October 27, 200817 yr The US government tonight revealed it had foiled a plot to assassinate Barack Obama and 102 black people. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms said the plan was to kill the Democratic presidential candidate and shoot or decapitate 102 black people in a Tennessee murder spree. In court records revealed today, agents said they disrupted plans to rob a gun store and target an unnamed but predominantly African-American high school by two neo-Nazi skinheads. LINK
October 27, 200817 yr This isn't the first time this has happened, and it sadly won't be the last...I just pray none of them are successful.
October 27, 200817 yr Can you technically 'assassinate' someone who is not the President? Yes. as⋅sas⋅si⋅nate /əˈsæsəˌneɪt/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [uh-sas-uh-neyt] Show IPA Pronunciation –verb (used with object), -nat⋅ed, -nat⋅ing. 1. to kill suddenly or secretively, esp. a politically prominent person; murder premeditatedly and treacherously. 2. to destroy or harm treacherously and viciously: to assassinate a person's character. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/assassinate I would say that Obama is politically prominent.
October 27, 200817 yr I don't put much stock in guys like these, guns just aren't a very good choice with all the security he'll have. Now if they had a bomb or something, well that would be a bigger conern.
October 27, 200817 yr And yet, there's no "racism" in this country (according to some pundits). And yet, anyone should be able to buy a gun...any gun.... It's an ugly, ugly, society we have become....or not evolved out of.
October 27, 200817 yr And yet, there's no "racism" in this country (according to some pundits). And yet, anyone should be able to buy a gun...any gun.... It's an ugly, ugly, society we have become....or not evolved out of. No one has ever said there is no racism in this country. And yes, it is our constitutional right to own a gun. Nothing ugly about that.
October 27, 200817 yr Can you technically 'assassinate' someone who is not the President? Ask Bobby Kennedy, MLK, Malcom X, Huey Long (although he and Bobby did hold offices in government at the time).
October 27, 200817 yr And yet, anyone should be able to buy a gun...any gun.... Did these guys have criminal records? I know that it is sad, but where does the line end? Who gets to have guns and who doesn't? Only the government? I am just happy that our government is still effective enough to stop this before it happened.
October 27, 200817 yr I am just happy that our government is still effective enough to stop this before it happened. Amen.
October 28, 200817 yr And yet, there's no "racism" in this country (according to some pundits). Who the heck thinks that? And yet, anyone should be able to buy a gun...any gun....Who says that? It's an ugly, ugly, society we have become....or not evolved out of. There's a lot of good in this world, RM. Why only look at the bad side?
October 28, 200817 yr No one has ever said there is no racism in this country. And yes, it is our constitutional right to own a gun. Nothing ugly about that. Amen to that, but not everyone can own a gun, and rightly so.
October 28, 200817 yr If he wins, this will be the first of MANY. The Secret Service is always looking into potential threats. Most you never hear about. It is certainly no where near a first for a presidential candidate and it probably isn't even the first for Obama. Just the first you have heard about.
October 28, 200817 yr There's a lot of good in this world, RM. Why only look at the bad side? Hey, I'm not the one who owns a gun, or thinks that if I don't I'm going to wind up a statistic if I don't. :lol: I do find a lot of wonderful in the world. But, it's very ugly too.
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