Since the Speaker to be Kevin McCarthy confessed that the committee's best work has been hitting Hillary's poll numbers it's time for them to look at a real problem. The soft spoken grandmother from Sodom on the San Andreas has an idea.
Washington, D.C. – Today, Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi sent a letter
to Speaker John Boehner calling for the creation of a Select Committee
on Gun Violence to confront the crisis of gun violence in America and
recommend common sense legislation to help end it. In addition, Leader
Pelosi urged Congressional passage of the bipartisan King-Thompson bill
to strengthen background checks that save American lives.
As Leader Pelosi wrote, “The epidemic of gun violence in our country
challenges the conscience of our nation. Mass shootings and gun
violence are inflicting daily tragedy on communities across America. As
of today, nearly 10,000 Americans have been killed by guns in 2015 –
more than 30 gun violence deaths a day. Yesterday’s terrible attack at
Umpqua Community College in Oregon marked the 45th school shooting this
year alone.
So many politicians try to make us afraid of some Muslim terrorist trying to kill us but the chance of that happening is very remote. A guy tries to set his sneakers on fire on a plane so we all have to take our shoes off for the next few years.
Today there was yet another mass murder in Oregon but nothing will be done about it because of a broad reading of the 2nd Amendment by the courts and the gun(NRA) nuts have a veto on almost all gun safety laws.
2nd Amendment: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free
State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be
infringed.
What about the "well regulated militia" part. The Supreme Court has ignored it and we have been arguing about it since 1791. The Militia is important, so if you want to own a gun you should be ready to muster and fall in line to protect the country from invasion, rebellion or Indian attack.
I was in the military for 8 years and there were very strict rules about when someone could carry a weapon and where. FOR GOOD REASONS! You almost never hear of some " gun accident" happening on a military base. Ask any base commander who is probably a Colonel in his 40's if he want's a bunch of his 18-20 year old troops running around with loaded guns on post. Think about it, what could possibly go wrong?
Well, it seems to happen every couple of years and here we go again. Once again, the puny commie liberals are trying to take away my constitutional right to bear arms. Why should I be surprised?? Damn!!!!!
After the school shooting a few months ago all of the hippie, flower power, Chairman Mao worshipping heathens came out of their closets (following their success on the gay marriage issue) and figured they could really soak their agenda on good God-Fearing, patriotic Americans like me. No doubt, the shooting up there in Connecticut was a tragedy, but does anyone think like me, that maybe if some of the teachers were packing (and maybe some of the older students, too) there would have been a different result??? That clown who did the evil deed would have been pushing up daisies before he got a single shot into anyone! But, of course, it’s all the fault of the proud gun owners of America.
There’s nothing more fun than growing up toting a gun.
My old man gave me my first gun when I was 6……a fine .22 caliber mini rifle. Gee, it was fun taking that out and picking off woodchucks and rabbits that were getting into Mom’s garden. And, I learned gun responsibility too.
One time I shot a little off target when trying to down a squirrel and the bullet went straight into the living room window, barely missing Pops (who was having his traditional bottle [s] of Ballantine). The bullet directly blew apart Pops brew as the bottle shattered all over the wall as well as the beer. I can still recall the beating Pops gave me, not particularly, because I nearly killed him, but because I wasted a good bottle of beer on a count of my carelessness. Sometimes I can still feel the shiners he gave me on both eyes on that afternoon. But after that, I always aimed with good focus and never forgot the wonderful lesson Pops taught me. For the rest of my life, I could never hoist a bottle of Ballantine beer out of guilt. My preference is a cold Stegmaier. Good ol’ Pops…..he was one in a million. What a great guy…..I miss him a lot
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But now we are raising kids to be such wussies that we won’t even allow them to enjoy a toy gun. I mean, what is wrong with a two, or a three year old toting a plastic tommy gun???? Not only is it good masculine fun, but great preparation for when you get older (around 6 or 8) and can handle the real deal.
Of course, my dumb grandson’s idea of a good toy is some dumb puppet or sissy doll. I don’t get it. And we wonder why this nation’s goin’ down the tubes!!!!!
So, all you commies who want to ban firearms just remember there’s a thing called the fifth amendment to the constitution, or the first or third (I’m not sure which one but it’s there!!) that protects the rights of real Americans like me and my buddies Creep, Gummo and Skeets.
After all, we fought the big war for you all to be free to act like pansies.
Take that!!!! As for me, tonight I’ll spend some time at the Legion with those heroes, then I’ll come back to my home, sit back and pop open a Gold Medal Steg, puff on a few Lucky’s and watch the great Richard Boone, a real actor (to hell with Ben Affleck) in Have Gun Will Travel. Now there’s a show!!!!
I found out about the shooting at Newtown, Connecticut in
the mid-morning, that Friday, when I was in a foreign policy briefing. U.S. Rep.-elect Elizabeth Esty, the excellent
new Congresswoman for the district in which Newtown is located, was sitting
next to me. She took the call on her
mobile phone. I saw the look on her
face. She was stricken.
It’s hard to know when the right time is to shift from
mournful comments about the tragic loss of lives, and the terrible toll taken
on the families. It’s hard to know when
it’s all right to start talking about how it could have been prevented or at
least how it could have been prevented from being as bad as it was. The problem is that people will feel that
it’s not right to try to score political points out of a horrible situation
like this.
I don’t want to make points about politics. I want to make a point about law.
The most important principle about making laws is that they
should promote good and avoid evil.
St. Thomas Aquinas, in his best-known work, the Summa Theologica, wrote of the natural
law, “this is the first precept of the law, that good is to be done, and
promoted, and evil is to be avoided. All
other precepts of the natural law are based on this.” He wrote that in 1274.
If ever there was a clear presentation of the contrast
between good and evil, it appeared in Newtown, Connecticut, on December 14,
2012. The goodness, the innocence, of 6-
and 7-year old boys and girls, full of fun, eager to learn, and excited to be
together, would never be questioned.
Whatever it was that possessed their killer, whatever psychosis invaded
his brain, whatever mental turmoil it was that drove Adam Lanza to kill that
day, it was evil. And what he actually
did, with a Bushmaster AR-15, inside that elementary school, was pure evil. No one doubts it.
The question is, how is this kind of evil to be
avoided? Can we make laws to help avoid
this kind of unspeakable evil?
The answer is, yes, we can.
We can enact laws that restrict the purchase and sale of semi-automatic
assault rifles. We can enact laws that
restrict the purchase and sale of high-capacity ammunition magazines. We can do this, and it is legal.
It has been done before.
Between 1994 and 2004 we had an assault rifle ban in our country. Prominent members of the law enforcement
community supported the ban. The nation did not dissolve. The Constitution did not disintegrate. The sky did not fall.
It does not violate the Second Amendment to ban assault
rifles and high-capacity ammunition magazines.
For generations, the Supreme Court has made it clear that there are
limits to the declarations in the Bill of Rights. For example, the First Amendment’s right of
free speech does not extend to going into crowded cinemas and yelling
“fire!”
On July 29, 2012, nine days after another mass shooting at
an Aurora, Colorado, movie theater, Justice Antonin Scalia – possibly the most
conservative member of the Supreme Court in its entire history – told Fox News
Sunday in a discussion of the Second Amendment:
“Yes, there are some limitations that can be imposed.”
Banning assault rifles like the Bushmaster AR-15 used on the
Sandy Hook children would not cure the evil that drove Adam Lanza to kill. But it would make it more difficult for him
to kill. In killing 27 people, Lanza is
reported to have fired as many as three hundred rounds, pumping as many as 11
bullets into each victim. Lanza was using
equipment that made him an efficient child-killing machine.
This kind of firepower is not necessary for hunting, or self-defense. Our American experience has showed us example
after example of assault rifles and high capacity clips being used in mass
killings of innocent people. What we
never hear about are instances of these weapons being used in self-defense,
which is the point of the Second Amendment.
We also never hear about assault rifles being taken hunting. No self-respecting deer hunter would even consider
firing a dozen bullets at a buck.
I announced my support for an assault rifle ban in July,
after the Aurora shooting. I urge you to
contact your elected officials to express your support for bans on assault
rifles and high-capacity ammunition magazines.
How many more innocent schoolchildren have to die before we
find the courage to enact laws that will actually help us avoid this kind of
evil?
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