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Showing Original Post only (View all)Congressman Receives Threats From Gun Advocates Warning Him To ‘Watch His Back’ [View all]
Congressman Receives Threats From Gun Advocates Warning Him To Watch His Back
By Igor Volsky
Rep. Rick Nolan (D-MN), gun safety advocate who represents real gun country, told MSNBCs Chris Hayes on Saturday that his office is receiving anonymous threats, warning the Congressman to watch his back.
I have never, ever in all my life feared for my security, and Im not fearful of it now, Nolan began. But Im a little more [fearful] than I ever had been before. Weve been getting a lot of not very thinly veiled threats and calls into my office. You know, things like, you tell Nolan he better watch his back:
Watch it:
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Nolan added that during his Congressional campaign, NRA Executive Vice President and CEO Wayne LaPierre, crisscrossed his district telling voters with hunting licenses that he is going to take your guns away.
Since the shooting in Newton, Connecticut, the NRAs efforts have only intensified. The organization cast its opposition to President Obamas gun safety regulations as the fight of the century, circulating a letter characterizing Obamas proposals as about banning your guns PERIOD! Barack Obama, Joe Biden and their gun ban allies in Congress only want to BLAME you, VILIFY you, BULLY you, and STRIP you of your Second Amendment freedoms, the letter says. NRA President David Keene even blamed Obama for the death threats the organization received.
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http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/01/19/1473781/congressman-receives-threats-from-gun-advocates-warning-him-to-watch-his-back/
By Igor Volsky
Rep. Rick Nolan (D-MN), gun safety advocate who represents real gun country, told MSNBCs Chris Hayes on Saturday that his office is receiving anonymous threats, warning the Congressman to watch his back.
I have never, ever in all my life feared for my security, and Im not fearful of it now, Nolan began. But Im a little more [fearful] than I ever had been before. Weve been getting a lot of not very thinly veiled threats and calls into my office. You know, things like, you tell Nolan he better watch his back:
NOLAN: Nobody has actually come out and said theyre gunning for me, but the messages are quite angry, vitriolic, and a little bit frightening to people at my front desk who have been taking the calls. Im a little nervous about it. Ive never been nervous before. (The NRA) are very toxic in the effect theyre having on the American public.
Watch it:
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Nolan added that during his Congressional campaign, NRA Executive Vice President and CEO Wayne LaPierre, crisscrossed his district telling voters with hunting licenses that he is going to take your guns away.
Since the shooting in Newton, Connecticut, the NRAs efforts have only intensified. The organization cast its opposition to President Obamas gun safety regulations as the fight of the century, circulating a letter characterizing Obamas proposals as about banning your guns PERIOD! Barack Obama, Joe Biden and their gun ban allies in Congress only want to BLAME you, VILIFY you, BULLY you, and STRIP you of your Second Amendment freedoms, the letter says. NRA President David Keene even blamed Obama for the death threats the organization received.
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http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/01/19/1473781/congressman-receives-threats-from-gun-advocates-warning-him-to-watch-his-back/
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ProSense
Jan 2013
OP
God help us. These are the people who don't want any gun control. OMG these fruit loops
southernyankeebelle
Jan 2013
#2
They certainly are delusional and delusional in a group of think like people just is frightening.
southernyankeebelle
Jan 2013
#22
Tell me that there's NO ONE amongst the NRA's disciples who will kill for guns and NO other "reason"
patrice
Jan 2013
#3
LaPierre is protecting his Fast-and-Furious style BUSHMASTER markets for further development by MIC.
patrice
Jan 2013
#4
I wonder if these nut jobs realize that they're just reinforcing arguments for gun regulation?
phantom power
Jan 2013
#5
What's hilariously ironic is that those making the threats consider themselves "Real Men".
Tierra_y_Libertad
Jan 2013
#7
Nothing like DOING the very thing gun laws would try to prevent to prevent gun laws
99th_Monkey
Jan 2013
#9
Gun owners making their case that guns aren't a threat by using guns to threaten violence.
NYC Liberal
Jan 2013
#11
Gov. Dayton should provide him security. Nolan represents me now and I want him safe.
glinda
Jan 2013
#13
"Pine County sheriff ‘will not enforce’ further federal gun regulations" from Nolan's MN 8th CD
SomeGuyInEagan
Jan 2013
#14
Funny how these people who claim to be so concerned about their Second Amendment rights
bulloney
Jan 2013
#16