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May 24, 2009, 04:08 PM | #1 | |
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Liberals ask how they lost gun, Guantanamo votes
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May 24, 2009, 04:15 PM | #2 |
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Turn WHAT tide?
My advice to Rep. McCarthy is to start enforcing the laws that already exist that make murder a criminal act!! My heart goes out to her for her loss, but making the GUN illegal will not stop the MURDER! Murder is already illegal, what's getting an illegal gun compared to that?? Yet another elected official who cannot see the forest for the trees: Gun control limits the people that are law abiding, while doing nothing to stop crime. She's talking about making laws that are actually aimed at people who are not criminals, while doing nothing to curtail criminal behavior!! Last edited by Chris_B; May 27, 2009 at 11:58 AM. Reason: Check PMs please, Bud |
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im guessing bud didnt like what xchris had to say.
That woman up there in New York has lost her ENTIRE FREAKIN MIND
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May 25, 2009, 01:46 PM | #4 |
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How self deluded do you have to be to think that you are the one that is in the right even when your own party recognizes that the people of this country have seen through your scare tactics and illogical ideas? At what point do you stand back and say "everyone is telling me I am wrong...maybe I am wrong."?
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May 25, 2009, 02:06 PM | #5 |
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The American people have been saying "Enough is enough." McCarthy just doesn't like their conclusion.
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May 25, 2009, 02:53 PM | #6 |
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I'll bet the Brady Campaign is pleased with the statement by Rep. David Price (D-NC), "It's too bad there's not a more responsible national organization to counteract the NRA"
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May 25, 2009, 03:13 PM | #7 | |
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What ? Is that the sound of a representative republic working properly I hear ? Someone in congress is actually voting with the voice of the people, because they know if they keep pushing their own agenda instead of the real issues people are gonna throw em' out...That looks like a good sign to me.
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May 25, 2009, 03:28 PM | #8 |
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Isn't is amazing the influence 3,000,000 NRA members have on 303,000,000 US citizens. Less than 1% of the population ruling the country on gun control issues.
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Moving to L & CR. Careful, fellas. Antipitas and his crew will have their eye on you....
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May 25, 2009, 07:39 PM | #10 | |
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Many NRA members are the 1%ers of the gun world. Those are the voters who vote based on the gun issue. Keep in mind that the Dems are claiming a landslide victory in the last election, but the margins were thinner than they like to admit. See here.
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May 25, 2009, 07:48 PM | #11 | |
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"I'm not wrong, ordinary Americans are wrong." Oh man, that's rich. Darn pesky American voters getting in the way of politics!
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May 25, 2009, 08:22 PM | #12 |
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It is really quite astonishing that the members of Congress quoted in the article apparently see nothing wrong with publicly voicing their dismay that the majority of the public and our elected representatives do not support the pet beliefs of a few members of Congress.
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May 26, 2009, 10:54 AM | #16 | |
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Howdy! (more on the "don't like or appreciate" end of the scale, not so much "hate or detest") |
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May 26, 2009, 11:24 AM | #17 | |
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OTOH many of the newer Dems in the House come from moderate districts populated by "ordinary American" voters who support the Democratic platform on health care, environmental, and social welfare issues, but IMHO don't support many issues championed by old-school left-wing Democratic standard-bearers, such as gun control, Affirmative Action, and heavy regulation of small business. Mrs. McCarthy and the other members of the "old school" need to adjust to the new reality.
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So if those who vote in favor of gun rights are the small group of extremists that Rep. McCarthy would have us believe, why do her Democratic colleagues need to worry about re-election if they support gun control. As has been pointed out, there are a lot of people who vote for 2A that don't belong to the NRA. I suspect there are a lot of NRA members whose spouces never joined yet still vote the same way. My own father let his membership lapse because he got tired of the junk mail, but he'll vote against the first politician to votes for a gun ban. Likewise, anti-gunners also have to compete with groups like GOA, JPFO, etc. While the NRA is probably one of the loudest and best known voices in the gun control debate, they certainly aren't the only one.
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May 26, 2009, 02:41 PM | #20 |
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Now we know why the NRA is so against any assault weapons ban. They need those evil black rifles to "sneak around in the dark" to outflank the ordinary, "American Idol"-watching citizens. I mean, you wouldn't want to sneak around in the dark with and evil florescent orange rifle, would you?
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It's too bad I can't convince my pro gun friends to have more kids.
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May 26, 2009, 03:10 PM | #22 |
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I am actually very offended by her elitist attitude that the general population is somehow so stupid that we will go with whatever opinion we are told the most by groups such as the NRA. That we form our opinions solely on what message we hear most often and said most loudly.
I do not usually vote based on gun rights. I just do not feel gun rights are that threatened right now. I feel that civil liberties have been much more damaged and are much more of a concern to me now than gun rights...but I still resent the implication. |
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