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I wasn't able to buy guns or ammo for months because people were hysterically panic buying - convinced due to threads they read on sites like this that the government was going to take their guns or make it hard for them to get more. Even today most of the ammo is way overpriced because shop owners know they can profit from the fear, and people keep buying it.
Originally posted by thelongjourney
By the way, I am a political scientist by trade. Studying legislation is what I do for a living. Guess what? Everyone who actually works in policy knew this would go no where, for a variety of reasons. The vote was never going to go through, its purpose was to create political symbolism. Everyone knew it, except apparently the people on ATS trying to fear monger everyone that the government was going to take their guns. There is whats called a "POLICY WINDOW" to get through changes in public policy (see: John Kingdon, et. al.) and there is not enough room for gun reform AND immigration reform. Everyone knew this. Gun reform was always symbolic.
Originally posted by FreedomEntered
reply to post by Danbones
But using and thats what it is USING, Sandy Hook killings to be anti Obama gun pushing is just silly, if you dont like guns why not just be active and say you want to keep them. Instead of blaming some teenager boy and his killing of youngsters. I mean ultimately this teenager boy has done a terrible thing.
Originally posted by queenofswords
Originally posted by FreedomEntered
reply to post by Danbones
But using and thats what it is USING, Sandy Hook killings to be anti Obama gun pushing is just silly, if you dont like guns why not just be active and say you want to keep them. Instead of blaming some teenager boy and his killing of youngsters. I mean ultimately this teenager boy has done a terrible thing.
Did that teenager kill all those youngsters all by himself? Or, was he and his mother USED? You see, there are still a lot of folks that aren't sure. The two people that could say definitively are dead.
It does get tiresome at times constantly defending our 2A and making sure the PTB are not successful in their sinister effort to disarm the American populace. All freedom loving people should THANK us. We have nothing to apologize for.