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Pro-gun talk show host Alex Jones wants to protect us from being recolonized by Brits like Piers Morgan. (AP Photo/File)

A Clash of Titans

BY Dave Ross  on January 9, 2013 @ 6:16 am (Updated: 8:36 am - 1/9/13 )

On Thursday, Vice President Joe Biden will meet with an NRA representative, which ought to be a lively session. But will it change anything?

Sarah Brady's been a gun control crusader for 28 years; she thinks that after the Newtown massacre the idea of bringing bring back a ban on military style weapons may have reached critical mass.

"No law is going to be perfect, but if they do help, if they save any lives they're worth it," said Brady.

But the NRA could make the same argument for its idea of putting armed guards in schools - if it saves any lives, it's worth it. A gun is a tool. In the right hands, it's a good thing.

And we're back to the same familiar arguments. Is there anything both sides can agree on? How about this:

A rocket launcher, not just one, but two.

In Los Angeles, two rocket launchers turned up in the city's gun buyback program.

Thankfully, they had no rockets in them. But just the same, we'd probably agree that crosses the line. Or would we?

On Monday, pro-gun talk show host Alex Jones lectured CNN's Piers Morgan on why Americans have every right to own powerful weapons.

"The Second Amendment isn't there for duck hunting, it's there to protect us from tyrannical government and street thugs," Jones told Morgan.

And to protect us from being recolonized by Brits like Piers Morgan.

"Piers," said Jones, "don't try what your ancestors did before."

I didn't realize those were the stakes. If it's a matter of keeping Piers Morgan from taking Boston back, maybe we do need rocket launchers.

Dave Ross, KIRO Radio Talk Show Host
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  • HLC wrote...
    There has been 60-70 thousand UN troops brought into our military bases.
    January 9, 2013 7:36 am
    I would bet they were brought in to enforce the UN gun treaty Obozo wants because he knows our military would not enforce it.
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  • Chuck Gould wrote...
    HLC: cite? Obama has brought 60-70 thousand UN troops into US military bases?
    January 9, 2013 9:10 am
    According to whom? That smacks of some delusional rant that "Obama intends to surrender US autonomy to the United Nations!"

    Thanks

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  • messiah101 wrote...
    HLC
    January 10, 2013 12:24 pm
    Who on Earth can take you seriously?Is you source Alex Jones?
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  • Dmaxx wrote...
    Ooops
    January 9, 2013 7:38 am
    I'm sorry, I lost my guns. Did the Supreme Court give you a search warrant to force your way into my home to see if you can find them ?
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  • Paul Kersey wrote...
    I know a few people who take anti-depressants
    January 9, 2013 7:42 am
    they are all flaming progressive liberal democrats. Is there be a link to chemical dependency and government dependency? A big pharma/government conspiracy? Maybe Prozac is the KoolAid that they are taking that turn them into such easily manipulated sheep. Occasionally a zombie will snap and commit mass murder, but the rulers never let the tragedy go to waste. I wonder how many main stream "journalists" are on Prozac. Probably the entire White House press room.

    Once you get past the screaming, Alex Jones does have some good points.

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  • sportsguru wrote...
    How many gun deaths
    January 9, 2013 7:53 am
    Did England have? 35 compared to 11,000, hmmm, I think that says it all, argument over in my estimation no matter how loud you scream. Now with that said, I ain't giving up my guns no matter what, I need them to protect me and my family against the RWNJ's. I'll just go to the hood and purchase me a ton of unregistered weapons, put them in working order and stash them for when the angry RWNJ's come for me and my family because they can't compete in the new global economy.
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  • It's me! Ha ha! wrote...
    Tell me again, sports, who is angry? Or just plain paranoid?
    January 9, 2013 8:01 am
    when the angry RWNJ's come for me and my family because they can't compete in the new global economy.

    Before Obama, the global economy had to compete to our standards.

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  • logical open mind wrote...
    sportsg- the only shootings in the hood are by RWNJ's? No gang shootings of any kind
    January 9, 2013 9:17 am
    what right wingers are shooting people? The tea Party? now there is the biggest lie ever put forth by the left-that Tea Party folks are racist, dangerous etc etc I walked by a tea party demonstration at Northgate Mall-most were grandma and grandpas. Saw nothing racist. Sure there may have been a racist sign at other tea party gatherings but google Bush Hate Signs and see how many pages of hate signs are documented. Double Standard as always! The right has to learn to get smarter and get way meaner and go cut throat. Dirty politics is here to stay. Misleading if not outright lies during a campain is here to stay.
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  • sportsguru wrote...
    Logical Who said
    January 9, 2013 4:25 pm
    anything about racism?
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  • maplefish wrote...
    Oh yeah right guru
    January 9, 2013 3:49 pm
    Lots of RWNJ's killing each other in Chicago int there? C'mon man. Why do you give the gangbangers on the streets, most of whom are welfare rats and have NO FATHER FIGURE and are Obama's prime entitlement recipients....you think ANY of Those folks are Riht Wing Nut Jobs???? I think Not.
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  • anotherfencewalker wrote...
    A recipe for a fine wine..
    January 9, 2013 8:07 am
    If you have an individual who lives his/her life in conspiricy-fueled paranoia, is a braggart and disperses bravado but only when carrying protection, has no confidence in ANY section of government red or blue (especially when their's a negro in office) or its function or purpose except for the government in their head then you may be confronting a card carrying member of the cold dead fingers club. I dont mean the NRA.
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  • DesertRez wrote...
    Bottom line
    January 9, 2013 8:19 am
    Look you and I all know this gun buy-back is 100% pure POLITICS. The only reason I am commenting is because the mayor in Seattle is mildy entertaining like that of a clown or mime.
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  • DesertRez wrote...
    and sportguru
    January 9, 2013 8:24 am
    you have to compare murder rates per capita, not GUN murder rates. Kind of pointless to look at GUN murder rates when all guns are illegal in UK. It is just another libby bullet point (get it ahaha) that they use to scare uninformed soccer moms
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  • Dmaxx wrote...
    Oh
    January 9, 2013 8:28 am
    so it's the guns I bought legally that you want me to turn in. Sorry I didn't understand. Well, if it's those guns you want, they cost me $1000 to buy and I will gladly sell them back to you for $10,000 now since your ban has made them so valuable.
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  • flipper wrote...
    Interesting..
    January 9, 2013 10:11 am
    ..that the Communist News Network (CNN) would hire someone like Morgan who fled England because he was being prosecuted for violating privacy laws. Maybe not...
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  • shanmatt72 wrote...
    Piers Morgan is an idiot
    January 9, 2013 10:47 am
    enough said.
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  • The Liberal Jedi wrote...
    NRA wants armed guards in schools...
    January 9, 2013 11:01 am
    Sure... As long as they pay for them!
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  • maplefish wrote...
    How about
    January 10, 2013 4:50 am
    Some of our military Vets???
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