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  1. Regardless of one's views on the issues of guns or gun control, referencing to the outrage and heartbreak caused by the killing of so many innocent children as the ‘Connecticut effect’ is pretty damn callous.
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  2. Shame on you, Bob Welch. What a despicable worldview.
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  4. Talking about a dispicable world view, how about Obama's parading 30 shooting victims out in front of Congress to use as props to attempt to infringe upon the constitutionally protected rights of hunderds of millions of citizens who had bothing to do with their status as shooting victims?

    You really can not get any more despicable than that!

    Our founding fathers knew tyranny and the importance of future generations being equipped and able to stop it again. The rights protected in the Second Amendment have nothing to do with hunting or shooting clay pigeons.

    Why make the entire country just like Chicago, New York or Washington DC where strict gun control laws have failed and have only served to disarm the victims? We aleady know with certainty that Obama's gun control ideas will not accomplish anything good. The former assault weapons ban did not stop or prevent the Columbine shooters from killing students either.

    Congress has created a target rich environment in every one of nearly 100,000 schools and repealing the gun free school zone law would allow lawfully armed citizens who may be at a school to use the necessary means to stop the next shooter from killing your kids.
  5. Connecticut effect? Aurora effect? Gabby Giffords in Arizona effect? Virginia Tech effect? Whatever. More gun control doesn't stop evil people from committing crimes and tragedies like the Newtown shooting. It is a fact. The 1994 "assault weapon" ban is a case in point. The ban was in place for ten years and had not effect on violent crime with "assault" weapons.
    Bob Welch was speaking truthfully. You liberals may not like to hear it, but it is true. There will not be an "assault" weapons ban. There's not enough bipartisan, that's right, bipartisan support for it. Too many Democrats will not support it.
    Just speaking truth to power.
  6. Nothing Bob said was out of line at all. I couldn't agree with him more. Of course the Newtown shooting was a tragedy. The cause of the tragedy however was that there were no armed good guys inside that school that could have stopped that madman. The NRA said it exactly correct, a bad guy with a gun can only be stopped by a good guy with a gun. The only real question is why the radical left, liberty hating gun banners can't understand this simple logic.
  7. 45acp

    The hard left cannot understand your logic for the same reason you can not understand theirs. We are all hard wired in our beliefs.

    As President Regan said, it is not so much that the left is uninformed, it is just that they know so much that is not true.
  8. We dont need gun control, we need human being control
  9. What would be the perception if James Porter's child was murdered in school by a gunman ? What would be the perception if a gunman entered the next NRA convention and massacred as many idiots as possible ? You sheep, brainwashed by the NRA, which exists in the present day, only to control political decisions with money. They use impressionable morons that need to latch on to something to feel whole or empowered. It's worse than the Catholic church and their historical methods dating back centuries. (The raping of thousands of young boys is a whole other topic.) The NRA doesn't exist anymore to protect your "2nd amendment rights" which was amended in 1791 ( 222 years ago ), when Muskets, which took about 5 minutes to load a single shot, were all there was. If you think owning an automatic or semi-automatic weapon, is necessary to protect yourself from a "Tyrant Government" in the 21st Century, and that concept is somehow related to "The Right to Bear Ye Olde Arms" have been at the very least, mislead, or just not educated, ... In closing; If more innocent children (and adults for that matter) are inevitably to be massacred by automatic weapons in this country, may God let those struck down, be the children of the NRA, and supporters of it's sacrificial blood money politics.






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