The Vent / Metro

I'm Jewish and when someone wishes me a Merry Christmas, I don't get all bent out of shape, I just wish them one right back and get on with my day.

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If the worst thing in your life is being wished a Merry Christmas a lot of people would like to trade places with you.

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If the fiscal cliff was so important,why did the President and congress go on Christmas vacation instead of staying and doing their job?

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I don't own a gun but I'm not against having armed, trained personnel at schools or malls. It's no different than having air marshals on a flight or security guards at the bank. Bad guys look for easy, unarmed targets.

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Tomorrow night Walmart will have Valentine candy and lawn mowers out.

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ALL we do anymore is disrespect,complain and point fingers. I thought this was the UNITED STATES but seems some want to be the DIVIDED STATES for selfish reasons.

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Instead of telling me it will cost $300M for a new stadium, give me a more detailed ROI as a taxpayer. We'll get a $1B asset for that price, but at what cost for infrastructure, losing the GA Dome, loss or gain of future revenues, etc. ?

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History shows that before a State burns books, they first ban guns.

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Interesting how the end of the world never seems to happen yet every time people hoard food and panic.

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Roses are Red, Violets are Blue, Obama just raised TAXES on YOU!

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The growing number of demented people helps to explain the current make-up of the House of Representatives along with that part of the electorate who voted them in.

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liberals must be good DJ's- they can spin anything

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Southerners may stop for funerals, but they don't stop for ambulances. Letting an ambulance pass would be more useful. By the way, I'm from up north and always stopped for both.

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Military grade weapons are designed to kill many quickly. It's not the gun's fault that they work so effectively.

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We are a nation of extremes, one side wants to take all guns away the other wants us all armed to the teeth... every where. We need to find a workable middle ground so NRA let's stop the rhetoric and get back to your roots and protect and promote hunting and safety.

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I could correctly use a beer or a car without injuring or killing something.

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To the person who wants to know how our legislators are going to get criminals to abide by gun control laws: how do we get criminals to abide by any laws? Are we to abolish all our laws because criminals won't obey them?

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To those defenders of the 2nd Amendment who want to deport Piers Morgan because he favors stronger gun controls - have you ever heard of the 1st Amendment?

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Violent video games, violent entertainment are as available in Australia and England, yet only here are military grade weapons allowed in civilian hands.

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All freedoms have limits. Why should gun ownership be a special case?

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Would you dummies quit clouding up the issue? NO ONE is asking you to give up your guns! Wake up!

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How long before the Republican Party renames itself the Norquist Party?

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So the consensus is, gun laws, heck, all laws are ineffective. Well let's see a show of hands for no restrictions. Everybody kills, robs, and commits mayhem as they see fit. Anybody?(crickets)

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The NRA's interpretation of the second amendment is not the sole interpretation. I being a strict constitutionalist , think everyone had the right to bare the arms that were available when the document was conceived. Muskets, Arrows and Knives.

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More children will be killed in 2013 by guns than by any other cause.

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