The NRA targets Obama.
Doesn't the title imply that the NRA is taking aim at Sen Obama?
Taking aim at some one that threatens our Constitutional right to bear arms.
Sen. Obama has sponsored legislation to ban all semi-automatic weapons. If, when elected he proposed or supported the same type of legislation, both my wife and I would become criminal's owning guns.
Quotes:
"I'll give you my gun when you take it from my cold, dead hands!" Charlton Heston.
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"After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military." William S. Burroughs
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Death by Gun Control:
The Human Cost of Victim Disarmament
In the 20th Century, at least 170,000,000 people were murdered by their own governments -- more killed than by crime – more than killed by war.
Professor R.J. Rummel, author of the monumental book Death by Government, said: “Concentrated political power is the most dangerous thing on earth.” For power to concentrate and become dangerous, the citizens must be disarmed.
What disarms the citizens? The idea of “gun control.” It’s the idea that only the government has the right to possess firearms, and that citizens have no unalienable right to use force to defend against aggression.
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The people of the various provinces are strictly forbidden to have in their possession any swords, bows, spears, firearms or other types of arms. The possession of these elements makes difficult the collection of taxes and dues, and tends to permit uprising. - Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Shogun of Japan, August 29, 1558
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Factcheck And Brady Campaign Share Same Sugar Daddy, the Annenberg Foundation
FactCheck claim: "Obama is proposing no ...ban" on use of firearms for self-defense in the home.
FactCheck is wrong. Obama supported local handgun bans in the Chicago area by opposing any allowance for self-defense. Obama opposed an Illinois bill (SB 2165, 2004) that would have created an "affirmative defense" for a person who used a prohibited firearm in self-defense in his own home.
www.hawaiireporter.com/story.aspx?e945ac15-1621-4f77-83f5-b80bfb23525d(wait a minute, the Annenberg Foundation? Isn't Barry and Bill Ayers members of the board?)
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Banning guns is an idea whose time has come. Joseph Biden U.S. Senator
quoted by AP
1993-11-18
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The national guard fulfills the the militia mentioned in the Second Amendment. Citizens no longer need to protect the states or themselves. Dianne Feinstein U.S. Senator (D-CA)
Banning guns addresses a fundamental right of Americans to feel safe. Dianne Feinstein U.S. Senator (D-CA)
quoted by the Associated Press
1993-11-18
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If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an outright ban, picking up every one of them ... "Mr. and Mrs. America, turn 'em all in," I would have done it. I could not do that. The votes weren't here. Dianne Feinstein U.S. Senator (D-CA)
60 Minutes
1995-02-05
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The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed the subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing. Indeed, I would go so far as to say that the supply of arms to the underdogs is a sine qua non for the overthrow of any sovereignty." Adolf Hitler
Edict of March 18, 1938, H.R. Trevor-Roper, Hitler's Table Talks 1941-1944 (London: Widenfeld and Nicolson, 1953, p. 425-426)
1938(9?)-03-18
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Nobody should be owning a gun which does not have a sporting purpose. Janet Reno U.S. Attorney General
Waiting periods are only a step. Registration is only a step. The prohibition of private firearms is the goal. Janet Reno U.S. Attorney General
1993-12-10
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Every good Communist should know that political power grows out of the barrel of a gun, and that gun must remain firmly in the hands of the state. Mao Tse Tung
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As a general principle, I believe that the Constitution confers an individual right to bear arms. But just because you have an individual right does not mean that the state or local government can't constrain the exercise of that right, in the same way that we have a right to private property but local governments can establish zoning ordinances that determine how you can use it. Barack Obama
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"When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government." Thomas Jefferson
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"A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government." George Washington
) you are stable and I don't see any concern over you owning a gun. I've been wondering how big of a loss it would really be if Obama's plan took away the right to own a semi-automatic, like for example the rifles that TBD posted pictures of. What do you need one for anyway? I do understand your feelings, but I am not quite sold on the everyone, or even almost everyone has a right to own.