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rgbecker

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7. If you want to find out what these guys think, join the NRA

Reply to MrScorpio (Original post)

Thu Oct 2, 2014, 08:21 AM

Oct 2014

I somehow got on their emailing list and received the most amazing crap about various legislation they hoped to pass or stop from passing...not just about guns, by the way.
Between the NRA, the Koch brothers and Aipac I'd say the chances of our representatives in Congress doing what the majority wants is very, very slim.

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I had read on the DisC. last night, some guy who had accused Obama of "grabbing guns." [View all] MrScorpio Oct 2014 OP

I wish he was grabbing guns bowens43 Oct 2014 #1

Whenever I see a pickup truck with some kind of anti-Obama window bullwinkle428 Oct 2014 #2

They take this very seriously. Arkansas Granny Oct 2014 #3

Here is a very similar video LondonReign2 Oct 2014 #10

What Gun Laws? Sparhawk60 Oct 2014 #4

We should send them to Happp-eeeee Dale! JustAnotherGen Oct 2014 #5

The president and the Dems have been good to gun owners hack89 Oct 2014 #6

If you want to find out what these guys think, join the NRA rgbecker Oct 2014 #7

Latest: "Obama went to Kenya and brought Ebola back and released it into Texas..." Triana Oct 2014 #8

I swear, reading that shit, you'd need a Teabagger to English dictionary MrScorpio Oct 2014 #9

That's a joke right? progressoid Oct 2014 #13

No. I've actually seen it mentioned by RWNJ's Triana Oct 2014 #16

Fear. That's what the spit-spraying and incoherent gibbering is all about: fear. Aristus Oct 2014 #11

I met one of them a couple weeks ago. progressoid Oct 2014 #12

Stop playing coy, MrScorpio! freshwest Oct 2014 #14

Those kinda people are a special kind of foolish Saboburns Oct 2014 #15

My advice to you is go buy more guns and ammo Bandit Oct 2014 #17

I dont own any guns. Saboburns Oct 2014 #18

He probably says that because you are writing delusional stuff. n/t ieoeja Oct 2014 #19

What are you claiming I wrote is delusional?? Saboburns Oct 2014 #20

"who do want to grab guns. which is a popular view here that makes me a minority on this subject." ieoeja Oct 2014 #22

I beg to differ. Saboburns Oct 2014 #24

Well if you feel ashamed when being called delusional, stop being delusional. Hekate Oct 2014 #26

Indeed, we are full up on idiots Saboburns Oct 2014 #29

Its mostly a metaphor. aikoaiko Oct 2014 #21

"frantically waving misspelled signs" Skittles Oct 2014 #23

My only question is why the wingnuts have been allowed to take over yet another site... Hekate Oct 2014 #25

The men in white suits with butterfly nets are a myth ... surrealAmerican Oct 2014 #27

If Obama is grabbing guns he's doing a really shitty job of it tularetom Oct 2014 #28