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<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I realize this is blasphemy against the two Great Commandments of Movement Consesrvatism (\u201cYou shall hate Obama with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength\u201d and \u201cYou shall hate those who do not hate Obama as you hate Obama\u201d) but the reality is that he gives a perfectly rational reply to the great lie that is the bread and butter of the Gun Cult. It\u2019s been eight years and the Great Confiscation prophesied again and again by the Wrong About Everything Party has never occurred and never been attempted. A smart person thinks, \u201cIf they\u2019ve been this wrong about this, why should I trust their prophesies about the Great Gun Confiscation for the next eight years?\u201d Folly says \u201cI refuse to listen to facts and reason and choose to fuel myself with paranoid fantasies. Future Hitlery and her Great Confiscation of My Precious Gun are more important that the absolute certainty of 33,000 more dead by 12\/31\/16.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To be prolife is to ask first \u201cHow can we prevent needless death of innocent human life from conception to natural death.\u201d If your first and last response to needless slaughter is not \u201cWhat can we do to reduce the death toll?\u201d but \u201cDon\u2019t touch my precious gun!\u201d (when nobody is coming to take your precious gun) you care more about your precious gun than human life.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I realize this is blasphemy against the two Great Commandments of Movement Consesrvatism (\u201cYou shall hate Obama with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength\u201d and \u201cYou shall hate those who do not hate Obama as you hate Obama\u201d) but the reality is that he gives a perfectly rational reply to the great lie that 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