BamaD
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ORIGINAL: BamaD Yes that is paranoid. And just because Obama failed to ban guns doesn't mean he didn't try. No, the fact that he didn't try to ban guns is what means he didn't try. I don't know how to put it any other way-- the idea that guns were ever going to be banned, the notion that there was ever a long-term plan to ban all guns, that Obama or the left or the socialists or the democrats want to disarm everyone in America to pave way for god knows what sort of horrifying nightmare society based on 1984 where everyone has computer chips in their brains or whatever-- ALL of it is fiction, a lie, a dream, a false prophecy, an uninformed guess... anything but realistic. So you're saying Trump's rhetoric hasn't stirred up racial tensions? You think he's just a normal right-wing candidate? The same as Bush 1 and 2, Romney, McCain or Reagan? Obama was to the right of most left-wing leaders in every single westernized/liberal democratic nation on the planet... he was even more right than Canada's right wing Prime Minister during the mid-2000s. He mostly just wanted to bring to America the kinds of things that Canadians, Australians and Brits have had in place for decades now. So you think that America becoming more like those countries is something that MUST be resisted at all costs? THIS is what you need to arm yourself to protect against? Compare that with what Trump has promised to do-- isolationism, protectionism, mass-deportations, refusing refugees. These are NOT policies that any other modern conservative leader would have embraced. They are however, the same policies that extreme right wing parties like Golden Dawn, UKIP, and Dansk Folkeparti have been openly calling for... and ALL of these parties are connected to fascism in Europe. I honestly don't even think that anyone who voted for Trump is aware enough of the outside world to understand that he is part of a global fascist resurgence that has made a LOT of people on BOTH sides of the political spectrum really uneasy. Just because you're not aware of this doesn't mean other people should just ignore it. He tried to ban entire classes of guns, total bans don't start with banning them all, you demonize one type of gun at a time, reduce the number of gun owners then ban another type. As far as Obama being a right winger, what world have you been living in.
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Government ranges from a necessary evil to an intolerable one. Thomas Paine People don't believe they can defend themselves because they have guns, they have guns because they believe they can defend themselves.
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