Posted on 08/21/2013 5:33:37 PM PDT by lowbridge
On April 17, the United States Senate turned its back on the families of Aurora, Newtown and the more than 30 people who die at the hands of gun violence every day when common-sense gun safety laws were filibustered by a minority of senators.
It was one of the most deeply disappointing days of my short time in the Senate. Families from coast to coast deserved better from this Congress.
Monday’s announcement by Mayor Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly that a record haul of over 250 weapons were taken off the streets — many of them straw-purchased and coming from states along the so called “Iron Pipeline” — serves as a reminder that while Congress fails to act on a federal statute making gun trafficking a crime, criminal networks continue to brazenly act like it’s business as usual.
According to Bloomberg, 90% of the firearms used in gun crimes in New York City came from out of state in 2011, compared with 85% in 2009, and at least 90% of these guns are bought through the black market run by traffickers.
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They really go for the imagery.
“Iron Pipeline.”
Negative connotation on “pipelines” in general from the libtards.
How about the illegal immigrant pipelines pouring into this country, you flaming liberal assholes?!?! Doing the drunken driving killings, rapes, and murders civil American citizens just won’t do??
How about mandatory 50 years sentences for anyone caught with a stolen gun?
This will never happen because it would damage their core constituency of blacks.
Hey, Yo!
Bloomingidiot, once upon a time all illegal alcohol and guns came from ED KENNEDY. Known bootlegger and gun runner.
But Hey! He was a KENNEDY! Doncha know.
Its how the Kennedy family made their fortune.
moron..tell Odungo to stop shipping arms to terrorist
Question : How many of these guns were taken from criminals.. ? Answer : All of them !
I spent a lifetime layin pipe. LOL
Lets imagine some different imagery.
Let’s see a graph of all shootings with pics of the known perps.
I’ll not say more. Awaiting pictures.
Then, we’ll diss guns...or perhaps culture.
And your proposed legislation makes all of us lawful citizens .. one word -> Victims !!
Enforce the laws that are already on the books !
On DU that would mean an entirely different thing.
In San Francisco, that’s about a million dead fags’ epitaphs.
Also, why are all the RATs suddenly using the phrase “common sense”. They have perverted it so that it no longer has any meaning. Hey, I answered my own question!!! (P.S. see the tag line).
Ask Holder about illegally funneling guns to criminals.
I’m sure it would.
Per DOJ stats, between 1976-2005, blacks comprised 12% of the US population yet accounted for 52.2% of all homicides in the nation.
Let’s delve deeper into these numbers.
Women make up about half of the black population, yet commit some, but not many murders. This means we can split the 12% by half.
Note that for the most part, black men in the 90’s do not commit murder. Nor do those black men in the 80’s, 70’s, 60’s. And neither do those from 1 to age 8 or so. So cut the 6% by half.
Approximately 3% of the US population accounts for about 50% of all homicides. And yet nobody speaks of it!
(BTW, it should be noted that I had several guns stolen years ago, and one recently turned up. Guess who had it and almost pulled it on the police? A black man)
How about we go back to pre-Civil War days and make it illegal for blacks to own or possess firearms? /s
They use the phrase “common sense” now because, like when they sarcastically mumble the Pledge of Allegiance and omit “under God”,
now only bigoted Christians and conservatives actually use the phrase “God-given common sense”.
Yeah, like that stopped Fast and Furious.
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