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Rupert Murdoch, Fox News Owner, Calls for Automatic Weapons Ban
Politico ^ | Dec. 14, 2012 | Dylan Byers

Posted on 12/15/2012 3:29:02 PM PST by VitacoreVision

Terrible news today. When will politicians find courage to ban automatic weapons? As in Oz after similar tragedy. - Rupert Murdoch | Twitter

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News Corp. chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch expressed support for an automatic weapons ban tonight following today's shooting in Newtown, Conn.

"Terrible news today. When will politicians find courage to ban automatic weapons?," Murdoch wrote on Twitter.

Murdoch made a similar call following the theater shooting in Aurora, Colo., in July: "We have to do something about gun controls. Police license okay for hunting rifle or pistol for anyone without crim or pscho record. No more," he tweeted.

News Corp. owns Fox News, where contributors have been objecting to calls for gun control throughout the day.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; foxnews; guncontrol; rupertmurdoch; sandyhookpolitics
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To: VitacoreVision
The dumb@ss Rupert doesn't even know the difference between semi-automatic vs. automatic firearms.

For the gun-grabbing elitist liberals (many of whom have their very own armed security) here is a piece of advice they should heed before commenting on gun control, originally given to Ralphie: "You'll shoot your eye out"

21 posted on 12/15/2012 4:00:33 PM PST by patriotsblood
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To: VitacoreVision

Fox is now blocked from my home.

LLS


22 posted on 12/15/2012 4:03:02 PM PST by LibLieSlayer (A child is born in Bethlehem KING of KINGS)
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To: VitacoreVision

what does he care? HIS well-armed body guards will continue to protect HIM and HIS family and loved ones while law abiding American CITIZENS are disarmed and thrown to the “mercy” of Obama’s WELL ARMED thug, racist “peeps” in da hood and all his knuckle dragging union buddies. Stock up because before this is over, you are probably going to need it.


23 posted on 12/15/2012 4:04:58 PM PST by Jmouse007 (Lord deliver us from evil, in Jesus name, amen.)
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To: VitacoreVision
Earth to Rupert. The National Firearms Act of 1930 requires the owners of automatic firearms to purchase a $200 per year tax stamp.

And automatic firearms have never been used in mass shootings since the St. Valentine Day Massacre.

24 posted on 12/15/2012 4:05:46 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the state." - Cornelius Tacitus, Roman Senator)
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To: VitacoreVision

Rupert has a lot of money. He can bully his employees and most people in this world. I’ll bet you he has bodyguards.....armed bodyguards. That’s because he can’t bully everybody. He’d like to, but he can’t. And that really ticks him off.


25 posted on 12/15/2012 4:05:57 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: VitacoreVision

An automatic weapon hasn’t been used in a massacre in the U.S. since St Valentine’s Day, 1929.


26 posted on 12/15/2012 4:08:28 PM PST by Procyon (Decentralize, degovernmentalize, deregulate, demonopolize, decredentialize, disentitle.)
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To: LibLieSlayer
Fox is now blocked from my home.

And yet for so long many, many Freepers thought that Fox News was the best thing since sliced bread. Interesting how your gods fail you so consistently. Perhaps you might not wish to take things at face value so damn often.

27 posted on 12/15/2012 4:09:12 PM PST by OldPossum
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To: Forward the Light Brigade
Everyone is looking at the Guns—Look at the nut who pulled the trigger. We need to get these folks in mental hospitals!

Here in Pittsburgh a guy walked in and shot up our mental hospital. Irony, the Mark of Quality Literature.


28 posted on 12/15/2012 4:09:44 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: LibLieSlayer

I haven’t watched TV except for sports in quite a long time. Maybe the History Channel a couple times, and an old movie. But that’s it. Oh, I did watch the debates; but, weren’t those akin to sporting events?


29 posted on 12/15/2012 4:10:25 PM PST by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: cripplecreek

Wow the ban on drugs has worked so
Well


30 posted on 12/15/2012 4:11:58 PM PST by mel (There are only 2 races decent and undecent people)
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To: VitacoreVision

Oh I wasn’t criticizing you, I was expressing frustration that Murdoch thinks he matters. No, I am glad you posted it, if that matters


31 posted on 12/15/2012 4:13:23 PM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: VitacoreVision

one reporter on cnn said the long gun was a “bushwacker”. another said the long gun was semi auto and not auto, that they are two different types of rifle. oone totally ignorant and another no so.


32 posted on 12/15/2012 4:20:20 PM PST by 1st Division guy
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To: Procyon
An automatic weapon hasn’t been used in a massacre in the U.S. since St Valentine’s Day, 1929.

Had automatic weapons been outlawed, those mobsters would still be alive. :)

33 posted on 12/15/2012 4:23:05 PM PST by marron
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To: VitacoreVision

There were no “automatic” weapons at this massacre unless the cops brought some.


34 posted on 12/15/2012 4:24:38 PM PST by elkfersupper ( Member of the Original Defiant Class)
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To: VitacoreVision
DERELICTION: A CONSTANT STREAM OF MEDIA MISINFORMATION IN CONN. MASSACRE ... - Breitbart
35 posted on 12/15/2012 4:30:13 PM PST by wolficatZ (Hey blue states....Got Food?)
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To: VitacoreVision

I call for a Shep Smith ban.


36 posted on 12/15/2012 4:33:38 PM PST by Lets Roll NOW (A baby isn't a punishment, Obama is)
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To: Lets Roll NOW
I call for a Shep Smith ban.

There goes my Maybelline stock value.

/johnny

37 posted on 12/15/2012 4:42:22 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade
We need to get these folks in mental hospitals! They need to be rounded up and locked away for their own good. Once this was common—it needs to be re-instated...We need to take care of people who are nuts. Lots of people need these institutions—now.

Amen. I have been saying this for many years.

38 posted on 12/15/2012 4:48:16 PM PST by mc5cents
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To: VitacoreVision

Murdock was born is Australia, raised in England and shows all of the “subject mentality” of those monarchy besotted nations.

Aussies voted to disarm themselves, remember?

Once a subject, always a subject.


39 posted on 12/15/2012 4:48:35 PM PST by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is necessary to examine principles."..)
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To: VitacoreVision

I am sure his security detail will be the first to disarm and make an example by carrying kitchen knives and pepper spray. Come on Rupert show the world you mean it. DISARM YOURSELF FIRST!!!


40 posted on 12/15/2012 4:48:35 PM PST by bubman
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