A move to reinstate a federal ban on assault weapons now has a new co-sponsor on Capitol Hill, and he says last week’s murder of Philadelphia police officer Stephen Liczbinski is what prompted him to act.
Posted on 05/09/2008 4:15:12 PM PDT by neverdem
A move to reinstate a federal ban on assault weapons now has a new co-sponsor on Capitol Hill, and he says last week’s murder of Philadelphia police officer Stephen Liczbinski is what prompted him to act.
Suburban US congressman Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) admits that the plan has been in the pipeline for months, and concedes that its chances for passage this term are slim. But Sestak (in file photo above) insists that the Liczbinski slaying merely prompted him to act on a measure he’s always supported:
"There’s no need to have our law enforcement officers having to feel like they’re going into downtown Baghdad. This is one where we want them to feel safe -- relatively safe."
Congressman Chaka Fattah (D-Pa.) was one of about five dozen members who co-sponsored the measure shortly after its introduction more than a year ago, by Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY). It would reinstate the ban on 19 assault weapons that was approved in the '90s but allowed to expire four years ago. It’s currently in committee.
The Sleestak strikes again:
http://www.comixconnection.com/uploaded_images/sleestak_enik2-730239.jpg
do they have any idea how much money the rifle companies are about to make because of their crap laws?
These scumbags draft these laws and them file them away knowing that they would never pass under normal circumstance. Then when some tragedy occurs they pull out the appropriate file folder and and use the emotions of the moment to ram it home. These idiots probably jumped for joy when that officer was shot, knowing full well the opportunity it offered them.
Its the legislative equivalent of ambulance chasing.
The boundless stupidity of these dimwit DhimmiRat Libs never ceases to amaze me.
It was NOT the firearm that killed that man. It was the sick, criminal, shooter holding it. The legal beef in this one is with the perp, not the weapon.
Assault weapon ban? Completely unnecessary, and a clear trampling of the Second Amendment right recognized in the US Constitution.
It’s in the tagline...
I thought Sestak was supposed to be one of the RKBA donkeys first elected in November 2006.
LOL!
So many heads, I’m going to run out of pikes...
Usually when a legislator or a local police chief are talking about assault weapons, there’s always the accompanied verbage of purchasing the M4 Carbine for their own police force so they won’t have to show up at a gun fight with a pistol against the other guy’s AK-47.
First, since when do police show up on the crime scene while the crime is still ongoing? Virtually never. It’s a minor miracle if they can even get the police report filed correctly. LOL!
Second, if you’re lousy with a .9MM Beretta Model 96 you’re not going to magically transfer into a crack shot by picking up an M4.
Third, buying 500-2000 M4’s for your police dept is downright expensive.
Fourth, most importantly, why are our police forces parading around like they’re the 7th Cavalry? They’re supposed to be a civilian police force. Enough of the militarization, please!
Yours truly,
The Woim
Sleestack redoubles efforts to advance the socialist takeover agenda.
I hope this gets the NRA’s attention. Craig Williams is a good patriot and veteran, but is woefully underfunded.
Does the putz have a decent primary opponent for November or, if too late, a decent RKBA Republican opponent???
F this goon and the whore he rode in on. They just want to make everyone in America into felons. The AW ban didn’t help before and it won’t now.
The utter stupidity of these people never ceases to amaze me. First, it’s likely the murderer obtained the gun illegally in the first place. However, it doesn’t matter one bit.
If somebody is willing to rob a bank and murder a police officer, they have more than demonstrated their total indifference to the law. Committing two felonies (at least one of which is punishable by death) should certainly illustrate that they don’t give a damn about any gun laws. In other words, any ban on assault weapons (including decades-old Chinese rifles) WOULD HAVE ACCOMPLISHED NOTHING HERE. They weren’t convinced by the previous ban’s utter uselessness, so I guess they have to try it again.
His website accepts all input. Even though I’m not in his district, or state, I let him know what I thought of his cosponsoring this Socialist garbage. Why not do the same.
His contact website is: http://sestak.house.gov/contact.shtml
Thanks for the link.
Pseudo Representative Joe Sleezescum is a hired Idiot working for the Clintoon Shadow Government. Hopefully, he(It) gets fired by the voters in November! The Clintoons will make sure no other Demorat wins the POTUS, so they dont loose control of the CSG!
He defeated Curt Weldon in 06.
Good, so take your gun ban, stick it where the sun don't shine and STFU.
They know that. It is all about people control. That is what they are after. Control the guns ; control the people.
But the sobs are elected by American voters.
And each year moer and more Americans are willing to sell their birthright for a government handout.
The politicans know full well what they are doing. It is the lawabiding citizens they do not want to own or possess firearms. As my eith grade teacher said” Control the guns, control the people”.
The only difference between them and the communists ans national socialists in Stalin and Hitler’s day in th ehe spelling of their names.
Yet the American voters keep electing them in election after election.
how many are up for election this year??? THROW THE BUMS OUT!!!
Militarization is right.
The local Texas cops showed up with an armored personnel carrier at the FLDS complex. Orwellian.
Paging Henry Bowman, your hogs are hungry.
I signed up for JPFO’s alerts.
Nice :)
So.......Doesn’t he have to run every two years?
As I suspected, the weapon was not an assault weapon, but a semi auto clone.
Are they going to try to change the defination of an assault weapon now?
“Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey then got into the mix.
“I don’t care about Wikipedia or any other kind of pedias,” he said. “If it’s not an assault weapon by definition, then add it to the freaking list.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2013654/posts?page=68#68
Add it to the freaking list?
“There’s no need to have our law enforcement officers having to feel like they’re going into downtown Baghdad”
The LEO’s would probably be safer in downtown Baghdad as opposed to Filthydelphia or Pittsburg.
As well they drive the fence sitting voter too the pro 2nd candidate IMO. Socialist rats are seditious idiots. As everyone knows, the criminals killing people will surely follow “this” new ban . The term law abiding escapes these fools.
Vote with our dollars... as that is all the polidiots handlers understand.
And understand this .....IMHO anyone who violates the constitution of these United States is by definition a “domestic enemy”........react accordingly when they present themselves.
Stay safe !
Can’t even “vote with your dollars” any more. Due to socialist redistribution of wealth via government welfare programs, they get your cash no matter where you are.
LOL........Mines buried under the porch in a a dozen 55 gallon drums..........how they get that ?:o)
But I understand what ya mean , yet there are ways.
Stay safe !
I have a father-in-law, nephew and daughter now in, or have been in the past, LEOs, so I am NOT on an anti-police tirade. However, if these police in Philly are not “feeling relatively safe”, they picked the wrong profession and should have become librarians. Geez.
It’s a good time to do this, right before the election! That will turn gun owners against the RAT party!!
REMEMBER: despite his promise not to enact more NEW gun control legislation, Jorge El Segundo, El Peonador, said he would sign this new bill. Another sign, along with the Global Warming idiocy that indicates Bush has drifted inot the Left-wing Democart Camp.
It seems to me that citizens with "assault weapons" aren't the problem. Police who go on pseudo-SWAT raids are a bigger problem. Perhaps what's needed is a ban on the carrying of assault weapons by police?
I think I would be lousy with a .9MM Beretta. My eyesight isn’t as good as it used to be and loading that thing without tweezers and a magnifying glass would be a pain.
LOL.
Your wife sneak those in there so your buddies would make fun of you?
;->
Hey - it’s a homey touch. Shows that I’m not an insensitive guy. Snicker.
All the moral courage of a weather vane. Probably the same trait that got him promoted to flag rank despite his comlete lack of leadership skills.
Socialist scum like him don’t listen to the likes of you and I. In fact, it is my opinion that writing scathing letters to people like Sestak simply reinforces their conviction they are right (that’s the only effect it had on Boxer, Feinstein and Pelosi). We’re all just knuckle-dragging, gun-toting baboons to him and his ilk. Their first reaction to the e-mail would be to wonder who we paid to turn on the computer and write it for us.
Instead, I’ll just go to the store, stock up on ammo while its still legal to buy in this state and renew my NRA membership. And if I can afford it when the time comes, send a few dollars to whoever is running against him next election.
ditto
I used to agree with you ... back in about 1990.
My opinion of "these people" has gone downhill drastically since then.
They're not stupid. They're counting on us being stupid.
They, OTOH, are evil powerhungry totalitarians; lying is second nature to them. They know what they're saying is BS, but they can use it to exert more control over the populace, so that's what they do. See also "global warming" which they primarily bitch about when it's hot out, but they shut up when it's cold.
That too....they do however experience some doubts about an action they’ve taken when their inboxes are flooded with really angry letters. F..k that “respectful” s..t!
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