1) At Western Center for Journalism, blog titled 'Biden: No Ordinary American Cares About Their Constitutional Rights' - Daniel Noe - Feb. 23
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Americans should take this seriously. If the VP is declaring that most Americans don’t care about their Constitutional Rights, then the Government is trying to remove the Constitution.
kibitzer2 says:
For the record, listen a little more closely to what he said, as to what he meant, simply poorly put. He was saying that ‘most Americans don’t think this particular gun issue is about their constitutional rights. They can still have their guns, for recreation and such; all we’re talking about is getting rid of these horrible AR-15s and multiple magazines’. So the man simply doesn’t understand the purpose of the 2nd Amendment . Or is playing stupid. Or is.
Once again, Joe is wrong! We do care about our rights. We don’t want to have our rights infringed on in any way! DHS purchased several thousand AR style weapons for “personal defense” then we as CITIZENS should have the right to own them for our PERSONAL DEFENSE too!
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The last commenter above has it by its essence.
What Biden actually said was that under the gun-control laws currently being considered, 'ordinary Americans' can still have their guns "for self-protection, and recreation". He just doesn't think that they need to have the same sort of firepower as the federal government has.
A rather weak, and self-serving answer, from the Veep.
And P.S. He also doesn't understand that the AR-15 is more about image than reality. Many other rifles/shotguns have greater impact than the AR-15 has. (It was made to look fearsome, for commercial purposes.)
So they'll probably trot that fact out at the appropriate time, and say, 'We didn't realize that' (so-and-so about its comparison) 'and so we now have to outlaw all weapons of greater firepower than the AR-15.' And then they will try to confiscate all such weapons that are already out there, because it just doesn't make sense to have all those terribly dangerous weapons out there, now that we've outlawed them, does it…
And thus, step by gently gently step, does the sheep-clothed wolf come closer to the herd...
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2) At Patriot Update, blog titled 'Is the Obama Administration Committing Sedition Or Treason?' - Sean Aland - Dec. 24:
Stan StanfieldLess than a minute ago [Dec. 24]
I hope the kinds of citizens who follow the likes of 'patriot updates' realize that both sides of the current political aisle are involved in these sorts of actions. In an otherwise solid recitation of facts and charges, Sean referred to "al-Qaida's goal on [the original] 9-11". (It's clear that he was referring to the original 9-11 in this instance because he said its goal was to "undermine our economy".) Any halfway decent investigation of that atrocity will find that it was a false flag op, inside job, call it what you will: a deliberate act of mayhem designed to be "another Pearl Harbor" and instigate the U.S.'s involvement in a 'War on Terror' and subsequent weakening of our civil rights via the Patriot Act and step-by-step such incursions therefrom. There is a New World Order planned from both the Left AND the Right. The goal is the same: totalitarianism. And it is the same nest of vipers at the top of the pyramid of power. (You didn't REALLY think that the buck stopped at George Soros, did you???)
Patriots really need to get their act together, and declare a pox on both these houses. It's time for Change, all right. REAL Change. Change succeeding generations will thank us for. For standing up for Truth. Not Power.
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As to this matter of "succeeding generations", a good quote from one of these sites:
"Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven, that I ever took half the pains to preserve it."
That was John Adams (our second president) speaking. I think he meant the word to 'secure' it.
But then, why quibble over the essence of such sentiments.
Let's give credit where credit is due...
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