The revolution begins

[Grandluxe]

Only need the 1st shot and 100k Americans from all over the country will march to DC and surround the White House with firearms.

 

[budcampbell]

Quote from Grandluxe:

Only need the 1st shot and 100k Americans from all over the country will march to DC and surround the White House with firearms.

Grandluxe cracks me up. First, the Russian Airborne invading Cyprus, and now this

 

[Lucrum]

Quote from Ricter:

The issue is not "the 2nd amendment", the issue is stricter background checks and magazine size.

Both of which relate to the 2nd amendment, moron.

 

[Lucrum]

Quote from Grandluxe:

Only need the 1st shot and 100k Americans from all over the country will march to DC and surround the White House with firearms.

 

[CaptainObvious]

Quote from Ricter:

So the issue is not about the feds or the "leftist" media.

Obfuscate all you want. Your Comrades in congress and the WH are going to get some serious push back on this issue. Where there is one, there is another, and another who will stand up and tell this corrupt government no. NO, you cannot threaten our liberty. NO, you cannot threaten our freedom. NO, you cannot just arbitrarily change the constitution at your every whim.

 

[Tsing Tao]

Quote from Ricter:

Google search string "us public opinion polls gun control 2013"

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en...1.9&emsg=NCSR&noj=1&ei=EB9HUYqcBZLtrAGyiYCABg

Maybe you should have done that before stating what public opinion was. The very first link "Gun Control: Public Opinion and the Firearms Paradox" from realclear describes that, despite recent shootings, the nation is still firmly divided on the need for tighter laws.

The second link, by Forbes, states the following:

At the start of the Bill Clinton administration in 1993, 57 percent of Americans polled by the Pew Research Center said it was very important to control gun ownership. That rose to a whopping 66 percent in favor of stricter gun control by the time he left office in 2000. It remained relatively stable even throughout the eight years of President George W. Bush.

Only when Obama took over did the mood start to change. It went from 60 percent in favor of gun control to just 49 percent. In 2012, it was a minority of 47 percent in favor of stricter gun laws and 46 percent in favor of the status quo.

Recent gun violence have had little impact in swaying the public, despite the outrage at the time of their occurrence.

Shortly after the “Batman shooting” in Aurora, Colo on July 20, 2012, a minority 48 percent wanted stricter gun control and 52 percent wanted to protect gun owners’ rights in a poll taken a week after the movie theater shooting that killed 12 people watching a midnight viewing of “The Dark Knight Rises”. While that interest in gun control did rise from a similar poll taken in April of that same year, it rose from around 45 percent in favor of stricter gun laws.

Polls can be tricky. We’re a fickle bunch. A lot depends on the questioning.

According to a series of CBS News polls asking if gun control laws should be made more strict, less strict or stay the same, 53 percent said it should be more strict when asked in the first week of February. That number remained within the margin of error from a similar poll taken in the first two weeks of January by CBS, with 54 percent saying they were in favor of stricter gun laws. Just after Sandy Hook, those in favor was 59 percent.

It’s been falling ever since.

If this keeps up, Americans will likely be where they were in April 2012, when only 39 percent said gun laws should be stronger; 41 percent said they should be kept as they are and 13 percent said they should be loosened further.

I did not go on to the other links, which appear to be the same. So it would appear that Colorado legislators are NOT acting in the interest of the public - especially if you look at Colorado polls.

 

[Ricter]

Quote from Tsing Tao:

Maybe you should have done that before stating what public opinion was. The very first link "Gun Control: Public Opinion and the Firearms Paradox" from realclear describes that, despite recent shootings, the nation is still firmly divided on the need for tighter laws.

The second link, by Forbes, states the following:

I did not go on to the other links, which appear to be the same. So it would appear that Colorado legislators are NOT acting in the interest of the public - especially if you look at Colorado polls.

<img src="http://www.people-press.org/files/2013/02/2-21-13-16.png">

 

[AK Forty Seven]

Quote from Grandluxe:

Only need the 1st shot and 100k Americans from all over the country will march to DC and surround the White House with firearms.

100k confederates in one spot makes for an easy Union target imo

 

[Lucrum]

Quote from AK Forty Seven:

100k confederates in one spot makes for an easy Union target imo

1) They wouldn't all be "confederates"
2) Maybe they'll nuke the mob surrounding the WH. Taking out Odumbo with them.

 

[Tsing Tao]

Quote from Ricter:

<img src="http://www.people-press.org/files/2013/02/2-21-13-16.png">

Well the Pew poll you posted flies in the face of the links google gave me when you told me to look at them. "Stricter gun control laws vs. Status Quo".

You can check for yourself if you like.