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Topic: Don´t call it gun control, says Democrats´ point person on the issue |
Don´t call it gun control, says Democrats´ point person on the issue
CNN, by Gregory Wallace
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Posted By:StormCnter, 1/6/2013 4:46:15 AM
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| The Californian picked to lead congressional Democrats´ efforts on gun control says the positions held by some gun rights advocates are unnecessarily divisive, and that government action should go beyond simply outlawing certain weapons. "I think assault weapons are a pox on the home of every gun owner," Rep. Mike Thompson said Saturday on CNN. "I think that´s the thing that´s going to cause the overwhelming majority of people in this country who aren´t gun owners to have negative feelings about those of us who are gun owners." Thompson is a gun owner and hunter himself,
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Trigger2, 1/6/2013 4:53:04 AM (No. 9101049)
A pox on you Thompson!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
kanphil, 1/6/2013 6:42:50 AM (No. 9101125)
You´re just wasting words, Thompson! Don´t try and touch my guns!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
rabbit, 1/6/2013 7:14:02 AM (No. 9101152)
Did posters read the article? Thompson is a gun owner, has served in the military, and offers some practical solutions. LaPierre´s "no negotiation" policy is going nowhere. As the study cited in the article shows, only 13% of Americans agree with that stance.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Janjan, 1/6/2013 7:19:38 AM (No. 9101161)
This is going nowhere for the Democrats.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
rugerman2242, 1/6/2013 7:23:53 AM (No. 9101168)
There are currently 37 pox´s on my home,,,, and growing,,,, Can´t speak for the general population, but I´m having a devil of a time locating negative feelings.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
mws50, 1/6/2013 7:29:36 AM (No. 9101173)
Do not "think", Mike Thompson. The evidence you have provided has proven you are incapable of rational thought.
Free clue: No one has suggested that all teachers and principals be armed. Did you insert that into your ignorant statements to inflame the situation? Of course you did.
And here is another free clue: You do not know what an assault weapon is. Try to educate yourself, so you do not appear to be as stupid as you seem to be.
And while you are attempting to educate yourself, get someone competent in the English language to explain our 2nd Amendment to you.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
chumley, 1/6/2013 7:32:18 AM (No. 9101180)
Great. Another fake sportsman who served in Vietnam who follows the teachings of Marx and Lenin. Does this guy look like an Easter Island statue too? Seeing the names on that panel panel makes me think maybe they stacked the deck against freedom. The president wouldn´t do that, would he?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
philsner, 1/6/2013 7:37:28 AM (No. 9101187)
A CNN poll is bogus.
Thompson´s "practical solutions" are just the liberal boilerplate. Ban scary weapons and enough rounds to stop a criminal.
John Kerry served in Viet Nam.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
franq, 1/6/2013 7:53:55 AM (No. 9101203)
Ban Grand Theft Auto.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
HotRodLincoln, 1/6/2013 8:09:04 AM (No. 9101232)
#3 it is a fool´s errand to negotiate away our God given rights. You seem to think the Right to Bear arms comes from the government and can be modified or revoked by a simple vote in Congress. Please read up on the Constitution and look up what "Shall Not Be Infringed" means.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Chuzzles, 1/6/2013 8:18:28 AM (No. 9101239)
Mr. Thompson is being ingenious with his words. ANY weapon, used in the wrong fashion, can be an assault weapon. It doesn´t matter if this man says he owns guns. In the current climate of democrats stealing every last thing they can from their fellow citizens, I don´t trust him. Pics of his weapons, or it ain´t happening. Isn´t that the slogan?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
disasterman, 1/6/2013 8:30:31 AM (No. 9101257)
#3 If Thompson is really all he claims to be he would know the difference between my semi auto rifles and assault weapons. He would also know that The Second Amendmentb is not negotiable.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
TunnelRat, 1/6/2013 8:54:32 AM (No. 9101306)
I dunno, #3. Did you watch the video?
Thompson repeatedly refers to "assault magazines". What is that supposed to mean?
He claims he carried an "assault weapon" in Viet Nam. He must not have been in an infantry unit. We carried fully automatic rifles, not ´scary looking´ semi-autos.
Then he says everything should be on the table, but immediately excludes the idea of putting armed guards in schools.
It seems to me that the ones with the "no negotiation" policy are the Dems in the Congress.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
coldoc, 1/6/2013 9:15:00 AM (No. 9101347)
Here´s the real solution. LUL. Lock up Lunatics. Make mental health professionals liable if they gloss over a known problem that results in a death. These are the people making judgements as to whether these madmen are out among us.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Coy860, 1/6/2013 9:23:30 AM (No. 9101362)
We need to go on offense against democrats. I bet half of them ran on pro-2nd amendment issues. Get them out in the open and ask if they support Obama gun control. Do it. Call your own State Reps and ask their opinion, research back when they were running, what did they say. We are all Breitbart now.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Edgelady, 1/6/2013 9:26:48 AM (No. 9101364)
The second amendment was added so citizens could protect themselves from an overly aggressive, tyrannical government - which this administration is looking more and more like.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
texaspast, 1/6/2013 9:28:40 AM (No. 9101368)
The second amendment is not about hunting, target shooting or even home and personal defense.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Tommytoadaz, 1/6/2013 9:30:11 AM (No. 9101373)
As God is my witness, from my cold dead hands. They want a fight then they shall have one.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
fishbone, 1/6/2013 9:58:24 AM (No. 9101420)
Firstly, I don´t understand Dems who own firearms and remain Dems (or continue to retain their firearms). Do they think they´ll get an elitist exemption when any of their stupid laws go into effect? I believe that in former times (also currently) they were called "useful idiots".
Secondly, I am all for negotiating ... i.e., lets negotiate rescinding some of the currrent gun control laws that are on the books. I firmly believe that I (a private citizen) should be able to purchase and own any weapon that is available to the military. After all, in a confrontation with a bad government you shouldn´t automatically put yourself into a weaker position.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
kafir091101, 1/6/2013 11:15:06 AM (No. 9101526)
#3: You really must get out of the house more often and get lots of vitamin D sunshine and fresh air.
This US Rep from San Fran is so full of BS that I became slightly nauseous part way through the clip. He is the point man to go after the soccer mom vote.
This is all window dressing and slight of hand stuff. They are really going after full registration of all firearms so they can issue a list of what has to be turned in just as was done in Briton/Australia/New Zealand and was tried in Canada.
This Congress won’t go along with that but if we lose the House in 2014, we are done for. In the mean time, Obama will use Executing Orders and agency regulations to restrict and demonize gun owners and grease the skids for the 2014 election.
If this can’t be stopped politically, we as a nation are in for a heap big lot of trouble.
These Fascist in DC are devious and evil people who will settle for nothing less than total control of all Americans.
Their primary MO is to divide us into social factions, women against men, minorities against whites, on-the-dole against provides, useful idiots against free thinkers and of course wusses against gun owners.
It’s all in Saul Alinsky’s play book and we should learn how to use it against them.
Kafir
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
coldborezero, 1/6/2013 12:22:59 PM (No. 9101636)
Thompson´s biography states that he served with the 173rd Airborne Brigade in Vietnam. It also states that his tour in the Army was from 1969-1972. The 173rd Airborne Brigade was in Vietnam from 1965-1971, so it is possible that Thompson saw combat. However, if he joined the Army in 1969, went through basic training, then infantry training, then Airborne school, before being assigned to the 173rd; it is possible that he arrived in the Nam just before the 173rd left for home. I am not writing this to impugn his record but to look for some clarification. Did he serve in actual combat? His bio makes no mention of any combat decorations. I cannot see a politician missing any opportunity to make himself look good. Was he "in the rear with the gear"? He says he carried an assault rifle in Vietnam. Quite true. He carried an M-16, a true, fully automatic assault rifle as defined by the Department of Defense. An AR-15, which he is calling an assault rifle, is not. It is a semi-automatic (i.e. a self-loader) that is incapable of fully automatic fire as configured. I am forever dumbfounded by these politicians who claim to have fought in wars against totalitarian regimes and yet work tirelessly to bring about the same in the United States.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
coldborezero, 1/6/2013 12:34:49 PM (No. 9101656)
I agree with Thompson on one thing: It is NOT gun control; it is people control that the statists seek.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals, 1/6/2013 3:12:55 PM (No. 9101841)
I find it funny that the very same people who will vote to subsidize another 100,000 police officers (union building) will not support the idea of subsidizing armed guards in public schools. The republicans should come out on this big time. But they won´t.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Italiano, 1/6/2013 3:23:15 PM (No. 9101849)
Same clueless posts by the same vacuous poster on every Second Amendment thread. Transparent. Tiresome.
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