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People do not need assault weapons: defense secretary
Reuters ^ | Thu Jan 17, 2013 9:12am EST | David Alexander

Posted on 01/17/2013 8:55:16 AM PST by Olog-hai

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To: Sgt_Schultze
We don't "need" . . .

We don't "need" 0bama.

21 posted on 01/17/2013 9:12:44 AM PST by YHAOS
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To: Olog-hai

Dum bass does not realize that the average American citizen was better armed with his personal weapons up until 1957 when the US Army adopted the select fire M-14.


22 posted on 01/17/2013 9:12:56 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Click my name! See new paintings!)
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To: Olog-hai

Based SOLELY on the reasoning the Founders had for the 2nd Amendment, it is clear that citizens NEED, at bare minimum, the same arms which may be used against them by their government. This defuses the straw man argument of well should citizens have nukes? Well if the government were to use nukes against them, then yes they need them.

As corrupt as our government is, I do not believe they would use such arms as nukes against us but I known damned well they would have all sorts of automatic weapons therefore we NEED the same.

This is the reason for “SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED”, as once you limit the citizens ability to defend themselves from the government, you have eviscerated the 2nd Amendment. That is EXACTLY the position we currently find ourselves in with a weakened beyond usefulness 2nd Amendment.

We have been asleep and allowed them the chip enough of the 2nd Amendment away such that we can no longer stop them and they know it. We never drew a line in the sand at “SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED” and our USSC black robed hacks will never restore the 2nd Amendment to its intended protection of American citizens from their government.

A great and initially successful experiment in limited government has failed due to the citizens lack of vigilance and allowing from K-12 and institutions of higher learning to degrade, distort and lie about the Founders and what a fantastic path they set forth for this country.


23 posted on 01/17/2013 9:15:28 AM PST by Wurlitzer (Nothing says "ignorance" like Islam!)
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To: Olog-hai
This from the little pussy who disarms soldiers when he has to get near them for photo-ops.

FU, Lyin' Pendejo.

24 posted on 01/17/2013 9:17:51 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (TYRANNY: When the people fear the politicians. LIBERTY: When the politicians fear the people.)
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To: Darksheare

You have to remember, these morons have been brainwashed to believe that the 2nd amendment equals the National Guard.


25 posted on 01/17/2013 9:17:58 AM PST by arderkrag (An Unreconstructed Georgian, Forever in Rebellion.)
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To: Olog-hai

..and who the hell needs draft-dodger service secretaries?


26 posted on 01/17/2013 9:18:04 AM PST by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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To: arderkrag

Yeah, I did forget that factoid.


27 posted on 01/17/2013 9:19:04 AM PST by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free.....)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Funny how our retard gubmint will arm ‘rebels’ abroad and disarm citizens at home.


28 posted on 01/17/2013 9:19:36 AM PST by TurboZamboni (Looting the future to bribe the present)
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To: Darksheare

He must think everyone can just ask their own personal security detail.

Why does he assume those soldiers LIKE him?


29 posted on 01/17/2013 9:21:31 AM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Olog-hai

Americans do not need assault weapons what we need is more Homosexuals in our military.

After watching him in action, what we don’t need is Leon Panetta.


30 posted on 01/17/2013 9:23:58 AM PST by Venturer
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To: YHAOS

what did Reagan say during one of the presidential debates?

He was responding to some MSM clown.


31 posted on 01/17/2013 9:24:51 AM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Olog-hai

Well....good ole Leon “I don’t believe the President’s BJs rise to the level of an impeachable offense” Panetta....God Bless his duplicitous little keester.


32 posted on 01/17/2013 9:25:24 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: The Toll
“action is needed” after Sandy Hook. Keep hearing that but have yet to hear anyone explain exactly “why” action is needed? I’m not under that impression at all. Seems to me that knee-jerk legislation is pretty juvenile.

Agreed. No matter what action is taken, it still won't guarantee the end of the school shootings that are totally random events that barely rate a statistical blip. The only effective action we can take is to eliminate the gun free zones that guarantee a safe place for shooters and even that doesn't mean it will never happen again.

It was no accident that our founders set up a form of governance that works at a snails pace.
33 posted on 01/17/2013 9:26:41 AM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Olog-hai

Anyone against sequestration now?


34 posted on 01/17/2013 9:27:00 AM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: longtermmemmory

People withpower or in powerful positions seem to always be of the opinion that everyone MUST like them because after all they’re men of power.


35 posted on 01/17/2013 9:27:32 AM PST by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free.....)
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To: Olog-hai
People do not need assault weapons: defense secretary

The Idiocracy marches on...

Weapons don't have human qualities or intent. Anything can be an assault weapon. Defining something by law does not make it into something else if the intention is demagoguery.

A well-trained attack dog can be an assault weapon.
A brick can be an assault weapon.
(and you may become a felon if you allow a criminal access to your unsecured bricks.)

A bat can be an assault weapon.
A well-placed rattlesnake can be an assault weapon.
An elected imbecile can be an assault weapon.
A well-placed rattlesnake can be an assault weapon.

Reminds me of the attempt by at least one state legislature, many years ago to redefine the math constant pi, to create a kinder, simpler human environment.

The obvious fundamental concept here is that, without a human intervention to create it, assault weapons can't exist. The asinine approach to a real problem today is like trying to outlaw fire. If the hydrant is two blocks away, let's spray water there, because at least you're doing something!

Amazing, the juvenile level of intellect that is a requirement of members of this idiocracy.

36 posted on 01/17/2013 9:28:29 AM PST by publius911 (Look for the Union Label -- then buy something else)
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To: mom.mom
It’s not their job to define our “need.”

The first ten amendments constitute the Bill Of Rights, not the Bill Of Needs.

37 posted on 01/17/2013 9:28:45 AM PST by Graybeard58 (Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.)
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To: Olog-hai

“I mean, who the hell needs armor-piercing bullets except you guys in battle?” …

We, the resistance do, when “you guys” come to try to disarm us.


38 posted on 01/17/2013 9:29:01 AM PST by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed &water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: Olog-hai

This is just more muddying the waters regarding the language used in this debate.

The Defense Secretary needs to shut his pie hole.


39 posted on 01/17/2013 9:30:39 AM PST by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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To: Olog-hai

He’s read the Declaration of Independence and understands the Second Amendment.

He is one of the oppressors disarming the patriots who would remove the oppressors by force. He knows this is not about hunting or “the children”.


40 posted on 01/17/2013 9:30:49 AM PST by DBrow
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