re: The Armed Citizen: A week in review

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What's your point, people break the law? That's why law abiding citizens need guns you regressive douche.

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If you need to carry a gun to make you feel more secure more power to you. I have a houseful of guns but I have never carried one because I was uncomfortable and thought I may be victimized. I have never known anyone who has been victimized except for a friend whose daughter is a meth head and she was held hostage in their home by a boyfriend who wanted a car and some money. Violent crime is just not a problem in most peoples lives......

That is going to change going forward. As more and more people are convinced by the NRA and manufacturers that they are in imminent danger of being a victim and start carrying guns they are going to find a reason to use them....road rage, someone being rude......and as these kinds of acts by idiots who have no business owning a gun because they are irresponsible increase it is going to be harder and harder to defend until someday gun advocates worst fears are going to come true and having a gun is going to be much more complicated.


Take a look at how most people drive and how they raise their kids. Is giving those idiots easier access to guns really going to make anyone safer?

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LA House Rep Steve Scalise Shot in Alexandria, VA

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You forgot to add magic pixie dust saved more from being shot

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Here's one they missed...

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here are some others they missed, since there were actually 8 mass shootings last week, not just the one on Scalise.

weird that "The Armed Citizen" wouldn't mention these. its almost as if theyre nothing but insultingly obvious propaganda that only gullible idiots would fall for.

June 11th

Houston, Texas: Three teenagers and one child were wounded after an argument outside of an apartment complex. One 16-year-old teenager was shot in the head. One 13-year-old teenager was shot in the thigh, the other was shot in the upper back. The 12-year-old child was shot in the hand. No arrests have been made.

Chattanooga, Tennessee: Four adults—Dereck Strickland, Devin Brown, Otis Franklin, and William Wright—were wounded after a drive-by outside the Playhouse Lounge, a local club.

Chicago, Illinois: Seven adults in their 20s and 30s and two teenagers were wounded in a drive-by shooting in Lawndale neighborhood.

June 13th

Baltimore, Maryland: Two people were killed and two other people were wounded in an early morning shooting. Police commissioner Kevin Davis announced that afternoon that officers and detectives would have to work 12-hour shifts instead of 10-hour shifts because of Baltimore’s ongoing gun violence problem.

Almost an hour after his announcement, four more people were wounded in northwest Baltimore.

June 14th

San Francisco, California: Four employees were killed—the beloved “Big” Mike Lefiti, Benson Louie, Wayne Chan, and Jimmy Lam (the shooter)—and two employees were wounded after a shooting at a UPS facility. The shooter had previously filed three grievances about working too many hours and appeared to have picked his victims deliberately.

June 15th

Richmond, Virginia: A 17-year-old was killed after a fight in the street. Four other people were wounded and taken to a medical center. Their injuries are not life-threatening.

June 16th

Espanola, New Mexico: Five people were killed in a domestic dispute and carjacking. Three of those people—Maria Rosita Gallegos, 49, Max Trujillo Sr., 55, and Brendan Herrera, 20—were family members of the shooter, Damian Herrera, 21. After killing his mother, father, and brother, Herrera stole cars from Michael Kyte, 61, and Manuel Serrano, 59, before shooting and killing them too.

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a good guy with a gun was killed by another good guy with a gun, and there are no consequences for the murderer.

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Where did this happen?

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The NRA has to say that because they are in the bidness of selling guns.....

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No, dumbass. The NRA is in the business of preserving and defending our First Amendment right to defend ourselves, and our loved ones. A God-given right that is constantly under attack by Democrat politicians, bureaucracy, and their idiot sycophants, like yourself.

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at note... taking a TD break for awhile on Father's Day. This two-bit e-tabloid insultfest and race-baiting on this website has gotten out of hand.

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This place really has taken a nose dive and rarely is anything of any policy substance discussed.

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No, dumbass. The NRA is in the business of preserving and defending our First Amendment right to defend ourselves, and our loved ones. A God-given right that is constantly under attack by Democrat politicians, bureaucracy, and their idiot sycophants, like yourself.

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In the 1920s, the National Revolver Association, the arm of the NRA responsible for handgun training, proposed regulations later adopted by nine states, requiring a permit to carry a concealed weapon, five years additional prison time if the gun was used in a crime, a ban on gun sales to non-citizens, a one day waiting period between the purchase and receipt of a gun, and that records of gun sales be made available to police.

The 1930s crime spree of the Prohibition era, which still summons images of outlaws outfitted with machine guns, prompted President Franklin Roosevelt to make gun control a feature of the New Deal. The NRA assisted Roosevelt in drafting the 1934 National Firearms Act and the 1938 Gun Control Act, the first federal gun control laws. These laws placed heavy taxes and regulation requirements on firearms that were associated with crime, such as machine guns, sawed-off shotguns and silencers. Gun sellers and owners were required to register with the federal government and felons were banned from owning weapons. Not only was the legislation unanimously upheld by the Supreme Court in 1939, but Karl T. Frederick, the president of the NRA, testified before Congress stating, “I have never believed in the general practice of carrying weapons. I do not believe in the general promiscuous toting of guns. I think it should be sharply restricted and only under licenses.”

For the next 30 years, the NRA continued to support gun control. By the late 1960s a shift in the NRA platform was on the horizon.

On Nov. 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald. He shot the president with an Italian military surplus rifle purchased from a NRA mail-order advertisement. NRA Executive Vice-President Franklin Orth agreed at a congressional hearing that mail-order sales should be banned stating, “We do think that any sane American, who calls himself an American, can object to placing into this bill the instrument which killed the president of the United States.” The NRA also supported California’s Mulford Act of 1967, which had banned carrying loaded weapons in public in response to the Black Panther Party’s impromptu march on the State Capitol to protest gun control legislation on May 2, 1967.

The summer riots of 1967 and assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy in 1968 prompted Congress to reenact a version of the FDR-era gun control laws as the Gun Control Act of 1968. The act updated the law to include minimum age and serial number requirements, and extended the gun ban to include the mentally ill and drug addicts. In addition, it restricted the shipping of guns across state lines to collectors and federally licensed dealers and certain types of bullets could only be purchased with a show of ID. The NRA, however, blocked the most stringent part of the legislation, which mandated a national registry of all guns and a license for all gun carriers. In an interview in American Rifleman, Franklin Orth stated that despite portions of the law appearing “unduly restrictive, the measure as a whole appears to be one that the sportsmen of America can live with.”

Your point is? Yes they have been a part of some legislation that I wouldn't support, just as every politician, and advocacy group I've ever been aware of has.

They have also used their power and support to protect and defend our Constitutional right to keep and bear arms. Thousands of times in fact, with most of the attacks in my lifetime coming from democrat douchebags who advocate an ever larger and more powerful federal government.

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No, dumbass. The NRA is in the business of preserving and defending our First Amendment right to defend ourselves, and our loved ones.

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The NRA is in the BUSINESS of making money. You think they do any of the things that they do, other than to make arse tons of money? I wouldn't be so quick to call others names.