Thousands march for gun control in Washington, D.C.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Thousands of people, many holding signs with names of gun violence victims and messages such as "Ban Assault Weapons Now," gathered in front of the Capitol on Saturday for a March on Washington for Gun Control.
Marchers were led by Mayor Vincent Gray and other officials Saturday morning, and the crowd stretched for about two blocks along Constitution Avenue. Police blocked off half the road.
Participants held signs reading "Gun Control Now" and "Stop NRA," among other messages. Other signs were simple and white, with the names of victims of gun violence.
About 100 residents of Newtown were expected at the march. It was organized in response to the December shooting there that killed 20 first-graders and six teachers.
Kara Baekey of Norwalk, Conn., said she immediately thought of her two young children when she heard about the shooting. She said she decided she must take action, and that's why she joined Saturday's march.
"I wanted to make sure this never happens at my kids' school or any other school," Baekey said. "It just can't happen again."
James Agenbroad, 78, of Garrett Park, Md., carried a handwritten sign on cardboard that read "Repeal the 2nd Amendment." He called it the only way to stop mass killings because he thinks the Supreme Court will strike down any other restrictions on guns.
"You can repeal it," he said. "We repealed prohibition."
Molly Smith, the artistic director of Washington's Arena Stage, and her partner organized the march. Organizers said that in addition to the 100 from Newtown, they expected buses of participants from New Jersey, New York and Philadelphia. Others are flying in from Seattle, San Francisco and even Alaska. A rally was planned on the monument grounds at noon.
While she's never organized a political march before, Smith said she was compelled to press for a change in the law. The march organizers support President Barack Obama's call for a ban on military-style assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines as well as for universal background checks for gun sales. They also want lawmakers to require gun safety training for all buyers of firearms.
"With the drum roll, the consistency of the mass murders and the shock of it, it is always something that is moving and devastating to me. And then, it's as if I move on," Smith said. "And in this moment, I can't move on. I can't move on.
"I think it's because it was children, babies," she said. "I was horrified by it."
After the Connecticut shootings, Smith posted something on Facebook and drew more support to do something. The group One Million Moms for Gun Control, the Washington National Cathedral and two other churches eventually signed on to co-sponsor the march. Organizers have raised more than $46,000 online to pay for equipment and fees to stage the rally.
Lawmakers from the District of Columbia and Maryland were scheduled to speak Saturday. Actress Kathleen Turner was expected to appear, along with Marian Wright Edelman of the Children's Defense Fund and Colin Goddard, a survivor from the Virginia Tech massacre.
Smith said she supports a comprehensive look at mental health and violence in video games and films. But she said the mass killings at Virginia Tech and Aurora, Colo., and Newtown, Conn., all start with guns.
"The issue is guns. The Second Amendment gives us the right to own guns, but it's not the right to own any gun," she said. "These are assault weapons, made for killing people."
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March on Washington for Gun Control: www.guncontrolmarch.com
Marchers were led by Mayor Vincent Gray and other officials Saturday morning, and the crowd stretched for about two blocks along Constitution Avenue. Police blocked off half the road.
Participants held signs reading "Gun Control Now" and "Stop NRA," among other messages. Other signs were simple and white, with the names of victims of gun violence.
About 100 residents of Newtown were expected at the march. It was organized in response to the December shooting there that killed 20 first-graders and six teachers.
Kara Baekey of Norwalk, Conn., said she immediately thought of her two young children when she heard about the shooting. She said she decided she must take action, and that's why she joined Saturday's march.
"I wanted to make sure this never happens at my kids' school or any other school," Baekey said. "It just can't happen again."
James Agenbroad, 78, of Garrett Park, Md., carried a handwritten sign on cardboard that read "Repeal the 2nd Amendment." He called it the only way to stop mass killings because he thinks the Supreme Court will strike down any other restrictions on guns.
"You can repeal it," he said. "We repealed prohibition."
Molly Smith, the artistic director of Washington's Arena Stage, and her partner organized the march. Organizers said that in addition to the 100 from Newtown, they expected buses of participants from New Jersey, New York and Philadelphia. Others are flying in from Seattle, San Francisco and even Alaska. A rally was planned on the monument grounds at noon.
While she's never organized a political march before, Smith said she was compelled to press for a change in the law. The march organizers support President Barack Obama's call for a ban on military-style assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines as well as for universal background checks for gun sales. They also want lawmakers to require gun safety training for all buyers of firearms.
"With the drum roll, the consistency of the mass murders and the shock of it, it is always something that is moving and devastating to me. And then, it's as if I move on," Smith said. "And in this moment, I can't move on. I can't move on.
"I think it's because it was children, babies," she said. "I was horrified by it."
After the Connecticut shootings, Smith posted something on Facebook and drew more support to do something. The group One Million Moms for Gun Control, the Washington National Cathedral and two other churches eventually signed on to co-sponsor the march. Organizers have raised more than $46,000 online to pay for equipment and fees to stage the rally.
Lawmakers from the District of Columbia and Maryland were scheduled to speak Saturday. Actress Kathleen Turner was expected to appear, along with Marian Wright Edelman of the Children's Defense Fund and Colin Goddard, a survivor from the Virginia Tech massacre.
Smith said she supports a comprehensive look at mental health and violence in video games and films. But she said the mass killings at Virginia Tech and Aurora, Colo., and Newtown, Conn., all start with guns.
"The issue is guns. The Second Amendment gives us the right to own guns, but it's not the right to own any gun," she said. "These are assault weapons, made for killing people."
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March on Washington for Gun Control: www.guncontrolmarch.com
Being a seasoned citizen and a vet. Im having deja vu of 1930's in germany. How sad a few vocal "liberals, supported by the media, are even talking about gun control and ridding of our 2nd rights
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 . If guns were the real problem then every one that goes to a gun show would come out in a body bag>
 It's horrible what happen to the children however guns and large mags are not the problem. How about looking at voilence, parenting, judical system, mendal heath issues,the drugging of our children  for starters.Â
Gun control is using BOTH hands.
Only a constitutional moron would believe that the 2nd amendment can be repealed. The Bill of Rights cannot be repealed without re-writing the entire Constitution in a states convention or 2nd Constitutional Convention. This shows what mass ignorance gathered at DC.
I really have no problem with the situation of these mass shootings being addressed, but am wondering if anything is going to be done to the CRIMINAL element, outside of only adding another law that they wonât think twice about breaking, vice impeding the ability of the law-abiding citizenry from defending themselves from these very same criminals.
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Duplication of existing laws is NOT effective. Bushâs (?) E/O against assault guns was not effective. Decreasing funding for mental health didnât help. Mandating that the police lose five rounds per clip will not help (yup, Obama and crew forgot about the cops â on purpose?)
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How about actually ENFORCING current laws and firing liberal judges that DONâT hammer the guilty? How about putting some sociologists and psychologists to work actually finding out WHY a segment of society is doing this so we can find a real way of stopping this madness, or at least identifying the symptoms before the acts are committed.
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Oh, right, doing things that might actually work isnât the newsworthy front page cure that politicians need to further their agendas.
What irony, DC had the strictest gun control laws for years yet had some of the highest violent crime and murder rates ... some people will never see the trees though the forest.
 @Eugene357 DC still does have strict gun control, unless you are white and a member of the elite. Then not so much.
 @Iconoclast  @Eugene357 Just make the scarey black thuggish looking rifles go away. That's "all we are saying, is give peace a chance!"
The WaPo reports that only 1,000 people turned up for this demonstration. Yet Obama's media decided to blare this protest out like tens of thousands showed up to demand limits on our civil rights.
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Was even Pravda in the USSR so compliant?
I really dont think the majority of these people really know why they are marching. I dont think they fully understand that a government that slowly but surely begins the process of taking away our rights as citizens will be the end of this country. And they will be the first , after all our rights have been eliminated, to stand there bewildered and wonder what happened. Its amazing to watch these sheep being led to slaughter. They dont even know they have been brainwashed.Â
So here is a collection of people who cannot accurately define the term "assault weapon". Nor can they recognize one if they see it. Yet they are exploiting their children to try to influence the government to enact invasive laws against American citizens who have done nothing wrong. Am I the only one who has a problem with this?
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote." - Benjamin Franklin
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither safety nor liberty" -Â Benjamin Franklin
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"This will be the best security for maintaining our liberties. A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins." -Â Benjamin Franklin
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Such is the wisdom of those that began the story of this Great Nation. Imagine the courage it took them to win our Independence and Freedom. Note how when they drew up our Constitution and Bill Of Rights, there was no word saying "Except". Our forefathers may have owned slaves, but there was nothing in our Founding Documents that stated this was how it should be. Freedom for ALL, no exceptions.Â
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They believed a well armed citizenry was key to keeping our government in check. They knew from the British at the time that an unarmed citizen can have government will imposed upon them. Nothing has changed..... Those elected to Office are STILL OUR Employees. They work for US.Â
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I am neither Republican nor Democrat. I vote for someone's character. I look at voting history during their time in an office. I then vote that who I believe based on the information I was able to gain will be best in that Office. This is a responsibility of every American Citizen to do so. If we abolish anything, it should be parties and political gangs.Â
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For all of us, Liberty once lost is Liberty lost forever. Even one Liberty, one Freedom no matter how small. Be it gay marriage, decriminalization of weed, or any other we gain.Â
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A firearm without a human hand manipulating the mechanisms is only an inanimate object. Neither good or bad. You can load it, cock it, and use it as a paperweight and it will never fire if left undisturbed. If you want control of violence, how about cracking down harder on the criminals that use illegal guns to commit crimes!Â
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Having trouble controlling your gun then use both hands; as for you Uncle Sam, tread lightly when walking on the Constitution.
Should read thousands march against the 2nd amendment and in the same breath bring up Marx bottom laze Basta// who wanted the government to control your life. This clown we have now has done one thing galvanized this country going after different groups of people. If you think guns are your biggest problem you believe those two planes flu into the twin towers on there own. Its time to wake up now and what is really going on.
 @Mike I hear a Jefferson Airplane song faintly playing....... Seems there was much change and things to be aware of then, too...... Sad things must be like this, ain't it?Â
Look at all of them uninformed, brainwashed kids..... Sad.
 @JeepRex You know, in spite of the fact that I didn't agree with Occupy.... I took my kids down there to see many people exercising their right to assembly and right to free speech. I told them this was Freedom at work, and reminded them to never let that be taken away. I kept them away from anything rowdy, and they got a chance to talk and ask questions of the protesters. They also got to ask questions of Seattle PD. That's not brainwashed my friend, that's showing our children a responsible way to express their rights. I also informed my kids that while I do not agree with the protesters, that I agree with their right to do so.Â
 @PhunkyMunky There is a difference. What you were doing is education. I highly doubt that the parents above took the time to educate their kids on the subject. Education does not equal pushing their beliefs on the kids, but giving them the information and allowing them to form an opinion themselves.
 @JeepRex Taking a stand is not being brain wash. They know what has taken place, and they want a safer world. They might say that you are brain wash for thinking you need assault weapons. They really serve no purpose in life, but people want to fight for them.Â
 @Just my say  @JeepRex Giving Egypt 16 F14 and Tanks is not going to make your world safer. What do you want to be safer from? your own freedoms, look at what is really going on in the world around you. Money,work , peoples moods, This world right now is a powder cage, you are losing rights not getting new ones.
 @Mike  @Just my say These kids have no clue why their parents drug them out there. Education is far better than more laws that do nothing to prevent violence.  Mike, I agree. They are only going to push so far until people snap. Gun owners are the last group you want mad at you.....
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Anyways, it would be nice to see more people rally against criminals instead of demonizing law-abiding, tax paying hard working American firearm owners.
 @j-vtol They did rally against the country's worse criminals responsible for the largest theft in the history of mankind on behalf of the 300 million victims but you all called them socialists that lived in moms basement and laughed when you all referred to them as Occupiers.Â
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I wonder if they'd stand with you all now if you had stood with them then?
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Nope. They are anarchists, socialists and progressives (aka fascists) who will stab any classical liberal in the back in a heartbeat.
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 @T_BONE_WALKER Good point. It's obvious insanity, really. We can't afford this crap either, we're already so far in the hole. I honestly think it's only a matter of time before a major Collapse, however that turns out to look like.Â
 @PhunkyMunky Yeah, thats for sure. I was excited about obama but didnt vote for him either time. I am a leftist and he is too far to the right for me.
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He squandered a unique opportunity to restore this great nation and its great middleclass to it's former glory with his majority but sided with money instead and helped us along down this slippery slope. 6 years into a depression and still no help for the poor. What other countries would shower the rich in money while the working class starves under bridges about to fall?
 @T_BONE_WALKER  @Iconoclast In part, WE must point the last finger at OURSELVES really. WE voted them in. WE bought their lies hook line and sinker. Look at how..... Almost god like the public reaction was to Obama's election..... Where are we today?Â
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I'm not completely sure fascism is the correct word here. Maybe Globalism? The UN puts more and more pressure for the US to fall under UN control, and Obama even stated that whether or not we go to war is entirely up to the UN, which isn't true, it's up to congress. We are seeing a lot of similar changes in Europe and the ME and North Africa, Islamofascist governments rising up (Muslim Brotherhood) and such that definitely don't represent their populations. Look at Egypt right now, Mubarak ousted and replaced by the MBH and now they want them out too.Â
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All I do know for sure is that there are a lot of scary changes all over this planet, along with economic failures and we're not doing much better here.Â
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But it is good to be able to just sit and civilly talk with both sides of our political spectrum. I think an open forum for working out difference will prevent much sorrow.Â
 @Iconoclast My, you sound confused also.
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It is well established by the founder of right wing fascism, that it is of the right.
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"Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.â --Benito Mussolini
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Socialists interested in furthering the rights of corporations? My, that is a stretch.
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Is this the part where you get your right wing fascist authoritarian keyboard clicking that Benito is wrong because Glen Beck's chalk board said.....
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Look, I understand the need to distance your party from an ugly reality but it dont work here with me. I am too old and know better.
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I am more concerned with the damage right wingers from both parties have done to this country then I am worried about anarchists, progressives or liberals.
 @T_BONE_WALKER  @j-vtol Occupy was anti capitalist.... Socialism is an economic model, so yes, they were socialist. âFrom each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.â â Karl Marx The STATE takes from those with and gives to those without, making us all poor, but Occupy didn't see that, nobody ever does till it's too late.Â
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I didn't see Occupy as representative of me. Or everybody. They were just the loudest. I believe most in Occupy didn't really know what it all was about. Heck, I don't know it all either. There was some good I saw there, in the beginning. I got caught up at first, until I saw the horrid behavior displayed after a while, defecating on police cars and such..... Disgusting.Â
 @T_BONE_WALKER Well, some of the old leadership from the SEIU are what organized it to begin with, planning months in advance. The SEIU has staunchly been "socialist" in nature. Did you see the video from back right before occupy with them planning to take down Chase-Manhattan and then Wall Street?Â
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But, government does all kinds of stuff. Case in point, and I agree with this particular, extremely funny move by our Marines in Iraq, when they went in to Fallujia in 2004, they told the media they were already in Fallujia and up to a certain point in it, however they were merely waiting till their SP time. I remember laughing as CNN was upset about that bit of misdirection. But if they can do that there, it can be done here even easier.Â
 @PhunkyMunky Oh, I thought you had direct knowledge that Occupy had maybe said they were against capitalism. I dont doubt all kinds of things were said in the media even to the point of defecating on a cop car unless I seen it for myself I have difficulty believing someone could but, you never know.
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Fighting financial corruption and corporate greed at the expense of the working class is a position statement that I had seen on a web site just a minute ago. They didnt mention being against real capitalism anywhere that I saw but I aint on their x mas card list either so who knows.
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Can you outline for me all of the countries on this planet that have incorporated Marx's ideals? I mean where the government owns all means of production and incorporates every one of Marx's ideals so we can compare the successes of those countries against the known success or lack thereof of our own system?
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Please provide a list of countries that had economies fail as in your example "Occupy didn't see that, nobody ever does till it's too late".
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Who are or, what are the names of the "Nobody" you refer to.
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 @T_BONE_WALKER :-) Brother we both know there's always plenty of propaganda on both sides of various issues here in the U.S. Be it on MSNBC, FOX, or whatever. So I'm not going to counter argue your pointing out that just maybe they were merely against Corruption. I can't do that logically, but I do say this is how I saw it as it unfolded. Maybe a splurge of news stayed in someplace calling them socialist..... Also that Moore character pitching in with them discredits their position in my eyes. Then being for Obama sealed it for me. As I saw it, they were merely an Obama distraction. Something Obama's handlers organized.Â
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In reality I will continue with the fact that I don't know the whole thing with Occupy. My opinions are based on information I saw at the time. I don't see proof of the opposite.Â
 @PhunkyMunky I cant find anything from occupy that states they were against "capitalism". They were protesting financial corruption and corporate greed at the expense of workers and consumers as far as I know. I am sure they are not fans of deregulated predatory capitalism which is the US economic model based on fascism but, then again, only 2% of the population would be fans of that.
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I am quite sure that most all the folks associated with occupy and the United States for that matter, would be content with the type of regulated capitalism as used in the northern European social democracies like Norway or Sweden.
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Can you point me in the direction of anything that occupy has said about being "anti-capitalist"?
Funny how the March for Life a couple of days ago, which had exponentially greater numbers of people, was unreported.
 @CenterFire It was on RT..... But then that's not mainstream..... Hmmmm
This is what the majority of Americans look like; common sense, rational and sane. The rabid gun toting, bullet happy gun freaks are a distinct minority in this country. Change is coming so either live it or live with it.
 @ferryguy Gun owners are the MAJORITY. Time for you to realize it. Obamination comes to take them, and he will be responsible for civil war. It will be another revolution.
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Change is coming., And you wont like it if you come to take guns from law abiding citizens, instead of the people actually comitting the crimes.
 @ferryguy Remember to iron your brown shirt when you come around to take people's firearms. It will help clear the air over what you represent.
 @Iconoclast Wow, you have been watching Beck. Brown shirts didnt take guns. Germany had no right under their 1919 ( Prior to brown shirts) constitution to own guns. Nazis regulated them actually making them legal not unlawful in 1938 i think, but well after Nazis took over. I am to old for you to lie to about such things, Go away, maybe you can find someone dumb as you.
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Study much history?
 @T_BONE_WALKER You aren't really very bright, are you? Brown shirts refer to the fascist/leftists who stomped all over human rights and civil rights, which that twit was proposing. The issue of firearm regulation in the Weinar Republic and Nazi Germany was complex and, ultimately, irrelevant to my comment.
 @PhunkyMunky I know you do believe it and many other Americans believe it but it aint so. Hitler won at the ballot box, not in some take over. Hitler can be seen time and again riding standing up in open cars, standing addressing the nation with no protection, he had no fear whatsoever of the people and it is easy to see if you watch the clips. No US politician could ever be out in the open like Hitler always was. He didn't wear body amour or nothing.
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The German Constitution of 1919 did not give the Germans the right to bear arms, it was unlawful. In 1928 some legislation was put forward by the left wing party but it never was acted on. In 1933 Hitler became Chancellor, 5 years later the National Socialist Party, an opponent of the left wing party, got around to passing that legislation and now it was 1938, well after Nazis had complete control over Germany. The move to legalize (regulate) was just another attempt at trying to make the 3rd Reich appear as some kind of official law making body which it wasn't.
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The Germans under the National Socialist Party would have thought they were responsible for their own protection and anything else in life they needed and didn't need any help from the government at any time.
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The Brown Shirts were a para military outfit like Blackwater that had no real rules since it wasn't military or police, it could act with impunity against perceived enemies without worry from any justice system.
 @T_BONE_WALKER  @Iconoclast I do, and I believe the Nazi Government did go after firearms, which were registered. I wouldn't call you a "Brown Shirt" unless you advocated killing 6 million Jews, and I highly doubt you do, you seem logical enough,. I don't like that term, the Average American is no where near the psychopath Hitler was...... Neither was the average German.Â
 @ferryguy I am one of the majority but, I own a few sporting arms and what is most alarming to me is the sentiment that this government can just revoke and alter our bill of rights. You say change is coming but the guys that wrote those rights in the founding documents intended to protect this country from the tyranny that they had just escaped with rights for all of us that were not intended to be changed by the government though legislation or the judiciary hence, to avoid tyranny. They even go on to say "shall not be infringed".
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The notion that the government could alter, revoke or otherwise change these rights is to say that they were not in the least worried about tyranny. I just cant get there with you on that.
 @ferryguy Did you always WANT to be a comedian, or did you fall into it by accident?
The guy who wants to repeal the 2nd amendment is at least honest and has thought it through. I don't share his opinion, but at least he is not saying one thing and hiding his agenda. Lawmakers who would like to change the "right" into a "privilege" know they would never get the majority needed to change the constitution. Politics is just a dirty dishonest business.
THOUSANDS marched for gun control, and it is news? THOUSANDS more in support of gun ownership, and we dont hear it? Where is the "impartial" news. NO such thing. All controlled by the Liberal Socialists/Communists.
 @Nuclearian So, I guess you consider the Fisher family and the shareholders of KOMO, a for profit company, are all controlled by Liberal Socialists/Communists?
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Hmmmm.....how impartial of you.
 @T_BONE_WALKER Anti-gun Rally article, but no mention of the LARGER PRO Gun rally?
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 @T_BONE_WALKER Until this government is run more like business with and balances you my friend will be getting screwed every time they want more money they will just take it, or make up a new tax like global warming, carbon tax. Big government wants you money there going to take it any they can, your kids will be living 20+20 rooms like Sweden. The government wants nothing in there way to do this. Think about it. A freind
 @Mike Yeah, Obama is owned by business but, so are the rest of them. Our government is under direct control of business interests and until that changes, you'll be their serf.
 @the unvarnished truth  @T_BONE_WALKER The banks were behind Obama look at what CD rates are at .97% that really helps the the older people. The government is givening the banks money for .7 .6 % don't need your money. Print More make yours worth less.
 @the unvarnished truth Nope, you're confused again.
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You want on record that you believe that Marx would have taken the working classes earnings and bailed out AIG for insuring OTC derivatives and to also provide enough to offer millions of dollars in bonuses to CEOs and their vice presidents? You want on record that you believe Marx would have given workers wages to bankers to make them whole for loses for making bad investments? Do you also want on record as believing Reagan was a socialist communist for bailing out the savings and loan crisis in the '80s? You are already on record as being a knot head with no credibility that comes in here making claims and then slithers off with no response when proven wrong once again.
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Marx would not have bailed out any business in a consumer based economy. He would have been more concerned for the workers and knew enough to know that a consumer based economy needs husband's pay checks in the hands of wives to make the economy scream, not cuts in wages at GM that resulted in the other car manufacturers taking that settlement and whipsawing it off of other car manufacture's workers.
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When a man creates a business to make and sell things, he has nothing but expenses and costs associated with start up. It is not until after some labor of some type has taken place that something is produced and sold he gets paid and thus creates the first capital. That capital, like all capital only becomes possible AFTER labor has done its job.
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When that labor (worker) is paid for that work, a portion of that pay goes into the purchase of what the business man is making and selling that otherwise would not have been bought without the labor being done and thus creating more demand for that product and thus more work to create the additional product that was sold. This additional work creates the need for another worker and the whole process repeats.
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Marx understood capitalism better then you do. He knew that after all of the proficiencies were found in the manufacturing of a product that the only thing left to compete on or manipulate was the workers pay and less pay would result in less demand and less demand would create even less pay and that capitalism would then fail like it did in '07.
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Given that you dont understand what Marx was talking about it doesn't surprise me at all that everything that Marx said would happen, has happened in front of your eyes and you still dont get it even at 6 years into the failure and still no help for the workers from either right wing parties.
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Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital; that, in fact, capital is the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed -- that labor can exist without capital, but that capital could never have existed without labor. Hence they hold that labor is the superior -- greatly the superior -- of capital.
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This, is in and of itself, is the most important piece of leverage the working class has and US business has been very good at hiding the obvious from the masses.
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