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Posted on 11/27/2009 8:49:29 AM PST by neverdem
| Bloomberg Uses Ft. Hood Murders To Push Gun Control |
| Thursday, November 26, 2009 |
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In another transparent attempt to undercut the Second Amendment fresh on the heels of his hidden-camera attack on gun shows, Michael Bloomberg’s anti-gun group, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, has alleged that the multiple murders that took place on Ft. Hood recently could have been prevented by changes in federal gun laws. In an ad in the Washington Post on Monday, Bloomberg’s group claimed that the Ft. Hood murder suspect’s “gun purchase could have been key to the FBI’s investigation into his association with terrorists.” Incredible. It has already been reported that before the suspect purchased the gun allegedly used in the murders, the FBI knew that between December 2008 and June 2009, he had sent 16 emails to a radical Islamic cleric based suspected of having ties to al-Qaeda. In one, he told the cleric that he could not wait to join him in the afterlife. Nevertheless, after reviewing the e-mails, the FBI and other federal agencies concluded that the suspect was not a threat, and it has since concluded that the crimes of which he is suspected were not part of organized terrorism. On November 9, the FBI stated “Major Hasan came to the attention of the FBI in December 2008 as part of an unrelated investigation being conducted by one of our Joint Terrorism Task Forces (JTTFs). JTTFs are FBI-led, multi-agency teams made up of FBI agents, other federal investigators, including those from the Department of Defense, and state and local law enforcement officers. . . . Investigators on the JTTF reviewed certain communications between Major Hasan and the subject of that investigation and assessed that the content of those communications was consistent with research being conducted by Major Hasan in his position as a psychiatrist at the Walter Reed Medical Center. Because the content of the communications was explainable by his research and nothing else derogatory was found, the JTTF concluded that Major Hasan was not involved in terrorist activities or terrorist planning. . . . [T]he investigation to date indicates that the alleged gunman acted alone and was not part of a broader terrorist plot.” Bloomberg says that if the federal law requiring the FBI to purge the NICS system of records of approved gun purchasers had not been in place, the FBI would have known that Hasan had bought a gun and changed its judgment about him. But while few Americans exchange e-mails with radical clerics suspected of ties to al Qaeda, there are about 12 million NICS firearm checks annually. To Bloomberg, apparently, buying a gun is reason enough to be suspicious. Bloomberg also says that Congress should approve legislation introduced by Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.), to allow Americans placed on the FBI’s terror watchlist to be prohibited from buying firearms, but to deny them the right to confront their accusers and the “evidence” against them. Both concepts received a nod from the Obama Administration on November 18. During hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) asked Attorney General Eric Holder whether the administration supported legislation to allow to FBI to retain NICS gun purchase records, and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) asked Holder whether the administration supported legislation "closing" the so-called "Terror Gap." Holder responded in the affirmative on both counts. You would think that someone who can spend $200 million of his own money to get elected mayor of New York City three times could afford copies of the U.S. Code and the Constitution. Not only does federal law stipulate the specific grounds for denying a person the right to arms, the Fourteenth Amendment states that no one shall be deprived of liberty without due process of law. And while he is at it, he could buy a copy of another well-known publication, Webster’s Dictionary, and look up the word “obsession.” To see Bloomberg’s Washington Post ad, and whether your town’s mayor is allied with his group, see www.mayorsagainstillegalguns.org/downloads/pdf/terror_gap_ad.pdf. |
If you ask me, it would make more sense to practice Islam control than gun control.
How many murders in NYC since they banned guns from the late 1890’s???
In another transparent attempt to undercut the Second Amendment fresh on the heels of his hidden-camera attack on gun shows, Michael Bloomberg’s anti-gun group, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, has alleged that the multiple murders that took place on Ft. Hood recently could have been prevented by changes in federal gun laws.
In an ad in the Washington Post on Monday, Bloomberg’s group claimed that the Ft. Hood murder suspect’s “gun purchase could have been key to the FBI’s investigation into his association with terrorists.”
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What a pantload! Does Bloomie not understand that in order to accomplish this, we would have to PROFILE people like Hasan?
And to a certain degree - I agree with the headline. We should profile terrorists like Hasan and limit guns to known islamic nut-jobs.
Um, you would think if there was control of the guns, someone would just steal some and muder. Of course, knives are available as the nearest kitchen department and bombs are available as the knowledge of chemistry.
Get off your soap box Bloomberg. You are useless!
Normal people realize that when you push something one way and it goes the other that maybe you should push in a different direction. Sort of like backing up a car with a trailer.
So now that we see that gun control seems to be making things worse, why not try some mandatory carry laws after tragedies like these.
Then again I forgot that liberals aren’t normal people. So forget I said anything.
IT WAS ALLOWED TO HAPPEN, NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT!
“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste,” Rahm Emanuel.
Never let it be said that the Statists let a serious crisis go to waste – despite the Inconvenient fact that Disarming the innocent aka ‘Gun control’ was one of the factors that CAUSED this terrorist attack.
Bloomberg needs to come into the real world.
There was never any ban. They just made it difficult and costly for those citizens who observed laws that defied the Constitution to exercise the right recognized by the Second Amendment.
Thanks for the ping...
Back in high school, (many moons ago I might add) my pencil caused one hell of a lot of spelling mistakes. . . . . . . . . .
Gun Control killed those people......Bloomburg, Schumer, McCarthy, Brady, Clintons, Feinstein etc are the ones with blood on their hands.
Criminals are because laws do not stop crime !
Socialist Rat/Rino gun grabbers can KMA before I give up my ability to defend me or mine.
Thank goodness the Cop Lady had a gun. Just goes to prove that if a few of the folk in the building had had a weapon fewer of the crowd would have died or been injured. Because of government regulatilons our Armed Service personnel were UNARMED. Rules of engagement have cost us a lot of good American lives.
“In an ad in the Washington Post on Monday, Bloomberg’s group claimed that the Ft. Hood murder suspect’s “gun purchase could have been key to the FBI’s investigation into his association with terrorists.”
What a pantload. The ARMY was so busy being PC with this idiot, they couldn’t look the other way fast enough. There was plenty of other evidence this guy was a mentally unstable degenerate that couldn’t do his job. They chose instead to kick that can down the road rather than deal with him.
Thanks neverdem.
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