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Dem Rep. Makes WILDLY Inaccurate Claim About Number of Children Killed With So-Called ‘Assault Weapons’

Mar. 21, 2013 4:49pm Jason Howerton

Democrat Charlie Rangel Claims Millions of Children Are Dying From Assault Weapons

FILE – In this June 7, 2012 file photo, Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y. speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill. Credit: AP

Attempting to show how huge of a mistake it was to drop the ban on so-called “assault weapons” from the Senate’s gun control bill, Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) on MSNBC Thursday claimed “millions of kids” are dying at the hands of these weapons and Congress is failing to act.

Rangel blamed the National Rifle Association, politics and money for the gun ban’s failure.

“I’m ashamed to admit it but its politics and its money, The NRA has taken this position, there is no reason, there is no foundation. There is no hunter that needs automatic military weapons to enjoy the culture of going hunting,” Rangel began. “But you know it’s really basically the absence of the voices of good people. I cannot believe that politicians are afraid of the NRA.”

He went on: “We’re talking about millions of kids dying — being shot down by assault weapons, were talking about handguns easier in the inner cities, to get these guns in the inner cities, than to get computers. This is not just a political issue, it’s a moral issue and so when we condemn the NRA we should not ignore the fact that a lot of people that have taken moral positions have been solid on this big one.”

Watch his comments via MSNBC below:

Rangel’s assertion is so ridiculously false, it’s hard to really put it into perspective. But let’s try.

According to FBI data, just 358 people — of all ages — were killed with “rifles” in 2010. In fact, more people were killed by hands and feet (745), knifes (1,704) and shotguns (373) than with rifles that same year. As Fox Nation points out, the total number of gun homicides in 2011 was 8,583, still exponentially lower than Rangel’s estimation of murders involving so-called “assault weapons” alone.

Using the 2011 total gun-related murder rate, it would take more than 116 years for one million people to be killed by a firearm. Additionally, it would take more than 2,793 years for one million people to be killed with rifles, or what Rangel calls “assault weapons,” according to the 2010 FBI data.

Now, that does not lessen the impact of such a horrific tragedy like the Newtown massacre, however, the United States will never be able to have a meaningful debate about guns as long as such blatant lies are being used to demonize firearms.

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762x51
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:08pm
Number of mass shooting deaths per year attributed to so called assault weapons 35.

These imaginary weapons actually account for only 2 – 8% of firearms homicides each year.

Source DOJ – Summary of Select Firearms Violence Prevention Strategies. Jan. 2013.

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- 13th Imam
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:16pm
  Chuckie is a DEMOCRAT TAX CHEAT. Any stats this piece of crap spouts is a lie.
  
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- B4B
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:24pm
  Isn’t it strange that this report got NO MENTION AT ALL from the “news” agencies. I would think that this information would be plastered all-over the WH website as evidence to back their assertions about “assault weapons”.
  It’s a damned thing when the facts don’t support the ideology they’re pushing.
  
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- 000degrees
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:29pm
  “I’m ashamed to admit it but its politics and its money, The NRA has taken this position, there is no reason, there is no foundation. There is no hunter that needs automatic military weapons to enjoy the culture of going hunting,” Rangel began. “But you know it’s really basically the absence of the voices of good people. I cannot believe that politicians are afraid of the NRA.”
  
  Too bad he is not ashamed of not paying his “fair share” to the tax man. Now, chuck, if you will excuse me, I have to go clean and oil my automatic weapon that I use for wabbit season. That is unless I hear the voices of the “good people” and they convince he that it’s a horrible thing to do….you know…kill wabbits….
  
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- 000degrees
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:32pm
  I think I’d like to try and rappel off of those eyebrows…. On belay!!!!!!!!
  
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- AMERICA4EVER
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:41pm
  They know they will never be able to take away all the hand guns from their voter base or don’t want to.
  
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- Newtowns-Third-Law
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:42pm
  What is the acceptable number of children’s death per year from AR-15?
  
  Just curious how many are the acceptable limit when culling a local schoolyard, to protect the indigenous life forms. Say in Sandy Hook for instance?
  
  Is there an NRA bag limit?
- Newtowns-Third-Law
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:49pm
  Charlie Rangel is a decorated hand to hand combat veteran of the Korean Conflict.
  
  Rangel was awarded a Purple Heart for his wounds, the Bronze Star with Valor for his actions in the face of death, and three battle stars. His all-***** Army unit was awarded the Presidential Unit Citation and the Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation.
  
  In 2000, Rangel reflected to CBS News, “Since Kunu Ri – and I mean it with all my heart, I have never, never had a bad day.”
  
  He is fearless, old, and in Harlem. You cannot silence him.
  
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- pissantno.10
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:51pm
  your ok with thousands of kids abourted right newtown
  
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- mensa141
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:57pm
  Charlie Rangel actually getting caught in another lie. Imagine that!
  
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- WarMunger_Al
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:59pm
  All democrats are lying criminals and should be permanently barred from any office of government. Rangel should be in jail. it is too bad facts are never considered when the lawmakers start throwing around their idiotic bills.
  
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- mensa141
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 6:05pm
  Newton, the AR-15 is not a lot different from a 30-06, a 30-30 or an AK-47 or my .22LR. They are all NOT automatic weapons. They do kill anything on their own. IT is the nuts behind them like the nuts behind the wheel of a car that need to be dealt with. When we had too many drunk driving deaths did we ban cars? Do we ban hammers because they are too dangerous? Instead of knee jerking and wasting way too much effort on useless things how about we begin discussing better mental health care and control?
  
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- GroundZero is Nuclear Demolition x3
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 6:18pm
  @Newtown Why were there no x-mas decorations in the windows of the school? How come the landscape was not groomed? Why can no one be seen exiting the building, or entering them for that matter? Many people are stating the facility was not even open. Please enlighten us as to why the actors were going around in circles at the firehouse, and no parents can be seen trying to get to their children?
  I think an out of state investigation is in order.
  
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- Baerlin
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 6:19pm
  Newtown – Think 55,000,000 murdered by abortion then come back and defend chuckie. All libs who support abortion are, in essence, murderers.
  
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- tom
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 6:21pm
  Charles, please just die and leave us that have a brain in our head alone………….
  
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- Paladin45ACP
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 6:22pm
  Hey Newtown. You forgot the brain damage he suffered. Apparently never recovered.
  
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- Newtowns-Third-Law
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 6:37pm
  Abortion should be illegal.
  
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- ltb
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 6:38pm
  If Liberals were so concerned about saving the lives of children, they’d be trying to shut down Planned Parenthood. Let’s see… in 2009, 2,793 children were killed by guns and 784,507 children were murdered by abortionists. You Liberals have zero moral authority on this issue.
  
  Gun control is not about saving lives, it’s about fascists who want to bully you into submission without fear of reprisal. Our founding fathers didn’t give us the 2nd Amendment so we can hunt deer, they gave it to us so we can protect ourselves from people like Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Charlie Rangel.
  
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- turkey13
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 6:45pm
  Wow – this from Charlie who didn’t know he had to pay taxes on foreign investments – though he helped write the law. This from a guy who was elected and came in on a seargents paycheck yet is now worth almost $$ 6 million bucks. Looks like one or all his gun lobbyst didn’t pay and gave him the middle finger.
  
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- ltb
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 6:46pm
  NEWTOWNS-THIRD-LAW, What is the acceptable number of children’s deaths per year from AR-15s? Let’s say 784,507, since that seems to be the acceptable number of children’s deaths per year from abortions. Fair enough?
  
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- Trigus
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 6:48pm
  Charlie “Ethics Violation” Rangel must have went to the same school as Hank “Guam will Capsize” Johnson, and Maxine “170 Million will lose their Job” Waters.
  
  Really, and you wonder why this country is going down the toilet fast.
  
  The Government and your Community Leaders promote Hate to keep the Country divided and easier to control. They rob you blind while promising US the world, and we keep re-electing them to Office.
  
  Only you can make this Once Great Nation, Great Again!!
  
  2013 American Patriot Spring, Who will you Stand with?
  
  The distinction between Races is no more. I Am Not (insert race,) I Am An American!!! – Defenders of Liberty
  
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- Newtowns-Third-Law
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 7:12pm
  There should be no abortions in the world. That would help with the birth statistics.
  
  I am pro life, and I would like to help with life statistics. Why is it OK to slay young humans after they become citizens?
  
  You are injecting the “off topic” rationale that some pathetic mothers abort their beautiful children, you then think it’s OK to let 20 innocent six and seven year old American Citizens kiss the gentle cheek of Christ early?
  
  Are you supposed to be Progressive Slayers? Like Anders?
  
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- rickc34
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 7:37pm
  Did Rangel ever pay his back taxes? This old dude is getting senile and has a problem with the truth like most lefties.
  
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- ltb
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 7:41pm
  NEWTOWNS-THIRD-LAW, It’s not okay to murder children in the womb and it’s not okay to murder children outside of the womb. You don’t, however, punish murderers who use guns to do their evil deeds by taking away the right of law abiding citizens to defend themselves against tyrants.
  
  Let me repeat myself again (and I’ll keep repeating myself until this point gets through the thick heads of people who don’t understand Our Constitution)… gun control has nothing to do with saving lives, it has to do with Liberals wanting to push around the America People with impunity. The reason America has never had an Adolf Hitler is because we have the Second Amendment.
  
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- Rickfromillinois
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 8:00pm
  Newtons third law – I don’t know where you got your information about Rangel but you are wrong. In Korea he was assigned to the 503rd Artillery Battalion, which was an all Black unit, but it was part of the 2nd Infantry Division, not what you claimed. In addition he received a Bronz Star for leading 40 men back to friendly lines, which is indeed heroic, but there was no mention of any involvement on his part in hand to hand combat. Unfortunately he also cheated on his taxes while in charge of the House Committee whose main concern is taxes.
  
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- Iwillvetalways
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 8:07pm
  Charly Rengal Bagdad Bob of the Comm///. er Damograt Party. There should be a contest to see which Dem. is the biggest liar. Who would you choose ? Clinton,Obama, Pelosi.Reid,Kerry et al. Who do think will cover up this wopper Cris Mathews,Maddow,Bikel, P.Morgan Geraldo. MSNBC CNN,CBS.NBC ABC or all the above?
  
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- rjtaurus605
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 8:09pm
  Be nice to old man Rangel, we all know he can’t count!
  
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- cosette
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 8:27pm
  @ Newtowns third law…. Benedict Arnold was, at one point in time, a member of the “sons of liberty”,fought at Lexington and Concord and fought heroically in the Battle of Saratoga. He enjoyed many military successes and eventually was appointed by Washington as military commander at Philadelphia. Later he assumed command at West Point. So you see, a lofty military career does not a patriot make. Rangel is a political hack of the first order, and a common garden variety liar. Millions of kids? Seriously?
  
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- yougottabekidding
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 8:48pm
  DesdemonasCrew
  
  Abbey – who?
  
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- yougottabekidding
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 8:50pm
  Newtowns-Third-Law
  
  WOW – You got your self surrounded
  
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- bonesiii
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 9:02pm
  Far worse than his idiotic ‘math’ is this nugget in the quote:
  
  “The NRA has taken this position, there is no reason, there is no foundation. There is no hunter that needs automatic military weapons to enjoy the culture of going hunting,” Rangel began. “But you know it’s really basically the absence of the voices of good people. I cannot believe that politicians are afraid of the NRA.”
  
  No reason? -Hunting?!- What the bleep? Has he been on Mars for the past year? Or century?
  
  It’s to protect we the people from creeps like you, genius. Politicians being afraid (in the good sense of knowing they HAVE to respect us, so you’re not tempted to abuse your power) is the whole point of the Second Amendment, and that is the foundation, the reason.
  
  Not hunting. Yeesh.
  
  The millions of kids thing might be just his peabrain talking, but to claim that gun rights supporters have no foundation for that reasoning is a blatant and incredibly offensive lie.
  
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- MistyMountainGranny
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 9:05pm
  @MENSA141 – It’s true!! I have a few firearms I’ve been watching closely every day and they haven’t moved let alone killed anyone :)
  
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- Lord_Frostwind
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 9:39pm
  Newtown, you are talking about turning millions of your countrymen into criminals for the sake of protecting one life. There isn’t anything noble about that, dare I say it shows rampant foolishness.
  
  Tell me, what are you willing to destroy for the sake of getting rid of those guns? The hundred of cops and resistors who will die in efforts to take those weapons? A nation whose unity is utterly destroyed? All for the sake of “doing something.”
  
  Until you are willing to think of the consequences of your actions, do not presume you have the right to judge us for being content with the status quo. Those children’s deaths do not belong on my head any more than yours, stop trying to paint people with their blood.
  
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- DIR
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 10:47pm
  The big news would have been if Charlie had said something truthful or accurate.
  
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- Puddle Duck
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 11:09pm
  Cosette some amusing additional intel about Arnold quoted from Wiki page
  
  “Arnold then became a British officer and saw important action in the American theater. In December, under orders from Clinton, Arnold led a force of 1,600 troops into Virginia and captured Richmond, cutting off the major artery of material to the southern colonial effort. It is said that Arnold asked an officer he had taken captive about what the Americans would do if they captured him, and the captain is said to have replied “Cut off your right leg, bury it with full military honors, and then hang the rest of you on a gibbet.”
  
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- Puddle Duck
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 11:15pm
  Well said and played LTB………What I cannot understand is the knee jerk response to opposing a gun ban automatically being characterized as tacit approval for taking children’s lives…. No one is advocating such a horrible thing and yet this the moral pretzel liberals always seem to posit in reaction to pushback from citizens who rightly see any ban of this kind as patently ridiculous and furthermore, as if this secondary consideration were any less important, strictly unconstitutional.
  
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- SUNTZU
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 12:36am
  He was talking about abortions.
  
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- Maji
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 12:58am
  newtonsthird-lie,
  
  John A Walker was a decorated vet
  and a Soviet Spy!
  
  He was silenced.
  
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- dmerwin
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:07am
  just over 300 millionAmericans, yet millions of kids are killed by guns. Where charley? You are a despicable liar. Your party’s policies are the cause of inner city, mostly black deaths. Own it A -hole.
  
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- phil1765
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 5:12am
  Newtowns-Third-Law
  Charlie Rangel is a decorated hand to hand combat veteran of the Korean Conflict.
  
  Yea yea but you forgot to mention how he became a millionaire on the backs of his poor constituents and decided that he was above paying taxes for it. Funny how you leave that $hit out isn’t it? I am sure that you could probably find some good in old Charles Manson’s bio also if you choose to edit out all the bad stuff.
  
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- sun-sense
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 9:54am
  Charlie Ragel just said on MSNBC that “We’re talking about millions of kids dying — being shot down by assault weapons,” – It would be funny if he wasn’t in Congress. What a bald faced lie. But instead of laughing and complaining amongst ourselves, perhaps we should complain.
  
  Better still, file a complaint against him as he is bringing the house into disrepute by his lying.
  
  Filing a Complaint
  To find out how to file a complaint against a Representative, contact the Committee on Ethics at:
  
  Phone: 1.202.225.7103
  Fax: 1.202.225.7392
  Committee on Ethics
  1015 Longworth House Office Building
  Washington DC 20515
  Hours of operation: Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. ET
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:57pm
  More to the point “NEWTOWN” (sic). Is there a limit to how many screennames you use on these boards? ”
  Let’s see..you’re MONICNE, you’re SLEAZY HIPPO, you’re KREGENVA (oh look..you reversed the spelling of my screenname with that one in a fit of rage and obsession with me), you’re ENCINOM, you’re MOST INTERESTING TROLL ..ad nauseum..and now you’re NEWTOWN (sic)…So is there a limit to how many names you need to hide behind little fella?
  
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- Newtowns-Third-Law
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 4:19pm
  Thanks to those of you who actually stayed on topic. I actually learned a bit about Rangel that I did not know. Not being one of his constituents, I had no idea he was a criminal all these years.
  
  Many of you decided to argue the morality of abortion or the existence of a Revolutionary War traitor who was first a hero. Some of you just trued to be as unpleasant as possible. I would say the majority of your retorts were off base rhetoric – but you be the judge.
  
  Nobody answered my question. 762 x 51 stated: “These imaginary weapons actually account for only 2 – 8% of firearms homicides each year.” To explore that point, I asked: “What is the acceptable number of children’s death per year from AR-15?”
  
  I was hoping to get a cost/benefit analysis or risk assessment form some educated person, which obviously I am not. But instead the majority went on tangents to avoid my question.
  
  Frankly, eight percent of 11,078 gun homicides in 2011 is fine with me. Nice population size, easy to contain and bury, very affordable in the US, will not overtax the system, even if sequestered.
  
  That’s just 880 folks.
  and 880 folks is less than 6% of all murders in 2011, because 35 percent of homicides don’t even use guns at all.
  
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- dmerwin
  Posted on March 23, 2013 at 3:39am
  http://www.theblaze.com/users/newtowns-third-law/
  The real number is less than 40. Not 880. More, many more, people are murdered with no weapon at all I.e. bare hands. “Assault rifles” are a canard. The problem is unsupervised felons and whack jobs.
  
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Sargeking
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:08pm
Charles Rangel is this weeks new poster child for Term Limits. LOL!

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- AnimalsAsLeaders
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:15pm
  LOL my thoughts exactly
  
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- chips1
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:31pm
  Looking at his picture, I’d say he is close to his term of life. This might be his final year before the big Burn.
  
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- DesdemonasCrew
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:41pm
  His brain died years ago. Unfortunately, Lefty Liberals are used to functioning without one.
  
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- Puddle Duck
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 11:18pm
  Rangel has been the poster child for term limits for 2 decades +……He’s like the cat that came back the very next day….he continues to get re elected no matter how badly he behaves or shames his office with proven criminal activities. He should have been stripped of office and thrown into jail long ago.
  
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Chuck-e-normus
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:07pm
There is one thing that is killing millions of children but I doubt you will ever hear anyone on the left mention it except to defend it.

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- Bro Geo Too
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:12pm
  Excellent point – I’ll bet Rangel has never voted for children by voting against abortion.
  
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- 762x51
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:13pm
  Al Gore says that under the Earth it is several million degrees. Maybe they have a learning disability that is unique to units of measure.
  
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- brother_ed
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:16pm
  @CHUCK-E-NORMUS
  
  The left looks at it as ‘millions of women planning their parenthood’, or ‘millions of women controlling their body’.
  
  ‘Planned Parenthood’ is as misnamed as the ‘Affordable Health Care Act’ or the ‘National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’. None of these accurately describe their mission.
  
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- Sargeking
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:17pm
  You speared it the same way the Left spears the unborn. They do it the broken spine way on the end of a coat hanger.
  
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Sargeking
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:05pm
From Sandy Hook Line and Sinker we have never seen one picture of the so-called “assault rifle” or a single crime scene photo. For all we know, less than five people were killed (including the attacker) and that he used a knife, perhaps not even a very big one at that. Now this fool Dem spouts about “millions of kids killed” by the same type of weapon. I wonder if this follows the same blame game when Maxine Waters (Dem. California) announced that the Sequester would cost more than 147 million jobs? So here we go again. Liberalism is truly a mental illness!

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- 13th Imam
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 7:46pm
  While I am on your side, I live about 15 miles from where this DID happen.
  
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MADDMAXX
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:05pm
I am ashamed to live in N.Y. State, where sensationalism, and headline grabbing is business as usual! Lies are only lies if you are caught in one! On the other hand, “Hundreds of Millions of New Yorkers feel that everyone should be required to own at least three firearms. A Shotgun, a pistol, and a fully automatic rifle.” HOW WAS THAT FOR A LIE?

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- AvengerK
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:15pm
  I’ll drink a 16 oz drink to that.
  
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- Newtowns-Third-Law
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:58pm
  Hey Big Gulp, take the weekend off, fer cryin’ out loud. You may as well run away again (rather than answer the simple question you avoided last week).
  
  Oh, I guess you WERE crying out loud! From Thursday until Wednesday! Ruff-Tuff Cream Puff…
  
  …Or just tell us your body count, ya big lug. Tell us how many rifle notches, and how many handgun notches you got; and knives and clubs. Or, just your total confirmed killed/maimed by the latest year.
  
  You talk like a combat vet, do I have that correct?
  
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- Ben__Franklin
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 6:30pm
  Newtowns, Rifles have not killed millions of children. Abortion has. Where do you stand?
  
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- Puddle Duck
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 11:23pm
  Beantown you argue like a very familiar troll (to this board), do I have that right ?
  
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- Ben__Franklin
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 9:25am
  “Hey Big Gulp, take the weekend off, fer cryin’ out loud. You may as well run away again (rather than answer the simple question you avoided last week).”
  
  “You talk like a combat vet, do I have that correct?”
  
  You talk like the typical Liberal Hypocrite, do I have that correct? Newtowns
  
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The-Monk
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:04pm
Paid your taxes yet Charlie…. Wrangle?

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- brother_ed
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:11pm
  @THE_MONK
  
  When I read ““I’m ashamed to admit it but its politics and its money…”, I thought he was making a confession!
  
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- pissantno.10
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:46pm
  poor charlie never was any good with numbers, or poltics, and now he is mad because he did not get his share of bribe money
  
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- Ben__Franklin
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 6:29pm
  He paid with all that cash his freezer generated. Charlie still does not know how all that got in there. Isn’t he still under investigation by Nazi Pelosi’s team to drain the swamp?
  
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Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:02pm
Oh yah, last year over 50 gazillion people were blinded when you took off your shirt in the Dominican Republic, and 100 gazillion people lost their lunch. So I think we should ban Charlie from ever taking his shirt off in public, and he should be forced to wear a burka, along with Nancy pelosi and Patty Murray, just looking at them makes me sick.

Maybe this is the new standard to coming up with laws, make up statistics and then pass knee jerk bills.

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- prayforlibs
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:16pm
  LOL! Thanks for the belly laugh.
  
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RaydocX
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:02pm
along with the 170,000,000 jobs that will be lost due to sequestration.
maybe that’s how ol’ charlie got into such trouble with his finances… you remember, the illegal dealings that would have landed you or i in jail? That congress… did they censure or did they merely reprimand… no expulsion, no serverance of pension.

And sadly he likely believes those numbers… the bad black rifle is so lethal it has to be stopped! Who cares about facts! Vote with your heart, don’t bother with your head.

One more time, Charlie, i’ll use small words. the bill of rights #2 is NOT for hunting. These are not machine guns. but since you mention it, yes we should be able to own them too. and what is immoral is trying to destroy what this country stands for. so stand up and protect the nation, charlie… do what you swore to do, stop trying to attack the bill of rights, Charlie.

and if you cannot do what you swore to do, step down. quit. retire. and try to get facts, Charlie, it will keep you from saying more dumb things (maybe)

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@SoquelCreek
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:02pm
Speaking about gun violence, Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) claimed ” “We’re talking about millions of kids dying ….”

He’s right. However, it’s not gun violence that is ending the lives of millions of innocent American children; it’s abortion. In one year alone, 2007, abortion ended the lives of 1,210,000 (1.21 MILLION) American children, according to the United States Census Bureau. That’s more than the number of people murdered by the Nazis at Auschwitz during all the years of its operation. It’s also more than the entire population of Dallas, TX–America’s ninth largest city.

In that same year, 12,632 Americans of all ages were killed as a result of gun violence–nearly a hundred times less than from abortion.

CHART: Deaths by Various Causes (2007, U.S. Census Bureau data).
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-S54l7mN7p_Y/UMz-mGvo3tI/AAAAAAAABko/hrmU4rY4G6w/s1600/abortion_vs_gun_deaths.png

See also …

Putting Gun Violence into Proper Perspective
http://soquelbythecreek.blogspot.com/2012/12/putting-gun-violence-into-proper.html

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inexiletill2012
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:01pm
The government you elect is the government you deserve.
And New York……you deserve Charlie Rangel

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- 762x51
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:10pm
  And Adolf Bloomberg and Cuomo, and their legislature, and on and on.
  
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FlagWavingPatriot
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:00pm
He’s a democrat. They’re allowed to lie about anything without consequence.

The bad part is there are people in our country dumb enough to believe that kind of bullchit.

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- BloodSweatandTears
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:55pm
  He’s just part of the machine. I friend of my family, who just happens to be a repeat guest speaker for world hunger at the U. N. told us of the things that are occurring in the US point to the decimation of the middle class. That’s the real target with g-control. Think about it. Look who has body guards now, entertainers, sports figures, the uber wealthy. Think how you won’t be able to protect yourself or your family like that, therefore you automatically become the new lower, ‘groveling,’ class.
  
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- BloodSweatandTears
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 6:08pm
  Since we now live in up-side-down-world, look for anything they say to mean the exact opposite. For example, if they say, “it’s to grow the middle class,” expect it to shrink, and rapidly…
  
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MisterSarcastic
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 4:59pm
A chain is only as strong as it’s weakest link…

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TomGee
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 4:59pm
Facts don’t matter to Rangel. If he needs to blame someone or something for the Senate’s dropping of the proposed legislation, he should blame that pesky 2nd Amendment. Damn that Constitution!

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- 762x51
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:11pm
  Gee, I thought the number was BILLIONS. If its only millions then no big deal Charlie, you lying sack.
  
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- Skeeterhawk
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:19pm
  762… that was pretty funny.
  
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AvengerK
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 4:58pm
go back to sleep Charlie..there’s a good idiot…

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/item_626vkLIADWXS2uof0i9DDP

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- galaxie_man
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:06pm
  The only thing that would make that first photo funnier would be the close-up of the drool dripping from the corner of his mouth onto his shirt.
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:15pm
  Squint GALAXIE…you can see the drool.
  
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Patriot Z
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 4:58pm
why dont you care? why dont you care that 150 TRILLION CHILDREN WERE KILLED LAST MONTH BY RACIST NRA MEMBERS WITH GRENADE LAUNCHERS and lazer guns…! will someone for god sakes think of the children and not your selfish rights! self defense is wrong a. how many kids must be run over by civillians with tanks before you care…THIIINNKKK OFFF THHHEE CHHHIILLLDDRREENNNN!

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- Skeeterhawk
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:08pm
  Don’t forget those insane NRA members with anti-gravitational discombobulaters out there running around shooting them in the air. Chilling.
  Rangle should go back to sleep.
  
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- Puddle Duck
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 11:35pm
  Trillions of minnows, squid and bait fish are being needlessly slaughtered at the hands of conservative sharks (armed with “assault lasers” ) roaming the high seas…….save the planet, disarm all sharks NOW.
  
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Penn
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 4:58pm
The only thing dyin are the very few brain cells left in this mushheaded old crook.

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TerminalLance
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 4:58pm
Don’t forget that “assault weapons” are only a fraction of the total rifle count. Plenty of people die from bolt action and smaller rimfire caliber guns, as well as semi-automatics that don’t fit the visual description of assault weapons.

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galaxie_man
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 4:57pm
Assault is a behavior, not a category of firearm.

Millions of kids killed by “assault weapons” Charlie? How many would still be alive if you paid your fair share of taxes instead of cheating on them? Hey…..why can’t I make such a foolish leap?

Maybe it’s the new math like the 170 million unemployed thanks to George Bush, according to Nancy Pelosi.

The libs are ALL out of their freakin’ minds!

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matt_c
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 4:56pm
If millions were dying each year from gun violence all of us would have seen someone gunned down at one point or another. You wouldn’t be able to go anywhere without seeing a body, crime scene, or a shooting in progress.

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BlackCrow
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 4:56pm
This guy should have been put in jail for tax evasion and NOT sitting in the House of Representatives.

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- Cavallo
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:02pm
  The politburo doesn’t have to abide by the same laws that it issues to the peasants.
  
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justangry
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 4:56pm
How can he even still be in office?

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dwsmokin
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 4:55pm
Rangel has no credibility left, and only spouts insane things like this to steer attention away from his own history of corruption. The man should have already been out on ethics violations (not to mention actual law-breaking, i.e., bribery) The sooner he’s gone the sooner-perhaps-someone with a bit of class gets elected.

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JohnofOregon
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 4:55pm
Isn’t this the guy who sat on the tax writing committee for years and didn’t pay taxes himself?

If he can’t remember that, how can you expect him to get the facts right anyway?

You know, come to think of it, he got away with it. He is after all the ruling class.

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- 762x51
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:12pm
  He didn’t read the bill.
  
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Cavallo
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 4:54pm
Rangel is a moron, and what is worse he is a fascist.

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TX_45_ACP
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 4:53pm
He must be hanging out with Maxine Waters …

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- no1hd
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:23pm
  I wish
  
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