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The Real Reason Americans Oppose Gun Control
The Federalist ^ | 6 Jan, 2016 | Greg Jones

Posted on 01/07/2016 6:42:13 PM PST by MtnClimber

Following the terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, America's gun control debate is undergoing a metamorphosis.

The case for the Second Amendment has classically been one of protection from a tyrannical government; the Founders knew well the need for such an insurance policy. As the American government became more militarily powerful, however, the arguments shifted to fit the technology. After all, the critics cried, is your rifle going to defend your beloved citizenry from fighter planes and guided missiles?.....It wasn't so long ago that headlines were filled with a federal operation known as "Fast and Furious," in which the very same administration that proselytizes regulating a particular class of rifle was caught red-handed supplying Mexican gangsters with those very weapons. Got that, America? You can't have them, but homicidal narco traffickers can, on your dime.

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KEYWORDS: banglist; guns
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To: cripplecreek
Some of us have long memories

Yes, we do.

21 posted on 01/07/2016 7:52:15 PM PST by Noumenon (Resistance. Restoration. Retribution.)
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To: cripplecreek

Yes we do remember. And we remember how the leftist governments in the past have manipulated, then murdered their citizens.And now we have a leftist government lording over us.


22 posted on 01/07/2016 8:02:57 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Every plane and missile around was trying to take out bin laden...wound up being a single rifle that did it.


23 posted on 01/07/2016 9:15:07 PM PST by FrankR (You're only enslaved to the extent of the charity that you receive!)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Or firing squads. Or midnight raids.


24 posted on 01/07/2016 9:51:56 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: MtnClimber

“After all, the critics cried, is your rifle going to defend your beloved citizenry from fighter planes and guided missiles?.....”

Why yes, yes it can. Quite well in fact. Ill spare you all the details but here’s a few basic ideas.
A Nellis drone pilot out on the town in Vegas meets a nice girl in a bar,,,
The woman who rides him and then sails a 38 through his skull had her brother, dad, and infant son killed in a drone attack 3 months ago.

A base commander opens his mail to see photos of his kids walking into school. Right then, the phone rings....

Tanks and modern APCs are terrifying and nobody dares molest them. But driving a truck delivering the chow or fuel to the tank is a lethal job... Tankers must eat and get supplies,,,,

Military contractors never thought their factory workers could be targets. They are. Their friends and relatives know all about them,,,

This isn’t some dark fantasy, its very real. Read the kinds of things guys like Escobar and others around the world have done when attacked by their own military. It is a vicious kind of war no sane person would ever want unleashed. But no, the US military is nowhere near strong enough to crush the US populace. and especially not standing there on its own logistical tail.


25 posted on 01/07/2016 11:14:29 PM PST by DesertRhino ("I want those feeble minded asses overthrown,,,")
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To: Ouderkirk

Obama hates the America he was president of. He wants diversified neighborhoods, with mixed classes forced, public housing in what was once middle class suburbia, combined with emptying the prisons and taking Muslim refugees from Syria and Africa and who knows where else.........all while disarming specifically the white population.

We see all that raping and crime from Germany and other parts of Europe that is 100% Arab on white? Well it appears that is what Obama has in store for us if he has his way.

And if you don’t like it you must be racist...


26 posted on 01/08/2016 3:00:46 AM PST by Wildbill22 (They have us surrounded again, the poor bastards- Gen Creighton Williams Abrams)
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