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It's True, Democrats Want to Take Your Guns
U.S. News & World Report ^ | October 23, 2015 | Mary Kate Cary

Posted on 10/23/2015 2:05:05 PM PDT by ForYourChildren

First, full disclosure: I am a gun owner. I passed a background check and legally own a 20 gauge pump-action shotgun that I use to shoot clay pigeons at target ranges. I am not alone. According to a 2013 survey by the National Sporting Goods Association, women's participation in shooting sports increased by 51.5 percent, to just over 5 million women, for target shooting over the last decade. There are a lot of women like me who like to shoot skeet.

In case you are wondering, I am not a member of the NRA.

I believe that gun violence is a plague on our nation. I believe that all gun owners should have to pass a background check, and that a prior record of committing violent crimes is a very good reason for denying one's Constitutional right to own a gun. I have no problem with reasonable waiting periods. I don't understand why anyone needs to own military-style assault weapons, and I think they should be more difficult, if not nearly impossible, to obtain.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; constitution; guncontrol
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To: GraceG

She probably wouldn’t mind if YOU needed a I-A license to exercise.


41 posted on 10/23/2015 3:14:23 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: allblues

Thanks for that info....


42 posted on 10/23/2015 3:14:32 PM PDT by Boonie ("Nuke 'em all...Let Allah sort 'em out...)
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To: ForYourChildren

no real right requires a permit.


43 posted on 10/23/2015 3:19:34 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
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To: ForYourChildren
"I don't understand why anyone needs to own military-style assault weapons"

Well, dear, then you obviously haven't read The Federalist Papers if you truly "don't understand". I'll clue you in: we SHOULD be able to own them to shoot and kill any bastard who tries to take them or any other right away from us. Unfortunately, there is an unconstitutional law preventing us from such ownership.

That being said, I SHOULD be able to own military assault weapons, but they can no longer be manufactured for civilian ownership. And to own one of the relics, one must jump through piles of red tape, accept the ATF probe permanently inserted into one's rectum, and pay an annual 500 dollar tax per weapon. The Constitution is not open to interpretation, the context is IN The Federalist Papers. And it was clear, most abundantly clear, why owning weapons of the same type as our own military is a natural, God given right of the American Citizen. There IS no argument, EFF YOU

44 posted on 10/23/2015 3:23:25 PM PDT by FunkyZero (... I've got a Grand Piano to prop up my mortal remains)
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To: ForYourChildren

45 posted on 10/23/2015 3:24:17 PM PDT by xp38
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To: ForYourChildren

***I don’t understand why anyone needs to own military-style assault weapons, ****

There are those who don’t understand why ANYONE needs a pump 20 guage. A single shot .410 and a single shot .22 short is ALL anyone really needs!

SO LET IT BE WRITTEN! SO LET IT BE DONE!


46 posted on 10/23/2015 3:26:09 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: ForYourChildren

That’s because headlines sell and they need precedence. They don’t have much of a problem with a black guy or 2 getting shot here and there. In Indianapolis, we are losing probably 5-10 people a week in various hood shootings, I don’t even bother reading them anymore. That’s not headline news and doesn’t get them any attention. Don’t forget the method being employed... gradual but eventual total confiscation.


47 posted on 10/23/2015 3:28:36 PM PDT by FunkyZero (... I've got a Grand Piano to prop up my mortal remains)
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To: Boonie
Fully automatic weapons are illegally (unconstitutionally) denied only legal in this country to the general public

Fixed it for you.

The brain dead 'writer' doesn't know their @ss from a hole in the ground: I believe in X, BUT/except =/= belief, thought nor principles.
48 posted on 10/23/2015 3:35:38 PM PDT by i_robot73 ("A man chooses. A slave obeys." - Andrew Ryan)
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To: ForYourChildren

Written version of the Rush P Limbaugh “seminar caller”


49 posted on 10/23/2015 3:36:21 PM PDT by Tench_Coxe (For every Allende, there is a Pinochet)
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To: ForYourChildren

Preaching to the choir here, but is a sample I post on Facebook on similar articles for the benefit of the non-gun owning people follows - use/add to any part when you post to for similar media Comments Section posts:

A clever variation of the “I am a gun owner . . . BUT” meme. Just more gun control masking as a “reasonable” discourse.

The tip-off is here: “I believe that all gun owners should have to pass a background check,”

In order to undergo a background check, you must register your firearm. It isn’t called that, just that you have to fill out a BATF Form 4473, which among 20-odd personal questions, including race, asks for the make, model, type, caliber and serial number of each gun.

Mind you, the excuse is that they only want to keep guns away from nutters and criminals - a noble goal which all of us support. If that is their real goal, please tell me why, if I buy more than one firearm at a time, I have to only pass one background check, but have to fill out a 4473 for each gun? Can you spell REGISTRATION?

These forms are not to be sent to the govt. until the dealer goes out of business. Evidently the BATF can’t wait that long as it has been reported by many FFLs that the agents are photocopying their entire book of filled out forms. Why, Ms. Cary?


50 posted on 10/23/2015 3:36:27 PM PDT by Oatka (ES)
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To: ForYourChildren

The only way to keep guns out of the hands of criminals is to throw them in jail and keep them there.


51 posted on 10/23/2015 3:44:01 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Boonie

I wondered! Thanks for the follow-up. And good post in #7. Well said, except for that little typo!


52 posted on 10/23/2015 3:58:45 PM PDT by Finny (Voting "against" is a wish. Be ready to own what you vote for.)
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To: Lazamataz

Ditto.


53 posted on 10/23/2015 3:59:51 PM PDT by Finny (Voting "against" is a wish. Be ready to own what you vote for.)
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To: Lazamataz; ForYourChildren; Boonie
I believe that all gun owners should have to pass a background check

This just fries me, it leaps out. It sounds so mommy sensible, so "conservative." What it represents is a litmus test for a person to retain the right to defend themselves with the "great equalizer." Each and every American, who incidentally is granted the right to keep and bear arms in the U.S. Constitution, has to meet certain government-designated standards, otherwise that right is revoked.

One of the presidential candidates has it right when he says the 2nd Amendment is about being a check on government tyranny. That is the primary "self defense" function of the 2A.

54 posted on 10/23/2015 4:07:08 PM PDT by Finny (Voting "against" is a wish. Be ready to own what you vote for.)
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To: Sooth2222
(Or, actually I do understand -- liberal politicians must have recurrent nightmares that include scenes from the Storming of the Bastille.)

*ding ding ding ding ding ding*

A winner.

55 posted on 10/23/2015 4:11:52 PM PDT by Finny (Voting "against" is a wish. Be ready to own what you vote for.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
She also claims that the majority of people support universal background checks.

Probably a shocking number do, because they skip thinking it through, they assume such checks would only look for extreme things. They fail to anticipate the government stranglehold that would clamp down on each American's access to a fundamental right as specified in the Constitution.

56 posted on 10/23/2015 4:15:45 PM PDT by Finny (Voting "against" is a wish. Be ready to own what you vote for.)
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To: Finny; Lazamataz; Boonie

“..the 2nd Amendment is about being a check on government tyranny. That is the primary “self defense” function of the 2A.”

Exactly.

So why would anyone think it wise to ask the government to help them restrict in any manner the primary “self defense” function of the 2A of that which purpose is to keep a check on said government tyranny. Crazy!


57 posted on 10/23/2015 4:16:35 PM PDT by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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To: ForYourChildren

I believe that all gun owners should have to pass a background check

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Because it’s right there in the 2a, that everybody has to pass a back ground check.


58 posted on 10/23/2015 4:18:19 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Bill and Hillary Clinton are the penicillin-resistant syphilis of our political system.)
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To: Daffynition
*Gun control is a tool to make innocents pay the price for the guilty* ~ W.LaPierre

Bump

59 posted on 10/23/2015 4:19:55 PM PDT by Finny (Voting "against" is a wish. Be ready to own what you vote for.)
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To: ForYourChildren

“I don’t understand why anyone needs to own military-style assault weapons,”

For the same reason that most Americans bought Mauser-style Springfield bolt action rifles after WWI,
and many Americans bought semi-auto rifles after WWII,
and why a lot of Americans bought AR-type rifles after the Cold War.

“and I think they (military-style assault weapons) should be more difficult, if not nearly impossible, to obtain.”

They will come for your shotgun after they kill us and take our evil black guns. Silly cow.


60 posted on 10/23/2015 4:20:53 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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