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In reply to the discussion: Something I want to say to the gunners. [View all]freshwest
(53,661 posts)24. "It'd be a lot easier if I was a dictator," GWB said. Was he? Do you want one?
Of course it's the Congress. Obama has been telling people for over a month to call their representatives to make the budget go the way he's pushing it, taxes on the rich, no cuts to the social safety net. He's trying to influence people on this issue now.
It was, and will always be, up to us and just voting a man in office doesn't relieve us of our responsibilty to change the states and the people in office. He's leading, just as he is supposed to do.
If Obama isn't not good enough to you, tell us which Republican can do a better job.
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This. My niece's husband told me that he should be able to buy a tank if he wants to
Skidmore
Dec 2012
#23
Apologists like you make me vomit. 300,000,000 guns in this country, and all it does is make it easy
dorksied
Dec 2012
#39
He's so right, after all it was lawn furniture used to commit the killings
Katashi_itto
Dec 2012
#40
A "well regulated militia"? Like the US military, that gave members LSD without their consent? The
Ghost in the Machine
Dec 2012
#56
8583 murders in the US by guns in 2011. The next closest are knives/cutting instruments at 1694
neverforget
Dec 2012
#73
Because I don't think the President wants to wait or the public two years on a maybe
former-republican
Dec 2012
#13
"It'd be a lot easier if I was a dictator," GWB said. Was he? Do you want one?
freshwest
Dec 2012
#24
Ultimately it's on the court's to rule on the constitutionality of any gun related laws.
geckosfeet
Dec 2012
#52
This isn't a CONTEST & this isn't to be thought of as an attempt to get a POLITICAL WIN.
pacalo
Dec 2012
#22
"A mass murderer. Not likely. I don't own guns." Neither did the lady who drowned her 5 kids in the
Ghost in the Machine
Dec 2012
#30