm
  Chris Wallace is a tool and a hack.
  
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- mercenary4freedom
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 12:51pm
  umm METERMOUTH, We dont give two sh*ts about what the overwhelming majority think, this is a constitutional republic, NOT a democracy.
  
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- tonypro
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 1:05pm
  hey meathead,
  
  Good job spreading falsehoods. I guess you believe the adage of repeat it enough times and people will believe it.
  
  NOT
  
  By the way do you get paid by the post, or by the amount responses to your garbage?
  
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- woodyee
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 1:11pm
  Encinut, Mediocre, and my sweetie, MarybethElizabeth all show up at the same time…
  
  Coincidence? Nah. Just a herd of ignoramuses looking to see how much attention they can draw to themselves…
  
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- Marine25
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 1:23pm
  @mercenary
  You are right. It’s not up for a vote. But Congressional seats are, Senate seats, Govenor’s and statehouses. Politicians read polls. While it won’t make a fleas difference in the politics of deeply red districts and solid Republican states, it’s going to get tougher to get candidates in competitive districts and purple states to stand with the NRA and Mr. LaPierre. Conservatives used to have a large chunk of political power in the Northeast. Today? Almost none. Voters overwhelmingly supported a shift to the left on social policies. Northeastern conservatives refused to shift, and, while they couldn’t vote on the policies, voters could vote on the policy-makers, and they threw them all out. Saying it’s a republic and not a democracy may be accurate, but it does not mean public opinion does not matter. In a republic, the people choose the policy-makers, not the policy. But they vote for the candidate’s policies. When they don’t reasonably correspond with constituents, they get defeated. The NRA will continue to drive the train in Alabama and Oklahoma, but let’s see how many candidates in Colorado, Virginia, Florida and Ohio are campaigning in front of NRA banners in 2014 and 2016. Their used to be Republicans from the northeast, but now those states are reliably blue. Care to make the same mistakes twice?
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 1:50pm
  25 get your pansy ass numbers together and amend to your black heart’s content or flat out STFU.
  
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- barber2
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 2:11pm
  TONY: I think some of the Trolls get paid for ” last comment standing.” Have noticed on several old articles, the names we know pop up with some nasty jab long after the normal conversations have stopped ! Sure would love to know the organizational business behind them!
  
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- integrican
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 3:54pm
  @Space dust;
  you said “Americans overwhelming, btw, support universal background checks. And that includes NRA members and Republicans.”
  Maybe so, right up to the point where they learn that those same b-checks name the gun and serial # of the gun purchased with that b-check and figure out it is in itself IS a National gun registry. Then they remember history when Hitler had all of the Jews register all of their firearms in preparation of the big gun confiscation in Germany…..and then…..the……….
  
  you see THAT”S where 98% of Americans say NO to NATIONAL Background checks and NATIONAL gun registry. Oh, by the way, Go Flucke yourself!
  
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- katzkiner
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 6:49pm
  Meteor: I have grown rather fond of your warped sense of righteousness, but I’d like to see you happy. Your gun free leftist utopia awaits just south of the border. You can land in jail for simply possessing one .223 or .308 round. Take a few like minded friends. The cartels will have a job for you, don’t need to speak Spanish. A moan occasionally will do. I think you will appreciate a totally criminally run government.
  
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- r3dbull4dd1kt
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 8:42am
  sendthemeteors–
  
  Mainstream Propaganda Outlets are feeding you biased information, passed off as facts; Your fellow Socialists own them and manipulate everything they ‘report’ by oversampling Dumbocrats in their polls by as much as 50% to get the results they want–
  
  An overwhelming number of non-firearm owners support background checks because they have no idea what FACTS are because, like you, they have been swimming in a sea of opinionated lies being glossed over as truth for so long….
  
  Tightening restrictions on Law-Abiding Citizens affects criminals how? Please, explain this to me…How do ANY of the things outlined in The Feinstein initiative affect criminals in any way, shape or form? Have you actually read this Bill? Do you actually know anything about firearms that DIDN’T come from Media?
  
  Seems to me that most criminals obey gun laws the same way politicians obey oaths of office…
  
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- Zipit
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 9:29am
  C’MON JULIA! I mean Meteors! You are about as far from the description of “We The People” as you can get! ” We The Sheeple” is much better for you!
  
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Gildersleeve
Posted on February 3, 2013 at 12:39pm
do hope barry leads house to house search in shytown…….another brother down.

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IMCHRISTIAN
Posted on February 3, 2013 at 12:36pm
Don’t forget “Fast and Furious” were justice wasn’t served. Don’t for get Benghazi where justice wasn’t serviced

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- barber2
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 2:08pm
  And don’t forget Holder’s Department of Justice where it isn’t serviced either. ( Anyone hear about Holder departing despite all of the controversy his DOJ has been involved with for the past four years ?? ?! Bet Obama wouldn’t want to lose that helpful tool for his Far Left agenda ! )
  
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- Totally Domestic
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 8:54pm
  Which reminds me: WHERE ARE THEY HOLDING THE BENGHAZI HOSTAGES?
  knock, knock, News Media…anybody home????….Where are they? Who are they? How many are there? What did they see? When can they ever see the light of day again?
  
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right-wing-waco
Posted on February 3, 2013 at 12:33pm
Whatever you do… do not trust any government and especially the Obama administration. Most of all, do NOT ever register your guns as this has always resulted in having them taken away. (I know, some states they are registered when you buy them but don’t ever give the feds any information) Some years ago California said… as long as you register this certain rifle before a specific date you can keep it. A year later they changed their minds and they went after the owners and took them.

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- woodyee
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 12:43pm
  New Jersey did the same thing!
  
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- encinom
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 12:45pm
  Right Wing gun nuts are little more than paranoid fools and cowards, afraid of the outside world clutching their guns like security blankets.
  
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- right-wing-waco
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 12:58pm
  encinom
  Stop sounding like an idiot. What is YOUR hobby? I want to demonize YOUR hobby and take it away. The weapons they want to ban are NOT assault weapons. They are not machine guns and are simply semi-auto rifles and YES people go game hunting with them. There are over 80 million gun owners in the USA and over 99.9999999999% do not misuse their weapons. We gun owners have no problem with background checks as we too, do not want guns in the hands of criminals.
  
  NOW, lets work on something that will work and that is putting the criminals and gang member away for longer times. If you find a felon with a gun, put them away for life.
  
  Stop punishing law abiding citizens. Again, what is YOUR hobby?
  
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- woodyee
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 1:05pm
  Enci-nut – spout your hoplophobic BS to the victims of Left Wing governments. That, in and of itself says all we need to know about who the fools and cowards really are; they’re usually the fools and cowards calling those who speak out “fools and cowards..”
  
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- barber2
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 2:05pm
  ENCINO: Tsk. Tsk. Why do you Obama Trolls always stoop to ridicule and smear ? Is that part of the Chicago radical ” change” thingy Obama has brought to America ? More of the hate and division that the Left and the radical Democrats is so well known for in our media and our streets. Anarchists love that too. And they like to break stuff! Guess that’s what you all have in common : hate, division, and destruction.
  
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- r3dbull4dd1kt
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 9:03am
  encinom–
  
  Do you have these posts saved so you can just ‘cut and paste’ them? since you literally post the EXACT same thing, every thread…its actually kinda sad and pathetic that your vocabulary is so limited…
  
  Maybe one day we can add the words “freedom” and “Constitution” to that roster with lots and lots of tutoring from Kindergarteners…
  
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tonypro
Posted on February 3, 2013 at 12:33pm
These criminals in OUR White House know, and are probably hoping for the civil “obedience” this gun push will cause.

I say civil obedience because that’s what will happen when the 2nd amendment is put to use for protection of our freedoms. It is not only our right to protect ourselves from a tyrannical gov., it is our duty to do so.

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- encinom
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 12:47pm
  More traitors and confederate gun nuts, cowards one and all. They are not defending the Constitution, just hiding their paranoia with BS conspiracy theories. They are fools, filled with the lies of the NRA and Beck.
  
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- woodyee
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 1:07pm
  Well, since your castigating “them” for NOT defending the Constitution, what are YOU doing to defend it?
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 1:10pm
  Encidiot, thankfully, you will not be allowed firearms as you are too emotional. Change your depends and troll on along.
  
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- tonypro
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 1:11pm
  Hey insanecommy
  I have served my country, and been a war zone. I really, really really would like for you to give up a place we could meet, so you would have the opportunity to call me a fool, and a coward to my face.
  
  The only weapon I’ll show up with will be my wits, and common sense, as I’m sure that’s all I need since you are so outmatched.
  
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- woodyee
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 1:16pm
  Encinom said – “More traitors and confederate gun nuts, cowards one and all. They are not defending the Constitution, just hiding their paranoia with BS conspiracy theories. They are fools, filled with the lies of the NRA and Beck.”
  
  I asked “what do you do to defend the Constitution?
  
  @Encinut – the answer is NOTHING. You and your ilk do NOTHING to defend the freedoms enumerated in the Constitution, but dare to berate others who do, like the two-faced hypocritical unAmerican bass tards that you really are. that’s what I think of you and your kind – ’nuff said.
  
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- pragmaticpatriot
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 10:51am
  One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
  – Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
  
  A system of licensing and registration is the perfect device to deny gun ownership to the bourgeoisie.
  – Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
  
  isnt that the true issue?
  
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woodyee
Posted on February 3, 2013 at 12:32pm
Seriously, at this point in time, in whom would you put ALL your trust – no questions asked – if you had but one of two choices – La Pierre or Obama?

I’m hands down La Pierre – no questions asked.

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- right-wing-waco
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 12:40pm
  La Pierre for president? Oh yeh, I trust Mr Smith & Mr Wesson as well as Mr Colt. I would not trust Obama as far as I could throw Air Farce One.
  
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misteryuck
Posted on February 3, 2013 at 12:29pm
Of course Obama wants to take away our arms and freedoms. Politicians prefer un-armed peasants.

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- shorelineliz
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 12:39pm
  yup. just look at Great Britain. All disarmed. Home Invasions complete with fatal stabbings running rampant. Don’t let that happen to America no matter what!
  
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UNALIEN
Posted on February 3, 2013 at 12:29pm
nudge, nudge, nudge, checkmate

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- spfoam1
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 12:42pm
  Nudge, nudge, push, push, shoot…………revolution.
  
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banjarmon
Posted on February 3, 2013 at 12:28pm
What part of this does the government NOT UNDERSTAND??

Amendment 2 – Right to Bear Arms. Ratified 12/15/1791. Note

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

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- barber2
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 1:53pm
  Totalitarian governments do not allow the citizenry to bear arms as it is a threat to their power and control .
  
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- Orwellian States
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 2:44pm
  Seems pretty damn clear to me. How much interpretation does ONE sentence require? Oh, I checked my guns yesterday – and they haven’t shot a single person. Go figure.
  
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