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For the best guns, contact a

Resistance — Wed, 30 May 2012 05:59:46 +0000

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For the best guns, contact a Mr. E. Holder; he has contacts.

His associates have experience in arming paramilitary groups.

They've learned a lot since the days of Iran/Contra .

Yeah, the video is probably a

NCD — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 17:58:16 +0000

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Yeah, the video is probably a conspiracy between AQ and Handgun Control to take out guns away. Box cutters are the preferred terrorist weapon in the US anyway, not guns.

I imagine it would take at

kgb999 — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 17:39:48 +0000

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I imagine it would take at least one such attack.

Fully automatic weapons have

kgb999 — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 17:35:16 +0000

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Fully automatic weapons have not been available for sale at any gun show I've ever been to. Exhibited, sure. Sold ... not legally. And those shows are awash with FBI agents.

So, is this the same terrorist watch list that we all spent the Bush years criticizing as opaque, specious, absurdly expansive and at times purely nonsensical? The one that tends to hoover up the names of all sorts of innocent people ... and then once on it there is like zero due process to get cleared unless you happen to be a member of congress? That terrorist watch list? Yes, yes. Let's use THAT as a basis from which to declare people have lost their rights across the board with zero due process or even the allegation of having committed a crime. Brilliant.

The watch list is bullshit. It has always been bullshit. It likely always will be bullshit.

Let me get this straight (no, I'm not sitting through the AQ video). The premise here is that to arm it's operatives, AQ should not look to Libya (where actual full-auto weapons can both be purchased for CHEAP CHEAP CHEAP and easily smuggled somewhere they would actually be useful), not to Pakistan (where the weapons bazaar is legendary, provides HEAVY assault weaponry and RPGs and also has awesome smuggling routes). Nope. Come to America. Where you can get an "assault" weapon (i.e. semi-auto hunting rifle with tactical cosmetics) from a gun show ... for orders of magnitude more than an actual assault rifle would cost in any of the other markets where they are readily available ... and then figure out how to smuggle said weapons - bought one at a time from individual dealers - to the AQ forces who need them in Mali, Yemen and Somalia?

Or is this "idea" a new master-strategy for the massive network of sleeper cells that Cheney assures us are in our midst ... just waiting for the proper decade to spring their trap?

Either way, IMO, this "threat" doesn't even make sense.

There would be a rush to buy

NCD — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 17:02:31 +0000

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There would be a rush to buy guns like this country has never seen, the gun dealers and the gun shows would be rolling in dough$$.

All righty then! ha

Richard Day — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 16:30:22 +0000

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All righty then! ha

You have a point. I mean five

Richard Day — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 16:27:36 +0000

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You have a point. I mean five hundred more dead in some massacre and the entire matter would be laid at the feet of Homeland Security--not the gun shows!

OK, Hombre! Fill Yore Hand!

Donal — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 14:51:15 +0000

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OK, Hombre! Fill Yore Hand!

Great post, yet I wonder, in

NCD — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 14:50:02 +0000

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Great post, yet I wonder, in a country that already has a body count of 30,000/year from guns, how many Mumbai style attacks (168 dead) would it take to up the figure enough to disturb the gun lobby? Would they even care even at 50,000 a year?

Worse, could attacks like that (GOP/NRA logic) push the 'everyone armed, anywhere, all the time' agenda to legally require all Americans over 12 to carry loaded Glocks as a quintessential American way to combat armed terrorists?