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Sen. Chuck Schumer on Sunday called for a vote on gun control within a month.

Standing with several children and their parents in Columbus Circle a day after thousands participated in the March for Our Lives rally, Schumer said he wants a vote on three measures. They include closing loopholes in federal background checks, creating a system to issue protective orders against potentially dangerous individuals and banning assault weapons.


On March 23, Trump tweeted that the U.S. Department of Justice would issue a rule banning bump stocks — a device that can turn a semi-automatic weapon into an automatic weapon.

Schumer described this proposal as a “necessary, but hardly sufficient” step.

Young constituents agreed that further gun control measures are needed.
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I want all Capitol police disarmed.
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I am sure the Republicans will fold....get ready to turn them in. Mine were all lost....Don't know how, but they are gone.
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me too dude. it sucks. broken and thrown out
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Why ban semi and full auto weapons?

The motto of the u.s sniper is " one shot one kill"

They are also trained in knife and hand to hand combat.

they going to ban everything?

Hell Ban kung fu.

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How long has Schumer been a Soviet?

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About as long as trump has been a democrat. Forever.

Beat the rush, turn in your weapons now. No need to wait and have to stand in line!
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Dims stepping on their dicks again....

They just cannot resist chasing this political unicorn, and.....losing elections.

I hope Trump steals another significant part of their voter base.
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Sen. Chuck Schumer on Sunday called for a vote on gun control within a month.

Standing with several children and their parents in Columbus Circle a day after thousands participated in the March for Our Lives rally, Schumer said he wants a vote on three measures. They include closing loopholes in federal background checks, creating a system to issue protective orders against potentially dangerous individuals and banning assault weapons.


On March 23, Trump tweeted that the U.S. Department of Justice would issue a rule banning bump stocks — a device that can turn a semi-automatic weapon into an automatic weapon.

Schumer described this proposal as a “necessary, but hardly sufficient” step.

Young constituents agreed that further gun control measures are needed.
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I want all Capitol police disarmed.
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they are experts and professionals and are qualified to possess arms.

you are an amateur and not part of a government militia.

turn em boys!

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Sen. Chuck Schumer on Sunday called for a vote on gun control within a month.

Standing with several children and their parents in Columbus Circle a day after thousands participated in the March for Our Lives rally, Schumer said he wants a vote on three measures. They include closing loopholes in federal background checks, creating a system to issue protective orders against potentially dangerous individuals and banning assault weapons.


On March 23, Trump tweeted that the U.S. Department of Justice would issue a rule banning bump stocks — a device that can turn a semi-automatic weapon into an automatic weapon.

Schumer described this proposal as a “necessary, but hardly sufficient” step.

Young constituents agreed that further gun control measures are needed.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 73696093


I want all Capitol police disarmed.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 76383655


they are experts and professionals and are qualified to possess arms.

you are an amateur and not part of a government militia.

turn em boys!

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How about: "NO"... Come take it.

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Chuck's running the show now, so he will certainly get what he wants.
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Trump bent over, never should have no more respect now. he really fk up giving dems everything in the Omnibus
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And Trump will comply?


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Sen. Chuck Schumer on Sunday called for a vote on gun control within a month.

Standing with several children and their parents in Columbus Circle a day after thousands participated in the March for Our Lives rally, Schumer said he wants a vote on three measures. They include closing loopholes in federal background checks, creating a system to issue protective orders against potentially dangerous individuals and banning assault weapons.


On March 23, Trump tweeted that the U.S. Department of Justice would issue a rule banning bump stocks — a device that can turn a semi-automatic weapon into an automatic weapon.

Schumer described this proposal as a “necessary, but hardly sufficient” step.

Young constituents agreed that further gun control measures are needed.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 73696093


I want all Capitol police disarmed.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 76383655


they are experts and professionals and are qualified to possess arms.

you are an amateur and not part of a government militia.

turn em boys!

a
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How about: "NO"... Come take it.

hidinghiding
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oh we will! With these high school kids coming of age, the number will be overwhelming.

i suggest you turn them in first thing Monday morning. It will be so much easier. And save you the headache of attempting resistance, only to cower like a dog when push comes to shove.

do it!
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Sen. Chuck Schumer on Sunday called for a vote on gun control within a month.

Standing with several children and their parents in Columbus Circle a day after thousands participated in the March for Our Lives rally, Schumer said he wants a vote on three measures. They include closing loopholes in federal background checks, creating a system to issue protective orders against potentially dangerous individuals and banning assault weapons.


On March 23, Trump tweeted that the U.S. Department of Justice would issue a rule banning bump stocks — a device that can turn a semi-automatic weapon into an automatic weapon.

Schumer described this proposal as a “necessary, but hardly sufficient” step.

Young constituents agreed that further gun control measures are needed.
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Fuck him & all who think as he does. The gooberment cannot take away, that which they did not grant. The 2nd Amendment places limitations on the Government & acknowledges the US citizens inherent right to keep & bear arms but it does NOT grant it
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I am sure the Republicans will fold....get ready to turn them in. Mine were all lost....Don't know how, but they are gone.
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I will use them before turning them in
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Upchuck the fuckhead Schumer needs to die. I don't care how as long as it isn't with a bullet.
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Sen. Chuck Schumer on Sunday called for a vote on gun control within a month.

Standing with several children and their parents in Columbus Circle a day after thousands participated in the March for Our Lives rally, Schumer said he wants a vote on three measures. They include closing loopholes in federal background checks, creating a system to issue protective orders against potentially dangerous individuals and banning assault weapons.


On March 23, Trump tweeted that the U.S. Department of Justice would issue a rule banning bump stocks — a device that can turn a semi-automatic weapon into an automatic weapon.

Schumer described this proposal as a “necessary, but hardly sufficient” step.

Young constituents agreed that further gun control measures are needed.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 73696093


I want all Capitol police disarmed.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 76383655


they are experts and professionals and are qualified to possess arms.

you are an amateur and not part of a government militia.

turn em boys!

a
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No such thing as government militia

every able body male in America is a Militia

member, supreme court says so

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If you want this madness to stop then stop paying these assclowns by way of student loans, welfare checks, free housing, , Stupid Checks, Food Stamps, WIC, so on and so forth.

If these delusional assclowns had to earn their way they wouldn't have time on their hands to destroy our Nation and call for the end of our Freedoms.

Idle hands ARE the devil's workshop.
Just because YOU don’t believe
in the Rougarou; or the Loup Garou, don’t make you safe; No !

The Constitution is a blend of 'moral certitude' -- which is one of the reasons that criminals are determined to be rid of it and We the People must be even more determined to defend it.

"If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." - Thomas Paine

The only thing the Illuminati fears is an independent person who can live, eat, sleep, stay warm and defend themselves separate from Federal help. Pray that the Lord gives us more time! The End is near and time is short!

A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion. ~Proverbs 18:2


For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not understand, no explanation is possible

"A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle" - James Keller

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Cuck U Schummer is the new president get ready to lose your guns
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Sen. Chuck Schumer on Sunday called for a vote on gun control within a month.

Standing with several children and their parents in Columbus Circle a day after thousands participated in the March for Our Lives rally, Schumer said he wants a vote on three measures. They include closing loopholes in federal background checks, creating a system to issue protective orders against potentially dangerous individuals and banning assault weapons.


On March 23, Trump tweeted that the U.S. Department of Justice would issue a rule banning bump stocks — a device that can turn a semi-automatic weapon into an automatic weapon.

Schumer described this proposal as a “necessary, but hardly sufficient” step.

Young constituents agreed that further gun control measures are needed.
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See! Don't give them a goddamned thing because they will only want more.
I don't have the time or the crayons to explain this to you.



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Sen. Chuck Schumer on Sunday called for a vote on gun control within a month.

Standing with several children and their parents in Columbus Circle a day after thousands participated in the March for Our Lives rally, Schumer said he wants a vote on three measures. They include closing loopholes in federal background checks, creating a system to issue protective orders against potentially dangerous individuals and banning assault weapons.


On March 23, Trump tweeted that the U.S. Department of Justice would issue a rule banning bump stocks — a device that can turn a semi-automatic weapon into an automatic weapon.

Schumer described this proposal as a “necessary, but hardly sufficient” step.

Young constituents agreed that further gun control measures are needed.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 73696093


I want all Capitol police disarmed.
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they are experts and professionals and are qualified to possess arms.

you are an amateur and not part of a government militia.

turn em boys!

a
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No such thing as government militia
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Thank you! That is my point exactly, the 2nd doesnt apply to individual ownership! It is quite clear, read Federalist #46
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If I were human, my response would be "GO TO HELL" If I were human
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I am sure the Republicans will fold....get ready to turn them in. Mine were all lost....Don't know how, but they are gone.
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Then vote them out!!
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The nra has been silent on twitter
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I am sure the Republicans will fold....get ready to turn them in. Mine were all lost....Don't know how, but they are gone.
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me too dude. it sucks. broken and thrown out
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There has been a terrible rash of horrible boating accidents where people have lost everything.
I don't have the time or the crayons to explain this to you.



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first; they came for your bump-stocks...
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Sen. Chuck Schumer on Sunday called for a vote on gun control within a month.

Standing with several children and their parents in Columbus Circle a day after thousands participated in the March for Our Lives rally, Schumer said he wants a vote on three measures. They include closing loopholes in federal background checks, creating a system to issue protective orders against potentially dangerous individuals and banning assault weapons.


On March 23, Trump tweeted that the U.S. Department of Justice would issue a rule banning bump stocks — a device that can turn a semi-automatic weapon into an automatic weapon.

Schumer described this proposal as a “necessary, but hardly sufficient” step.

Young constituents agreed that further gun control measures are needed.
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Well that's not happening, big Time
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"A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined..."
- George Washington, First Annual Address, to both House of Congress, January 8, 1790

"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms."
- Thomas Jefferson, Virginia Constitution, Draft 1, 1776

"I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery."
- Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Madison, January 30, 1787

"What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance. Let them take arms."
- Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Madison, December 20, 1787

"The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man."
- Thomas Jefferson, Commonplace Book (quoting 18th century criminologist Cesare Beccaria), 1774-1776

"A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks." - Thomas Jefferson, letter to Peter Carr, August 19, 1785

"The Constitution of most of our states (and of the United States) assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed."
- Thomas Jefferson, letter to to John Cartwright, 5 June 1824

"On every occasion [of Constitutional interpretation] let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying [to force] what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, [instead let us] conform to the probable one in which it was passed."
- Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Johnson, 12 June 1823

"I enclose you a list of the killed, wounded, and captives of the enemy from the commencement of hostilities at Lexington in April, 1775, until November, 1777, since which there has been no event of any consequence ... I think that upon the whole it has been about one half the number lost by them, in some instances more, but in others less. This difference is ascribed to our superiority in taking aim when we fire; every soldier in our army having been intimate with his gun from his infancy."
- Thomas Jefferson, letter to Giovanni Fabbroni, June 8, 1778

“They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759

"To disarm the people...s the most effectual way to enslave them."
- George Mason, referencing advice given to the British Parliament by Pennsylvania governor Sir William Keith, The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adooption of the Federal Constitution, June 14, 1788

"I ask who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people, except a few public officers."
- George Mason, Address to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 4, 1788

"Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every country in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops."
- Noah Webster, An Examination of the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution, October 10, 1787

"Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached, and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of."
- James Madison, Federalist No. 46, January 29, 1788

"The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the best and most natural defense of a free country."
- James Madison, I Annals of Congress 434, June 8, 1789

"...the ultimate authority, wherever the derivative may be found, resides in the people alone..."
- James Madison, Federalist No. 46, January 29, 1788

"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
- William Pitt (the Younger), Speech in the House of Commons, November 18, 1783

“A militia when properly formed are in fact the people themselves…and include, according to the past and general usuage of the states, all men capable of bearing arms… "To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
- Richard Henry Lee, Federal Farmer No. 18, January 25, 1788

"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined.... The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able might have a gun."
- Patrick Henry, Speech to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 5, 1778

"This may be considered as the true palladium of liberty.... The right of self defense is the first law of nature: in most governments it has been the study of rulers to confine this right within the narrowest limits possible. Wherever standing armies are kept up, and the right of the people to keep and bear arms is, under any color or pretext whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of destruction."
- St. George Tucker, Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England, 1803

"The supposed quietude of a good man allures the ruffian; while on the other hand, arms, like law, discourage and keep the invader and the plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property. The balance ofpower is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside. And while a single nation refuses to lay them down, it is proper that all should keep them up. Horrid mischief would ensue were one-half the world deprived of the use of them; for while avarice and ambition have a place in the heart of man, the weak will become a prey to the strong. The history of every age and nation establishes these truths, and facts need but little arguments when they prove themselves."
- Thomas Paine, "Thoughts on Defensive War" in Pennsylvania Magazine, July 1775

"The Constitution shall never be construed to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms."
- Samuel Adams, Massachusetts Ratifying Convention, 1788

"The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them."
- Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, 1833

"What, Sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty .... Whenever Governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins."
- Rep. Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts, I Annals of Congress 750, August 17, 1789

"For it is a truth, which the experience of ages has attested, that the people are always most in danger when the means of injuring their rights are in the possession of those of whom they entertain the least suspicion."
- Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 25, December 21, 1787

"If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no resource left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government, and which against the usurpations of the national rulers, may be exerted with infinitely better prospect of success than against those of the rulers of an individual state. In a single state, if the persons intrusted with supreme power become usurpers, the different parcels, subdivisions, or districts of which it consists, having no distinct government in each, can take no regular measures for defense. The citizens must rush tumultuously to arms, without concert, without system, without resource; except in their courage and despair."
- Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 28

"f circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude that army can never be formidable to the liberties of the people while there is a large body of citizens, little, if at all, inferior to them in discipline and the use of arms, who stand ready to defend their own rights and those of their fellow-citizens. This appears to me the only substitute that can be devised for a standing army, and the best possible security against it, if it should exist."
- Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 28, January 10, 1788

"As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow citizens, the people are confirmed by the article in their right to keep and bear their private arms."
- Tench Coxe, Philadelphia Federal Gazette, June 18, 1789
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The leftists don't seem to be paying a political price for this "children's crusade". How to make it costly for them?
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Notice the more laws they change and negate, how society just gets worse. They say change is good, sometimes it is. A lot of times it is very bad. Reinstate all the laws of the 19th century. Watch society heal again.
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Re: Chuck Schumer tells Trump his bump stocks ban is not enough, wants a full weapons ban in 1 month
Would you not like to control that chinese space station falling towards earth?
Where would you direct that thing to crash land at?

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