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Sign the Petition: Make the
White House a Gun-Free Zone!
Power Line, by John Hinderaker
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Posted By:markinalpine, 1/12/2013 10:11:45 PM
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| Via InstaPundit, we learn of the latest citizen-generated petition on the official White House site: Eliminate armed guards for the President, Vice-President, and their families, and establish Gun Free Zones around them Gun Free Zones are supposed to protect our children, and some politicians wish to strip us of our right to keep and bear arms. Those same politicians and their families are currently under the protection of armed Secret Service agents. If Gun Free Zones are sufficient protection for our children, then Gun Free Zones should be good enough for politicians. Heh. But really
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Comments:
Ban politicians who are anti-gun or anti-2nd Amendment from having concealed carry permits too.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Dixie, 1/12/2013 10:43:28 PM (No. 9113443)
I don´t think anyone would consider a member of Congress or of the Administration to be more precious than a child.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Emmajustin, 1/12/2013 10:59:28 PM (No. 9113451)
I´d sign but I fear I am already on the "list" because of all the emails I send to congress to tell them to get their head out of ...........
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
busterman, 1/12/2013 11:17:20 PM (No. 9113468)
#2 don´t worry. We´re all on the ´list´. We voted against 0bama. We post on this site. We e-mail Congress. We´re NRA members. We own guns, legally. We pay taxes. We live in a Red State.
This is our version of MLK´s ´principle of non-violence´.
The difference is that when this doesn´t work, we improvise, adapt and overcome....at times and places of our choosing.
Then they get worried because they are on our ´list´.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
woofwoofwoof, 1/12/2013 11:20:34 PM (No. 9113471)
Now we´re talking.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
JustJimToo, 1/12/2013 11:36:16 PM (No. 9113483)
Brilliant! Signed it.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
geneinnyc, 1/12/2013 11:37:35 PM (No. 9113485)
Ruger has an interface that adds your signature to a letter to your Congressmen. Access it here: http://www.ruger.com/micros/advocacy/takeAction.html
(H/T Instapundit)
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Shucky, 1/13/2013 12:11:32 AM (No. 9113496)
I didn´t waste a second to create an account and sign it. I can´t wait for their feeble attempt to explain how guns make them more safe at the same time they would make the rest of us less safe.
the left is devoid of ethics and logic.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Fosterdad, 1/13/2013 12:17:37 AM (No. 9113497)
I signed it and I don´t even own a gun.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
steveW, 1/13/2013 2:35:02 AM (No. 9113539)
Hopefully, concerned progressives have directed this to AttackWatch so that no one takes Dear Leader´s massive firewall of guns away from him. Guns protect him from bitter clingers, who are violent, racist, and cling to their guns. Obama is a gun-free zone in our hearts, and that´s what matters.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
4Justice, 1/13/2013 3:32:12 AM (No. 9113557)
This is what I like!!! And thank you #6 for the Ruger site! Now we are on a roll...
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Trigger2, 1/13/2013 5:18:51 AM (No. 9113591)
Barry believes in gun free zones, just not for himself. He just granted life-time SS protection for himself & Bush. Barry had to include Bush because Bush was the 1st president affected by the limited life ban and Barry couldn´t very well just give protection to himself. He´s special you know.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Cherrybark, 1/13/2013 5:44:15 AM (No. 9113608)
Signed it and will be alert for other petitions representing conservative ideas. Even though they scoffed, the press couldn´t help reporting on the secession petitions. Perhaps this one will attract enough attention to generate some news.
As for fear of "being on a list", remember John Hancock, the first president of the Continental Congress and first signer of the Declaration of Independence. He and the other representatives risked their considerable fortunes and perhaps very lives when signing. Legend says Hancock signed boldly, "So fat George can read it without his spectacles". With these men in your history, how can you possibly hesitate to petition your government out of fear of being added to some government database and then think of yourself as a free member of the republic rather than a government serf?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
hamrman, 1/13/2013 7:03:58 AM (No. 9113658)
I am in!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Keekng, 1/13/2013 7:23:35 AM (No. 9113682)
I am in!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
pliades, 1/13/2013 9:54:56 AM (No. 9113906)
REPEAL the 16th Amendment first!
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl, 1/13/2013 11:17:45 AM (No. 9114078)
Make up a name and address.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
cinwasp, 1/13/2013 11:19:48 AM (No. 9114084)
Smartest thing I´ve seen in a long time!
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Captain Howdy, 1/13/2013 3:01:40 PM (No. 9114474)
Signed it. Let´s make this BIG, and we are all on their list anyway.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
snowcloud, 2/4/2013 10:58:51 AM (No. 9157419)
It´s a whitehouse dot gov website petition. No way do I sign this.
I DO think these gun grabbing politicians SHOULD have their secret service protection stopped. In a perfect world...
THIS would be what´s called "social justice".
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