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Report: ‘Cash for Clunkers’ Hurt the Environment

Click Here: The program’s first big mistake was its focus on car shredding, instead of car recycling. Automobiles are almost completely recyclable, down to their engine oil and brake fluid. But many of the “Cash for Clunkers” cars were never sent to recycling facilities.

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VA Tech Review Panel: High Capacity Magazine Ban Would Not Have Stopped 2007 Shooting

Click Here: The Virginian Tech Review Panel’s assessment found that a high capacity magazine ban would not have stopped Seung-Hui Cho from carrying out his criminal act.

“The same report contains testimony from Virginia Tech grads who had concealed carry licenses and had spent their time at Virginia Tech arguing for a change in the school’s gun-free policy. According to the report, these concealed carry permit holders “told the panel that they felt it was safer for responsible people to be armed so they could fight back in exactly the type of situation that occurred on April 16, 2007.”

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Democrat Mayor Takes NRA’s Advice; Puts Armed Police In NJ Schools

Click Here: It’s smart for Mayor Hornik to let the world know his schools are now protected by firearms. Unlike “gun-free zones” that advertise a building full of sitting ducks, an “armed zone” can work as a deterrent.

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Chicago’s Draconian Gun Laws get 1.5 People Killed Every Day

Click Here: Chicago is an extremely violent city because criminals possess the largest portion of guns there. And in 2012 alone, 1.5 people died each day after being shot by bad people with guns. One and a half people a day die in Chicago where Obama’s gun control solutions are already in place.

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Iowa House Democrat: ‘Iowa should Ban, Confiscate Guns’

Iowa Democrat State Rep. Dan Muhlbauer says, “We cannot have big guns out here as far as the big guns that are out here, the semi-automatics and all of them, those are not hunting weapons. We should ban those in Iowa. Even if you have them, I think we need to start taking them, because if they’re out there, they’re just going to get circulated around to the wrong people. Those guns should not be in the public’s hands. There are just too many guns. If we find them on the street, there’s going to have to be some sort of penalty for them”

Click Here: State Rep. Dan Muhlbauer, D-Manilla, says Iowa lawmakers should ban semi-automatic guns and “start taking them” from owners who refuse to surrender any illegal firearms through a buy-back program.

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Gun Control Failure: Gun Ban Chicago Records 500th Homicide

Radical gun control fails as Chicago records 500th homicide in 2012.

Chicago Mayor calls it “Unfortunate”.

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Senate to go for Handguns; Fingerprint & Register All Gun Owners

Summary of 2013 Senate legislation

Following is a summary of the 2013 legislation:

  • Bans the sale, transfer, importation, or manufacturing of:
    • 120 specifically-named firearms;
    • Certain other semiautomatic rifles, handguns, shotguns that can accept a detachable magazine and have one or more military characteristics; and
    • Semiautomatic rifles and handguns with a fixed magazine that can accept more than 10 rounds.
  • Strengthens the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban and various state bans by:
    • Moving from a 2-characteristic test to a 1-characteristic test;
    • Eliminating the easy-to-remove bayonet mounts and flash suppressors from the characteristics test; and
    • Banning firearms with “thumbhole stocks” and “bullet buttons” to address attempts to “work around” prior bans.
  • Bans large-capacity ammunition feeding devices capable of accepting more than 10 rounds.
  • Protects legitimate hunters and the rights of existing gun owners by:
    • Grandfathering weapons legally possessed on the date of enactment;
    • Exempting over 900 specifically-named weapons used for hunting or sporting purposes; and
    • Exempting antique, manually-operated, and permanently disabled weapons.
  • Requires that grandfathered weapons be registered under the National Firearms Act, to include:
    • Background check of owner and any transferee;
    • Type and serial number of the firearm;
    • Positive identification, including photograph and fingerprint;
    • Certification from local law enforcement of identity and that possession would not violate State or local law; and
    • Dedicated funding for ATF to implement registration.
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Hillary Hideout

Falcon:

I see where Hillary is still hiding out so as not to appear and explain why the administration failed to protect the ambassador and three others killed during the terrorist attack on the embassy in Libya.

It’s also been made public but not by the Obama run newspapers or TV news that the four employees whose dereliction of duty for not adequately protecting the embassy in Benghazi have not been fired but just moved around state to another location in order to continue to draw their salary and benefits although they are incompetent and not accountable by government standards for their mistakes as they would be in the private sector.

There just isn’t any shame in this administration or ethics when it comes to honesty.

JL

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‘Time’less Obama

Falcon:

Why in hell would Time magazine name Obama man of the year?  I can’t think of one thing he’s done to warrant such an award, if that’s what it is if not met to be a joke.

This Obama has done nothing to heal the problems our country faces other than making most of them worse.  He’s  failed to produce a budget since being in office plus he’s not done much of anything about the recession and what he has done has all failed, with the exception of putting our grandchildren further in debt to the Chinese.  Then when his worthless healthcare cranks up we’ll be so bad off nothing will save us unless he resigns.

We have a government that can’t manage the post office, Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security along with many other so called programs and now they think they can manage the healthcare industry.  Government is our worst enemy with Obama at the helm thanks to a lying press along with the Obama biased TV news and the votes of people that have no value added input to our country through only taking value.

Hang on folks the worst is yet to happen and be assured it will with Obama at the helm.  By the way one of his cost saving plans is to reduce the COLA (which is already little to nothing) for those on Social Security but of course he didn’t mention it during his campaign.  Sooner or later all the lies will rise to the surface and people will begin to understand how they were duped again into voting for him.

LP

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School Obama’s Daughters Attend Has 11 Armed Guards

Click Here: Obama sends his kids to a school where armed guards are used as a matter of fact.