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Sen. Heller, John McCain Wouldn't Accept Amendment to Arm Troops on Bases Before Chattanooga Attack
http://www.breitbart.com ^ | 7/25/2015 | AWR Hawkins

Posted on 07/25/2015 12:42:50 PM PDT by conservativejoy

During a July 23 interview on the Lars Larson Show, Senator Sen. Dean Heller (R-NV) said that in June he “submitted an amendment” to the 2016 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) “to give military base commanders the authority to allow service members to carry personal firearms.”

That was weeks before the heinous attack on Chattanooga, but he says the amendment went nowhere because Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) “didn’t want the amendment as part of the bill and wouldn’t accept it.”

On July 21–just 5 days after the heinous attack in Chattanooga–Senator Heller re-introduced his amendment and asked “that National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) conferees include [it]” so our troops can be armed for self-defense.

Heller sent a letter to Chairman McCain and the members of the Armed Services committee, saying:

I encourage all conferees to look at my amendment, along with the language passed by the House, as a reasonable and effective way to move forward on this issue and give our nation’s base commanders the authority they need to create a safer environment for our heroes serving across America.

Never should the men and women serving at home have to be afraid that the base they work, and often live, on is not safe.

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Military/Veterans; Society
KEYWORDS: arizona; banglist; chattanooga; congress; corruption; deanheller; firearms; govtabuse; heller; johnmccain; mccain; ndaa; personalfirearms; secondamendment; tennessee; tyranny
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1 posted on 07/25/2015 12:42:50 PM PDT by conservativejoy
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To: conservativejoy

Typical John McSlime


2 posted on 07/25/2015 12:47:18 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own <blockqurisk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: conservativejoy
Doesn't seem fair to Americans.
McCain, also the initiator of IRS attacks on TEA Party,
and his supporters in Arizona support ISIS
and ISIS-induced terror, slavery, rape, and murder.


3 posted on 07/25/2015 12:48:06 PM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: conservativejoy

Because they’re “crazies” I suppose?


4 posted on 07/25/2015 12:51:38 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: conservativejoy

This might get juicy if rinos start turning on their own.


5 posted on 07/25/2015 12:54:43 PM PDT by Yogafist
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To: Fiddlstix

The only problem is this: I know perhaps maybe some of those in the military may be nuts or suicidal/homocidal, but shouldn’t you have armed guards on the base, at the least?


6 posted on 07/25/2015 12:54:57 PM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Of course, John, being a hero knows best. How much longer is this country going to pay for his being a POW?


7 posted on 07/25/2015 12:58:54 PM PDT by conservativejoy (We Can Elect Ted Cruz! Pray Hard, Work Hard, Trust God!)
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To: conservativejoy

Reading some of the unflattering accounts of his POW time I have to wonder if McCain is just doing the bidding of the left and GOPe under threat of full exposure. So far they’ve done a good job of keeping a lid on criticizing the saint. But I’ll never get over his “you have nothing to fear from a President Obama”.

I’ve seen many people here call him the Manchurian candidate and I can see how this is possible.


8 posted on 07/25/2015 1:01:09 PM PDT by Aria
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To: conservativejoy

Has the headline now been corrected at the source? It now shows a colon rather than the conjunctive comma.


9 posted on 07/25/2015 1:03:33 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: Diogenesis

Yep. McCain does not want to arm our solders on bases, but he was gun
Ho in wanting to arm Syrian Rebels.

FUJM.


10 posted on 07/25/2015 1:10:04 PM PDT by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance.)
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To: conservativejoy

without the draft, the odds of enlisted men shooting officers has gone down.


11 posted on 07/25/2015 1:17:43 PM PDT by hadaclueonce (It is not heaven, it is Iowa. Everyone gets a "Corn Check")
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To: PAR35

Sorry. I’m sure the error was mine.


12 posted on 07/25/2015 1:19:49 PM PDT by conservativejoy (We Can Elect Ted Cruz! Pray Hard, Work Hard, Trust God!)
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To: conservativejoy

McStain is too busy trying to arm up the Syrian rebels so they can defect to ISIS.


13 posted on 07/25/2015 1:27:45 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Diogenesis

Since the crony fast and furious scheme failed, the goal to disarm America is the following. Allow massive Muslim immigration. Send arms to Muslim terrorists organizations. Wait for home grown Muslims to launch attacks on home soil. Than claim it was not Islam that motivated the shooter.


14 posted on 07/25/2015 1:36:10 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The use of the name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: conservativejoy

That title needs a colon not a comma after “Senator Heller”. As it is, it is stating that Senator Heller is agreeing with McCain


15 posted on 07/25/2015 1:40:30 PM PDT by grania
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To: conservativejoy

John McCain was a POW? Who knew? (sarcasm)


16 posted on 07/25/2015 1:41:24 PM PDT by grania
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To: Yogafist

-—This might get juicy if rinos start turning on their own.-—

Fortunately, all they need to do is immobilize McCain. The rest will begin to fall in line.


17 posted on 07/25/2015 1:42:45 PM PDT by FLCowboy, (Can the GOP save this country in the next two years?)
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To: conservativejoy

USA has a long history of not wanting military to be toting around weaponry within our own borders
but
taking away their personal sidearms on military BASES or recruiting stations!~?

awful. whoever orders such a thing.. .is partly responsible when our men get shot


18 posted on 07/25/2015 1:47:38 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (up)
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To: grania

My Boo Boo. It has been corrected.


19 posted on 07/25/2015 2:14:20 PM PDT by conservativejoy (We Can Elect Ted Cruz! Pray Hard, Work Hard, Trust God!)
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To: conservativejoy

McCain does a lot of lefty stuff, but pretends it never happened when he gets caught.


20 posted on 07/25/2015 2:26:14 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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