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Manchin on gun control: 'We need action'
CNN ^ | 12/17/2012 | Ashley Killough

Posted on 12/17/2012 8:16:39 AM PST by Qbert

(CNN) – Sen. Joe Manchin, a conservative Democrat from West Virginia and "proud gun owner," said Monday he believes last week's Connecticut elementary school shooting should be the tipping point in the debate over limiting gun rights.

"I just came with my family from deer hunting. I've never had more than three shells in a clip. Sometimes you don't get more than one shot anyway at a deer," Manchin said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe." "It's common sense. It's time to move beyond rhetoric. We need to sit down and have a common sense discussion and move in a reasonable way."

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His tone sounds markedly different from one of his television ads as a Senate nominee in 2010, when he used a rifle to put a bullet through the Cap and Trade bill. He was serving as the state's governor at the time.

The senator was re-elected this year and doesn't face another election until 2016, giving him ample room to take political stances unpopular with his base.

Manchin pointed to Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, who announced Sunday she will re-introduce an assault weapons ban when Congress reconvenes in January.

(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: West Virginia
KEYWORDS: banglist; democrats; diannefeinstein; guncontrol; joemanchin; manchin; secondamendment; youwillnotdisarmus
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To: Arm_Bears

21 posted on 12/17/2012 8:25:14 AM PST by Lazamataz (LAZ'S LAW: As an argument with liberals goes on, the probability of being called racist approaches 1)
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To: Qbert

Good of Manchin to speak up on this issue...
now WV voters can kick his a** out of the senate and put a true conservative in there...
hopefully, first nail in Manchin’s coffin.


22 posted on 12/17/2012 8:25:46 AM PST by matginzac
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To: Qbert

Conservative Democrat? Oxymoron! (NO SUCH THING! Dems march in lockstep with their liberal bosses) I will admit I don’t know everything about guns...but if your talking “shells” your talking a Shotgun. And I’ve never had one that has a “Clip”? Does the good Senator have a “Streetsweeper” type shotgun with a drum of shells? I thought those were labeled a destructive device....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armsel_Striker


23 posted on 12/17/2012 8:27:20 AM PST by jakerobins
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To: Qbert

Ah, yes.... another ‘independent voice’ in the democrap party shares his philosophy. So all that ‘conservative’ talk was just... talk.


24 posted on 12/17/2012 8:27:20 AM PST by ScottinVA (I've never been more disgusted with American voters.)
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To: Qbert

Ah, yes.... another ‘independent voice’ in the democrap party shares his philosophy. So all that ‘conservative’ talk was just... talk.


25 posted on 12/17/2012 8:27:43 AM PST by ScottinVA (I've never been more disgusted with American voters.)
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To: Qbert

We don’t have a gun problem.

We have a “crime is encouraged by social policy and cultural thought leaders” problem.

This was a great post that came up in google while I was searching from some crime stats.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2864689/posts


26 posted on 12/17/2012 8:28:10 AM PST by PieterCasparzen (We have to fix things ourselves)
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To: Qbert

27 posted on 12/17/2012 8:28:37 AM PST by Errant
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To: Qbert

Election’s over, Manchin can stop pretending to be pro-gun and let his gun grabbing liberal democrat colors show.


28 posted on 12/17/2012 8:28:59 AM PST by apillar
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To: sickoflibs

I say ban high capacity gun-free zones.


29 posted on 12/17/2012 8:29:45 AM PST by TurboZamboni (Looting the future to bribe the present)
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To: sickoflibs

Correct and I will add in an area where murder is illegal, too.


30 posted on 12/17/2012 8:29:50 AM PST by WinMod70
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To: V_TWIN
Sen. Joe Manchin, a conservative Democrat from West Virginia

Can't be a conservative when they vote the radical left-wing agenda.

31 posted on 12/17/2012 8:30:39 AM PST by VRW Conspirator (We were the tea party before there was a tea party. - Jim Robinson)
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To: Qbert

Obama armed Libyans

Obama armed Syrians

Obama armed Mexicans

Suddenly, Obama wants to disarm law-abiding Americans.


32 posted on 12/17/2012 8:30:45 AM PST by Obadiah (How do you know that the light at the end of the tunnel isn't a muzzle flash?)
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To: Qbert

Keep the guns, ban Manchin from public office.


33 posted on 12/17/2012 8:30:56 AM PST by EternalVigilance (Keep the guns, ban the anti-God-given rights politicians from ever holding office again.)
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To: V_TWIN

The Dems are evil....and their voters are stupid.

Go figure:

Step#1: Dems ban firearms (i.e. no body no where to have guns at school or elsewhere so everyone is a sitting duck for a nut case)

Step#2: A nut case sooner or later shows up and does a Dem-Party-enabled mass murder.

Step#3: Dems further ban firearms everyone is even more a sitting duck for a nut case.

Step#4: goto Step#2 via infinite loop until only the Govt has all the guns...just like Hitler Germany, Mao China, Pol Pot Cambodia, Lenin/Stalin-USSR.

Step#5: With everyone disarmed, the “Dems” institute a tyranny and the Govt & Govt-mob mass murdering REALLY begins .

Now mind you, this ploy is obvious to anyone not malicious or stupid...which rules out Obaba and his 52 percent.

History sadly shows that tyranny rises when a critical mass of the people become uncaring.

Here in the USA, we are there now.

A mystery to me is how in 2010 people voted heavy Repub and in 2012 people, despite everything worse, voted Dems (assuming there was zero voting fraud and the moon is made of green cheese).


34 posted on 12/17/2012 8:30:56 AM PST by OldArmy52 (The question is not whether Obama ever lies, but whether he ever tells the truth.)
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To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines

"Instead of the usual liberal obsession with guns...too bad more attention isn’t focused on the REAL cause of these massacres......MENTAL ILLNESS!!!!!!"

Exactly. We need to push back hard on this issue, IMHO.

35 posted on 12/17/2012 8:31:53 AM PST by Qbert ("The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry" - William F. Buckley, Jr.)
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To: Qbert

Thanks West Virginia, you re elected this idiot against your own interests.


36 posted on 12/17/2012 8:32:06 AM PST by CPT Clay (Follow me on Twitter @Clay N TX)
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To: Qbert

There was a lot of confusion in the first reports coming out of this shooting, but one of these reports I find to be most curious. One of the first reports coming from a reporter on the scene stated that the M-4/AR-15 rifle was found by the police in the shooter’s car and all the killing had been done by pistols carried into the school by the shooter.

However, this morning’s paper carried an Associated Press story stating that all the killing had been done with the M-4/AR-15 assault rifle and called for opening discussions once more on banning the assault rifle.

Is the MSM manipulating the news again to fit their Liberal agenda, or what?


37 posted on 12/17/2012 8:33:06 AM PST by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: Qbert
What the **** do hunting and sport shooting have to do with the 2A?

When will this maddening equation of the fundamental right to self-defense with recreational leisure activities end?

38 posted on 12/17/2012 8:33:32 AM PST by wideawake
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To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines

Mental illness is a big liberal taboo. First you are not allowed to identify anyone who is crazy = “mentally challenged”. See what happens if you use the word “crippled” ... you will be charged as insensitive, non-PC.

If we had keep guns out of the hands of crazy people, most of these killings would not have happened.


39 posted on 12/17/2012 8:33:32 AM PST by BunnySlippers (Yes, they have. Don't you read?I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: Qbert

Hey you West (by God) Virginia ridge runners: recall this turkey!


40 posted on 12/17/2012 8:33:59 AM PST by IbJensen (Liberals are like Slinkies, good for nothing, but you smile as you push them down the stairs.)
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