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		<title>By: bobby b</title>
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		<dc:creator>bobby b</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 00:21:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Possibilities include . . .  modernization of gun-tracking efforts by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives . . .&quot;

The agents who are walking the fifty-cals south through Neuvo Laredo will now have credit card swipers that plug into their Androids. 

No more paper trails.</description>
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<p>The agents who are walking the fifty-cals south through Neuvo Laredo will now have credit card swipers that plug into their Androids. </p>
<p>No more paper trails.</p>
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		<title>By: VSSC</title>
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		<dc:creator>VSSC</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2013 18:43:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Why do you put your faith in governmental machinations?  Such as impeachment, SCOTUS...

and &quot;Civil&quot; disobedience?  While armed?  When armed you either obey utterly or *you do not*. 

I can understand laughing and saying you&#039;ll ignore it.  However the Progs are feeling extra earnest right now and just you try ignoring them!!

Now mind you in the past their earnestness - in particular on this issue - disappears rapidly when it gets &quot;too hard.&quot;  When anything gets &quot;too hard&quot; [at all hard for them]...pffft gone.  In all matters.  Hard is for Mexicans, Asians, Rednecks if your must...that sort. 

However..

However this sort of thing requires such a nice and delicate sort of subtly knowing when you are to proceed with who and whom...that I shouldn&#039;t have made it part of &quot;Cue Ballz&quot; Biden&#039;s ever growing brief [He has the Iraq brief as well you know].  Subtle just ain&#039;t his fcking deal ya know. 

Oh Dear.  I fear the cast of Glee is about to fire on the steadfast Maj Lee, with no idea what end of the cannon the business comes out.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why do you put your faith in governmental machinations?  Such as impeachment, SCOTUS&#8230;</p>
<p>and &#8220;Civil&#8221; disobedience?  While armed?  When armed you either obey utterly or *you do not*. </p>
<p>I can understand laughing and saying you&#8217;ll ignore it.  However the Progs are feeling extra earnest right now and just you try ignoring them!!</p>
<p>Now mind you in the past their earnestness &#8211; in particular on this issue &#8211; disappears rapidly when it gets &#8220;too hard.&#8221;  When anything gets &#8220;too hard&#8221; [at all hard for them]&#8230;pffft gone.  In all matters.  Hard is for Mexicans, Asians, Rednecks if your must&#8230;that sort. </p>
<p>However..</p>
<p>However this sort of thing requires such a nice and delicate sort of subtly knowing when you are to proceed with who and whom&#8230;that I shouldn&#8217;t have made it part of &#8220;Cue Ballz&#8221; Biden&#8217;s ever growing brief [He has the Iraq brief as well you know].  Subtle just ain&#8217;t his fcking deal ya know. </p>
<p>Oh Dear.  I fear the cast of Glee is about to fire on the steadfast Maj Lee, with no idea what end of the cannon the business comes out.</p>
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		<title>By: Lightwave</title>
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		<dc:creator>Lightwave</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2013 15:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>A constitutional crisis would lead to impeachment, surely.

Especially given that Obamee is the most singularly arrogant, imperial President in history.</description>
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<p>Especially given that Obamee is the most singularly arrogant, imperial President in history.</p>
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		<title>By: Robin Goodfellow</title>
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		<dc:creator>Robin Goodfellow</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2013 14:24:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Military style handguns...

I guess that rules out the 1911, of course. And the Beretta 92 and its relatives. And all Glocks, since the original was designed for the Austrian military and the entire line is based on that design. And most Sig-Sauer pistols as well, since the modern lineup is based on the P220, developed for the Swiss army. Walther pistols are right out, as are the S&amp;W M&amp;P line of course. And the Springfield XD line is bad news because it&#039;s been adopted by the Croatian military. H&amp;K guns, obviously out of bounds too. Well, we could go on, might as well just eliminate any pistol with double-action and the ability to accept a magazine larger than 10 rounds. Which eliminates pretty much every pistol in existence.

Well, at least we get to keep revolvers right? Well, revolvers have long been used by the military, and the original colt single action (which all modern revolves trace their heritage to) was designed for the US Army, so we might as well eliminate all those as well.

So any handgun that is not a magazine fed pistol or a revolver you can keep, everything else should be banned, because of its military style. Oh wait, also gyrojets, since those were developed for the military as well. Probably best to eliminate Derringers too, since they&#039;ve been used to assassinate presidents before.</description>
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<p>I guess that rules out the 1911, of course. And the Beretta 92 and its relatives. And all Glocks, since the original was designed for the Austrian military and the entire line is based on that design. And most Sig-Sauer pistols as well, since the modern lineup is based on the P220, developed for the Swiss army. Walther pistols are right out, as are the S&amp;W M&amp;P line of course. And the Springfield XD line is bad news because it&#8217;s been adopted by the Croatian military. H&amp;K guns, obviously out of bounds too. Well, we could go on, might as well just eliminate any pistol with double-action and the ability to accept a magazine larger than 10 rounds. Which eliminates pretty much every pistol in existence.</p>
<p>Well, at least we get to keep revolvers right? Well, revolvers have long been used by the military, and the original colt single action (which all modern revolves trace their heritage to) was designed for the US Army, so we might as well eliminate all those as well.</p>
<p>So any handgun that is not a magazine fed pistol or a revolver you can keep, everything else should be banned, because of its military style. Oh wait, also gyrojets, since those were developed for the military as well. Probably best to eliminate Derringers too, since they&#8217;ve been used to assassinate presidents before.</p>
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		<title>By: Dan from Madison</title>
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		<dc:creator>Dan from Madison</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2013 13:13:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I am not sure that sweeping gun control legislation is the hill that the zero wants to die on.  Too many congresscritters from his own party that are from big gun owning states that would lose their jobs next election and if nothing else politicians want to get re-elected.  Preferably not explaining to their gun owning constituents why they had to vote certain ways.

But if they do ram stuff through I agree with you - there will be massive disobedience including a huge black market for guns and ammo until the SCOTUS knocks the laws down.  Prohibition, anyone?

In this fairy and unicorn world of gun &quot;control&quot; nobody has mentioned farmers.  Now that I have lived on a farm for a while I understand that guns are absolutely an essential tool just like farm equipment or a barn.  From the conversations I have had with neighbor farmers I guarantee you that exactly zero will be registering or turning in anything.  Warm fuzzy city dwellers love their farmers markets.  They need to understand that those goods don&#039;t get there by accident and that the ag community is laughing at their gun control tantrums.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am not sure that sweeping gun control legislation is the hill that the zero wants to die on.  Too many congresscritters from his own party that are from big gun owning states that would lose their jobs next election and if nothing else politicians want to get re-elected.  Preferably not explaining to their gun owning constituents why they had to vote certain ways.</p>
<p>But if they do ram stuff through I agree with you &#8211; there will be massive disobedience including a huge black market for guns and ammo until the SCOTUS knocks the laws down.  Prohibition, anyone?</p>
<p>In this fairy and unicorn world of gun &#8220;control&#8221; nobody has mentioned farmers.  Now that I have lived on a farm for a while I understand that guns are absolutely an essential tool just like farm equipment or a barn.  From the conversations I have had with neighbor farmers I guarantee you that exactly zero will be registering or turning in anything.  Warm fuzzy city dwellers love their farmers markets.  They need to understand that those goods don&#8217;t get there by accident and that the ag community is laughing at their gun control tantrums.</p>
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		<title>By: Fred Beloit</title>
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		<dc:creator>Fred Beloit</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2013 12:58:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Once again the Left distorts the English language. &quot;Gun control?&quot; No. It is gun rights infringement, an illegal activity [see the U.S. Constitution].</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Once again the Left distorts the English language. &#8220;Gun control?&#8221; No. It is gun rights infringement, an illegal activity [see the U.S. Constitution].</p>
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		<title>By: PenGun</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2013 07:02:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I always liked 

&quot;Of all the Causes which conspire to blind
Man&#039;s erring Judgment, and misguide the Mind,
What the weak Head with strongest Byass rules,
Is Pride, the never-failing Vice of Fools.&quot; 

 From somewhere near the middle of Alexander Pope&#039;s An Essay on Criticism in 1711 or so claims the all knowing Google.</description>
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<p>&#8220;Of all the Causes which conspire to blind<br />
Man&#8217;s erring Judgment, and misguide the Mind,<br />
What the weak Head with strongest Byass rules,<br />
Is Pride, the never-failing Vice of Fools.&#8221; </p>
<p> From somewhere near the middle of Alexander Pope&#8217;s An Essay on Criticism in 1711 or so claims the all knowing Google.</p>
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		<title>By: david ronfeldt</title>
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		<dc:creator>david ronfeldt</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2013 06:42:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>yes, that’s a good definition of the ancient greek dynamic whereby hubris (the human pretension to be godlike) attracts vengeance from nemesis (the goddess of divine retribution).  what I’d like to add is that some leaders who have hubris also try to play nemesis against someone else they accuse of hubris.  they try to play both roles.  this results in an extraordinary, energizing, and often charismatic &quot;hubris-nemesis complex.&quot;  if reading about it should ever interest you, a full-text free download is at 

      http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR461/

obama is not afflicted with this complex, but a variety of other leaders and pundits are, on both the left and the right.  recent examples abroad, to name a few, include castro, chavez, bin laden, ahmadinejad, and acc to a write-up I saw the other day, assad.  important to spot in advance; very difficult to deal with in practice.  captain ahab is a literary archetype.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>yes, that’s a good definition of the ancient greek dynamic whereby hubris (the human pretension to be godlike) attracts vengeance from nemesis (the goddess of divine retribution).  what I’d like to add is that some leaders who have hubris also try to play nemesis against someone else they accuse of hubris.  they try to play both roles.  this results in an extraordinary, energizing, and often charismatic &#8220;hubris-nemesis complex.&#8221;  if reading about it should ever interest you, a full-text free download is at </p>
<p>      <a href="http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR461/" rel="nofollow">http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR461/</a></p>
<p>obama is not afflicted with this complex, but a variety of other leaders and pundits are, on both the left and the right.  recent examples abroad, to name a few, include castro, chavez, bin laden, ahmadinejad, and acc to a write-up I saw the other day, assad.  important to spot in advance; very difficult to deal with in practice.  captain ahab is a literary archetype.</p>
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		<title>By: Michael Kennedy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Michael Kennedy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2013 05:42:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I doubt it will come to impeachment. The Clinton case has discredited impeachment but I do think it will result in massive civil disobedience or the passage of repeal and a constitutional crisis.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I doubt it will come to impeachment. The Clinton case has discredited impeachment but I do think it will result in massive civil disobedience or the passage of repeal and a constitutional crisis.</p>
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		<title>By: Lightwave</title>
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		<dc:creator>Lightwave</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2013 05:32:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You are exactly correct, Michael.  In fact, I cannot imagine a quicker path to impeachment for Obamee than &quot;unconstitutional gun control by executive fiat&quot;.  No better example of hubris than what is about to come. 

There would be no clearer example of the impeachable &quot;high crimes and misdemeanors&quot; mentioned in Section IV, Article 2 of the Constitution than an executive order that willfully violates the Bill of Rights and the Oath of Office of the President. 

Not only would such an impeachment pass the House, it would undoubtedly find that 2/3rds majority in the Senate for removal.  The public outcry would assure that.  The oafish Biden would face the same charges as his commission will recommend these unconstitutional actions to Obamee that will be attempted to be implemented.

That would lead to President John Boehner and Vice President Patrick Leahy, but that would be preferable, all things considered.  I think America would live with that.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You are exactly correct, Michael.  In fact, I cannot imagine a quicker path to impeachment for Obamee than &#8220;unconstitutional gun control by executive fiat&#8221;.  No better example of hubris than what is about to come. </p>
<p>There would be no clearer example of the impeachable &#8220;high crimes and misdemeanors&#8221; mentioned in Section IV, Article 2 of the Constitution than an executive order that willfully violates the Bill of Rights and the Oath of Office of the President. </p>
<p>Not only would such an impeachment pass the House, it would undoubtedly find that 2/3rds majority in the Senate for removal.  The public outcry would assure that.  The oafish Biden would face the same charges as his commission will recommend these unconstitutional actions to Obamee that will be attempted to be implemented.</p>
<p>That would lead to President John Boehner and Vice President Patrick Leahy, but that would be preferable, all things considered.  I think America would live with that.</p>
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		<title>By: VSSC</title>
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		<dc:creator>VSSC</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2013 04:15:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well they will again march into a country strange to them and not be welcomed with flowers. 

Like the South before the war they shall have every outrage at the beginning and end with nothing.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well they will again march into a country strange to them and not be welcomed with flowers. </p>
<p>Like the South before the war they shall have every outrage at the beginning and end with nothing.</p>
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		<title>By: Jonathan</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jonathan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2013 02:13:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What do you mean, hubris? He commands the tides, he can certainly get a broadly overreaching new law passed in just a few weeks&#039; time.

Time to get that 1911. Every American should have one.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What do you mean, hubris? He commands the tides, he can certainly get a broadly overreaching new law passed in just a few weeks&#8217; time.</p>
<p>Time to get that 1911. Every American should have one.</p>
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