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Posted: 3/30/2016 8:29:54 PM EDT

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Miss ya Boss

Posted: 3/30/2016 8:36:20 PM EDT

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One of these assholes will try to shoot Trump,count on it. He needs to stay frosty.

Posted: 3/30/2016 8:43:45 PM EDT

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The executive branch holds veto authority. Not veto attempt was made on the amnesty bill nor when the Hughes was added last minute to the FOPA (after failing the house vote controlled by democrats). Then Reagan's personal remarks in favor of banning assault weapons when he wasn't even in office have nothing to do with Democrats. Reagan was an enemy to gun owners and should be remembered correctly for that.

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The executive branch holds veto authority. Not veto attempt was made on the amnesty bill nor when the Hughes was added last minute to the FOPA (after failing the house vote controlled by democrats). Then Reagan's personal remarks in favor of banning assault weapons when he wasn't even in office have nothing to do with Democrats. Reagan was an enemy to gun owners and should be remembered correctly for that.

Oh bullshit. He was advised by the NRA (and don't bother with the nonsense the NRA "is really a stealth gun control group") to sign the FOPA because the MG ban only affected a tiny percentage of gun owners and was so blatantly unconstitutional it was sure to be struck down later. His comments about the AWB were released on his behalf by his goofy wife--AFTER he had alzheimers. He was approached to ban guns after the attempt on his life and he ran the Dems off. Banning handguns was all the rage back then, as "assault weapons" weren't even (mis)named that in the early 1980s. Try again.

ETA: Forgot to mention the amnesty. That was a double-cross by the Dems. An agreement was reached to grant amnesty to the 3 million already here, then build a wall and STOP further incursions/invasions. The Dems reneged. Reagan bargained in good faith and learned the Dems are duplicitous.

Posted: 3/30/2016 8:46:08 PM EDT

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Wow, remember it vividly, seemed to have lost about 35 years that went by too fast.

Posted: 3/30/2016 8:47:18 PM EDT

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I was 7 and remet seeing it on the news.

Posted: 3/30/2016 8:48:43 PM EDT

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I was 5 and goddamn i wish i remembered this

Posted: 3/30/2016 8:50:27 PM EDT

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There was a really good documentary on about this a few years ago. Well worth the watch if you can find it. I don't recall the title so I'm no help. I had no idea just how very close the President came to dying until I watched the show. I've felt guilty about that ever since.

Posted: 3/30/2016 8:51:44 PM EDT

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One of these assholes will try to shoot Trump,count on it. He needs to stay frosty.

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Sure. Someone out there has a "If you could go back in time and shoot Hitler would you?" fantasy regarding Trump. He should be careful.

Posted: 3/30/2016 8:53:35 PM EDT

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Mustaches and Uzis

Posted: 3/30/2016 8:56:33 PM EDT

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There was a really good documentary on about this a few years ago. Well worth the watch if you can find it. I don't recall the title so I'm no help. I had no idea just how very close the President came to dying until I watched the show. I've felt guilty about that ever since.

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I was 5 and goddamn i wish i remembered this

There was a really good documentary on about this a few years ago. Well worth the watch if you can find it. I don't recall the title so I'm no help. I had no idea just how very close the President came to dying until I watched the show. I've felt guilty about that ever since.

This one? Haven't seen it myself, it's the first one on a Google search.

Posted: 3/30/2016 9:17:41 PM EDT

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This one? Haven't seen it myself, it's the first one on a Google search.

http://youtu.be/Bt87SbaDeA0

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I was 5 and goddamn i wish i remembered this

There was a really good documentary on about this a few years ago. Well worth the watch if you can find it. I don't recall the title so I'm no help. I had no idea just how very close the President came to dying until I watched the show. I've felt guilty about that ever since.

This one? Haven't seen it myself, it's the first one on a Google search.

http://youtu.be/Bt87SbaDeA0

Ive seen all the Documentaries and i was living 6 miles north of the event when it happened. I was just too young to remember first hand.
And now i wish i had saved the hand written note he wrote back to me in response to the $5 bill i sent him to help pay down the national debt. It was around 1984.

Posted: 3/30/2016 9:51:11 PM EDT

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This one? Haven't seen it myself, it's the first one on a Google search.

http://youtu.be/Bt87SbaDeA0

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I was 5 and goddamn i wish i remembered this

There was a really good documentary on about this a few years ago. Well worth the watch if you can find it. I don't recall the title so I'm no help. I had no idea just how very close the President came to dying until I watched the show. I've felt guilty about that ever since.

This one? Haven't seen it myself, it's the first one on a Google search.

http://youtu.be/Bt87SbaDeA0

No, that's not it. The one I referenced dealt specifically with the President's time in the hospital and even depicted the surgery. It had x-rays of the bullet, etc.

Posted: 3/30/2016 10:51:03 PM EDT

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Freshman in college, I watched the coverage on the TV in the student union building.

Posted: 3/30/2016 10:53:30 PM EDT

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It blew my mind a few years ago when I found out Hinckley had used a .22

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That's part of the reason everyone survived. A bigger caliber and James Brady would have gone from being wheelchair-bound to dead. Reagan probably wouldn't have made it, either.

Posted: 3/30/2016 10:57:22 PM EDT

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I remember it well. I was only 7yo but kept watching the news show it over and over again.

Posted: 3/30/2016 11:16:19 PM EDT

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This one? Haven't seen it myself, it's the first one on a Google search.

http://youtu.be/Bt87SbaDeA0

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I was 5 and goddamn i wish i remembered this

There was a really good documentary on about this a few years ago. Well worth the watch if you can find it. I don't recall the title so I'm no help. I had no idea just how very close the President came to dying until I watched the show. I've felt guilty about that ever since.

This one? Haven't seen it myself, it's the first one on a Google search.

http://youtu.be/Bt87SbaDeA0

... decent documentary