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(Boston Mayor) Menino: Veep Promised Him Fast Action on Gun Control
The Boston Herald ^ | January 3, 2013 | By Dave Wedge

Posted on 01/03/2013 5:39:25 PM PST by drewh

Vice President Joe Biden “guaranteed” Mayor Thomas M. Menino — a leading national gun control advocate — that President Obama will pass sweeping firearms reforms by the end of the month, the mayor said today.

“He said, ‘Tommy, I guarantee you, we’ll get it done by the end of January,’” Menino said at City Hall today. “They’re going to get it done.”

The mayor, who has been recovering from a host of ailments for the past two months, said Biden called him several times while he was in the hospital, including a call after the Newtown school massacre to discuss gun control.

.Menino and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg co-chair the 500-mayor-strong Mayors Against Illegal Guns and have called for national gun reform in the wake of last month’s Sandy Hook school killings.

“I understand the second amendment, the right to bear arms. But I don’t understand how young kids should be able to get guns,” he said, referring to the plague of urban gang violence largely involving young males.

Menino added that the president has “no excuse not to pass strong (gun reform) legislation,” since he is in his last term and doesn’t have to worry about angering pro-gun voters or the National Rifle Association.

“It’s time to get this moving and moving quickly,” Menino said. “Let’s do it now.”

(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: banglist; biden; bloodoftyrants; corruption; democrats; donttreadonme; guncontrol; obama; secondamendment; tyranny
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To: drewh

B...b...but Slack Jawed Joe said specifically in ‘08 that he’d kick The Won’s [at that time The About To Won’s] ass if he came for Joe’s Benellis! How can this be?


21 posted on 01/04/2013 6:23:10 AM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Vendome
Boner might suck at the other stuff but there is no way 2A gets eroded in the next two years.

When was the last time you took your firearm with you into a federal building? -- the 2nd is already eroded.

22 posted on 01/04/2013 10:19:08 AM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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I understand the second amendment, the right to bear arms. But I don’t understand how young kids should be able to get guns,” he said, referring to the plague of urban gang violence largely involving young males.

Drugs are illegal too you stupid asshole and there is no U.S. source for locally produced cocaine but the street gangs still get it to use and to sell.

How easy would it be for the gangs to import tons of full auto weapons? They import tons of coke and you can't stop it. Fn stupid liberals.

23 posted on 01/04/2013 6:07:55 PM PST by metalurgist ( Want your country back? It'll take guns and rope. Marxists won't give up peaceably.)
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