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Two-Thirds of American Gun Owners Would “Defy” a Federal Gun Ban
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| Jan 26, 2013
| Leah Barkoukis
Posted on 01/26/2013 3:38:11 PM PST by EXCH54FE
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posted on
01/26/2013 3:38:17 PM PST
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EXCH54FE
To: EXCH54FE
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posted on
01/26/2013 3:41:30 PM PST
by
Travis McGee
(www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
To: EXCH54FE
How many will not register is the immediate question. The ban business is not going to fly apparently, until more Marxists are elected.
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posted on
01/26/2013 3:44:36 PM PST
by
RitaOK
( VIVA CHRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming.)
To: EXCH54FE
52% of Democrats?
Thugs and gangbangers?
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posted on
01/26/2013 3:45:52 PM PST
by
GeronL
(http://asspos.blogspot.com)
To: EXCH54FE
They need to first confiscate all of the criminals’ guns.
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posted on
01/26/2013 3:59:15 PM PST
by
lurk
To: EXCH54FE
It will be incremental so they can slowly gain control.
First assault weapons but nobody really cares because they are military type.
Then handguns but nobody really cares because they still have shotguns.
and so forth.
As far as I’m concerned I won’t be going one more step.
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posted on
01/26/2013 4:00:30 PM PST
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: EXCH54FE
CITIZENS! TURN IN YOUR WEAPONS! (Russian poster from 1919)
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posted on
01/26/2013 4:11:23 PM PST
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(Click my name! See new paintings!)
To: EXCH54FE
>>>Two-Thirds of American Gun Owners Would Defy a Federal Gun Ban<<<
Which is actually the goal, in my opinion.
The totalitarian state we’re evolving into has learned from the crude examples of Stalin and Mao. A comprehensive ban on many kinds of firearms - but not all kinds - will create an immense population of lawbreakers, including not only those against the law but those confused by its complexity, but they’re not going to round everyone up. There’s no need. It’s a potential weapon that can be taken out and used on a case-by-case basis to promote friends and harass enemies. Stalin was wrong about creating terror. All that is really needed is a sense of confusion, unease and distrust. Sometimes people will be arrested, or fined, or merely bothered, just enough to be in the news or be held up in show trials. With the emotions of the population focused this way, those in power can consolidate what they have and prevent others from taking it away.
On the other hand, we’ll have all the porn we want, and probably enough weed to keep certain sections of the population docile. And it won’t matter if the weed is legal or not, either. That’s another tool that can be used to control people.
Ayn Rand predicted this in a stirring speech within “Atlas Shrugged.” Honest men can’t be controlled, so the state creates lawbreakers where no existed before.
God help us.
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posted on
01/26/2013 4:19:09 PM PST
by
redpoll
To: EXCH54FE
Only 6 Democrats oppose it?
That is a sin.
But how many Pubbies will sign on to it.What will McCain, Graham , and Rubio do?
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posted on
01/26/2013 4:25:09 PM PST
by
Venturer
To: redpoll
Many of those potential lawbreakers are warriors who are prepared to take the fight directly to our domestic enemies.
The time may come soon to choose to fight for our freedom. To simply lay back and wait until you have nothing left to lose is perhaps not the best course of action, but it is the easiest.
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posted on
01/26/2013 4:34:09 PM PST
by
Pox
(Good Night. I expect more respect tomorrow.)
To: EXCH54FE
There would be a rash of unfortunate boating accidents, I suppose. :-)
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posted on
01/26/2013 4:47:48 PM PST
by
3Fingas
(Sons and Daughters of Freedom, Committee of Correspondence)
To: Pox
Many of those potential lawbreakers are warriors who are prepared to take the fight directly to our domestic enemies. It will not be effective until the movement gets a good leader. Today the totaliarian government can be defeated by the power of PR that is now accessible to everyone for free. In Hitler's and Stalin's time the state was in complete control of every word in the news. Today it's the opposite, FR being an easy example.
Without the leader and without the PR the refuseniks will be taken down one by one, often even without a shot fired. The JBT will wait until you leave the house and then arrest you in the parking lot. They know that a lawful gun owner is not going to shoot at a police officer in the street. It's very safe for them.
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posted on
01/26/2013 4:58:07 PM PST
by
Greysard
To: EXCH54FE
This issue crosses political ideology far more than most.
At my club here in NY we have flaming liberals that are so pro-gun they are more militant than those of us on the right about it.
It has very little to do with political ideology at times when RKBA is concerned.
The idiots on the left have stepped in it on this issue. Cuomo stepped on his d*** also by ramming this garbage through.
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posted on
01/26/2013 5:11:57 PM PST
by
headstamp 2
(What would Scooby do?)
To: EXCH54FE
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posted on
01/26/2013 5:15:15 PM PST
by
CodeToad
(Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off.)
To: Greysard
There were no "leaders" at the start of the American revolution. Leadership grew out of the growing rebellion. A decade before, Ben Franklin was warning the British that the wouldn't find weapons but very likely would spark a revolution.
I personally am not one of those who believes an armed revolution is on the horizon but there is clearly a growing resistance and where it goes is up to our government, many of whom are themselves beginning to resist along with us.
Q. Can anything less than a military force carry the Stamp Act into execution?
A. I do not see how a military force can be applied to that purpose.
Q. Why may it not?
A. Suppose a military force sent into America; they will find nobody in arms; what are they then to do? They cannot force a man to take stamps who chooses to do without them. They will not find a rebellion; they may indeed make one.
Benjamin Franklin, Testimony Against the Stamp Act (1766)
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posted on
01/26/2013 5:20:33 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: headstamp 2
Yeah, gun control is a prickly issue for democrats in Michigan as well. Guys like Conyers are safe no matter what they do but Lenin and Stupidcow have to face a far more diverse constituency.
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posted on
01/26/2013 5:23:32 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: EXCH54FE
The only reason for registration would be to either reclassify the weapons as Class III (something that HAD been floated in an earlier version of this crazy legislation), forcing the owners to jump through all sorts of hoops, to passing laws that would require owners to purchase liability "insurance" that would be prohibitively expensive, or simply unavailable, requiring uninsured owners to "turn them all in."
Or to simply ban them, and go around collecting them. Of course, no matter what excuse they use would be to ban them in the end.
Mark
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posted on
01/26/2013 5:27:34 PM PST
by
MarkL
(Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
To: EXCH54FE
Count me as part of the 66%.
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posted on
01/26/2013 5:29:52 PM PST
by
Gay State Conservative
("Progressives" toss the word "racist" around like chimps toss their feces)
To: EXCH54FE
If so many Americans would defy a gun ban, why do they keep electing assholes to office who want to impose a ban?
It's a puzzle I cannot solve.
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posted on
01/26/2013 5:31:15 PM PST
by
stboz
To: EXCH54FE
solves my worry of out living my savings.
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posted on
01/26/2013 5:36:00 PM PST
by
hadaclueonce
(you are paying 12% more for fuel because of Ethanol. Smile big Corn Lobby,)
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