FBI Chief Unhappy With Supreme Court Ruling

kwtx.com ^ | July 1, 2008 | NA

[neverdem]

The director of the FBI is not happy with the Supreme Court's recent handgun ruling.

Robert Mueller says he tends to believe that "weapons harm people, and more often than not they harm the people carrying them."

Mueller said the high court's decision, which threw out a handgun ban in Washington, D.C., "does throw a lot of things up in the air."

Mueller said communities will now have to decide their own licensing programs.

Mueller was speaking at a convention of the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators in Hartford, Connecticut.

He says with his grandchildren going to college, he hopes "those campuses will be weapons-free."

[neverdem]

So much for a former Marine, he needs to resign from the FBI.

[K-oneTexas]

Former Marine and former judge. Well no accounting for taste.

[Brilliant]

He’s posturing for a starring role in the Obama administration.

[texson66]

I’m clinging to my weapons because of people like you, Mr Mueller!

[Sprite518]

Muller needs to look at the facts instead of complaining about a right that was given to us at our Nation's foundation.

[JamesP81]

The director of the FBI is not happy with the Supreme Court's recent handgun ruling.

The director of the FBI can go get stuffed.

[HwyChile]

There are a lot of large cities that don’t have handgun bans, and those cities don’t have any greater problems than DC or Chicago or NYC. For example, Houston and Dallas don’t have handgun bans.

[G-Bear]

“...they more often than not harm the people carrying them...”

Does that include FBI agents?

[WayneS]

Mr. Mueller needs to be FIRED immediately. He is violating his oath of office with every breath he takes.

[Dick Bachert]

That cinches it:

If the head FIBber is unhappy, the Supremes did — as we here all know — the right thing.

[ozzymandus]

Wasn’t the Nazi Gestapo also run by a man named Muller? Any relation, or just the same thought patterns?

[Repeal 16-17]

So FBI agents can be trusted to have firearms, but the average American is just too stupid to possess a gun. How condescending.

[pissant]

Muledirt needs to get the hell out of the FBI. Flippin liberal.

[mysterio]

Robert Mueller says he tends to believe that "weapons harm people, and more often than not they harm the people carrying them."

In that case, let's disarm the FBI.

[WayneS]

That right was NOT “given” to us.

It was and is OURS.

Our founding fathers merely pledged that our government would not infringe on it.

[CindyDawg]

Not liking what the Constitution says is optional. Following it, isn't.

I don't like a lot of federal laws but I still have to abide by them.

[unkus]

I’m clinging to my weapons because of people like you, Mr Mueller!

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That’s it.

[AreaMan]

Sometimes career law enforcement types get the "Us vs Them" bunker mentality and NOBODY but them can be trusted with firearms.

Or maybe Director Mueller is just a politician who has forgotten what it's like to be a regular person trying to survive without a security detail.

[samadams2000]

OMG! What John Ross wrote about in Unintended Consequences is spot on.

[theDentist]

Here you go Director...

...perhaps it'll help you think more clearly.

[Dead Corpse]

Robert Mueller says he tends to believe that "weapons harm people, and more often than not they harm the people carrying them."

As evidenced by the high rate of military and police forces shooting themselves?

Ok... There was the Lubbock "Circular Firing Squad" the SWAT team there pulled, but I'm ok with only allowing law enforcement tightly regulated access to firearms.

Everyone else in the civilian population is MUCH more capable of carrying arms for their own defense and requires no such regulations.

[vbmoneyspender]

Robert Mueller says he tends to believe that "[fill in the blank] harm people, and more often than not they harm the people [fill in the blank] them."

cars , riding
knives , holding
razors, using

[MainFrame65]

Another Bush appoint matching the quality of Norman Mineta or Harriet Myers. Sigh....

[DuncanWaring]

"weapons harm people, and more often than not they harm the people carrying them."

He's right.

My M-1 bit my thumb once, and it doesn't do my right shoulder any favors.

[Smokin' Joe]

Mueller said communities will now have to decide their own licensing programs

Has anyone else noticed how the talk seems to center around the licensure of a fundamental right as if it were mere priveledge?

Keep your forms, Mr. Mueller, save the taxpayer a grundle on printing and paperwork. This is my right. Maybe we should start talking about what "shall not be infringed" means.

[MovementConservative]

He says with his grandchildren going to college, he hopes "those campuses will be weapons-free."

In an ideal world there would never be weapons on a campus. As we saw from Va. Tech, when a loon wants to bring a gun on campus they don't check to see if the rules allow them.

[unixfox]

Robert Mueller says he tends to believe that "weapons harm people...

Weapons do NOTHING, people harm people.

[DoughtyOne]

Exactly right. Moller, hand in your resignation.

You are sworn to defend the Constitution of the United States. Now hit the road.

The amendments that don’t refer to procedural matters, address individual rights. How can anyone come away from the Second Amendment thinking it is the only Amendment that has an escppe clause.

The government answers to us. It is not the other way around. We are the ones who grant government the right to be armed in our nation. It IS NOT the other way around.

[G Larry]

The chief is in denial of clear data available to him.

The crime rate will fall, now that potential victims can defend themselves.

The chief is just another control freak, afraid of a citizenry able to defend itself.

[Cyber Liberty]

Robert Mueller says he tends to believe that "weapons harm people, and more often than not they harm the people carrying them."

Another Bush appointee strikes again. Yet another idiot who believes guns crawl out of cabinets, load themselves and go off and shoot people.

[RDasher]

I hadn’t had any weapons for many years. Bill Clinton and Janet Reno made me reconsider, and to join the NRA.

[Smokin' Joe]

Does that include FBI agents?

Well, at least one DEA guy with a Glock 40...

[Hegemony Cricket]

So does Mueller carry? Is he willing to quit? Would he be happy if all his agents stopped carrying? Jus’ aksin’...

[B Knotts]

When Democrats are in power, they appoint liberals. Why do "our guys" keep appointing liberals?

Never mind; I know the answer.

[Joe Boucher]

Seems Robert Mueller has enough to worry about at the F.B.I. then get involved in decisions of the Supremes.
Has the F.B.I. allowed any more innocents to go to jail for long periods of time to protect their murdering informants?
Has the F.B.I. killed anyone lately? Like they did in Waco or Ruby Ridge?
Has the F.B.I. covered any embarassing incidents lately? Like The jet shoot down over N.Y? The waco fiasco? The Ruby Rigde fiasco? The Murrah building attack? The conviction of only Tim McVeigh instead of him and the others involved?
Mr. Mueller, me thinks your F.B.I. has its own internal problems for you to spend time dealing with, not MY GUN RIGHTS.
FOOL.

[G.Mason]

Our country is full of these traitorous bastards.

ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE

[alarm rider]

He needs to be asked to resign right now.

[McGruff]

I’ll sure be glad once we get a republican administration back in the White House.

[Hegemony Cricket]

scissors, running with

[IYAS9YAS]

Muller needs to look at the facts instead of complaining about a right that was given to us at our Nation's foundation.

No rights were given to us at our Nation's creation. They were given to us at OUR creation.

The Constitution enumerates them, but it most certainly doesn't grant them. It lays down governments ability to restrict them.

[Domandred]

I’ve never been harmed by the weapons I carry...well unless you count the black eye I got from my scope once when I wasn’t holding my rifle properly.

[My Favorite Headache]

Thanks W!

[driftdiver]

“Robert Mueller says he tends to believe that “weapons harm people, and more often than not they harm the people carrying them.”

So cops and the FBI will immediately stop carrying firearms?

[dblshot]

This from a man with an armed escort. I’ll take J Edgar in a dress anytime!

[Tribune7]

Robert Mueller says he tends to believe that "weapons harm people, and more often than not they harm the people carrying them."

So when is he going to issue that order directing his agents to keep their handguns at home?

[SpaceBar]

I’ll sure be glad once we get a republican administration back in the White House.

Amen to that. Eight years of a liberal with an "R" next to his name.

[EyeGuy]

“Robert Mueller says he tends to believe that “weapons harm people, and more often than not they harm the people carrying them.””

Any fool can open his mouth about what he “tends to believe”, one would think the head of the FBI would be more circumspect and factually grounded before publicly ejaculating a mythology.

What he “tends to believe” is totally incorrect:

http://www.amazon.com/More-Guns-Less-Crime-Understanding/dp/0226493644

[Reagan Man]

"I say the Second Amendment is, in order of importance, the first amendment. It is America's First Freedom, the one right that protects all of the others. Among freedom of speech, of the press, of religion, of assembly, of redress of grievances, it is the first among equals. It alone offers the absolute capacity to live without fear. The right to keep and bear arms is the one right that permits "rights" to exist at all."

~~~ Charlton Heston, Former NRA President

[Liberal Bob]

Robert Mueller says he tends to believe that "weapons harm people, and more often than not they harm the people carrying them."

Cars harm people, and more often than not they harm the people driving them.

[Charles Martel]

Robert Mueller says he tends to believe that "weapons harm people, and more often than not they harm the people carrying them."

Wow. 100% pure anti-gun propaganda. I didn't realize that the Director was a member of the VPC/Brady crowd.