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Posted on 02/11/2013 1:38:21 PM PST by neverdem
NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com
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Dem Congressman: ‘It’s Clear That We [Also] Need to Look at Handguns’
On Friday night’s Rachel Maddow Show, Illinois representative Luis Gutiérrez told guest host Melissa Harris-Perry that the violence in his Chicago district could be cause for lawmakers to take action not only on semi-automatic weapons, but on handguns. Noting (correctly) that nearly 97 percent of Chicago gun murders in 2011, the most recent year for which statistic are available, were carried out with handguns, Gutiérrez said,”It’s clear that we need to look at handguns also.” The recent debate on gun control has centered around reimplementing a strengthened version of the 1994 assault-weapons ban and on limiting magazine sizes. It would leave handguns largely untouched. |
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Hey how about we just make it illegal to commit murder?
Making guns illegal in chicago hasn't worked...
Yes, but now they will be double secrete banned. That'll fix the problem!
Send louie back to Mexico.
Thanks for the link!
“You can tell that they still don’t know what a semi is.....”
Don’t underestimate them.
Step 1: Ban evil assault weapons....for the children.
Step 2: Patiently wait for the next Gabby Giffords style massacre with a handgun.
Step 3: Profess amazement that hanguns kill 100 times more people than assault weapons...and use the logic that since AR15’s are banned, shouldn’t the much more dangerous handgun be banned?
Its a carefully planned incremental assault on the 2nd amendment. That’s why the NRA can’t give one inch.
Just like a tax increase, one piece of gun control is never enough.
The end-game is indisputable -— confiscation of ALL arms.
They were banned from the early 1980s until 2010, when the SCOTUS ruled that the ban was unconstitutional. Chicago politicians then wrote new gun ownership requirements that made it very difficult for law-abiding citizens to obtain permission to own a handgun. Criminals, of course, have no difficulty, which is why more than 100 children are shot in Chicago every year.
It’s Clear That We Need to Look at DEMOCRATS.
He can look at mine...it’s on my home page.
If you check you'll find it already is in all 50 states.
That’s the ultimate goal. It makes no sense to ban assault rifles because they kill people and not handguns because they kill people. They are using the mass shootings to try to ban assault rifles, and that’s to get a foot in the door. People like Musket Morgan act as though they only want to ban assault rifles, but I don’t believe if for a minute. The ultimate goal is a gun ban. Give them an inch and they’ll take a mile.
Someone needs to deal with refocusing the dabate.
Nobody should be advocating making it tougher on any level for law-abiding people to acquire and possess and use firearms.
The solution is not more laws criminals are going to ignore.
The solution is enforcing the laws against criminals attempting to get guns - the laws Biden says they don’t have the manpower to enforce now. So why put more laws on the books you don’t have the manpower to enforce, Joe?
The solution is no more easy-victim killing zones. Anywhere.
The solution is letting law-abiding people be abel to defend themselves when threats pop up in their midst.
The solution is to let the good people protect themselves against the bad people who don’t give two craps about the myriad of laws they are breaking trying to rob, murder, rape, whatever victim they’ve targeted.
Then force them to acknowledge their all about gun confiscation from law abiding people and that’s the real plan. They don’t enforce gun laws against criminals, aka Biden, all their ideas are more laws that only the law-abiding care about not violating, because the criminals break laws all the time and more laws that the govt won’t enforce on the criminals doesn’t exactly scare them, so the net result of their “solutions” - taxes, less capacity, less models to use, more govt tracking, etc - ONLY RESULT in harming and restricitng the LAW-ABIDING people, NOT the crimnals.
And watch them stutter and stammer.
The Declaration of Independence: A TranscriptionIN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
Smile and wait for the flash.
Handguns are not used against government troops as much.
So, they’re going for the weapons they care about most: Those that can be used against a tyrant.
Yeah, look at the barrel of those handguns really, really closely. Inspect it thoroughly. Hold it up to your eyes so you can see it well....
“If you check you’ll find it already is in all 50 states.”
Actually it’s not... Babies are murdered legally in all states. To the tune of 1.2 million a year.
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