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    #321

    Jan 15, 2013, 07:47 AM
    Quote Originally Posted by talaniman View Post
    Explaining away actions by capitalists only enforces the capitalists nature of the NRA and the true nature of their endeavors. Make money.
    Unlike Planned Parenthood which makes its millions off the taxpayers.

    Planned Parenthood reports record year for abortions
    January 7, 2013 | 3:59 pm

    In its latest annual report for fiscal year 2011 to 2012, Planned Parenthood reveals that it performed 333,964 abortions in 2011 – a record year for the organization.

    According to annual reports, the organization performed 332,278 abortions in 2009, 329,445 in 2010, making the total number of abortions in three years to 995,687.

    Planned Parenthood reported receiving a record $542 million in taxpayer funding, according to a Susan B. Anthony List analysis of the report, in the form of government grants, contracts, and Medicaid reimbursements. The amount is 45 percent of Planned Parenthood’s annual revenue.

    “While government subsidies to Planned Parenthood have reached an all time high, so too has the number of lives ended by this profit-driven abortion business,” SBA List’s President Marjorie Dannenfelser said in a statement. “Destroying nearly one million children in three years is not health care and does not reflect a concern for vulnerable women and girls.”

    Contraceptive services at Planned Parenthood have dropped by 12 percent since 2009, and cancer screening & prevention services have dropped by 29 percent.
    Funny how you libs want to take away our constitutional right to have a gun because some wacko kills someone, but defend far more legal murders on the taxpayer dollar in the name of "health care."
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    #322

    Jan 15, 2013, 08:06 AM
    Funny how you libs want to take away our constitutional right to have a gun
    Can you offer up some proof that liberals want to repeal the 2nd amendment?
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    Jan 15, 2013, 08:41 AM
    I said nothing about repeal, they'll do it through regulations.
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    Jan 15, 2013, 08:45 AM
    Funny how you libs want to take away our constitutional right to have a gun because some wacko kills someone,
    Wrong the debate is which guns you have a right too!


    but defend far more legal murders on the taxpayer dollar in the name of "health care."
    Wrong! Abortions are legal, so its not murder, you believe it is.
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    Jan 15, 2013, 09:20 AM
    Quote Originally Posted by talaniman View Post
    Wrong the debate is which guns you have a right too!
    Until they tax ammo so high it makes them irrelevant (except for those of us who know how to load our own). I'm sure these docs proposals to tax the hell out of guns and ammo and intrude on our lives isn't the only ideas floating out there.

    Harvard doctors call for massive federal tax ‘on all firearms and ammunition’

    A trio of public health doctors from Harvard University argued Monday that the federal government should institute “a new, substantial national tax on all firearms and ammunition” to pay for programs that “reduce gun violence.”

    They wrote that the practice of periodic government safety inspections of automobiles should be expanded to include firearms, “including documentation of home storage and safety measures.” And they compared the enforcement of speed limits on roadways to now-common proposals to restrict the sale and possession of high-capacity magazines that can hold dozens of rounds of ammunition.

    Drs. Dariush Mozaffarian, David Hemenway and David Ludwig wrote that public health crusades against cigarette smoking, accidental poisonings and unsafe driving should be the new models for responding to gun violence like the Dec. 14 school shooting in Newtown, Conn.

    Read more: Harvard public health docs call for new federal tax on guns, ammunition to 'reduce gun violence' | The Daily Caller
    The nannies won't stop, you'd be a fool to think they won't go after our guns and control our lives any way they can.

    Wrong! Abortions are legal, so its not murder, you believe it is.
    I said it was legal. Doesn't make it any less a murder in my book.
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    #326

    Jan 15, 2013, 03:05 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by speechlesstx View Post
    I said nothing about repeal, they'll do it through regulations.
    Or executive fiat .Biden said today he prepared 19 EOs
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    #327

    Jan 15, 2013, 03:39 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by Fr_Chuck View Post
    This week here in China a man took a large knife ( sorta looked like a short sword) and stabbed 20 children here.

    They don't need guns to kill and cause violence. A crazy person will use the weapon they can get.

    Pour gas and set them on fire and so on.
    You are very right. No firearm law should be strict.
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    #328

    Jan 15, 2013, 03:49 PM
    Where the right screws up is assuming every gun owner is a lawful responsible citizen. Trust but verify.
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    #329

    Jan 15, 2013, 03:59 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by talaniman View Post
    Where the right screws up is assuming every gun owner is a lawful responsible citizen. ...
    As opposed to making claims with no basis in reality.
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    #330

    Jan 15, 2013, 04:13 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by talaniman View Post
    Where the right screws up is assuming every gun owner is a lawful responsible citizen. Trust but verify.
    The problem is playing the blame game. Some gun owners are not responsible citizens, their political hue is not in question although the right does seem to have a higher population of looneys than the left. The issue isn't whether citizens should be allowed to possess firearms, the question is what firearms they are permitted to possess...

    Should they possess heavy weapons? This question isn't even on the table yet is just a pertinent. Should they possess military weapons? should they possess semi-automatic weapons? Do they have the right to stockpile ammunition?
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    #331

    Jan 15, 2013, 04:17 PM
    Too often legally-owned guns end up in the hands of minors who play with them and maybe shoot themselves or someone else accidentally, of a family member bent on suicide, or of a family member seeking revenge during a fight. Most of the guns legally owned are never used for hunting or to thwart a home invader. My husband owns more guns than I wish to know abfout. Two were found by our sons when they were young, once when we were changing the beds (the gun was between the mattress and box spring) and once when putting away clothes (the gun was in my husband's sock drawer).

    Gun ownership also has to be responsible. Mention that to Adam Lanza's mother.
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    #332

    Jan 15, 2013, 04:21 PM
    Lots of dead people IS reality. And don't holler about YOUR rights without acknowledging a better idea. What would you propose to help those dead people, and the ones who will surely die?
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    #333

    Jan 15, 2013, 04:26 PM
    The issue really is no one needs more than one gun for self protection or for joining a duly appointed militia. Every provision of the constitution or a Law passed by the Congress cannot be properly implemented without regulation to instruct the various arms of government how to implement the provisions. The 2nd amendment does not constitute a right to open a gun shop or to traffic in arms yet there are mores arms dealers than supermarkets
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    #334

    Jan 16, 2013, 05:38 AM
    Hello again,

    May I just say, that the right wing doesn't catch the prevailing winds TODAY any more than they did in 2012.

    There WILL be gun control. There SHOULD be gun control. We're Going to take the word MASS out of mass shootings, whether YOU like it or not.

    Exon
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    #335

    Jan 16, 2013, 07:03 AM
    Quote Originally Posted by excon View Post
    Hello again,

    May I just say, that the right wing doesn't catch the prevailing winds TODAY any more than they did in 2012.

    There WILL be gun control. There SHOULD be gun control. We're GONNA take the word MASS out of mass shootings, whether YOU like it or not.

    exon
    I agree with you Ex, the existing situation is a recipe for disaster, in fact it is anarchy
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    #336

    Jan 16, 2013, 03:25 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by excon View Post
    Hello again,

    May I just say, that the right wing doesn't catch the prevailing winds TODAY any more than they did in 2012.

    There WILL be gun control. There SHOULD be gun control. We're GONNA take the word MASS out of mass shootings, whether YOU like it or not.

    exon
    Nice to see libs still don't give a sh*t about our concerns, just ram some more crap through. One of these days they'll go to far for even you.
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    #337

    Jan 16, 2013, 03:32 PM
    In response to Obama's latest imperial decree (surrounded by children naturally), I give you Marco Rubio:

    “I think it’s completely misplaced. Because here’s the issue in this public policy debate that’s different from others: There is a constitutional right to bear arms,” Rubio said. “I did not create that and he cannot erase that. It is in the Constitution. If they want to change the Constitution, if they want to believe the Second Amendment should not be in there or if they believe it should be rewritten in the 21st century then let them have the guts to stand up and propose that.”
    Waiting for Dems to give an honest response...
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    #338

    Jan 16, 2013, 03:41 PM
    No one is taking away anyone's guns.

    Who were the children?
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    #339

    Jan 16, 2013, 04:00 PM
    If everyone had single shot muskets I don't think there would be an issue.
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    #340

    Jan 16, 2013, 04:01 PM
    Good point karma but you cannot reverse history

    No one is taking away anyone's guns.
    Not yet, but this debate is bizzaire, you are exporting your debate to other places, Mexico watches, hoping there will be greater control in the US, Australia has reinitiated the gun control debate in a nation where gun related deaths are low because there are increasing imports of guns. What is really needed is the business as usual for the arms manufacturers needs to be curbed. It is good pension funds are withdrawing financial support from investment in arms manufacture, if you hurt them in the hip pocket, sanity might return

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