Gun control and how the US stacks up

[WarMachine]

Originally Posted by molonlabe

Looks like the peeps of IL have some trash in their back yard. Time for a little cleaning huh?

Way past time for them to clean it up, they hung themselves.

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[Meister37]

Originally Posted by molonlabe

Looks like the peeps of IL have some trash in their back yard. Time for a little cleaning huh?

People threw the trash in the white house.

[HawkZ71]

Originally Posted by michaeltwo

ah dunkirk thats the same one you got your as kicked in 45 in fact it was the czechs that won dunkirk in the end

Ah, I see you have no depth of knowledge in the history of WWII, as I suspected. Dunkirk was the complete withdrawl of any foothold the British had on mainland Europe...which would not be established ugain until 4 years later when the US led the Normandy invasion.

In May 1940, during the Battle of France, the British Expeditionary Force in France aiding the French, was cut off from the rest of the French Army by the German advance. Encircled by the Germans they retreated to the area around the port of Dunkirk. The German land forces could have easily destroyed the British Expeditionary Force, especially when many of the British troops, in their haste to withdraw, had left behind their heavy equipment. For years, it was assumed that Adolf Hitler ordered the German Army to stop the attack, favouring bombardment by the Luftwaffe. However, according to the Official War Diary of Army Group A, its commander, Generaloberst Gerd von Rundstedt, ordered the halt. Hitler merely validated the order several hours after the fact. This lull in the action gave the British a few days to evacuate by sea. Winston Churchill ordered any ship or boat available, large or small, to pick up the stranded soldiers, and 338,226 men (including 123,000 French soldiers) were evacuated – the miracle of Dunkirk, as Churchill called it. It took over 900 vessels to evacuate the Allied forces. More than 40,000 vehicles as well as massive amounts of other military equipment and supplies were left behind; their value being less than that of trained fighting men. The British evacuation of Dunkirk through the English Channel was codenamed Operation Dynamo. Forty thousand Allied soldiers (some who carried on fighting after the official evacuation) were captured or forced to make their own way home through a variety of routes including via neutral Spain.

Appears as though history proves British know how to turn and run.

[ALTON05R1]

Heres an interesting article on a Marine that sent a letter to his congresswoman, stating he would not register his AR-15 if they passed the assault rifle ban.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Governm...r-Gun-Grabbing

[GPD270]

The next week or so will be interesting. Im curious if the ban will have enough votes or not.

What do you guys think?

[Creeping Death]

I sure as hell hope not... I'm not prepared.

[InkedR1Pilot]

Originally Posted by GPD270

The next week or so will be interesting. Im curious if the ban will have enough votes or not.

What do you guys think?

i didnt think barry had enough votes either...

[TheForumGay]

I don't think so

[GPD270]

I can see some type of deal being made. Not sure what kind and that is the scary part.

[Sleev-les]

I think they are going to go after magazine capacity and online ammo purchases. Its all horseshit nonetheless. I don't see a ban happening with Frankensteins proposal. The money that would cost an already debt filled country won't fly to execute her plan.

[GPD270]

Originally Posted by Sleev-les

I think they are going to go after magazine capacity and online ammo purchases. Its all horseshit nonetheless. I don't see a ban happening with Frankensteins proposal. The money that would cost an already debt filled country won't fly to execute her plan.

Yeah I think they will go after the mags...I know they want the whole thing so they will start chipping away at it.

[fjorn]

Nothing but a feel good policy is all

[rexmitchell]

Interesting, now they think they need armed guards at the newspaper offices

http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/02/us/new...html?hpt=hp_t4

New York (CNN) -- The newspaper that published an online, interactive map of handgun permit holders in two suburban New York counties hired armed guards to protect its office after negative backlash from the map publication, according to a local police report.

The January 1 report from the Clarkstown police department in Rockland County confirms the presence of armed private security guards at the Journal News. The incident report stemmed from e-mail responses to the newspaper's online map.

The police statement says Caryn McBride, the paper's Rockland editor, reported "that she received an e-mail from an unknown subject who wrote that he wondered what (she) would get in her mail now."

"The e-mail was brief and did not contain any threats," the police report continues, adding that the officer who wrote it told McBride "the e-mail did not constitute an offense."

The report adds that a private company "is doing private security work on location at the Journal News ... (the company's) employees are armed and will be on site ... through at least January 2, 2013."
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The Journal News did not immediately respond Wednesday when asked by CNN for comment.

The armed guards' presence at Journal News comes after gun-owning blogger Christopher Fountains posted the home addresses of newspaper staffers on his blog in response to the map, which was published online on December 22.

Fountains spoke to CNN's "Starting Point with Soledad O'Brien" last week to explain his reasoning behind the posting. "I felt they were using this (the interactive map showing gun permit-holders' addresses) to harass gun owners," Fountain said. "So I harassed them back."

Fountain posted the name, home address and phone numbers of the Journal News' publisher, editor, visual editor and several other staff members. Fountain told CNN's "Early Start" that he was offended by the newspaper's actions and "wondered how they would like it if their addresses were published."

The map, published by the Journal News, allows readers to zoom in on red dots that indicate which residents in Westchester and Rockland counties are licensed to own pistols or revolvers. Blue dots indicated permit holders who "have purchased a firearm or updated the information on a permit in the past five years."

The paper's publisher, Janet Hasson, president of the Journal News Media Group, defended the decision December 26 in a statement.

"One of our roles is to report publicly available information on timely issues, even when unpopular. We knew publication of the database (as well as the accompanying article providing context) would be controversial, but we felt sharing information about gun permits in our area was important in the aftermath of the Newtown shootings," she said, referring to the school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, in December.

[Sleev-les]

Originally Posted by rexmitchell

Interesting, now they think they need armed guards at the newspaper offices

http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/02/us/new...html?hpt=hp_t4

Funny how that works, isn't it? They say "gun control" and when they do something stupid, which is all the time, they hire "guns" to protect themselves. Hypocrites at their finest.

[z064life]

I'd assume the paper is a gun-free zone. Not sure what they have to worry about

[WarMachine]

Any of you guys heard of this act?

http://www.standupfightback.us/?p=26....K1jTfytp.dpbs

[Meister37]

Originally Posted by WarMachine

Any of you guys heard of this act?

http://www.standupfightback.us/?p=26....K1jTfytp.dpbs

They can pass a law super ceding anything.

[Creeping Death]

Originally Posted by Meister37

They can pass a law super ceding anything.

Only because the lemmings let them...

edit: Changed sheeple to lemmings as given the current direction of this country, 'lemmings' is more appropriate.

[BeaverPuncher]

What time does that ugly cvnt introduce the bill today?

[WarMachine]

They don't convene until 12pm EST