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Parent at Sandy Hook Hearing Lambastes Gun Control Advocates, Wonders if They ‘Failed American History’: ‘There Is Something Called the Constitution’

Feb. 4, 2013 3:42pm Billy Hallowell

This story has been updated.

Bill Stevens Delivers Epic Speech Against Gun Control | Sandy Hook Elementary Shooting

(Photo Credit: YouTube)

We already brought you Mark Mattioli’s anti-gun control testimony in front of the Working Group Public Hearing at the Connecticut State Capitol on Jan. 28 (Mattioli’s son, James, perished in the tragic Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting). You also likely saw father Neil Heslin’s comments. As you may recall, video footage of his statement ended up being deceptively-edited by MSNBC.

But one speech you potentially missed comes from Bill Stevens, a father of a child in the Newtown Public School District. Unlike many of the other parents who testified, his daughter did not attend Sandy Hook (however she is in the same district). And rather than going after firearms, he took a different approach: He defended gun owners and lambasted those seeking new laws to remedy the problem.

Now, viral video of his impassioned defense of the Second Amendment is making its rounds today — and it’s certainly worth watching. In it, Stevens delivers a blow to other parents and politicians who proposed tougher gun restrictions at the hearing and wonders aloud whether they have “failed American history.” He also takes the time to read from the state constitution, while fervently defending his right to protect his family.

“My fifth grade daughter was in lock-down on Dec. 14, 2012. Unfortunately, her classmate’s little sister was murdered in Sandy Hook that day when lock-down and 9-11 weren’t enough to protect her from an evil person — not protect her from an assault rifle or some other inanimate object but from an evil person,” he says during his testimony.

The father goes on to note that he isn’t interested in citing statistics, as he proceeds to defend the freedom of citizens to own firearms without additional restrictions, calling legislators’ attempts to further crack-down on guns “asinine legislation.” Here’s a portion of his excoriating commentary directed at politicians and others touting gun control initiatives:

“I’m frankly shocked by some of the testimony today. In case some here failed American history, there is something called the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and a process by which to amend it. The same goes for the state Constitution. These rights are inalienable and endowed by our Creator — not you politicians — to all citizens regardless of gender, race or creed. In order to limit the rights of individual there is something called due process and legislation is not due process. You want to take my rights away? Let’s go to court.”

Stevens continues by noting that an official report about the Sandy Hook massacre likely won’t come out until the summer and that any legislation preceding that release would be premature. The father takes particular exception with attempts to demonize gun owners, claiming that his right to defend his daughter should be unimpeded.

“My guns are not dangerous. They are at home locked up collecting dust and cat hair,” he proclaims. “But criminals and tyrants — tyrants especially — beware. Lockdown is not an option at the Stevens residence. And 9-11 will be dialed after the security of my home has been established.”

He also alluded to the fact that additional school security would be a good avenue to protecting his daughter, not “making her dad a criminal” for being a gun owner.

“Charlton Heston made the phrase ’from my cold, dead hands’ famous,” he concluded. “And I will tell you here today, you will take my ability to protect my Victoria from my cold, dead hands.”

Watch the speech, below:

(H/T: The Gateway Pundit)

Editor’s Note: This story has been changed to reflect the fact that Bill Stevens has a daughter in the Newtown Public School District (she did not, however, attend Sandy Hook as originally reported).

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CGold
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 4:41pm
Bravo, Bill. Victoria has one great Dad.

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- biohazard23
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 4:48pm
  Awesome.
  
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- Mil-Dot
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 5:09pm
  Holy Cow, words fail me. And that is rare. What a great American and a solid patriot he is. He slapped those criminals right in the face when he pointed out all the goons with machine guns protecting their sorry asses. Man O’ man.
  
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- TH30PH1LUS
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 6:14pm
  Bill Stevens,
  
  Well done, sir!
  
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- Gold Coin & Economic News
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 6:21pm
  Thank God for Bill. He should be a politician. He’s just stating the obvious like some other politicians:
  http://www.isthatbaloney.com/newark-mayor-cory-booker-states-the-obvious-legal-gun-buyers-are-not-causing-murders/
  
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- 83plus
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 6:26pm
  Well said Mr. Stevens.
  
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- Wolf
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 6:32pm
  Too bad all his words were just hot air to the lib commies in CONgress and the state.
  
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- Gregb
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 6:56pm
  AMEN!! What a moving speech.
  
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- Gregb
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 7:01pm
  He lost a child and he is standing up for our rights…WOW! a very true American! all of my love goes to this man! He had a voice and used it for the best!
  
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- tyuchic
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 8:08pm
  kudos Mr Stevens! accurate, articulate, impassioned, inspiring, and well-reasoned. Chuck Heston would be proud.
  
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- YOURSENSEI
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 8:52pm
  This is what you must know:
  
  Dancing on the grave of his own kid. NRA dollars at work.
  
  It is so.
- Verceofreason
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 10:40pm
  No HE didn’t lose a child.
  Read the article please.
  
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- ishka4me
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 10:43pm
  Dopes, he did not lose his daughter. If you bothered to watch the video or read the story, you will notice he said a classmate of his daughter lost a sibling.Love it when the left attacvks without knowing the facts.
  
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- r3dbull4dd1kt
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 10:56pm
  I salute this man…I am proud to say this is another TRUE American–not a progressive stooge with hsi hands out
  
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- Keatonc333
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 11:55pm
  Isn’t this guy stepping on children’s graves to push his agenda? or is that just victims fathers you disagree with?
  
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- encinom
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 11:57pm
  The Parent is an ass, that cares more about his guns than the life of his child. His daughter came home, others didn’t because another parent cared more about her guns than the lives of her neighbors.
- jakartaman
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 8:31am
  A common sense real Dad.
  Too bad the members of Congress he was speaking to do not have the same common sense or character.
  Thank You Mr. Stevens
  
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- 00100111
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 9:28am
  LOL! You libs are absolutely hilariously worthless. This man is spot on correct. You can all eat it.
  
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- CABERNETQHS
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 10:10am
  Good for you Dirty Bill…go ahead, make their day!
  
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- Bluebonnet
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 10:51am
  Bill Stevens for President of the USA. That was the best speech I’ve heard in a long time coming from Washington D.C.
  Too many of those little wimps in D.C. want to leave us defenseless against the real enemy. The real enemy to us are the sick individuals who, for whatever reason, went over to the dark side.
  They need help, not the inanimate guns.
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 11:13am
  Oh is that the way it works YOURSENSEI/MONICNE/KREGNEVA/MOSTINTERESTING TROLL/HORSEDANCER? When it suits you it’s “little martyrs” and when it doesn’t it’s “dancing on the grave of his own kid”.
  Sickening, duplicitous lefty cur.
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 11:14am
  So ENCIDIOT/MONICNE/KREGNEVA/YOURSENSEI/SLEAZY HIPPO…you’re saying that this father doesnt’ have the right to defend the life of his child when it’s threatened? Or rather..he should do it under your terms. Yes?
  
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- CloudNine
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 11:40am
  @Encinom –
  
  You are an idiot!
  
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- CloudNine
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 11:53am
  @KEATONC333 –
  
  Are you blind!? You’re about 1 step behind Encinom with your statement. This guy doesn’t have an agenda. It is the Anti-Gunners and Obama with the agenda. You people are completely lost from reality.
  
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- pa346
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 2:48pm
  Perfect. Finally a real man.
  
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- smv803
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 8:37pm
  Bill Stevens, I love you and if I were there when you gave that beautiful and eloquent speech, I would have had no choice but to give you a great big kiss! Thank you for everything you said that day.
  
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- romill4
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 9:05pm
  CGold, what are you doing in 2016? You’d have my vote.
  
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kunman
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 4:34pm
Very refreshing to see a true patriot present the truth behind the Second Amendment so eloquently. I stand with you Bill Stevens.

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ssbstspd
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 4:34pm
We need more Americans like him ( Bill Stevens). We are out there. Believe that. The liberal networks and government are trying to make us Conservatives believe that we are doomed and that we can’t do anything about it. They are not worried about the useful idiot liberals; they know they are harm less lemmings. They are worried about us (Conservative constitutionalist Americans). We are the only ones standing in the way of a full take over communist government. We must stand strong and network and gather together to defend are rights. We will have to do it sooner than later so we might as well get the ball rolling so maybe we can save this country before an all-out civil war / revolution. We still have ways to do this peacefully. We will not cast the first stone but you better believe that when a stone gets thrown 10 will be thrown back. Be wise fellow Americans. We are all we got. Since when did any respectable American roll over? We aint rolling over. Just think. Washington, Lincoln, Adams and the rest of are fore fathers would be rolling over in their graves if they saw what was happening to this country. Never-mind if we rolled over and let communists take over. What would Reagan think ? What would the troops that died for are freedom think. We fought wars against Commies. WE AINT ROLLING OVER.

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- Darticus
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 4:47pm
  Too long, Supah? And we wonder why our country is going to hell….
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 4:49pm
  SUPAH_PATRIOT, Of course not, its almost time for you to clock out. tick – tock, tick – tock…….
  
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- Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 4:56pm
  Supah
  
  You need to take your ritalin.
  
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- Mil-Dot
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 5:13pm
  Well Supah,
  If you are too stupid to be able to read then move the hell on to something simpler. You know, like Sesame Street. I read it in about 1 minute.
  
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- DEFCON4
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 5:33pm
  @ Supah, May I suggest Dr. Seuss for ‘starters’….http://youtu.be/j3uZq8S6oJc
  
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- TeslanEdison
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 5:59pm
  MIL one min to read that how about less than 30 seconds, SUPAH if you’re going to do research on the internet you need to be able to type 100 wpm that means no hunt and peck, and read deeply not scan and jump that means comprehension of a paragraph in 30 seconds or less. Yeah I know lots of college grads that love to tout their reading speed, but they are miserable at comprehension of the details as while they scan and jump they often miss the smaller points which are rarely ever tested for.
  
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- Mil-Dot
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 6:03pm
  Tes,
  You got me beat. I was just estimating of course. Glad you are with us you patriot. We need you.
  
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- nzkiwi
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 8:15pm
  That was an asinine comment, Supah.
  
  If you wish to continue educating yourself on important matters that will affect your children’s future, you must read widely.
  
  I hope my comment wasn’t too long for you…
  
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- 00100111
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 9:29am
  Yes, Etchy, we know your a typical lazy lib.
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 11:39am
  Gosh “SUPAH”..I’m sure you can log back in later using any of your other screennames and read and comment on it then.
  
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ssbstspd
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 4:30pm
We need more Americans like him ( Bill Stevens). We are out there. Believe that. The liberal networks and government are trying to make us Conservatives believe that we are doomed and that we can’t do anything about it. They are not worried about the useful idiot liberals; they know they are harm less lemmings. They are worried about us (Conservative constitutionalist Americans). We are the only ones standing in the way of a full take over communist government. We must stand strong and network and gather together to defend are rights. We will have to do it sooner than later so we might as well get the ball rolling so maybe we can save this country before an all-out civil war / revolution. We still have ways to do this peacefully. We will not cast the first stone but you better believe that when a stone gets thrown 10 will be thrown back. Be wise fellow Americans. We are all we got. Since when did any respectable American roll over? We aint rolling over. Just think. Washington, Lincoln, Adams and the rest of are fore fathers would be rolling over in their graves if they saw what was happening to this country. Never-mind if we rolled over and let communists take over. What would Reagan think ? What would the drops that died for are freedom think. We fought wars against Commies. WE AINT ROLLING OVER.

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- Verceofreason
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 10:41pm
  I will bet this jerk never served in the military.
- 00100111
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 9:30am
  I have, and my sentiments are the same.
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 12:11pm
  Hear that sound VERCYPERCY? That’s your credibility circling the drain right now.
  
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AllisonWunderland
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 4:22pm
Yeah, it’s a Constitutional issue!

Stu the other day on Blaze noted that 99.997% of the guns in the USA are used ENTIRELY LAWFULLY. That’s a whole lot higher percentage compliance than motor vehicles and traffic deaths.

The theoretical rationale behind a Constitution is to protect the rights of minorities from the oppression of the majority. Best and most often cited example of this is Black Civil Rights in the deep South during segregation reform.

Bring this same view into the discussion on “gun control” — just change the terms:

Instead of “gun owners” substitute “negroes.”

In place of “gun control” substitute “segregation.”

In place of “separate but equal” substitute “common sense controls, limits on ‘assault weapons’ and ‘high capacity magazines’ . . . etc.”

And all of a sudden Constitutional Civil Liberties starts looking like a 1960′s progressive issue.

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- Mil-Dot
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 5:30pm
  I hear what you are saying brother, but know this-gun owners are NOT the minority in this country. And as far as blacks go, I completely detest their elevated status in the eyes of the govt. Never before has a group been so undeserving of “protected status”. That is a fricking joke. Equal rights, yes, special rights, hell no. They cannot compete on an equal playing field. That is why most of them are employed by the govt. Because no private company wants them around. There are exceptions of course, and to those individuals, disregard my tirade.
  
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Dr.Fez
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 4:15pm
Sadly, I don’t see this doing much.
I expect calls for him to quiet down, since he did not lose a child in the event. It is typical behaviour, “if you haven’t experienced it, you can’t say anything”.

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- chips1
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 4:22pm
  Is that your way of telling Obama to shut his big mouth? Sounds good to me.
  
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marybethelizabeth
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 4:12pm
There were 11,078 firearm murders in the US in 2010.
30 a day
19000 committed suicide by shooting themselves
(607 accidental firearm deaths)
I believe less that 10% on the people shot actually die so 300 people are shot in the US every day, on average

I did a calculation using other statistics found in the arguments in favor of the national right to carry legislation and came up with 526 people shot in the US every day.

School shootings are aberrations.

We should focus on every day life in America.

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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 4:23pm
  Check your sources on suicide, they’re fake, and have been long discredited. You’re reading from Handgun Control Inc’s playbook. The same playbook that miraculously tells us that 40% of all gun sales are private and unrecorded, which is a feat given as unrecorded sales cannot be tracked nor quantified as a percentage.
  
  Fact is, there were far less deaths attributed to individuals wielding firearms since gun laws were loosed from the late 1990′s forward, than there were before when people like you had your way and criminals had their pick of who they wished to victimize.
  
  If you don’t like my rights, tough ****, I will give up not one more inch to your kind. You get no compromise, no “discussion”, no “conversation” and no debate. You’re wrong, I oppose you, and I will defy any laws your kind tries to foist on me, openly. Go straight to hell.
  
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- AllisonWunderland
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 4:24pm
  MORE shooting deaths in Chicago (a “gun free zone”) than troop casualties in Afghanistan (a WAR ZONE). So . . . those gun restriction laws are really working well for ya, eh?
  
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- chips1
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 4:25pm
  If they did it your way, it would be illegal for blacks to own guns in Chicago or Detroit. That’s racist.
  
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- 13th Imam
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 4:27pm
  How many with legally registered guns?
  
  How many robbers or potential murderers?
  
  your stats are much like the bogus Man-Made Global Warming figures.
  
  Go scrub the toilets, wench
  
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- WillG
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 4:29pm
  Almost as if I think it you post it Ghost.
  
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- Cavallo
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 4:32pm
  Mary, your contention is that nearly 200,000 people are shot every year in the United States? Not even if every major city was like Leftist Utopias of Detroit and Chicago could you rack up such numbers.
  
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- marybethelizabeth
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 4:38pm
  The CDC statistics are not fake but discard them if you want.
  
  How is this an attack on you GhostofJefferson?
  What is “My” way Chips one?
  
  You are making unfounded assumptions.
  
  If you want to buy assault rifles over the counter come up with a valid argument to do so, don’t pretend this is pending gun confiscation, because no rational human being would ever believe it.
  
  I’ve never written anything anti-gun, Only anti-stupid.
  
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- marybethelizabeth
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 4:43pm
  Cavallo, the higher number was from a bill that was in favor of removing all restrictions on gun ownership. They are pro gun not anti- gun statistics.
  
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- 13th Imam
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 5:00pm
  BarryMeth
  
  Those toilets done yet?
  
  Hop to it.
  
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- RoDogg
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 5:02pm
  From MaryBeth…
  “If you want to buy assault rifles over the counter come up with a valid argument to do so,”
  
  Because, if some one or multiple people are trying to get into my house and my wife and kids are cowering in a back room. An AR-15 type rifle with a HUGE magazine is want I want pointed at the door over ALL other weapons.
  
  Thats your valid reason. Not that its need because ITS A RIGHT from something HIGHER than ANY government!
  
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- Mil-Dot
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 5:38pm
  Regardless of ME intentions with the stats, I hang with the Ghost. Not another fricking millimeter to the commies. The days of the progs dictating to the rest of us are over. If not, then we will have to take care of the situation. One tiny spark is all it takes to get the ball rolling.
- r3dbull4dd1kt
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 11:00pm
  You aren’t alone Ghost–we outnumber them by TENS of THOUSANDS…
  
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- 00100111
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 9:35am
  MBE: “If you want to buy assault rifles over the counter come up with a valid argument to do so,…”
  
  I don’t have to. I am not required to justify a need to exercise a right. It is simply my right, and I will exercise it to my pleasure. Any laws that attempt to take them from me without due process of law (legislation is not due process) will be openly defied.
  
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- 00100111
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 9:37am
  RedBull. We outnumber them by MILLIONS! It will be glorious.
  
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WillG
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 4:11pm
Another man that reeks of common sense.

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- Mil-Dot
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 5:41pm
  He did not reek common sense. It was like a huge atom bomb-like anti-commie prog gas attack. Gloves are being taken off.
  
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- r3dbull4dd1kt
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 11:04pm
  I believe it is (un)common sense these days gents…intelligence is the opposite of what Progs want…they elected the Highest Functioning Mongoloid in World History as the POTUS–enough said
  
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VanceUppercut
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 4:08pm
Yet another idiot who doesn’t understand that restricting certain types of firearms, or instituting universal background checks (which the NRA was all for before President Black Man supported it, at which time they changed their tune) is not the same thing as repealing the Second Amendment.

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- AllisonWunderland
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 4:27pm
  What part of “shall not be infringed” needs explaining ???
  
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- AllisonWunderland
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 4:28pm
  What part of “shall not be infringed” needs explaining?
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 4:34pm
  Restrict = infringe.
  
  Waiting for cognitive dissonance to hit in 3….2….1….
  
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- skippy6
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 4:46pm
  Indoctrinated zombie????
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 4:48pm
  VANCIEPOOH, Of the over 9,000 federal laws that regulate, restrict, and control guns, purchasers, and owners already, why are most just not enforced? Why are some bragging about the 1.4 million turn downs of gun purchasers through the instant check system, much like Gabby Giffords’ husband yesterday on Fox? If there is any hit of any kind the ability of purchase only is turned down. Nobody is arrested or even further investigated. Why, CAPT Kelly himself said they were arrested and 1.4 million criminals were taken off the streets. I had to laugh at that, and it may have been a slip up on his part. The instant check system is rife with problems and often prevents law abiding citizens from making such purchases simply because of errors. And, those errors are usually not just corrected by the government until the citizen has exhausted a large amount of time, effort, and personal funds.
  If you don’t want to own a gun that is your decision, but it is not your decision to take away the rights of others.
  
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- FreedomWarrior
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 6:10pm
  The reality about background checks… Capt. Kelly stated that 1.4 million sales were denied because the background checks flagged the potential purchaser. However, where the system really failed is when none of the denials resulted n arrests. Our gun store had a system whereby a purchaser, who was denied due to a failed background, was stalled by the sales clerk while another clerk would call the local sheriff. In every case, including those who were flagged as felons, the sheriff just told us to refuse the sale and let them walk. These are criminals who know they are felons, that have committed a felony by just coming into the store and handling the firearm prior to the purchase… they don’t even have to purchase… the handling is a felony… now they are caught by the background check (and in our state, the State Police), yet we are told to let them walk! Who knows how many of them eventually find someone to sell them a gun illegally? The point is this… If you truly want to reduce criminal assaults with a gun in this country… arrest and lockup according to federal laws the 1.5 million criminals that are caught every year by the background check system. As for the rest of the millions and millions of law-abiding citizens who purchase firearms to protect ourselves from the bad guys… leave us alone!
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 6:41pm
  LanceUpperButt
  Infringe is what in your world? Jihad Jerk loves wiki, so here you go: In a legal context, an infringement refers to the violation of a law or a right.
  
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- Marine25
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 9:09pm
  @allison
  Doesn’t need to be explained. We have regulated what arms are legal in civil society since the 1920′s. If legal restrictions, regulations, and procedures on sales were equivelant to infringement of the right to keep and bear, then I could own and operate automatic weapons, grenades, and a nuk in a suitcase. I can’t. Yet my 2nd Amendment rights are not infringed. So says every Court in the last 90 years.
  
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- Verceofreason
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 10:43pm
  Anyone can have a gun if they want.
  All Obama is talking about is THE KIND OF GUN.
  All this whack-a-doodle braying over nothing.
  Absolutely nothing.
  And you know it.
  
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- 00100111
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 9:40am
  Vance is yet another idiot who doesn’t understand that we are not compromising on this. We don’t care about your proposed restrictions. We will openly fight you on this. “Conversation” about this is neither required nor desired. You will be fought, you will be destroyed, you will be eliminated from the pages from history.
  
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- Zipit
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 10:46am
  Hey VERCE! I don’t think you want to try breaking into my house with a squirt gun!
  
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am123
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 4:05pm
He possesses something the liberal gun grabbers do not, common sense, along with a respect for the Constitution.

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- LakeHartwellSailor
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 5:46pm
  He doesn’t have “common sense”, he has “un-common sense”…..commen sense is way too rare these days to be “common” any more.
  
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eramthgin
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 4:05pm
I have a name to call this guy. PATRIOT.

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Witness1974
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 4:03pm
Truth is so powerful when it is spoken clearly. We need more voices declaring the truth like this man did. Excellent!

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RJJinGadsden
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 4:03pm
I for one stand and salute you Bill Stevens. That being said, prepare yourself for a media assault like you have never seen if any of this is ever leaked through the MSM.
Martin Bashir is bashing Wayne La Pierre like mad as I type this now, and anybody else who is standing up to the gun grabbers. He really hated one particular Super Bowl ad.

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- aproudinfidel
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 4:06pm
  This is one story that I am convinced will not see the light of the MSM’s day.
  
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- Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 4:57pm
  The Alyinski left is already digging up dirt on this guy and will marginalize him, thus dismissing all that he said.
  
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- CathyvanDyke
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 6:38pm
  I googled “Bill Stevens” along with “Sandy Hook”. There were no hits from the major media networks.
  
  Why Is Sandy Hook Father Bill Stevens Not a Household Name? Perhaps Because He’s Pro-Gun Rights
  By Ken Shepherd | February 04, 2013 | 12:54
  
  Last week while MSNBC was busy deceptively editing a video of Neil Heslin, the father of a child murdered in the Newtown, Connecticut mass shooting, the “Lean Forward” network and the rest of the liberal media failed to notice the pro-gun rights testimony of another Newtown father, Bill Stevens. ….
  
  http://newsbusters.org/blogs/ken-shepherd/2013/02/04/why-sandy-hook-father-bill-stevens-not-household-name-perhaps-because-
  
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- StronzateDiDestra
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 3:16am
  “I googled “Bill Stevens” along with “Sandy Hook”. There were no hits from the major media networks.”
  Kudos to the networks:
  Billy Boy has no association with Sandy Hook, none what so ever. This idea was forged by Faux News, NewsBusters.org and some of the other right wing outlets and producers of “home cooked news” .
  
  Billy Hallowell writes:
  “Now, viral video of his impassioned defense of the Second Amendment is making its rounds today — and it’s certainly worth watching.
  In it, Stevens delivers a blow to other parents who proposed tougher gun restrictions at the hearing and wonders aloud whether they have “failed American history.””
  The major media networks, that tend to focus more on presenting news than inventing their own. Billy Boys views had no value before FauxNews made them news.
  
  To spare Stevens from making a complete fool of himself as he delivered his low blows to all the grieving parents, that still are in mourning after the gunning down of their little most prized possession, was nice of them thou probably not intentional. It was most likely caused by the fact that Billy Boys views are as relevant as any & all American that has no connection to the school.
  He first attacked them for having the audaciousness to propose sensible gun regulations. Then he wonders aloud on whether the parents have “failed American history.” Why would anyone want to be on national TV talking in such a dim-witted way?
  
  An irrelevant and
  
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ssbstspd
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 4:02pm
of coarse we will not see this on the alphabet networks. Its degrading to Americans when we see other Americans acting foolish and embarassing themselves. It makes U.S. embarassed. This man Bill Stevens makes me proud. He should make us all proud. God Bless him because we not alot more that are like him.

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- Mil-Dot
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 6:00pm
  I disagree with you respectfully. There are tens if not hundreds of millions of us JUST LIKE HIM. Don’t fall for the media brainwashing, marginalization tactic. The commies are the minority. Do not ever forget that. They are just the ones holding the microphones. Do not fall for it. It is a tactic to make people stand down. It is a lie.
  
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progressiveslayer
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 4:02pm
You’re correct Mr.Stevens,gun grabbers failed American history because they were taught the revisionist form of history. They’re also constitutionally illiterate and for the most part dregs of society who can’t walk and chew gum at the same time. They’ll gladly makes us all slaves to government and not even realize it.

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GrumpyCat
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 4:02pm
Dear Blaze Automatic Spell Corrector: We dial 911, not the date 9-11.

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- chips1
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 4:19pm
  All of the Obama phones have an 11. It’s the NWO.
  
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Seagal45
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 4:01pm
That is what should have been said all along, great job.

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tonypro
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 4:00pm
We need individuals like this running for office.
That is the only way we are going to survive without an all out revolution.

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Apexduck
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 4:00pm
Thank you Mr. Stevens. You are a true American. I would gladly stand by your side to defend our rights as stated so wisely by our founders in the Constitution.

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ssbstspd
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 3:59pm
Bill Stevens is a Great American.

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Oath-keeper
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 3:57pm
Sums it up nicely. Oathkerpers.org

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- Mil-Dot
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 6:20pm
  I like Oathkeepers. I used to be a member but got disheartened by the 2 tiers of membership where those that are not active duty military, cops or firefighters (joke) are relegated to 2nd class status. Are not all patriots the same? I think they are. But, if that is what they want to do, they are only shooting themselves in the foot. I will put my tactics and skills against any firefighter or cop in this country. I may not best them, but I will show my mettle. I don’t like being cast aside as a chump. That is what OK thinks of us regular schmucks. That we are just shoe shine boys.
  
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- SwampFoxHiggy
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 6:33pm
  all day. everyday. oath-keeper till death do us part.
  MOLON LABE
  
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- 00100111
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 9:44am
  Oathkerpers? Is that the North Dakota accent version?
  
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tuppergun
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 3:56pm
If only our Congress critters had the fortitude to say the same thing. God bless Bill.

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- Fubared
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 4:07pm
  They love asinine legislation though.
  
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gyro
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 3:55pm
Brave man !!!
a good American

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nysteve
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 3:53pm
Amen brother. Thank you!

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gauge
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 3:52pm
You tell them Bill! God Bless you!

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