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Posted on 12/14/2012 10:09:24 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
DFL Rep. Keith Ellison appeared on TPT's Almanac tonight to discuss the shooting at an elementary school in Connecticut. During the interview, Ellison argued for greater gun control measures.
"The NRA (National Rifle Association) is strong and many of them (members of Congress) take the position that any gun position is going to lead to the position of taking away of all guns," Ellison said. "This is not rational. We need sane, sensible gun regulation and we need it now."
Ellison says his top initiatives would be to address high capacity clips that hold multiple rounds of bullets and greater background checks that require people to submit to background checks before purchasing weapons at gun shows.
"Those are things that we can do now that won't interfere with the right to own a gun but hopefully will avoid and keep guns out of the hands out of the people who are violently unstable," Ellison said.
Ellison also says there needs to be greater access to mental health treatment. He said that would help identify early signs of mental instability which he says lead some to take violent acts.
Ellison has been the most vocal of Minnesota's Congressional delegation to today's shooting. Many others suggested that today was not the day to discuss whether stricter gun control measures are needed.
TRANSLATION = We need total civilian disarmament and we want to use this criminal act to serve as a smoke screen for it.
The democratic politician's ideal world (and that of a great many Republicans too) is one where only the police and the military are armed. One where the bulk of the population alternates between cowering defenselessly between threats from unorganized criminal gangs, and fear of the government's jackbooted thugs. The unorganized criminals are by far the lesser threat
THIS JUST IN FROM FOREIGN PRESS: While the US media cry about gun control, the foreign media point out that an innocent man Ryan Lanza was accused by the US media (and its followers, many of them here) of being a mass murderer!
I haven’t been following the news closely today but I see here that ambitious little democrats have been busy popping-off/making political hay over this horrible tragedy.
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The first thing the communists do after seizing power is to disarm the populace.
We need a ban on communists in the Federal Government.
That muslim bastard doesn’t even belong in any part of our government!!!
Liberals only offer Gun Control.
Getting tougher on crime.....executing capital felons....not using “mental illness” as a way to escape punishment...longer sentences....better prosecution....are the ways to prevent such violence in CT
Liberals only offer Gun Control
The time has come for a great scraping.
I don’t disagree in theory. In China being mentally ill means that you disagree with the government.......
Then how the Hell will we kill the suicide bombers?
Where has the outcry gone and Obama tears when Major Hasan shot and killed 13 people and wounded 29 others at Fort Hood on Nov 5, 2009?
This bastard is still alive and needs to be shot. But this won’t happen to a Muslim.
NOVEMBER 18-20, 2006 : (NAIF CONFERENCE : EVENT PROGRAM INCLUDES PHOTO OF KEITH ELLISON D-MI {See CAIR} STANDING ALONGSIDE 1993 WTC BOMBING UNINDICTED CO-CONSPIRATOR IMAM SIRAJ WAHHAJ aka JEFFREY 12X OF THE BROOKLYN CELL & AL QAEDA WEB DESIGNER & HAMAS SUPPORTER MAZEN MOKHTAR— See “FLYING IMAMS”) In November of 2006, [Keith] Ellison spoke at a conference for the North American Imams Federation (NAIF), a.k.a. Flying Imam Conference. In the program for the event, Ellison’s photo is pictured alongside ‘unindicted co-conspirator’ of the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, Siraj Wahhaj, and Al-Qaeda web designer and Hamas supporter, Mazen Mokhtar. ——(North American Imams Federation, The Fourth Annual Body Meeting, November 18-20, 2006, ‘Towards Improving Imams’ Professionalism and Community Outreach’)
While this conference was taking place, Ellison addressed a CAIR banquet in Arlington, Virginia via video. -——(CAIR press release, ‘First Muslim Congressman Addresses CAIR Banquet,’ November 20, 2006)
c 1998 : (WASHINGTON DC : CMSA BEGINS HOLDING FRI PRAYERS.....-------See COFOUNDERS KEITH ELLISON D-MN {NoI} & ANDRE CARSON D-IN, FUTURE GUEST SPEAKERS ANWAR AL AWLAKI {See YEMEN, FT HOOD SHOOTINGS, ARKANSAS RECRUITER SHOOTINGS, UNDYBOMBER, DENVER CEL, SANDIEGO CELL, FALLS CHURCH CELL}, RANDALL "ISMAIL" ROYER {See CAIR}, ANWAR HAJJAJ {See TIAA}, ETC.) -------- "Some Muslims Attending Capitol Hill Prayer Group Have Terror Ties, Probe Reveals," foxnews.com ^ | Nov. 11, 2010 | Jana Winter Posted on Thursday, November 11, 2010 4:44:27 PM by Free ThinkerNY
May of 2007 : () In May of 2007, Ellison was the keynote speaker at the 4th Annual Convention of MAS-Minnesota. (website of MAS-Minnesota, ‘4th Annual MAS Minnesota Convention,’ May 24, 2007) While he spoke, MAS-Minnesota’s website contained an inordinate amount of material discussing the murdering of Jews, the denigration of Christians, and the waging of war against non-Muslims. (Joe Kaufman, FrontPage Magazine, “Keith Ellison’s Dangerous Liaisons,” June 1, 2007)———Keith Ellison : “CAIR’s Congressman”
No discussion about it, Ellison.
I expect that the same will be true here soon enough if it is not already.
He prefers scimitars to guns (sarcasm).
Did Nidal Hasan use a privately purchased gun, or something he got hold of at Ft. Hood?
This guy is an idiot. We have sensible laws.. They don’t apply to the unsensible.
This guy broke a laundry list of human laws and gods laws.
No law Ellison can sign his name to will stop the next guy with the same mind set.
while telling us to STFU, now is not the time.
Eff them.
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