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Pratt: 'Gun-Free Zones Are Murder Magnets'
Politico ^ | 12/15/13 | BURGESS EVERETT

Posted on 12/15/2013 7:27:13 PM PST by nickcarraway

Restrictive state gun laws are "lethal" and "killing people," Gun Owners of America Executive Director Larry Pratt says.

Appearing on a "Fox News Sunday" segment devoted to the anniversary of the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, Pratt said gun rights advocates need to turn to peeling back gun restrictions at the state level, despite the efforts of groups like Americans for Responsible Solutions, led by former astronaut Mark Kelly and former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.).

"Every one of our mass murders in our country has occurred in places where guns are prohibited," Pratt said. "The legislation that is on the books is lethal; it is killing people.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist

1 posted on 12/15/2013 7:27:13 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Tell it.


2 posted on 12/15/2013 7:30:03 PM PST by Raycpa
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To: Raycpa

Only a liberal can muster the logic of rules stopping rule breakers and laws stopping lawbreakers.


3 posted on 12/15/2013 7:35:10 PM PST by Right Brother
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To: Raycpa

Larry Pratt should be hired by NRA, and GOA merged, and let Pratt run it all. He “gets it” about the control mentality .The NRA has become soft and DC political….


4 posted on 12/15/2013 7:35:21 PM PST by C. Edmund Wright (Tokyo Rove is more than a name, it's a GREAT WEBSITE)
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To: nickcarraway

A liberal mind can not equate how their actions, while seemingly well-intentioned, are imposing policies that are getting a lot of innocent people killed.


5 posted on 12/15/2013 7:38:13 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi)
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To: nickcarraway

It is an absolute guarantee that mass killers will have their way when no one has a chance to stop them with like force.


6 posted on 12/15/2013 7:42:10 PM PST by umgud (2A can't survive dem majorities)
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To: nickcarraway

Alas, the liberal goal is to get the MOST people killed, through “random “ violence, as possible, in order to justify FURTHER restrictions by the Fed.gov supporting MORE Gun Control!


7 posted on 12/15/2013 7:47:09 PM PST by 2harddrive
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To: nickcarraway

Channel-surfing and I saw astronut Mark Kelly on Huckabee...and kept surfing.

These lunatics get enough TV time without me having to watch them on Fox.


8 posted on 12/15/2013 7:52:27 PM PST by moovova
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To: Right Brother
Only a liberal can muster the logic of rules stopping rule breakers and laws stopping lawbreakers.

Only a liberal could come up with a term like "common sense gun laws" to describe policies that place disarmed citizens at the mercy of armed criminals.

9 posted on 12/15/2013 8:22:22 PM PST by Maceman (Just say "NO" to tyranny.)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

Don’t the NRA and the GOA have opposite goals?


10 posted on 12/15/2013 8:23:24 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

bump


11 posted on 12/15/2013 8:30:11 PM PST by GOPJ ("Remember who the real enemy is... ")
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Turns out all mass shooters are all left wingers... NOT ONE is a conservative or NRA member - not one...

http://www.infowars.com/media-works-to-keep-mass-shooters-profiles-secret/

In the wake of recent high-profile shootings, the media can almost immediately be seen attempting to link deranged shooters with the political right. As facts come in, the desire to connect shooters to their political ideologies quickly erodes, as the same anti-depressant taking, left-wing, occultist profile emerges.


12 posted on 12/15/2013 8:31:10 PM PST by GOPJ ("Remember who the real enemy is... ")
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To: nickcarraway

No DUH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


13 posted on 12/15/2013 8:58:55 PM PST by bandleader
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To: moovova

Unfortunately, I think that Kelly spent too much time in space without his helmet on.


14 posted on 12/15/2013 10:18:32 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: nickcarraway

How so? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_Owners_of_America
I’m interested I thought the GOA was more pro-gun than the NRA.


15 posted on 12/16/2013 5:47:29 AM PST by 111y (Michele Bachmann is awesome.)
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To: nickcarraway

Think about it! Before we had gun-free school zones, how many school shootings did we have? It’s suggestive and that’s the problem.


16 posted on 12/16/2013 5:59:53 AM PST by maxwellsmart_agent
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To: NormsRevenge
Aliberal mind can not equate how their actions, while seemingly well-intentioned, are imposing policies that are getting a lot of innocent people killed.

leftluenza

Think I should copyright that

17 posted on 12/16/2013 7:08:13 AM PST by School of Rational Thought
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