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Iowa House Dems. Walk Out in Protest of Gun Bills

Iowa House Dems. Walk Out in Protest of Gun Bills

Social issues surprisingly came to the front of national political dialogue last month, could second amendment rights be next?

Iowa Democrats made an unprecedented exit from the state’s Capitol Wednesday, according to Republican Gov. Terry Branstad in protest to Republican plans to debate two gun measures. Democrats claim that Republicans failed to properly inform legislators about plans to debate bills supporting gun rights. The Des Moines Register reports:

“At issue were bills seeking to broaden Iowa’s ‘Castle Doctrine’ allowing individuals to defend themselves with deadly force and a proposal to write the right to bear arms into the state constitution.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, D-Des Moines accused Republican House Leader Linda Upmeyer of failing to properly inform legislators about plans to debate the bills on Wednesday, leaving Democrats without time to draw up and offer changes to the bills.

“She said they will debate those bills today whether we like it or not,” McCarthy told the Des Moines Register on Wednesday morning, as Democrats were leaving the Capitol. “I told her that we’ve been double crossed, and we will not be debating those bills today.”

He later circulated a scanned copy of the House calendar, on which he said Upmeyer had circled the bills she intended to bring up for debate. The gun measures were not among those circled. (A copy of the calendar is available on the Register’s website.) Republicans hold a 60-to-40 majority in the House, which allows them to set the calendar for debate and largely control the legislative process.”

Republicans argue that the schedule was well known and the exit was an attempt to make a political scene.

It is unsure where the Democrats’ fled to but the Register reports that the incident disrupted a full day of legislation action, featuring debate on 11 bills in addition to the gun bills, several committee meetings, and an event commemorating Black History Month. The event, which featured several guests whom had traveled from across the state, was curtailed thanks to the stunt shortening an hour-long program and leaving two massive sheet cakes brought for lawmakers to commemorate the military service of the Tuskegee Airmen uneaten.

“I’ve been in the minority and I’ve been in the majority in the legislature and I’ve always felt that the best thing to do is to not be afraid to state your position,” Gov. Terry Branstad said of the incident. Branstad has been in Iowa politics since the 1970s and told the Register that the incident is unprecedented and could not recall a similar situation in Iowa.

Wisconsin and Indiana  Democrats behaved similarly to their hawk-eye brethren when they fled the state last year as an attempt to block legislation reforming unions.

Perhaps this will be the new trend in American politics, if you don’t like what is being debated, flee the state.

Real mature.

 

 

Comments (74)

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  • Bum thrower
    Posted on March 1, 2012 at 9:02am

    Solution; vote the rest of the Dems out in 2012, then you won’t have to screw with their petty nonsense.

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    • Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 10:59pm

      They‘ve already shown that they don’t want to be there. Send all the Dems home permanently.

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    • turkey13
      Posted on March 3, 2012 at 3:26pm

      I hope I don’t have to add Iowa to my no fly list. I refuse to go or spend money on a state that refuses to recognize my Oklahoma Carry Permit. Since I can’t go up thru DC, NY.Phillie, Mich, etc. This whole area is off limits and I refuse to buy on Amazon or e-Bay if vender is located there. I have 3 Grand Sons that myself and wife want to take up there but untill their politics change it is a no go.

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  • RedDawn2012
    Posted on March 1, 2012 at 7:45am

    Every fish, bird, and animal (and even a plant or two) on earth will defend itself when threatened with harm, but some people still believe that humans, alone amongst all life’s creatures, have no such right. Poppycock! Such people are immature or mentally unbalanced or have hidden agendas. When the education system is overhauled in this country, as it must be if we are to survive, and the school books are rewritten to contain the whole truth and nothing but the truth, the idea of self defense and the right to bear arms should be high on the list of mandatory subjects to be taught to our children.

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    • Viper1
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 8:45am

      This is the same tactic that worked so well for them in Wisconsin. It is about time to shutter their offices and stop their pay until they come back to work. These temper tantrums are another sign of our education system tun amok. What if all the students in public school suddenly stood up and walked out of a classroom when a teacher announced a POP test and they simply said It wasn‘t on the schedule so I’m going home. When I was a child my mother would have warmed my backside and sent me back to school. Now a days the parents would probably sue the school for hurting little Johnny’s feeeelings. Well, this is our little Johnny moment. What are we going to do?

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    • Wolf
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 4:47pm

      It also worked in Texas, I think it was the original state where dimocraps ran out of town.
      If Iowa’s Constitution allows it, I think those still in town should bring this to the floor for a vote and pass it while the dimocraps are out of town. That way, they’ll have no excuse as to why it passed.

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  • Ran60
    Posted on March 1, 2012 at 7:42am

    Hmm…seems the left doesn’t like it when their own tactics are used against them.

    Sauce for the goose, I’d say…

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  • Arc
    Posted on March 1, 2012 at 6:12am

    Waaaaaaaa!!!!!! If I don‘t get my way I’ll take my bat & ball and go home…….Another indication of the Wussification of America!!!!!

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    • BSdetector
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 6:54am

      Aww da wittle commoonists got their feewins hurt? So saaaaad :(
      Hopefully they’ll all stop taking their anti-depressants and do us all a favor!

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  • Concerned Green Beret
    Posted on March 1, 2012 at 4:24am

    I don’t understand the need for these laws. The second amendment is a God Given Right. If they wanted to just send a message they should just repeal any law that inhibits the right to “KEEP AND BEAR”.

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  • glashole
    Posted on February 29, 2012 at 11:30pm

    The secomd amendment is my concealed carry permit.
    Ted Nugent

    I am an northerner and was not raised to hunt and still do not, but the second amendment is not in the Constitution so I can kill a deer, but rather to kill a tyrant. I am well armed, I have all my teeth and I play hockey :)

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  • Mrs. Bowers
    Posted on February 29, 2012 at 10:21pm

    Are they going to run for the hills everytime things get a little dicey for them? Step up and do your jobs. This childish behavior has grown very old.

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    • bombshelterbob
      Posted on February 29, 2012 at 11:19pm

      And the lame stream media would have us believe that the Republicans are the obstructionists!

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    • beachj11
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 1:32am

      They react the only way an under developed, illogical, purely emotional mind knows how to do so… they throw a tantrum. These people could give my two year old a serious run for her money.

      The Dems have had their way long enough. They have turned this country into the only one in the world where criminals are more protected than law abiding citizens.

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  • madvlad
    Posted on February 29, 2012 at 9:47pm

    The very best part of the new laws in WI is that A. even if they defeat Walker (which they won’t), the new collective bargaining law will remain in place, and B. the new Concealed Carry law, now that we have it, will also never be able to be revoked. Sorry, comrade Democrats, those horses are out of the barn and won’t ever be forced back.

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  • OllieK
    Posted on February 29, 2012 at 9:36pm

    Hard to believe it’s come to this. Politicians walking out on debating a law that ALLOWS people to defend themselves in their own home. This shouldn’t even be up for debate. This is a God-given right, recognized in the Second Amendment. These phonies recoil (pun intended) at the sight of a gun, yet go home in the evening and watch any number of show where guns are used and people are killed with them. Every sane adult should be required to learn how to shoot a gun and encouraged to own and carry one. Instead, liberals want to prevent law abiding citizens from owning guns and to be defenseless against criminals who will always find a way to get guns. So you know whose side they are on. Every politician who takes the oath to uphold the Constitution should be absolutely required to exercise his/her Second Amendment rights and own and know how to use guns. The fact that they don’t is one reason they utterly fail to understand the Second Amendment. So they run away like children. That’s because they know they are dead wrong in their position.

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    • Grey Eagle
      Posted on February 29, 2012 at 10:16pm

      This right to bear arms is in the constitution. Better believe I would defend my home against anyone breaking in and threatening my family. That freedom is given in numerous states. I am surprised to find out they don’t have it in Iowa. These Democrats really showed themselves and ruined the day for those Black Pilots who not only were heroes, but also changed the way black soldiers were perceived during World War II. The Dems (who ran away) behavior should be an affront to these brave men.

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  • Mr Disco
    Posted on February 29, 2012 at 9:26pm

    I guess encinom doesn’t own a car, a major instrument of death.

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  • GENE BLISTER
    Posted on February 29, 2012 at 8:45pm

    Said it before and I’ll say it again:
    The Democrat (liberal, socialist, progressive, collectivist, communist) doesn’t live who has matured past the age of 12. You may correctly replace any of these words with “adolescent” in any sentence on any subject.

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    • Wolf
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 5:03pm

      “Prebuescent’ comes readily to mind.

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  • 00gabooga
    Posted on February 29, 2012 at 8:36pm

    The pro-criminal party does it again.

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  • MYOWNMASTER
    Posted on February 29, 2012 at 8:30pm

    @encinom you are funny but wrong, guns are the only thing keeping us from total enslavement

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  • AJAYW
    Posted on February 29, 2012 at 7:53pm

    Thats the liberals way – don’t get their way they walkout

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    • Bro Geo Too
      Posted on February 29, 2012 at 9:10pm

      Concur.

      Liberals, democrats, and progressives cannot win an argument on the basis of logic. And when they don’t get their way, it is just as you wrote, they cry like spoiled brats and run away.

      This was the democrat ploy used by the Wisconsin democrats who shirked their duty, abandoned their citizens, and ran like cowards. Pathetic–just pathetic.

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  • GOWINGS
    Posted on February 29, 2012 at 7:21pm

    Hopefully they all walked north towards the Canadian border. I will pay for thier passports.
    COMMIES!!!!

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  • UBETHECHANGE
    Posted on February 29, 2012 at 7:17pm

    Will the real criminals please stand up…politicians that go against the Constitution they were sworn to uphold and protect!!!! I hate the One World Socialists in our government!

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  • thefnshow
    Posted on February 29, 2012 at 7:02pm

    if they run then their votes should be forfeited…you watch,they will come back and try to put something in the law to prevent the other side from doing it with penalty

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    • beachj11
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 1:38am

      I totally agree! Don‘t show up and your vote doesn’t count! Walking out because you’re not getting your way? What a joke! It would almost be laughable if it weren’t so ridiculous. .

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  • RebelYell1862
    Posted on February 29, 2012 at 6:40pm

    I’m just thankful I live in the most conservative state in America. Mississippi has a Rep. Gov. and both the state senate and house are Rep. I can walk into a gun store and after a five minute background check take my gun home. I can have my pistol in my glove box or under the seat concealed legally,my truck is considered an extension of my home. If the dems. walked out here we would tell them to keep on walking. @encinom come on down here and spew your crap. See how long you make it.

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    • encinom
      Posted on February 29, 2012 at 7:11pm

      More than likely you have more guns than teeth in your mouth or branches on your family tree. Nothing like the uneducated confederate fool speaking tough. Does the North have to teach the South a lesson in manners again?

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    • Jayms
      Posted on February 29, 2012 at 7:26pm

      Encinom, that’s your comeback? Stereotyping? What are you, 12 years old?

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    • hpyagl
      Posted on February 29, 2012 at 7:57pm

      ENCINOM,

      From one transplanted “confederate” living within a few miles drive of the Capitol building mentioned in this story, I can tell you that the day will come when you might just smart off to the wrong person even though you think you are safe North of the Mason Dixon line. There are rebel spies among you. LAUGH OUT LOAD! Though we buck-toothed, back-woods, barefoot hicks are a problem for you, we will deliver in proxy for our brothers down yonder if you can ever bring yourself up to a courage level to say it face to face when given the opportunity.

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    • Tonto Lebowski
      Posted on February 29, 2012 at 8:42pm

      I too am thankful that I live in a sane state (ARKANSAS), where I can go into a gunstore, give them my concealed carry permit, and walk out with my New Weapon. I own several weapons, am skilled with all of them and feel secure because I have them. It is not my hope to kill someone with them, it is my hope that I can protect my family and property from someone trying to kill us to take what we have earned and saved. That is why all of the people I know have weapons. Trying to explain this to EMOM is just a effort in futility, like trying to explain it to Bill Maher.

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    • SupaNami
      Posted on February 29, 2012 at 8:54pm

      @ Encinom …..Really dude ? .. im from Brazil and lived in NY,NY and hated it .. rude people everywhere you go .. then moved and now stay in the South… as soon as i moved in my neighbors were bringing me vegetables from there own gardens to welcome me to the neighborhood .. it was awesome … never seen anything like it .. but it was great, to feel welcomed .. and they didn’t no me ! and you talk about people without teeth? there is way more people without teeth in the North than the South .. and most of the states in the south do better then the Northern States … look at Detroit Mi. it’s a **** hole .. ran by Lib’s

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    • Latter-Day-Soldier
      Posted on February 29, 2012 at 11:11pm

      Like any spoiled child, encinom is a Troll looking for attention, even if it’s negative attention…so why give it to him?

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  • RedneckJim
    Posted on February 29, 2012 at 6:04pm

    I don’t see a problem as long as they keep going, and going, and going. The story doesn’t mention anything about a cloture vote, just debate. This seems to be typical of Democrats these days. How pathetic. What, they didn’t have time to contact Insane Mayors against Illegal Guns or the Fraidy Campaign to get more up-to-date lies to bring to the floor? Just sign the bill, then the Republicans will tell you what’s in the bill.

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  • John WIS.
    Posted on February 29, 2012 at 5:49pm

    What is there to debate?

    People have the right to defend themselves, no matter where they might be. Not only is it a constitutional right…(2nd Amendment…remember?)…it is a God given right.

    Not only that…..but people who have the capability to defend others, have the responsibility to do so….whether it is defending ones self, family, neighbor, or even a total stranger.

    Why are Democrats so “wuss” about this subject?

    Get it through your heads……there will never be world peace. And not everyone is going to get along, and “coexist”.

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    • encinom
      Posted on February 29, 2012 at 6:13pm

      Jesus said blessed are the arms dealers and gun makers…don’t remember that in the bible.

      Their is no god given right ot own an instrument of death. Nor is any right within the Constitution an absolute right. You can’t argue free exercise as an excuse for human sacrifice.

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    • Wolf
      Posted on February 29, 2012 at 6:36pm

      Encimon- you’re an idiot.

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    • Wolf
      Posted on February 29, 2012 at 6:38pm

      Monicne- you should actually read the Bible before you comment on what it says.

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    • SolanumVexus
      Posted on February 29, 2012 at 6:39pm

      @ENCINOM, you are mistaken. The Constitution codifies the rights that God gave to man, including the right to defend oneself. And even if you don’t believe in God, every human still has the right to defend their life, liberty, and property from the aggressions of others.

      Who are you to tell anyone how they should be able to defend their life, their home, or their family? Do you simply believe that someone will always be there to save your simpering cowardly carcass from criminals? If so, you are sadly, terribly, perhaps even fatally, mistaken.

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    • planeboy
      Posted on February 29, 2012 at 6:43pm

      @ encinom… ( | )+hat= you

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    • hpyagl
      Posted on February 29, 2012 at 8:14pm

      Encinom doesn’t know the difference between “defend” and “offend” The right to defend ones life seems to make sense. She seems to make the argument that anyone who owns a gun or an “instrument of death” as she calls it is arguing for the right to offend. She has it wrong. She violates her own life view since she is tries to offend in every post.

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    • dmerwin
      Posted on March 3, 2012 at 3:18pm

      encinom
      Until that amendment is nullified by two thirds vote in both houses and ratified by 3/4 of the states it is an absolute right. There is a much larger probability of rescinding the Income Tax. You folks have tried to reduce the weight of this particular amendment in the courts, or other legal sleight of hand, but have had your asses handed to you EVERY time. In the words of John Lennon, “happiness is a warm, yes it is, GUN”, one of my personal favorites.

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  • rodamaa
    Posted on February 29, 2012 at 5:41pm

    What I see is a country tearing it self apart. I see darkness in the horizon

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    • IntheKnowOG
      Posted on February 29, 2012 at 6:07pm

      I agree. Democrats feel as though they have the right to obstruct due process and then use the same procedures to block it. How can you reason with someone who refuses to admit 2 + 2 = 4 because they don’t like the answer? This will come to blows, we will win, but at what cost? Moral order is decaying, the weak will suffer, sadly.

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    • Psychosis
      Posted on February 29, 2012 at 6:42pm

      @ encinom

      again, you are an idiot ………………just like the other poster astutely posted

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    • amdoktor
      Posted on February 29, 2012 at 6:49pm

      Like children they are. Mommy called for a time out. Fact of the matter is they do have the test..cals to man up and follow the system. Ever notice their the first to sue when things don’t go their way. SAD.

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    • Latter-Day-Soldier
      Posted on February 29, 2012 at 11:35pm

      I would love to see what the results would be if a few well known Trolls tried spewing their garbage in truly socialist countries such as Cuba, China, North Korea or Venezuela….or truly theological countries like Saudi Arabia or Kuwait (in Kuwait, non muslims are forbidden to walk on the same side of the street where a mosque sits, it’s a law there). Iraq and Afghanistan are pretty much lawless countries under siege by terrorists and a population (Afghanistan) that does not want western values or cultures “corrupting” it.
      And as far as comparing the GOP to the Taliban…..as I said, a few individuals need to take a trip overseas

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    • chfields62
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 1:35am

      encinom…Living proof that stupid people shouldn’t breed..you keep showing your stupidity and complete lack of any sense every time you post..your parents must be so proud….

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  • Roundup_Logan
    Posted on February 29, 2012 at 5:37pm

    Temper tantrums by the democrats. How immature. I can remember my kids while being raised used to storm off to their rooms and disengage when they didn’t get their way. This kinda reminds me of that behavior. Prepare their ammendments to the bills? We all know the stance of all the liberals when it comes to the second ammendment. They all have a hard time acknowledging “GOD” much less the US Constitutions protection of the right that God himself gave us to self protection. So if they don’t believe in God, why would anyone think they’d believe you have a right to protect yourself. I say have recalls on all their whinney butts and toss them out minus their golden retirement/healthcare plans. If they’re not mature enough to debate the issues, what are they even doing in office other than sucking on the teet of the taxpayers.

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    • Airb0rne4325
      Posted on February 29, 2012 at 6:09pm

      They can’t stay and argue their position. That is why they leave. They have no grounds to stand on in which to defend their convictions because they will be slaughtered in the debate. Hence they must retreat and act like children who don’t get their way, because just like children they can‘t reasonably put together a strong enough arguement on why a person shouldn’t have the right to defend themselves or their family.

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    • Wolf
      Posted on February 29, 2012 at 6:46pm

      If they have enough present and their laws allow it, the GOP should have a roll call vote for passeage, then when it gets passed, the whiney cry-baby wussie libs can come back to play to cry foul.

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    • beachj11
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 1:43am

      Roundup: I agree completely! Toss them out! Like it or not, these cry babies have a job to do. If I no-showed or walked out on my job, I would be let go and replaced immediately. Why should these people be any different?

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  • thegreatcarnac
    Posted on February 29, 2012 at 5:35pm

    Democrats think that guns are dangerous because they want to take over the US and bring it into socialism and they can’t do it with all of these pesky armed citizens around. If they cannot stop gun ownership laws then they will just walk out. They may as well. The nation or a state is much better off without them.

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    • Buck Shane
      Posted on February 29, 2012 at 6:03pm

      Liberals are afraid. They are afraid to offend women, blacks, Muslims, foreigners, illegal aliens, and OWS followers.
      Liberals are afraid of all foreign nations. They are afraid of the weather, the ice caps, sea level … pretty much everything.
      So, of course they are afraid of people who will protect themselves.
      But they are also afraid to debate their illogical position on gun rights. They run away from protecting themselves and they run away from this debate. They are, at least, consistent.

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    • Wolf
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 4:58pm

      Right on, Guys- the only ones a lib commie dimocrap isn’t afraid to offend is a Patriot.

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  • South Philly Boy
    Posted on February 29, 2012 at 5:31pm

    Communist Nazis

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  • AvengerK
    Posted on February 29, 2012 at 5:29pm

    The democrats ran for the hills in Wisconsin and now the same here. Gutless little b@stards. They bring that Monty Python film to mind…”Brave Sir Robin ran away…bravely ran away..oh brave Sir Robin”.

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    • encinom
      Posted on February 29, 2012 at 6:19pm

      Yet the Democrats in Wis. were treated to a heros welcome, while der fruher Walker is counting in few remaining days in office.

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    • Psychosis
      Posted on February 29, 2012 at 6:44pm

      i guess encinom missed the press release that walker is slated to win his recall election with a large margin

      oh thats right, he gets his news from liberal propaganda sites .

      wonder what he will pout about after the election ?

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