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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMy right wing friend today told me that Obama signed an executive order today to confiscate guns.
He said it was called the Australia bill. Is there any shred of proof of this?
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)cause it does not exist. A simple google check would show him that too.
PSPS
(13,595 posts)randys1
(16,286 posts)Send me a copy of yours, please.
gordianot
(15,238 posts)InfoWingerWatch
(78 posts)and... the Federal Reserve Note was replaced with the Amero.
panader0
(25,816 posts)petronius
(26,602 posts)of advance warning. Call first, and then shout your presence from the far far end of the driveway.
Beyond that, your friend is a special kind of gullible if he believes that Obama basically banned guns and nobody noticed except Alex Jones (or wherever he gets his news). Either that, or he's pulling your leg...
panader0
(25,816 posts)We play music together. But I can't tolerate him when he goes off like he did. The Las Vegas shootings of the cops--"False flag"
according to him. He's behind Bundy too. I don't want to lose my friend, I want him to get aware.
kimbutgar
(21,148 posts)It's no longer fun being around someone you have to tip toe around to not set them off on a political hate fest.
pscot
(21,024 posts)There's no hope. It's our animal nature taking over.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)Nutcase and started trying to tell me how to raise my kids. She got judgmental in a hurry by following that paranoid crap.
Sometimes, you are better off letting them go.
Good luck.
safeinOhio
(32,676 posts)After the election lots of people would start talking about Obama taking away guns. So, I'd bet them $1,000.00 that by the time he left office no one would take away any guns he legally owned. No one would take me up on the bet and they always watched what they said around me after that.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)Ironic
likely more guns now than o8
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)and the banning of semi-automatic weapons.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)The plan has been discovered. Crap. Send in the black FEMA helicopters.
This probably isn't the best time to inform your friend that mental illness is covered by Obamacare....
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Look! Up, in the sky! No, it's not Superman! The Randian Supermen have a plan to get rid of all of us!*
*At least Ayn Rand's accolyte Paul Ryan does, but he's only mortal, I think. At any rate, I'm sure he carries his native soil with him wherever he goes.
Dirty Socialist
(3,252 posts)Obama wants to ban recreational fishing too.
lpbk2713
(42,757 posts)He tried but he couldn't get them out of Charlton Heston's cold dead hands.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)Kingofalldems
(38,456 posts)Should I call the NRA?
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)Skittles
(153,160 posts)I DON'T SEE ANYTHING ABOUT GUNS
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,692 posts)Better yet, tell him a couple of federal marshals came to your house today, took your guns and gave you $50 for them. You could even make up a receipt to show him. Give him a good scare.
hadrons
(4,170 posts)he's making the (stupid) claim
alp227
(32,023 posts)Ignore your friend and make your friend yell crazy stuff at a wall.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)and if that was true Rethugs and their Bagger minions are very quiet on it. I pity extremist.
mwrguy
(3,245 posts)But your friend is a moron.
3catwoman3
(23,983 posts)...too.
unblock
(52,224 posts)nolabear
(41,963 posts)1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)and rub them together and make kissing noises."
I'm sure that made old gun guy shot his computer (or maybe in his pants ... leaving him really confused).
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)Fantastic finale!
nolabear
(41,963 posts)Fish in a barrel.
Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)Yes, this is prima facie proof that your friend is a typical gullible nutjob.
Fuddnik
(8,846 posts)But they were just as imaginary as that EO.
Neither exist.
pipoman
(16,038 posts)Liberal Veteran
(22,239 posts)On the front it should say:
We came by to get your guns, but you weren't at home. We'll drop by later.
Sincerely
Barack Obama's Thug Squad
On the back it should say:
God, you really believed that for a second, didn't you? Are you really that gullible?
freshwest
(53,661 posts)flying rabbit
(4,632 posts)Plus, gullible was taken out of the dictionary years ago.
struggle4progress
(118,282 posts)But now it's like the whole country has been taken over by some mind control beam
Nobody even admits to seeing all the big purple-green spiders roaming the streets
I heard you can stop them with that blow-dart frog poison but nobody will sell me any
panader0
(25,816 posts)He's harmless and apolitical. The right winger is the lead player, very good. I wonder how musicians can be righties. It seems to me that music helps to open the mind.
struggle4progress
(118,282 posts)That would save you time and energy
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)interesting.
Please tell me you don't play heavy-metal head-banging "music!"
{Pardon my clear musical bias}
panader0
(25,816 posts)Lead player (the right winger) can play anything.
We have a couple of CD's, all original.
We made 'em before the drummer went to jail.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)Drummer in jail!
The "Blues"? Delta? Chicago? Bunch of folks playing minor chord riffs and repeated words over and over again?
I'm kidding ... I love most "Blues".
panader0
(25,816 posts)driving a backhoe to the store with three passengers to get more beer at eleven PM, bouncing, lights blaring.
That violated his probation.
Delta and Chicago. John Hurt to Buddy Guy.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)a true Bluesman would be smuggling shine, dodging child support warrants.
panader0
(25,816 posts)driving a backhoe to the store with three passengers to get more beer at eleven PM, bouncing, lights blaring.
That violated his probation.
Delta and Chicago. John Hurt to Buddy Guy.
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)what to hear it? Here it goes ...
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)Spirochete
(5,264 posts)His first name isn't Ted, right?
freshwest
(53,661 posts)krispos42
(49,445 posts)...which included, if I have my facts straight, confiscating (don't know if it was with compensation) handguns and semiautomatic long guns, mandatory licensing and registration of both guns and their owners, and putting the burden on potential gun owners to prove to the government that they legitimately needed to own a gun prior to getting a license.
The NRA got a ton of publicity simply by showing stacks of confiscated guns being sawed into pieces by workmen with industrial circular saws. I seem to recall when I was much younger NRA-funded infomercials on TV.
Since this legislation hasn't a chance in hell of passing the US Congress, I doubt Obama ordered the 2,400 ATF Special Agents to go confiscate 300 million firearms from some 35 million households spread out among 3.5 million square miles of territory.
it seems... ambitious.
riverwalker
(8,694 posts)Federal Order to Confiscate Munitions, also known as F.O.C.M
lostincalifornia
(3,639 posts)La Lioness Priyanka
(53,866 posts)Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)A bill is a proposed law that has not been enacted.
You should show your right-wing friend this little video
JHB
(37,160 posts)Y'know, the ones he signed every day while he was in office (and twice on Sundays).
But your friend can fear not: the rescind is simply to clear the decks for tomorrow's Double Secret Confiscation order.
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)But he's a right winger. They can spew shit and get away with it.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)Then watch him crack his head open trying to read it.
Rod Beauvex
(564 posts)spanone
(135,831 posts)liberal N proud
(60,334 posts)madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)should just shut the fuck up.
panader0
(25,816 posts)I didn't use the word "asshole" but it was hanging in the air.
tandot
(6,671 posts)and he took all my guns ... while winking at Joe Biden, who was standing right next to him ...
then they told Hilary Clinton (who was standing right behind them), to castrate all the males and get them ready for the FEMA camp ...
Boy, I hate drinking a couple of Bloody Mary's that early in the evening. It makes everything seem so real ...
Warpy
(111,256 posts)but it's just more fringe right fear mongering and he fell for it.
Tell him he needs to listen to music instead of idiots on his ray dee oh.
Obama's been coming to git their gunz for 5 years now. They believe that almost as much as they believe all those gunz are going to keep them safe.
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)sobenji
(316 posts)You will have to get them out of their fox bubble if you want any kind of reasonable discussion. Good luck with that
Autumn
(45,082 posts)It was very nice.
betsuni
(25,519 posts)some other threads (the NSFW debate), clicked the wrong thing and wound up back in the middle of this conversation -- for a second I thought Obama was coming for our nipples. From my cold, dead hands, etc.
Rod Beauvex
(564 posts)How did I miss those, baby?
Skip Intro
(19,768 posts)Jenoch
(7,720 posts)I do not believe he has signed an executive order in which you described
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)SheilaT
(23,156 posts)I've been saying for a while now that guns should be confiscated.
Wait? There is no such executive order? Oh, darn.
Seriously, while I have been known to advocate outright confiscation -- and no one need bother to point out to me that such a thing won't happen -- I'm not delusional enough to believe such nonsense. Unlike your right wing friend.
Besides, I sort of think that there must be limits on what kinds of executive orders a president can issue, and despite my personal feelings about guns, I doubt that one like that would be even remotely enforceable. Even I can think it through: Executive order to take away all guns. So how will it be enforced? Who will actually go door-to-door?
If an actual law were passed, somewhat along the lines of how it was done in Australia, that would be different.
It is so irritating the crap that right wingers come up with.
sakabatou
(42,152 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)No just Obama