Assault rifles are for wars, they are intended to max damage in min time frames. Why do you need something like that in your house for defense? Shotguns won't do the trick? And the larger guns like the .50 cals that people are buying like crazy, WHAT IN THE WORLD are you going to do with something like that? Turn your front porch into a bunker and mount it there? Are you really going to get attacked by an army of anything in this country?
POLITICS
A Gun Ban Gets Shot Down
Published Mar 28, 2009
From the magazine issue dated Apr 6, 2009
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Posted By: jjaffie @ 04/15/2009 11:31:49 AM
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Posted By: thehappyamerican @ 04/22/2009 9:26:58 AM
Why do you need your hands? They have been used for war! In fact, they are used to make "assault weapons!" You do not need your hands. The foundinf fathers did not envision the advanced prosthetic devices we have today that work almost has good as the real hand ..but probably better scince they are not used in war, so THAT's what you need! Not hands..
Peace!
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Posted By: FOXYOLDWOMAN @ 04/13/2009 1:58:06 PM
I am severly disappointed in the Obama team for deciding to not further the actions of assault weapons. I can't see the reasoning behind this decision. There are many important problems to attend to by this new administration...but...lives are lost daily, and toooo many innocents are killed. THIS IS AN ISSUE THAT MUST BE ATTENDED TO BY OUR NEW ADMINISTRATION ASAP!!!
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Posted By: gregcovert @ 04/16/2009 10:25:13 PM
Are you for real? I would like you to google the 2nd Amendment and then tell me what part of it you are having a hard time understanding. I also would like to know where you are going to find all the angels to set up your ideal country. Travel the world (I have been to numerous countries) and take the time to look around. We have the best of everything here and, while certainly not perfect by any means, history is crystal clear on what country has the strongest government system (Constitution) and a great standard of living! The U.S.A. Thanks.
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Posted By: FlyBoy1 @ 04/13/2009 4:06:33 PM
... in addition, we are a republic, not a democracy. If you want to live in a democracy you will need to time travel back to ancient Greece. All that remains of democracy are ruins. "Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself." John Adams - We are a republic and so you cannot vote to restrict the liberty of another person. The Constitution CHAINS government, the Constitution tells government what it cannot do. It CANNOT but by becoming rogue, tyrranical or unconstitutional, infringe on my rights.
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Posted By: gregcovert @ 04/16/2009 10:15:01 PM
I, too, cringe when I hear our great country called a democracy. You are 100% correct, and many people are stunned to hear that the word democracy never appears one time in the Constitution. But, everyday, all you hear is that we are a democracy and majority rules. Truly sicking. I guess not everyone had the same teachers that I had.
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Posted By: BG.Bryan @ 04/16/2009 4:10:02 PM
Small correction man: we are a representative democracy with a republican structure. Even the ancient greeks didn't have a fully direct democracy--many non-citizens and others were not allowed to vote, and not every issue was presented for popular vote
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Posted By: FlyBoy1 @ 04/13/2009 4:07:21 PM
... in addition, we are a republic, not a democracy. If you want to live in a democracy you will need to time travel back to ancient Greece. All that remains of democracy are ruins. "Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself." John Adams - We are a republic and so you cannot vote to restrict the liberty of another person. The Constitution CHAINS government, the Constitution tells government what it cannot do. It CANNOT but by becoming rogue, tyrranical or unconstitutional, infringe on my rights.
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Posted By: FlyBoy1 @ 04/13/2009 3:50:13 PM
United States Constitution, Ammendment 2 of the Bill of Rights, "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED! - During the 1700's a Militia was simply a group of Armed People, or Armed Citizens. The current Federal Laws concerning restrictions are an offense to the United States Constitution and should be trashed. That is unless the US Constitution is no longer the bedrock of our society. If that is true then what in Gods name am I doing in the US Air Force defending the US Constitution? More good people with weapons, less bad people abusing weapons (period). A peaceful fantasy world where defending yourself from others - AND - from government does not exsist. For more discussion come to http://pyrabang.com/go/imedia.
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Posted By: thehappyamerican @ 04/11/2009 4:23:29 PM
Clinton might want to read the Government report HER HUSBAND commisioned on how well the former ASSAULT WEAPON ban was actually working to reduce crime !
THAT is why responsible politicians in both partys have backed off this rediculouse law.
fewer Americans are killed by so-called assault weapons in the USA by far, than who are killed by FIST BLOWS!
It's like banning Limosines so the likes of Kennedy can drive acrossed a little bridge safely.
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Posted By: tom343 @ 04/08/2009 6:20:00 PM
Whoever monitors this site; many contributions seem to be spawning copies.
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Posted By: gracec @ 03/28/2009 4:02:14 PM
Why on earth does the NRA have so much political clout? I know the constitution guarantees the right to bear arms, but I doubt the framers had any idea that weapons could get so powerful and deadly, causing such havoc, causing so much in grief, and costing untold (billions, no doubt) on health care treatment for the victims, and funding for law enforcement. If these weapons of mass destruction are no longer available, wouldn't there be multiple benefits?
Do the economic benefits associated with weapons really outweigh the social costs, and the costs associated from cleaning up the mess they create?
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Posted By: Osama Bin Login @ 03/31/2009 11:16:38 AM
"Why are some Americans so adamantly opposed to restrictions on the sale of any and all weapons? "
Because we still believe in that silly "constitution" thingie. Remember that?-
Posted By: tom343 @ 04/08/2009 6:12:53 PM
Cause so many people are in it, silly!
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Posted By: Palin who? @ 03/31/2009 11:38:43 AM
However, when the constituion was written, people did not have access to hand held machine guns. No citizen has any business or right to have those. It's absurd.
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Posted By: PARAMEDIC70002 @ 03/31/2009 11:46:10 AM
Actually, every citizen in Revolutionally times was able to legally own, without restriction, the exact same rifle that the Army was using.
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Posted By: Palin who? @ 03/31/2009 11:50:50 AM
So what's your point? I don't think the Army had hand held machine guns back then as we do today...the M-16 wasn't quite available yet.
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Posted By: SrAN @ 04/02/2009 7:28:31 AM
The M-16 is a semi automatic weapon not a machine gun. You pull the trigger on and M-16 and it shoots one time. you pull the trigger on a machine gun it shoots multiple times. Please educate yourself before making a comment like that.
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Posted By: falcon642 @ 04/02/2009 4:23:29 AM
Assault rifles ARE NOT machine guns. The weapons in question are SEMI-AUTOMATIC, you pull the trigger and it fires ONCE and thats it. Another victim of sensationalism confirmed.
Second: the point is that 10 farmers armed with their personal firearms were as well or better armed than 10 soldiers from any army in the world of the time. The Founding Fathers trusted American citizens with the very cutting edge of military hardware and did not fear the consequences because they actually punished crime instead of sending murderers to resorts with HDTV.
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Posted By: Osama Bin Login @ 04/01/2009 4:17:15 PM
Sorry, Palin Who, the purpose of amendment II is to put the citizenry on par with the government.
As such, no restrictions are placed on the weapons permitted by the second amendment.
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Posted By: dmb12345 @ 03/30/2009 10:50:05 AM
Do you live in this country? DO you believe that the constitution is the basis for this country? Are you one of the hypocritic libs who selects portion of the constitution that you like and dump the rest? Maybe, there is a country called Mexico that will welcome you
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Posted By: chris s. @ 03/31/2009 10:57:53 PM
Speak to Bush and Cheny about your constitutional rights.
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Posted By: Osama Bin Login @ 04/01/2009 4:15:45 PM
If you're against gun ownership, you're as bad as they are.
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Posted By: DozensOfReaders @ 04/01/2009 2:08:47 PM
The framers didn't imagine powerful tools like television and the internet, either. Can we limit what people can say on the internet? Can we put a muzzle on Keith Olbermann? Or does the first amendment apply to things that were invented after the Constitution was adopted?
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Posted By: bojack27 @ 03/30/2009 10:39:08 AM
You sound like some Communistic Dog! Get real...
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Posted By: Steve Casey @ 03/29/2009 3:21:35 PM
Weapons of mass destruction??!!!! Interesting take on firearms I must say.
The NRA is a powerful lobby because it is funded by individual $25 dollar yearly memberships . Think about how many gun owners have to belong to the NRA @ $25.. a pop to have that kind of political clout.
If you truly are worried about the economic impact of private law abiding citizens. owning firearms..don't. It's the crimminals that are costing you money. Taking law abiding gun owners rights away won't save you a dime. If you really want to save some big money you ought to think about the reducing the cost of 1000,000 people a year dying from the treatment of cancer or the 45,000 a year that die in their cars. -
Posted By: Steve Casey @ 03/29/2009 3:19:58 PM
Weapons of mass destruction??!!!! Interesting take on firearms I must say.
The NRA is a powerful lobby because it is funded by individual $25 dollar yearly memberships . Think about how many gun owners have to belong to the NRA @ $25.. a pop to have that kind of political clout.
If you truly are worried about the economic impact of private law abiding citizens. owning firearms..don't. It's the crimminals that are costing you money. Taking law abiding gun owners rights away won't save you a dime. If you really want to save some big money you ought to think about the reducing the cost of 1000,000 people a year dying from the treatment of cancer or the 45,000 a year that die in their cars.
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Posted By: helpiscoming @ 03/31/2009 3:55:41 PM
The posts here clearly indicate that assualt weapon owners are paranoid and feel they are being persecuted by some imaginary big brother figure. These believes are found in many abuse victims. An assault weapon is a firearm that is primarily designed to be used as an offensive and defensive weapon against humans. It is further designed to fire an excessive number of bullets, let use the number 3, before it is reloaded. And it's design lends itself to being reloaded quickly.
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Posted By: Tracks @ 03/31/2009 4:18:27 PM
Close, but not quite correct, It's is convenient to mix the terms to boost a cause but the weapons available in most gun stores are not assualt weapons. Weapons that will fire fully automatic or three shot bursts are closly watched by the government and their ownership is highly restricted, Should one show up in Mexico the owner would have some tough questions to answer.
Those that fire one shot with each pull of the trigger are what you are really refering to.
I don't happen to own one, they are not something I enjoy, but I do know some owners. Most are highly stable , many are professionals whos income allow the to spend the dollars required to burn large lots of ammo as a hobby.It's easy to make blanket statements about folks you don't know without bring up your qualifications for such judgement
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Posted By: helpiscoming @ 03/31/2009 4:50:21 PM
You are arguing over the definition of assualt weapon, it doesn't matter what we call modern weapons that have large capacity magazines. Would you prefer Semiautomatic Inflicting Casualty Killer, or S.I.C.K. for short. Reading over more of the posts I can read that many assualt weapon owners have delusions of grandeur too. They see themselves as protectors of this country as owners of these assualt weapons. They see themselves as coming to the rescue in the nick of time firing their assualt weapons to vanquish the boggy man and becoming the hero or rescuing the damsel in distress. It's kind of sad, because right now this county needs many ordinary people volunteering to mentor a child, caring for an elderly person, or giving time to help others.
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Posted By: Tracks @ 03/31/2009 5:13:38 PM
Large capacity Magazines? The old AWB was written in such a way them my old Remington model 760 pump could have been outlawed because it uses a removable mag. Same for my Browning bolt action and countless other sporting rifles. The idea is to point at the scary looking stuff out there and then work to include everything possible. You skipped over the fact that you were using an incorrect term for the weapons being discussed. In legal matters such definations are of great importance
You are making a great many judgemental statements, where are the studies that support your statements? Is it perhaps that you are a superior being who is one of the few who should decide what is best for the people
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Posted By: helpiscoming @ 03/31/2009 7:44:58 PM
Someone so obsessed with an inanimate object, show signs of paranoia, has delusions of grandeur, believes in government conspiracies, believes they are being persecuted, and is an imminent threat to themselves and other through their possession of an assault weapon capable of killing or injuring dozens of people in less than a minute. Some suffering those symptoms and in possession of an assault weapon should be involuntarily committed. It's clear that these people need treatment, and should be prohibited from possessing firearms in the future. After treatment these individuals will less of a danger to others and themselves.
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Posted By: Avalanche @ 03/31/2009 9:28:31 PM
Helpiscoming,
Actually maybe we believe in a couple of pieces of paper that this country was founded on, the Constitution and Bill Of Rights...No delusions of grandeur, no conspiracy theories.
Remember some wise words from our founding fathers, who actually put their country well before their politics:
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety - Benjamin Franklin
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. - Benjamin Franklin
No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. - Thomas Jefferson
Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man. - Thomas Jefferson
The said Constitution shall be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms. - Samuel Adams
To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms. - James Madison
Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property . . . Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them. - Thomas Paine
If you believe that no American citizen should own a gun then you agree with these men who also believed the citizens of their countries should not be armed either: Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Idi Amin and many other tyrannical dictators.-
Posted By: helpiscoming @ 03/31/2009 9:59:24 PM
Does quoting all those people make you feel important? For their time, those were very important ideas. But we live in a world our founding father could not even imagine. How would they react to hard core pornography, nuclear weapons, abortion, military grade firearms, etc.. They were free thinkers, they were not parroting old quotes from a time that no longer exited. The founding father came up with new ideas, yes with a basis in the past but the past did not blindly dictate their future. Now is the time to accept that firearms that fire more than one or two shots should be illegal to possess, and all gun should be heavily regulated.
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Posted By: tom343 @ 04/08/2009 6:10:01 PM
Their words span the ages. They are more significant to personal freedom and the ascent of the individual than to certain kinds of good guns and certain kinds of bad guns. Folks here don't agree with these words because they've been led to believe the state (not the vacuous concept 'society') should trump the individual. At any rate.their words trump those of you.
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Posted By: tofgov @ 04/06/2009 7:02:05 PM
get a life, they are regulated, it people like you that want to cause big trouble.
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Posted By: tofgov @ 04/06/2009 7:00:20 PM
BS
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Posted By: helpiscoming @ 03/31/2009 10:00:25 PM
Does quoting all those people make you feel important? For their time, those were very important ideas. But we live in a world our founding father could not even imagine. How would they react to hard core pornography, nuclear weapons, abortion, military grade firearms, etc.. They were free thinkers, they were not parroting old quotes from a time that no longer exited. The founding father came up with new ideas, yes with a basis in the past but the past did not blindly dictate their future. Now is the time to accept that firearms that fire more than one or two shots should be illegal to possess, and all gun should be heavily regulated.
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Posted By: helpiscoming @ 03/31/2009 9:58:38 PM
Does quoting all those people make you feel important? For their time, those were very important ideas. But we live in a world our founding father could not even imagine. How would they react to hard core pornography, nuclear weapons, abortion, military grade firearms, etc.. They were free thinkers, they were not parroting old quotes from a time that no longer exited. The founding father came up with new ideas, yes with a basis in the past but the past did not blindly dictate their future. Now is the time to accept that firearms that fire more than one or two shots should be illegal to possess, and all gun should be heavily regulated.
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Posted By: helpiscoming @ 03/31/2009 9:58:10 PM
Does quoting all those people make you feel important? For their time, those were very important ideas. But we live in a world our founding father could not even imagine. How would they react to hard core pornography, nuclear weapons, abortion, military grade firearms, etc.. They were free thinkers, they were not parroting old quotes from a time that no longer exited. The founding father came up with new ideas, yes with a basis in the past but the past did not blindly dictate their future. Now is the time to accept that firearms that fire more than one or two shots should be illegal to possess, and all gun should be heavily regulated.
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Posted By: Osama Bin Login @ 04/02/2009 10:16:48 AM
So...everyone who disagrees with you is mentally ill?
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Posted By: dudewhosright @ 03/31/2009 9:18:49 PM
Hey "helpiscoming". You would have fit right in with the Red Guard or Hitler and his Brownshirts. But you probably don't know who those people were do you? Just bow to Messiah Obama and everything will be better.
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Posted By: chris s. @ 03/31/2009 9:44:52 PM
Hold on there. Before you profess to know about Hitler and Brownshirts or SS perhaps you should speak to someone who has first hand knowledge. Get your facts. Questions?
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Posted By: sputnik767 @ 03/31/2009 10:36:58 PM
Helpiscoming, you are an idiot. I am a gun owner, I have what you would call an "assault weapon," yet it is nothing more than an AK-47 lookalike that fires one shot with each trigger pull. It is a semi-auto firearm and can not be converted to full-auto. I have many other guns as well, including some old military surplus rifles and pistols. I have never used my firearms against another person, and I pray to God that I never have to. But I can tell you that the second someone threatens my life or my loved ones, I will do whatever it takes to defend myself/them.
Concerning your Nazi Germany comment: given the fact that you have family who died there makes your statements even more foolish. You know first hand that those people were led to the slaughter, having no means to defend themselves, because Hitler took their guns away a few years prior. You know first had what a disarmed society can bring, and yet, you are trying to take away ours. I will tell you this: you have no right to take away my only means of self-defense, my hobby, and above all, my constitutional right. If you are against guns, don't own them, but you have no right to tell me how to live my life. The next Nazi party will not come from responsible gun owners like myself and millions of Americans that share my viewpoint, rather they will come from people like you. People who trump the constitution, personal liberties, and freedoms to get what they want. You will not tell me what's best for me, and I will never join the kind of society you wish to create.-
Posted By: grhood @ 04/02/2009 9:23:10 AM
Well well well you tree huggin' sissys will come a runnin' when you need the gun toters to save you butts!
Oh ya the on difference in NANCEYPELOSI and hitler is the mustashe
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Posted By: chris s. @ 03/31/2009 10:47:49 PM
Seems to me the people who ' TRUMPED THE CONSTITUTION, GAVE AWAY CIVIL LIBERTIES AND FREEDOMS " were recently voted out of office. Ever hear of habeus corpus? Gone! Keep your guns, nobody cares.
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Posted By: helpiscoming @ 03/31/2009 10:47:42 PM
Many did resist, maybe a quick trip to the library, or even video store, will give you some examples. Rifles are no match for tanks and aircraft. I was wondering what gun do you own that will shoot down a jet fighter, or disable a tank?
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Posted By: helpiscoming @ 03/31/2009 10:19:20 PM
Having family who died in Nazi Germany I bet I have a better idea if what type of person will turn into a brown shirt. People that I fear getting into power are the people like yourself who think everyone is out to get them, or they need to defend themselves from some shadowy group they don't understand. Does the fact that most liberals appose violence on a fundamental level, and most gun owner are ready unleash violence at the drop of a hat give you a clue which side is more likely to support state sponsored violence? Since we who are against violence and carnage are traitors what's our punishment, should we all hang? How many million of traitors will need to die? I have a clear picture where the next Nazi party will come from.
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Posted By: dudewhosright @ 03/31/2009 9:14:10 PM
Hey "helpiscoming". You would have fit right in with Hitler and his cronies or the Red Brigade. But you probably don't know who those people were, do you?
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Posted By: helpiscoming @ 03/31/2009 7:44:24 PM
Someone so obsessed with an inanimate object, show signs of paranoia, has delusions of grandeur, believes in government conspiracies, believes they are being persecuted, and is an imminent threat to themselves and other through their possession of an assault weapon capable of killing or injuring dozens of people in less than a minute. Some suffering those symptoms and in possession of an assault weapon should be involuntarily committed. It's clear that these people need treatment, and should be prohibited from possessing firearms in the future. After treatment these individuals will less of a danger to others and themselves.
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Posted By: tofgov @ 04/06/2009 6:50:47 PM
you mentor a child, care for an elderly person, i'll keep my weapons.
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Posted By: G19_Girltoy @ 03/31/2009 9:05:04 PM
Do not talk about something you know nothing about. The term assault weapon is a made up term by the liberals. I can make a pencil or a pen an assault weapon. Educate yourself, stop spewing the liberal rant of guns kill people. If one of my guns is sitting on the table loaded, and they are all loaded, does this gun just shoot by itself? NO IT DOESN'T!!! Someone has to pick it up to pull the trigger. Therefore people kill people. It doesn't matter if there is one bullet in the gun or several, the person still has to pull the trigger for each bullet period. You think that the semiauto rifles and pistols are military assault weapons, they are not, they are just a gun that auto loads itself with every single pull of the trigger. People talk about that these guns with large capacity magazines spray bullets. They do not spray, you have to pull the trigger for each bullet. It is the person that is the threat not the gun. The gun does not make a person dangerous, that person is already dangerous if he wants to kill someone, he doesn't need a gun to kill. If there were no guns, people would still kill each other.
As for your comment on mentoring and volunteering. I have 2 daughters that I mentor and they are both 4.0 students and have a very high set of moral values. I also took care of father until he passed away and now I take care of my mother. I also volunteer at our schools during sports and after school activities.
So please, before you spew the liberal hatred of evil guns, educate yourself, go down to your local police department or sheriff's office and volunteer there. Learn something about firearms and how they work and how careful law abiding citizens treat a loaded firearm. Please do this and then think about whenSHTF, who do want around you in a time of need, some who can protect you or someone that is just as vulnerable as you will be. -
Posted By: tsmith.idcheck @ 03/31/2009 5:06:10 PM
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Posted By: Tracks @ 03/31/2009 8:45:39 PM
I agree! and you will be a much more easonable person after you get your treatment.
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Posted By: Osama Bin Login @ 04/02/2009 10:16:04 AM
"An assault weapon is a firearm that is primarily designed to be used as an offensive and defensive weapon against humans."
That's kinda the whole idea. Your point?
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Posted By: Pubwookie @ 04/05/2009 9:00:12 PM
I wonder if the tone in Washington is going to change now that three cops in Pittsburgh were mowed down by an AK-47 assault rifle.
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Posted By: Pubwookie @ 04/05/2009 8:59:14 PM
I wonder if the tone in Washington will change now that three cops in Pittsburgh were mowed down with an AK-47 assault rifle.
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Posted By: cancan4405 @ 04/05/2009 12:51:01 PM
google the obama deception dockumetary or go to infowars.com to know whats going on
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Posted By: cancan4405 @ 04/05/2009 12:34:18 PM
if this government and police give up there guns we would give up ours they seem to be the ones that arnt responcable gun owners
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Posted By: SrAN @ 04/03/2009 12:49:27 PM
For all those wanting a ban on all firearms here is a good one for you:
???Those now possessing weapons and ammunition are at once to turn them over to the local police authority. Firearms and ammunition found in a Jew???s possession will be forfeited to the government without compensation. Whoever willfully or negligently violates the provisions will be punished with imprisonment and a fine.??? - Nazi Law (Regulations Against Jews??? Possession of Weapons), 1938
What is the next step for the United States if we start initiating bans against those who are not working for the government.
For those who said that our founding fathers never could imagine the types of weapons we have and would be for a ban against such weapons here is another one for you to think about. ???When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.??? - Thomas Jefferson. How are we supposed to fight the government if is the equivelant of citizens throwing rocks at tanks?
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Posted By: TNBirdman @ 04/02/2009 5:27:13 PM
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
Abraham Lincoln
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Posted By: tsmith.idcheck @ 04/02/2009 1:16:16 PM
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/04/02/myth-percent-guns-mexico-fraction-number-claimed/
The Myth of 90 Percent: Only a Small Fraction of Guns in Mexico Come From U.S.
While 90 percent of the guns traced to the U.S. actually originated in the United States, the percent traced to the U.S. is only about 17 percent of the total number of guns reaching Mexico.
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Posted By: tsmith.idcheck @ 04/02/2009 1:15:14 PM
The Myth of 90 Percent: Only a Small Fraction of Guns in Mexico Come From U.S.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/04/02/myth-percent-guns-mexico-fraction-number-claimed/
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Posted By: Piscivore @ 04/02/2009 12:56:59 PM
helpiscoming; what, couldn't make it as a real psychologist so you play one on the internet? Your "hypotheses" are a joke!
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Posted By: LogicBomb @ 04/01/2009 12:14:59 AM
comon people Guns are tools.....Guns kill people like a fork made Rosie O'Donnell fat.....ban guns people will use knives...ban knives people will use sticks...ban sticks.....see where this is going??
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Posted By: helpiscoming @ 04/01/2009 12:50:56 AM
A steak knife won't kill 30 people in less than a few minutes... an assault weapon will.
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Posted By: Partoftheplan @ 04/02/2009 8:11:28 AM
A steak knife is what killed a 17 year old and her 5 year old sister.
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Posted By: tdale4 @ 04/01/2009 2:18:49 AM
Sure it could, in the hands of a skilled knife user. but then there are many other items out there that can kill well over 30 people in a few minutes......such as tall buildings, cars, buses, airplanes, fertilizer, etc . Dou you propose outlawing tall buildings, cars, buses, and aircraft in order to make a "safer" country?
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Posted By: Kagome08 @ 04/02/2009 6:07:56 AM
Ok where I live there are people that have to have guns to live. Not to defend ourselves, but to get food. Making it hard to have a gun or rising the cost would just hurt people that need to hunt the deer and elk for the meet to make it through the yeah. Figure the cost of a deer tag and amo comes to around 30 dollars. And a deer will last around 3 months. Now I would like to see anyone that can buy meet to last a family 3 months and only spend 30 dollars. It can't be done. If so tell me how please.
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