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Originally Posted by dc_dux
The NRA was a convenient scapegoat, although I dont deny they can influence close House elections with their money. Nearly every analysis I have read about the 94 elections point to the Contract with American, which had no mention of gun rights, but was very effective in the suburbs on the issues that most people (unlike you) care about.
The NRA and its money has virtually no impact on Presidential elections, in which I addressed your false assumption about Obama's position.
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I practice this kind of ignorance consistently!!!
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"The Second Amendment to the Constitution has nothing to do with duck or deer hunting. It has nothing to do with target practice or owning collector's weapons. The Second Amendment is a political right written into our Constitution for the purpose of protecting individual citizens from their government. The lesson of the English Civil War and the American Revolution was that political freedom is ultimately based upon the courage and preparedness of those who would remain free. If the Lexington and Concord minutemen had not kept weapons, they could not have fired the shot heard 'round the world. If the American colonists had not been trained in how to shoot and fight, they could not have become American citizens."
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Newt Gingrich, Speaker of the House, , To Renew America, (HarperCollins, 1995), pp.201-202
There is part of your 'contract with america' and it's mention of gun rights.
I'm a life time memeber of the witless american program!!! 
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"no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything. You cannot conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him."
Last edited by Hanxter; 02-18-2007 at 09:18 AM..
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