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Topic: Irony marks White House gun blitz |
Irony marks White House gun blitz
Morning Journal [Lorain, OH], by Tom Skoch
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Posted By:Harlowe, 1/13/2013 9:06:01 AM
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| Ironies abound when you look back over this past week’s White House effort to take firearms out of the hands of most everyone except the armed bodyguards of all the bloviating bigshots who think you’re too dumb or unimportant to have a gun to protect your family. At the order of President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden’s taskforce held a couple of days of talks on various sides of the gun issue. (Snip) A White House presspool report that came to me quoted Biden supporting “universal background checks, not just closing the gumshoe loophole.” Gumshoe loophole?
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Keekng, 1/13/2013 9:23:41 AM (No. 9113859)
They want to outlaw our weapons and at the same time Bam Bam grants himself armed protection for life!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
lakerman1, 1/13/2013 9:35:34 AM (No. 9113871)
Former Senator James Webb tried to enter the Capitol building with a 9mm pistol in his possession. He blamed his aide, and nothing happened to either of them. One of dead ted kennedy´s armed guards tried to enter the capitol building carrying his UZI, and nothing happened to him.
(I worked an event at my university back in the early 1970s - not long after dead ted kennedy killed mary jo kopechne - and my dimwitted dean managed to get dead ted as a commencement speaker. dead ted had his own private security detail, and I had to work with them on the issue of security. And his main bodyguard told me that when dead ted spoke at the commencement, with 10,000 people in attendance, the bodyguard would rather that all 10,000 people in attendance die, rather than dead ted dying. Absolutely true story.)
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Namma, 1/13/2013 9:41:12 AM (No. 9113881)
if the citizens of Amerika are disarmed...why would obama need armed guards
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Kendet1946, 1/13/2013 9:47:44 AM (No. 9113888)
Just read between the lines. It´s never about public safety; it´s about government control of the people.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
clayusmcret, 1/13/2013 9:50:59 AM (No. 9113896)
Oaths to protect the Constitution of the United States ring hollow from the mouths of those whose actions do not live up to the oath itself.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
rabbit, 1/13/2013 9:54:57 AM (No. 9113907)
Meanwhile, thousands of families continue to keep a wary eye on loved ones with serious mental illness. They can´t have them hospitalized for evaluation, because their potential for violence doesn´t yet meet the ´imminent´ threshold. And they can´t ensure that the loved one cannot go purchase a gun and be the next Adam Lanza. Of course, the most likely victims aren´t children in an elementary school. The most likely victims are the families of the person with serious mental illness. These killings rarely make the national news, but they happen daily and the mental health community is well aware of them. Of course, if nothing is done, one or more of these individuals will become an Adam Lanza - do something completely outrageously horrible - and we will once again wring our hands and claim we can do nothing.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
J F Ackerman, 1/13/2013 9:58:51 AM (No. 9113913)
Must be early. I read that: "A White House cesspool report... "
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
nonsense, 1/13/2013 10:03:44 AM (No. 9113924)
Just read another article about the George Soros´ funded Center for (non)American Progress that has a Leftest Gun Grabbing List ready to go. So who will prove more powerful, the incredibly evil George Soros and his Flying Monkeys or the NRA and the American people?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
antiquegolf, 1/13/2013 10:25:00 AM (No. 9113955)
Poster 6, James Holmes set off many alarms including a envelope full of disturbing materials he mailed to his psychiatrist who conveniently said she didn´t receive until after Holmes shot up the cinema in Aurora, CO. In the Lanza case the system worked, he tried to ourchase weapons but was denied. So he stole the guns from his negligent mother. Everyone is opposed to mental deficients having access to guns, but the far left obama could care less about safety for Americans. He just seeks to disarm law abiding Americans in the name of security. As another poster said a few days ago, "it´s not about guns, it´s not about gun control, it´s about control.´"
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
kenecarroll, 1/13/2013 11:51:48 AM (No. 9114148)
#3 because someone is liable to knock his head off with a ball bat. Notice, I said someone. Not me of course.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Cor-vet, 1/13/2013 2:19:17 PM (No. 9114413)
I don´t think there is a special ´bodyguard´ carry license, just the same old ´concealed carry permits´ that the rest of us can have, so I guess Feinstein, Schumer, Soros and the rest will give up their guns as well as their bodyguards!
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