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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ManyMoose who wrote (151106)	1/7/2013 6:47:43 AM
From: TideGlider	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224769

I can't see that ever happening with 2/3 vote in both houses necessary.

To: ManyMoose who wrote (151106)	1/7/2013 7:51:37 AM
From: lorne	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224769

Buchanan: "There Would Be A Revolution" If Government Confiscated Weapons Related Videos \| expand realclearpolitics.com PAT BUCHANAN: There are three million ArmaLite rifles -- those Bushmaster types -- out there right now, and people are buying them like hotcakes. Every gun show, the sales are up enormously. Forty-one percent, they were up in December -- for last December -- which was a record year. John, what is common though, Eleanor [Clift] is correct, the push is going to come on three things: grandfather in the assault weapons that are here now; to try to outlaw assault weapons, outlaw magazines that carry more than 11 or 12 bullets; and also background checks at gun shows. JOHN MCLAUGHLIN: With no Second Amendment, Congress could pass a law, as limited as this: banning assault rifles or as sweeping as prohibiting all private firearm ownership and requiring the surrender of all privately held firearms. BUCHANAN: There would be a revolution in this country! MCLAUGHLIN: Baloney! That doesn't mean you can't own one, but you have to put it in first and then go try -- BUCHANAN: There are 270 million guns in this country right now, John, and they're adding to them at a rate of 16 million a year. (The McLaughlin Group, weekend of January 5, 2013)