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Obama: I’m Betting The Majority Of Gun Owners Don’t Want Weapons Of War On Our Streets
“There is no rational reason why a person can walk into a store, fill their shopping cart with hundreds of rounds of ammo, pay up, and walk out without so much as giving their name,” Blumenthal said on a conference call with reporters.
A lion that had grown too old and weak to hunt pretended to be sick as a ruse to make the other animals come and pay their respects. When they did so, he ate them one by one. The fox also came to see him but greeted him from outside the cave. When the lion asked the fox why he didn’t come in, he replied, ‘Because I can only see the tracks going in, but none coming out.’
Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
I think the President is being lied to or is blind. Obviously he can't be reading his own FBI's sale background check numbers showing radical jumps in demand for weapons nation wide. Further, he must be oblivious to the fact that, right now, there are plain jane AR-15's selling for thousands of dollars (I just saw a CMMG AR-15 for $4,000) on the national auction sites...with bids, no less.
I mean, an intelligent man wouldn't make such a statement so contradictory to fact if he were aware of all those facts.. right?
Obama: I’m Betting The Majority Of Gun Owners Don’t Want Weapons Of War On Our Streets
Rudolph Joseph Rummel (born October 21, 1932, Cleveland, Ohio) is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Hawaii. He has spent his career assembling data on collective violence and war.
Rummel is the creator of the term democide: "the murder of any person or people by a government, including genocide, politicide, and mass murder". His research shows that the death toll from democide is far greater than the death toll from war. After studying over 8,000 reports of government-caused deaths, Rummel estimates that there have been 262 million victims of democide in the last century. According to his figures, six times as many people have died from the inflictions of people working for governments than have died in war.
Just to give perspective on this incredible murder by government, if all these bodies were laid head to toe, with the average height being 5', then they would circle the earth ten times. Given popular estimates of the dead in a major nuclear war, this total democide is as though such a war did occur, but with its dead spread over a century.
since when do 'puppets' consult 'news' of any kind ?
I mean, an intelligent man wouldn't make such a statement so contradictory to fact if he were aware of all those facts.. right?
Originally posted by Logarock
Obama: I’m Betting The Majority Of Gun Owners Don’t Want Weapons Of War On Our Streets
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Fact is, its not a majority question. Its a constitutional right not subject to the majority.
The first method is for a bill to pass both houses of the legislature, by a two-thirds majority in each. Once the bill has passed both houses, it goes on to the states. This is the route taken by all current amendments. Because of some long outstanding amendments, such as the 27th, Congress will normally put a time limit (typically seven years) for the bill to be approved as an amendment (for example, see the 21st and 22nd).
The second method prescribed is for a Constitutional Convention to be called by two-thirds of the legislatures of the States, and for that Convention to propose one or more amendments. These amendments are then sent to the states to be approved by three-fourths of the legislatures or conventions. This route has never been taken, and there is discussion in political science circles about just how such a convention would be convened, and what kind of changes it would bring about.
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Regardless of which of the two proposal routes is taken, the amendment must be ratified, or approved, by three-fourths of states. There are two ways to do this, too. The text of the amendment may specify whether the bill must be passed by the state legislatures or by a state convention. See the Ratification Convention Page for a discussion of the make up of a convention. Amendments are sent to the legislatures of the states by default. Only one amendment, the 21st, specified a convention. In any case, passage by the legislature or convention is by simple majority.
Originally posted by Sovaka
reply to post by Wrabbit2000
Thank you for correcting me.
But it still comes down to a Majority... It doesn't come to the people at all.
All the people can do is REACT when it happens... When it happens, what are they supposed to do? Fire them for not listening to them?
Originally posted by Sovaka
reply to post by Wrabbit2000
It does seem like it would be pushing water up hill, but it is still a possible scenario... however unlikely.
I guess that is why they are trying to get the U.N. to enforce it?
Originally posted by Sovaka
reply to post by Wrabbit2000
Thank you for correcting me.
But it still comes down to a Majority... It doesn't come to the people at all.
All the people can do is REACT when it happens... When it happens, what are they supposed to do? Fire them for not listening to them?
Originally posted by Bob Sholtz
Originally posted by Sovaka
reply to post by Wrabbit2000
Thank you for correcting me.
But it still comes down to a Majority... It doesn't come to the people at all.
All the people can do is REACT when it happens... When it happens, what are they supposed to do? Fire them for not listening to them?
yes. very literally.
"a democratic republic is two wolves and a sheep deciding what's for dinner, but the sheep has a gun"
since they are already doing more than their authority permits, what more does he want ??
philadelphia.cbslocal.com...
“I think we have to have a conversation about it,” he said on CBS This Morning. “But if all we talk about is just controlling guns, which we should talk about, we’re not doing enough.”