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   From: SaPeIsMa@gmail.com   
      
   "Dechucka"  wrote in message   
   news:NaSdnfKkr6-3ke7MnZ2dnUVZ_rKdnZ2d@westnet.com.au...   
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   > "SaPeIsMa"  wrote in message   
   > news:kkup7e$ngg$1@dont-email.me...   
   >> "Dechucka"  wrote in message   
   >> news:X6ydncIwFOnsTuzMnZ2dnUVZ_v2dnZ2d@westnet.com.au...   
   >>>   
   >>> "ALP = Arrogance, Lies & Pretence"  wrote in   
   >>> message news:ate1kiFev1oU1@mid.individual.net...   
   >>>> On 20/04/2013 8:39 AM, Dechucka wrote:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> "ALP = Arrogance, Lies & Pretence"  wrote   
   >>>>> in   
   >>>>> message news:atdqsqFdk9mU1@mid.individual.net...   
   >>>>>> On 20/04/2013 7:06 AM, keithr wrote:   
   >>>>>>> On 20/04/2013 5:50 AM, RD Sandman wrote:   
   >>>>>>>> Trevor Wilson  wrote in   
   >>>>>>>> news:atc1j0F11bvU1@mid.individual.net:   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>> On 4/19/2013 7:56 AM, Dechucka wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>>> .... something as simple as universal background checks couldn't   
   >>>>>>>>>> be   
   >>>>>>>>>> passed. Maybe the US is just a sick and violent society   
   >>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>> **Not so much. The US is saddled with a bunch of gutless   
   >>>>>>>>> politicians,   
   >>>>>>>>> who value the opinions of the NRA more than their constituents.   
   >>>>>>>>> The   
   >>>>>>>>> majority of Americans are probably disgusted with their elected   
   >>>>>>>>> senators. They need to be reminded of just how weak these   
   >>>>>>>>> creatures   
   >>>>>>>> are.   
   >>>>>>>>> They're not interested in the well-being of the American people.   
   >>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> They are interested in re-election.   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> and are willing to put their own interests before those of the   
   >>>>>>> people   
   >>>>>>> who elected them.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> So according to your theory, elected officials should disregard the   
   >>>>>> wishes of those who elected them and do what they (or you?) regard to   
   >>>>>> be in peoples' interest?   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> read what he said slowly   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Duh dat wot happen in a duh-mocracy, duh-chuckah   
   >>>   
   >>> That there is 90% support for background checks and that simple law is   
   >>> not passed. You have a strange idea of democracy   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> Not in the real world, chucklehead   
   >   
   > true when Senators are to scared of a gun lobby   
      
   The last time the Dems tried stricter gun-control the AWB under Clinton,   
   there was major blood-letting in Congress of Democrats   
   It wasn't the mythical "gun lobby" that did them in   
   It was citizens who were pissed of at the Dems who voted for the AWB.   
      
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