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In the discussion thread: Executive Director of Gun Owners of America Says Armed Teachers Would Have Stopped Newtown Shooting [View all]

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Sat Dec 15, 2012, 12:55 AM

TomCADem (6,378 posts)

7. Same Guy - "Gun Owners of America Claims Obamacare will 'Take Away Your Guns'"

The right wing has also been pedaling the idea that Obamacare is a means of gun control.

http://www.opposingviews.com/i/society/guns/gun-owners-america-claims-obamacare-will-take-away-your-guns

Larry Pratt, head of the Religious Right group 'Gun Owners of America,' recently appeared on VCY America’s Crosstalk radio show where he claimed that Obamacare would be used by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to take away guns from law-abiding Americans, reports RightWingWatch.org.

Pratt said: "(Obamacare) says that all of our medical records are available to be pawed through by bureaucrats somewhere in Washington, looking for a reason to disenfranchise gun owners, to say: ‘Oh you have a medical diagnosis that means you might be a danger to yourself or others so we’re going to come and knock on the door for the BATF to take away your guns.’"

There is a law that screens out people, such as the mentally ill, through the National Instant Criminal Background Check System to prevent them from purchasing guns. However, this law was signed by President Bush.

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89 replies	Author	Time	Post
Executive Director of Gun Owners of America Says Armed Teachers Would Have Stopped Newtown Shooting [View all]	TomCADem	Dec 2012	OP
This reminds me of the time...	MarianJack	Dec 2012	#1
Yes.This guys is NUTS! Teachers...	YvonneCa	Dec 2012	#66
Oh, great! A "free fire zone" in schools. What could go wrong with that?	SharonAnn	Dec 2012	#69
Pearl, MS	Recursion	Dec 2012	#2
STFU Larry Pratt Just STFU!	sheshe2	Dec 2012	#3
Same Guy - "Gun Owners of America Claims Obamacare will 'Take Away Your Guns'"	TomCADem	Dec 2012	#7
And they call themselves Christians...hard to believe.	sheshe2	Dec 2012	#13
These Christians are controled by money not the Bible.	oldbanjo	Dec 2012	#31
Check your money	Plucketeer	Dec 2012	#54
So now being a teacher requires	Politicalboi	Dec 2012	#4
and shootouts in schools are good how? And	elehhhhna	Dec 2012	#18
"these morons don't think anything through," and...	Amonester	Dec 2012	#26
They "think" the pandering to the lowest common denominatior for money thru, rather well.	xtraxritical	Dec 2012	#59
Or maybe we should stop enabling mass murderers?	Scootaloo	Dec 2012	#5
As a former teacher,	southerncrone	Dec 2012	#6
I agree with you all teachers aren't stable	oldbanjo	Dec 2012	#32
Too many think that one way fits all.	LiberalFighter	Dec 2012	#73
That's blatant propaganda..	defacto7	Dec 2012	#8
I wouldn't be that surprised if they wanted to arm the kids too.	doc03	Dec 2012	#9
That could be sorta interesting.	dixiegrrrrl	Dec 2012	#68
...pure bullshit.	SoapBox	Dec 2012	#10
Think the parents of the children	PatrynXX	Dec 2012	#11
Well, the shooter had fucking BODY ARMOR...	alp227	Dec 2012	#12
This is a detail I had not heard yet.	Ilsa	Dec 2012	#39
COWARDS	Skittles	Dec 2012	#14
Typical Con response.......	Grassy Knoll	Dec 2012	#15
AND the typical projection (re: "blood on their hands" accusation).	Amonester	Dec 2012	#27
I fucking knew it would happen!	blackspade	Dec 2012	#16
Guns do not belong in elementary schools period.	bluestateguy	Dec 2012	#17
Because teachers are unlikely to be ambushed and overpowered by a gang of students	aquart	Dec 2012	#19
The guy was wearing a bullet proof vest for gods sake!	Kablooie	Dec 2012	#20
I've never understood why Leplant and Pratt aren't dead.	Zoeisright	Dec 2012	#21
Scumbag GOP	Zadoc	Dec 2012	#22
Yup, this is the guy Alex Jones shills for, Libertarian and Freedumb fighters. Shoot those drones!	freshwest	Dec 2012	#23
"More Guns Less Crime" author already on the air	Gabby Hayes	Dec 2012	#28
Thanks for the tip, but I'd probably scream the 'damn you all the hell' speech...	freshwest	Dec 2012	#67
Those BASTARDS could not even wait ONE DAY?	99th_Monkey	Dec 2012	#24
Fuck arming the teachers. I say arm the children!! I would have had an infinitely less traumatic	Douglas Carpenter	Dec 2012	#25
This post was hidden by jury decision.	leveymg	Dec 2012	#41
Whom ever set that picture up should be in jail. It's not funny - delete it a-hat.	xtraxritical	Dec 2012	#60
The best defense is a good offense. That's what the gun nuts are doing.	Zookeeper	Dec 2012	#29
Is Arming Ever More People Really The Answer?	cantbeserious	Dec 2012	#30
The biggest problem is no one is at home teaching their kids,	oldbanjo	Dec 2012	#34
make lemonade out of lemons	bora13	Dec 2012	#33
These were the same	secondvariety	Dec 2012	#35
FUCK THAT! This killing likely happened BECAUSE a teacher was armed! The killer's mother!	cascadiance	Dec 2012	#36
I am really puzzled by why his mother having such deadly weapons.	olegramps	Dec 2012	#46
She was a gun collecter. Her hobby.	kwassa	Dec 2012	#57
...and gun collecting is harmless, as we all know....	michigandem58	Dec 2012	#65
And I'm still wondering what the owner of the gun that the killer in Oregon this week feels about...	cascadiance	Dec 2012	#71
sounds more like a prepper	fascisthunter	Dec 2012	#89
The murderer's mother had guns and he killed her with them.	Riley18	Dec 2012	#37
I don't want to shoot and kill people.	Ilsa	Dec 2012	#38
If the school had poison gas sprayers, it would have stopped it too	Doug.Goodall	Dec 2012	#40
This rightwing	John2	Dec 2012	#42
His mother was a teacher with guns	Chalco	Dec 2012	#43
And we can stop war by giving everyone tanks. nt	valerief	Dec 2012	#44
Well, that was fast . . .	hatrack	Dec 2012	#45
Even better:	Turbineguy	Dec 2012	#47
It's as if these	LiveNudePolitics	Dec 2012	#48
Yeah, By All Means, Let's Blame The Victims.	Paladin	Dec 2012	#49
Thank you for posting that.	llmart	Dec 2012	#64
WE NEED TO MARCH IN THE STREETS TO CHANGE THE LAWS	B-ONE Lancer	Dec 2012	#50
A question I have always had about this argument...	bamacrat	Dec 2012	#51
NRA, and gun lovers everywhere appreciate the dumbass' comments.	Hoyt	Dec 2012	#52
"Gun control supporters have the blood of little children on their hands??"	Faygo Kid	Dec 2012	#53
There are assholes and	navarth	Dec 2012	#55
These idiots are SOOOO predictable.	Odin2005	Dec 2012	#56
in this scenerio, would a teacher lose her/his job if they didn't score high on the shooting test?	olddad56	Dec 2012	#58
Yeah, Larry, nothing like some crossfire to liven things up.	DollarBillHines	Dec 2012	#61
Everyone complains about throwing money at problems	nineteen50	Dec 2012	#62
You mean asshat director of idiots of America.	Jakes Progress	Dec 2012	#63
Teachers? No way. An armed guard at every school is on the horizon.	toby jo	Dec 2012	#70
Letting the streets run red with blood is the outcome of this talking point.	jzodda	Dec 2012	#72
projection is a classic political tool	booley	Dec 2012	#74
This argument doesn't make any sense whatsoever	Blasphemer	Dec 2012	#75
I would think they mean carrying a gun on their	exboyfil	Dec 2012	#77
I never even considered that as that's even nuttier to me	Blasphemer	Dec 2012	#81
Yeah, right.	RoccoR5955	Dec 2012	#76
Where was the security in that school ?	YOHABLO	Dec 2012	#78
A police officer in every school	exboyfil	Dec 2012	#79
Agree totally, but add this...	Bigmack	Dec 2012	#85
Or he could hit a cop in the head before going to the school	exboyfil	Dec 2012	#86
Agreeing with you... a story...	Bigmack	Dec 2012	#88
Larry Pratt is a total, complete idiot	AndyA	Dec 2012	#80
This nut-case belongs in the same asylum as the God Hates Fags & Fox 'News' assholes	LaPera	Dec 2012	#82
Sick fuck. n/t	tabasco	Dec 2012	#83
sick, SICK culture	Skittles	Dec 2012	#84
Or they might have made it worse, you fucking moron.	6000eliot	Dec 2012	#87

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