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To: upchuck
I understand that gun sales and manufacture have skyrocketed since Obama took office. If he and his leftist cronies had kept their flippin' yaps shut about guns, there'd be 50,000,000 fewer of them and half as many new owners.

As a result, statistically, there will be more shootings and mass murders. Thank you Barry Soetoro.... or Sahkara, or Obamy or whatever the heck your name is.

2 posted on 01/18/2013 4:10:06 AM PST by Scooter100 ("Now that the fog has lifted, I still can't find my pipe". --- S. Holmes)
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To: Scooter100

I don’t know about your numbers, but BO and the devoted gun grabber set have certainly sold a lot more weapons in recent weeks than any weapons marketer’s paid-for ad campaign could have accomplished in several years. If only they could collect a regular commission on their sales they would be as loaded as a Mega Millions lottery winner.

I think it’s a mistake, though, to tag the gun-grabbers as solely “leftist/liberal”. I have plenty of liberal acquaintances who are also staunch NRA members based on both their valuing the freedom to defend themselves, and opposition to disarming the general public. The real divide is between those who trust their neighbors more than they trust state institutions, and those who are devoted to centralization and expansion of state power as long as they can claim their share of the loot such power concentrations accumulate for the adherents to whatever faction is currently in control of the levers of power.

Likewise, it’s a mistake to think about BO in terms of his real or alleged affiliations, i.e., “Muslim” or “Liberal” or “Marxist/Communist”. BO is an indifferently educated (despite his Ivy League credentials) narcissist, whose basic allegiance is to BO. As these disappointed civilian disarmament zealots are noting, he does not share their zealotry for this (or most any) issue. He does have an enthusiasm for golf and posh vacation expeditions however, which he can indulge from his perch on the Imperial Presidency roost our polity has been erecting for nearly a century now. I wonder if he will bring back the Nixon “Palace Guards” uniforms for the Secret Service cadre assigned to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave? Even if only to ‘twist the knife’ in his political adversaries, which is another hobby he seems to enjoy.


5 posted on 01/18/2013 5:25:24 AM PST by Blue_Ridge_Mtn_Geek
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To: Scooter100
As a result, statistically, there will be more shootings and mass murders

WRONG. That's the Left's argument: more guns, more crime. It does not bear out in reality. Violent crime has been dropping for decades, following the explosion of concealed-carry laws and licensees across the nation.

As long as they are primarily owned by peaceable people, more guns = LESS crime.

7 posted on 01/18/2013 5:48:29 AM PST by backwoods-engineer ("Remember: Evil exists because good men don't kill the gov officials committing it." -- K. Hoffmann)
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To: Scooter100

“there will be more shootings and mass murders.”

Most likely engineered by The Left. The victims will simply be collateral damage in their war to disarm the citizenry.


8 posted on 01/18/2013 5:53:02 AM PST by MayflowerMadam
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