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Feb 28, 2018 7:21PM PST
Pennsylvania worshippers bring their AR-15s to church

NEWFOUNDLAND, PA.—Crown-wearing worshippers clutching AR-15 rifles drank holy wine and exchanged or renewed wedding vows in a commitment ceremony at a Pennsylvania church on Wednesday, prompting a nearby school to cancel classes.

With state police and a smattering of protesters standing watch outside the church, brides clad in white and grooms in dark suits brought dozens of unloaded AR-15s into World Peace and Unification Sanctuary for a religious event that doubled as an advertisement for the Second Amendment.


Wine, AR 15s AND Religion...it's GOT IT ALL!!!!!!

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I just thought about this and
Mar 1, 2018 5:47AM PST

wouldn't it be something IF another person with an AR15 entered the church and decided they were NOT going to follow the plot and disable THEIR weapon?


ALL those weapons and only ONE that was capable of doing damage>>>>.

Did the people that organized the event think about that possibility?

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Kind of like when
Mar 1, 2018 9:51AM PST

ANTIFA brought all those sticks and bats to a peaceful protest and beat unarmed people?

Since the word was out that although the members of the church were coming with their AR's they would all be EMPTY, it basically turned into another GUNFREE ZONE/SOT TARGET for the bad guy? Good thing YOU weren't around, JP....perhaps you would have showed up with YOUR weapon to 'show them' since you 'thought about it'.

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RE:Good thing YOU weren't around, JP....
Mar 1, 2018 10:41AM PST
Good thing YOU weren't around, JP....perhaps you would have showed up with YOUR weapon to 'show them' since you 'thought about it'.

MY weapon?...My "wit or logical thinking"?

I would have hurt their feelings, with my "logic or wit"?

They were armed and easily offended?
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RE:Kind of like when
Mar 1, 2018 11:40AM PST
ANTIFA brought all those sticks and bats to a peaceful protest

Who brings a stick and a bat to a car fight?

Charlottesville Rally Turns Deadly: One Killed After Car Strikes Crowd

At 7:30 p.m., the University of Virginia Health System said it was still treating 19 patients from the car crash — five are in critical condition, four are in serious condition, six are fair and four are in good condition.

Described as a group of "anti-racist protesters" by a witness who took video of the crash, the group of marchers was packed close together at the end of a street near the intersection of Fourth and Water streets in downtown Charlottesville when the car struck.

Brennan Gilmore, a 37-year-old who works for a start up, shot the footage and said he heard tires squealing before he saw a car build up speed and ram the crowd. It hit a number of people before plowing into the bumper of another car.

Fields' mother, Samantha Bloom, told The Associated Press on Saturday night that she knew her son was attending a rally in Virginia but didn't know it was a white nationalist rally.

"I thought it had something to do with Trump. Trump's not a white supremacist," Bloom told the AP.


Trump's not, but her son is, and He supports Trump, what does the son know that momma won't say....

Momma don't know what the young fella' is doing?

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Why is it, JP
Mar 1, 2018 11:43AM PST

that you guys are insanely ok with banks, stadiums, celebrities, politicians, hospitals, etc. ALL being protected by ARMED guards, but schools and churches are off limits, when other than one instance at a McDonalds and one instance at a theater, those are the two most targeted with NO way to defend themselves....not to mention MILITARY bases where stupid rules said SOLDIERS weren't allowed to have their weapons with them? AND each of those instances have turned out to be total massacres..........

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RE:but schools and churches are off limits,
Mar 1, 2018 12:15PM PST

Don't you think they looked STUPID...standing there in a wedding dress with an AR 15 in their hand? Of course the "bride" did have BARE ARMS.....Is THAT the connection they were trying to make?

What can I say about the crowns they were wearing...THAT was the CROWNING glory to their foolishness...Back in the day the people wearing the Crown sent the foot soldiers in to do the dirty work.

Not likely I'll be shot in a school and even less chance I'll be shot in a church/place of worship.

More people have died at the hands of some religious fanatic (by following them/Jonestown?) than have died from gunfire(in a church).

Why is it, TONI H, that you feel the NEED to own an assault weapon?

In close contact fighting, like IF a person breaks into your house, you want to be able swing around and shoot in ANY direction, a long barrel rifle is just extra weight and a better chance of hitting furniture with the barrel...

Do you have a REALLY BIG house and you need the range an assault weapon provides?

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So YOU say....
Mar 1, 2018 3:53PM PST

"Not likely I'll be shot in a school and even less chance I'll be shot in a church/place of worship."

How many people are shot in a bank nowadays, but there are still armed guards....how likely is it that you'll be shot in a football stadium or even a concert yet they are well guarded (yes, there have been two that I know of that were bad...Nevada and Paris....but there was also an 'argument' shooting at a rap concert in NY in May, 2016 and a Boosie concert Nov 7, 2017. How many Congressional members have been shot?......two that I know of and I'm 71....and yet they ALL have armed protection. When's the last time a celebrity was targeted and killed (domestic violence doesn't count for this discussion)....and yet they all have body guards that are armed.

My protection is MY concern, not YOURS, and how I go about it is MY business, not YOURS. I'm asking you why, as a liberal, you have NO problem with all of the above mentioned venues being guarded with arms even though stats show the likelihood of killings at any of them are slim, and yet fight the idea of schools and churches protecting themselves and they are the MORE likely target BECAUSE they have no weapons and big signs saying GUNFREE ZONE?

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RE:So YOU say....
Mar 1, 2018 7:58PM PST
"Not likely I'll be shot in a school and even less chance I'll be shot in a church/place of worship."


BECAUSE I haven't been in a church/place of worship in decades....and in a school for slightly less....SO it's "not likely" I'll be shot in either of those places

RE: how likely is it that you'll be shot in a football stadium or even a concert

As likely as I'll be shot in a school or a place of worship.

ME?..... get shot at a bank?...With online banking? Chances of THAT are slim...and getting slimmer with technology....

RE:How many people are shot in a bank nowadays, but there are still armed guards

Armed guards?...Not in my neck of the woods....unless they are hiding under the desk somewhere....out of MY line of sight....
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TheRUMP says
Mar 1, 2018 9:48PM PST
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RE:Kind of like when
Mar 2, 2018 3:23AM PST
Kind of like when ANTIFA brought all those sticks and bats to a peaceful protest and beat unarmed people?

Who brings sticks and bats to a car fight?

Charlottesville Rally Turns Deadly: One Killed After Car Strikes Crowd

At 7:30 p.m., the University of Virginia Health System said it was still treating 19 patients from the car crash — five are in critical condition, four are in serious condition, six are fair and four are in good condition.

Described as a group of "anti-racist protesters" by a witness who took video of the crash, the group of marchers was packed close together at the end of a street near the intersection of Fourth and Water streets in downtown Charlottesville when the car struck.

Brennan Gilmore, a 37-year-old who works for a start up, shot the footage and said he heard tires squealing before he saw a car build up speed and ram the crowd. It hit a number of people before plowing into the bumper of another car.

"It was very clearly intentional," Gilmore told NBC News. "From the far end of the street it accelerated, slowed down right before the crowd and then slammed on the gas through the crowd sending bodies flying. And then it reversed back into the street dragging bodies and clothes."

Fields' mother, Samantha Bloom, told The Associated Press on Saturday night that she knew her son was attending a rally in Virginia but didn't know it was a white nationalist rally.

"I thought it had something to do with Trump. Trump's not a white supremacist," Bloom told the AP.

The FBI and Department of Justice have opened a civil-rights investigation into the deadly crash.
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So, what started out as a
Mar 2, 2018 4:38AM PST

peaceful rally, no matter what group it was, became a riot when ANTIFA protestors showed up and started beating people.....and retaliation was the driver of the car, but the liberal news didn't bother to mention that. I'm NOT saying the car driver is anything other than a piece of garbage, but his group didn't start the riot and came without weapons of any kind. They had the right to protest and hold a rally just as any other group, whether I agree with their agenda or not, in this country does.

The mother's words are right but the FBI and DOJ should have opened a civil rights investigation into BOTH groups rather than pick sides like they've had a tendency to do over the last 9 years....remember the GWB charges against the New Black Panthers that BO immediately dropped?

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RE: The mother's words are right
Mar 2, 2018 5:10AM PST

These words?

I thought it had something to do with Trump

A demonstration BY white supremacists has "something to do with Trump"?


In favour of Trump? OR Against Trump?

Since it was a "Liberal group"(according to you) that was AGAINST the white supremacists, I have to use my powers of logical thinking and come to the conclusion that the white supremacists were PRO Trump....

You don't think both sides were in agreement and they were just having a family feud do you?

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Neither group is FOR Trump, JP
Mar 3, 2018 1:43AM PST

even YOU know that.....but her SON probably told her HIS group WAS in order to make her 'happy' about his going. But I noticed that you didn't dispute the fact that the LIBERAL side is the one that showed up WITH weapons, ready for a fight against those WITHOUT weapons, and that they started it, and that the OTHER side actually had a PERMIT to rally/protest. No matter what you think about the 'white supremacist' group, they were holding their rally legally. BUT the group that had NO weapons FOUND one (a car) and retaliated.

I don't like EITHER group, but this isn't the first time that ANTIFA has showed up armed and ready/instigating violence. Stats have proven time and again that the whacked out LEFT are the violent groups that riot and destroy.

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RE:ready for a fight against those WITHOUT weapons,
Mar 3, 2018 3:15AM PST

You actually believe that there weren't people waving those Confederate flags that were packing heat? Come on TONI H.....Waving the flag? Without a weapon?...it doesn't make sense....

Did you notice the guy with a Confederate flag ON A BIG STICK trying to hit a protester?

RE:But I noticed that you didn't dispute the fact that the LIBERAL side is the one that showed up WITH weapons,

"Showed up WITH" weapons? It appears some "DROVE THEIR" weapons to the rally.....Killed one injured 18 others?

RE:the OTHER side actually had a PERMIT to rally/


Are YOU the person that wanted to "piggyback" a 'pro-life rally" on a "planned parenthood" rally?

Why didn't you get your own permit?

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Get your facts stragiht at least, JP
Mar 3, 2018 10:49AM PST

It was a "WOMAN'S MARCH"........NOT a 'planned parenthood' rally......and they refused to allow women who were pro-life. IF they wanted to exclude pro-life WOMEN from a WOMAN'S march, then they should have CALLED it a 'pro-abortion/planned parenthood'
rally/march, DONCHA THINK???????

That's the problem with liberals......they are ONLY tolerant of people who AGREE with their agenda or they are pushed aside/rioted against/protested against/or refused free speech.

AND, unless you can find video ANYWHERE to prove ANY of those who got the permit to protest WERE carrying weapons, you have NO defense...you are ASSUMING and SPECULATING....the same 'crime' you accuse ME of often. IF that person carrying the confederate flag hit someone with the STICK carrying the flag, show me where it WASN'T in self-defense because ALL videos I'VE seen show the ANTIFA group starting the bashing with THEIR weapons that they DID bring in PREPARATION of violence. AND, the idiot from the permit side who used his car to retaliate with IS being punished for his crime but I would venture a guess that he wouldn't have done it if ANTIFA hadn't showed up ready for war in the first place because he would have had no REASON to.

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RE:ALL videos I'VE seen show the ANTIFA group starting the b
Mar 3, 2018 12:19PM PST

RE:ALL videos I'VE seen show the ANTIFA group starting the bashing

Starting?. When does something "start"?

Good editing? To show what THEY want to "show"?

RE:DONCHA THINK???????

That's the TONI H that I recognize....

RE:That's the problem with liberals......they are ONLY tolerant of people who AGREE with their agenda or they are pushed aside/rioted against/protested against/or refused free speech.

Then why would YOU and everyone else that believes what YOU believe want to march WITH them?

Their beliefs ARE different than yours aren't they?

You don't think they changed their beliefs AFTER you and your group wanted to MARCH in THEIR parade do you?

RE:they should have CALLED it a 'pro-abortion/planned parenthood' rally/march,.

SHOULD have?...COULD have....perhaps they didn't want too long a title for the MARCH....

Their MARCH?...their TITLE....their RULES?..

ONE March...with 2 groups of women that have opposing points of view....sounds like the start of a dustup....

CATFIGHT?????

YEEHAW!!!!!

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(NT) typical JP babble speak
Mar 3, 2018 4:56PM PST
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(NT) You're welcome?
Mar 3, 2018 8:55PM PST
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Recipe for Disaster
Mar 2, 2018 10:31PM PST

This seems like a recipe for disaster waiting to happen. As someone mentioned here, all it takes is for someone to disagree with the cause, and you're going to have one large massacre.

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(NT) Oops. Sorry. I wandered into a Town Hall by mistake.
Mar 3, 2018 2:06PM PST