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Is America irreversibly pro-gun?
CBS News ^ | March 28, 2013 | JAKE MILLER

Posted on 03/28/2013 4:08:39 PM PDT by neverdem

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To: neverdem

One can only hope.


41 posted on 03/28/2013 10:55:04 PM PDT by Mom MD (A million people attended Obamas inauguration. 14 of them actually missed work)
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To: neverdem

The consistent theme of progressives is abuse of a crisis. They need a crisis to move public opinion on a wave of emotion. It is anti-rational. It’s manipulative and what they do in government schools to our kids every day.


42 posted on 03/29/2013 4:36:33 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: Starstruck

Excellent and we need to keep the language. Being pro-gun is an absurd stance. Being pro-2nd Amendment is reason and logic itself.

They’re not equivalent statements.


43 posted on 03/29/2013 4:37:44 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: harpseal; TexasCowboy; nunya bidness; AAABEST; Travis McGee; Squantos; wku man; SLB; ...
Click the Gadsden flag for pro-gun resources!
44 posted on 03/29/2013 4:42:40 AM PDT by Joe Brower (The "American People" are no longer capable of self-governance.)
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To: BooBoo1000

Do you have anything to back this up? It is an American design by and American designer first produced by an Americian company. Why would anyone call it “austrian” anything?


45 posted on 03/29/2013 4:49:38 AM PDT by Durus (You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. Ayn Rand)
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To: neverdem
And regardless of how these battles pan out, he added, Mayors Against Illegal Guns is prepared to wage the full war, digging in for a siege that could take years. "Once the dust has cleared, the NRA will still be there, and so will we," he promised.

Well, I hope people wake up and you bums can watch from the cheap seats (as ex-mayors, all).

A clear conspiracy to deprive Americans of a fundamental Civil Right.

46 posted on 03/29/2013 5:19:58 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: SkyDancer
They never do a “whoopsie our bad” but just go blithely on reporting incorrect news day after day.

As a practical matter, they can't do a "whoopsie"

"News, retractions, and Sports" just doesn't have that ring to it.

Seriously, how can they promote that bunch of socialist pikers we have in D.C. and give a rabid rat's patoot about whether anything is accurate?

They threw accuracy out the window long ago.

47 posted on 03/29/2013 5:47:52 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: BooBoo1000

That is not correct. AR is Armalite Rifle. There have been various AR-x models.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AR-15

Those who understand the basics of these are know that the MSM bats about incorrect terms all the time.

‘Powerful’ - The AR-15 .223 is probably one of the least ‘powerful’ rifles made. Its a small round, It is high velocity - but all rifle rounds with FMJ are ‘high velocity’. So when they say ‘powerful’ its just a scare tactic.

‘No civilian use’ - tell that a farmer with a coyote problem. Another lie. These are very versatile rifles.

So many lies.


48 posted on 03/29/2013 5:58:12 AM PDT by bluecat6 ("All non-denial denials. They doubt our ancestry, but they don't say the story isn't accurate. ")
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To: neverdem

I hope so.


49 posted on 03/29/2013 5:58:51 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Osage Orange

your post brings up a very good point.

Who cares what he used to kill those kids. The fact that he did it is the problem. It would be nothing to create a massacre using weapons other than guns and have a much higher mortality rate. Throw a grill guard on an SUV and a full tank of gas and you could take out several times the number that idiot did in Sandy Hook.

I’d also like to know where the media outrage was when the Government killed 22 children at Waco.


50 posted on 03/29/2013 6:04:09 AM PDT by BCR #226 (02/07 SOT www.extremefirepower.com...The BS stops when the hammer drops.)
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To: altsehastiin; SkyDancer

To be fair, alt, none of the autopsy reports have been released for the massacre, and most of the evidence has been sealed. It may be years before we know how this all truly went down.

I Googled “Newtown autopsy reports” and read the first page worth of articles. In none of those articles will you find the caliber bullets found in any of the victims nor a discussion of the size of the entry/exit wounds. They’ve not given any specifics on this case. Sure, the ME does the usual, “I’ve never seen anything this gruesome in my XX years on the job,” but he never provides hard numbers.

At this point, regardless of your beliefs or suspicions, there are no facts anywhere in the media as to the weapons used to commit this crime.


51 posted on 03/29/2013 6:38:39 AM PDT by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Settled in 1791 as I understand it.


52 posted on 03/29/2013 7:41:16 AM PDT by Noumenon (What would Michael Collins do?)
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To: GOPJ
Chicago has some of the toughest gun control laws in the country and one of the highest murder rates.

And one of the lowest Federal Firearms Prosecution rates in the Country.

53 posted on 03/29/2013 8:32:03 AM PDT by Petruchio (Democrats are like Slinkies... Not good for anything, but it's fun pushing 'em down the stairs.)
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To: neverdem

With America becoming increasingly Catholic as we’re flooded with immigration from third world mosh pits, the future of all rights recognized in the Bill of Rights becomes more and more precarious every year.


54 posted on 03/29/2013 8:50:45 AM PDT by NVDave
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To: neverdem

Check the sales of guns and ammo. 2 year backlog for some guns.


55 posted on 03/29/2013 9:28:26 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Smokin' Joe

The right to self defense by virtue of bearing arms in the Second Amendment is a God-given, self-evident, natural right, not a legislated civil right.


56 posted on 03/29/2013 11:37:43 AM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: Iron Munro

At best, those are her on different days.


57 posted on 03/29/2013 11:38:58 AM PDT by wastedyears (I'm a gamer not because I choose to have no life, but because I choose to have many.)
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To: allblues
There is a legitimate definition for an assault rifle, a select fire carbine that fires an intermediate cartridge.

Bull crap.

There are single shot, semi-automatic and automatic rifles.

Only liberals and sheeples use the term "assault rifle".

Do you use the terms "gay marriage" and "sea kittens" to describe homos shacking up and PETA's new name for fish?

58 posted on 03/29/2013 11:46:00 AM PDT by Eaker (Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. — Robert A. Heinlein.)
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To: exit82
You are correct, pardon my mis information. Sorry.
59 posted on 03/29/2013 11:51:41 AM PDT by BooBoo1000 (Some times I wake up grumpy,,, other times I just let her sleep.)
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To: wastedyears; Iron Munro
At best, those are her on different days.

So rather than a single day of her life shooting there are multiple days?

That makes it all the more poignant as it appears she shoots often.

60 posted on 03/29/2013 11:52:21 AM PDT by Eaker (Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. — Robert A. Heinlein.)
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