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Biden on gun control: Limit on magazine rounds a bigger priority
tcpalm ^ | January 24, 2013 at 3:51 p.m. | Nedra Pickler and Erica Werner

Posted on 01/25/2013 12:35:41 PM PST by Red Steel

WASHINGTON — Vice President Joe Biden said Thursday that he's more concerned about limiting the number of rounds in a gun magazine than about banning assault weapons that account for a small percentage of gun deaths.

Biden argued that the shooter at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., could have been slowed down if he had fewer rounds in each magazine and had to change clips more often. "Maybe if it took longer, maybe one more kid would be alive," Biden said during an online video chat on Google Plus.

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Biden says he wants a ban on assault weapons, even though he acknowledges they don't account for a large portion of gun deaths in America. He says a ban would solve part of the gun violence problem, particularly for police who can be outgunned by criminals with assault weapons.

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"If anyone asks today'Can you win this?,' we don't know, it's so uphill," Feinstein said. She said it only would happen if voters got behind the measures and called on their lawmakers to act.

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The assault weapons ban in particular is seen as unlikely to make it through Congress, because of opposition by majority Republicans in the House and concerns from moderate Democrats in the Senate. Even Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., has cast doubt on its prospects. Some advocacy groups are focusing their attention instead on expanding background checks, which is seen as more doable politically.

Feinstein said those Democrats with concerns about the legislation needed to ask themselves what their silence would mean.

"Sandy Hook is more eloquent testimony than any of us could possibly give," she said. "If members of this body are so insensitive to what happened to those small bodies from that Bushmaster when it all becomes known, America is hopeless."

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Biden will be accompanied by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Deputy U.S. Attorney General Jim Cole and other administration officials, as well as Sen. Tim Kaine and Rep. Bobby Scott, both Virginia Democrats.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; domesticenemy; guncontrol; secondamendment
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To: Red Steel
Joe bite me. Says everything.

5.56mm

21 posted on 01/25/2013 1:16:39 PM PST by M Kehoe
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To: Red Steel

Dimwit Biden is not going to dictate how many rounds I am allowed to take into a gunfight that some a$$hole(s) has forced on me.

The time to consider if you may have taken too many rounds into a gunfight.... is AFTER it’s over, NOT before.

Obama and his administration may think it’s fine to stand down and leave our people behind and allow them to die, but, I will fight to the death for my loved ones and I will use any tool I have been forced to use.


22 posted on 01/25/2013 1:16:50 PM PST by Gator113 (Leave my guns alone and REGISTER THE DAMN LIBERALS!!)
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To: Red Steel
"Maybe if it took longer, maybe one more kid would be alive," Biden said during an online video chat on Google Plus.

Maybe if the principal had a Mossberg 500, 20 more kids would be alive.

23 posted on 01/25/2013 1:20:32 PM PST by ez (When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail.)
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To: Buffalo Head
Limiting the capacity of firearm magazines has about the same chance of reducing murders as limiting the capacity of beer cans would reduce alcoholism.

Or limiting sodas to 16 oz instead of 32 will reduce obesity. Liberals can't use logic. It's foreign to them.

24 posted on 01/25/2013 1:22:41 PM PST by NewHampshireDuo
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To: Brooklyn Attitude

He thinks the “save one life” is the new race card.


25 posted on 01/25/2013 1:26:12 PM PST by hadaclueonce (you are paying 12% more for fuel because of Ethanol. Smile big Corn Lobby,)
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To: Red Steel

This child killer would have been in jail, not killing children, had YOU Mr. Government done your job and enforced existing laws.

He lied on his Federal Form when he tried to buy a gun weeks before the incident.

How about the Gov’t actually enforcing the existing laws!


26 posted on 01/25/2013 1:27:51 PM PST by wrench
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To: Red Steel

Demoncrats like Slow Joe have never been ones to let facts stand in the way of a good crisis, the stupid bass-turds.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/01/18/Assault-Weapons-Tied-To-Less-Than-012-Percent-Of-Deaths-In-2011
I may ask our new rep Messer to present a bill in Congress prohibiting Democrats. They can’t pass a budget. They kill children and won’t protect public/prole school children.
What good are they? They’re no good! They’re a threat to the public health, safety and welfare.
Ban `em!


27 posted on 01/25/2013 1:28:00 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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To: Red Steel

“Maybe if it took longer, maybe one more kid would be alive,” Biden said

The sickness and stupidity of this comment is pathetic.

If nobody is there to stop them, it won’t matter if he had a bolt action!!!


28 posted on 01/25/2013 1:36:36 PM PST by Names Ash Housewares ( Refusing to kneel before the "messiah".)
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To: Red Steel; Travis McGee

We defend our President———————with men with guns
We defend our Congressmen-————with men with guns
We defend our Governors-——————with men with guns
We defend our celebrities-——————with men with guns
We defend our sporting events-———with men with guns
We defend our jewelry stores————with men with guns
We defend our banks—————————with men with guns
We defend our office buildings————with men with guns
We defend our factories-———————with men with guns
We defend our courts—————————with men with guns
We defend our children————————with a sign that reads: “GUN FREE ZONE.”

And then when there is an emergency .... we call someone with a gun.


29 posted on 01/25/2013 2:03:59 PM PST by B4Ranch (When democracy turns to tyranny, we still get to vote. We just won't use voting booths to do it.)
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To: Red Steel

So all the millions of high-cap mags already in circulation will become contraband and move from the legal market to the black market!?! Only criminals will have them and they will suddenly have a lot more of them.


30 posted on 01/25/2013 2:06:01 PM PST by TigersEye (The irresponsible should not be leading the responsible.)
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To: GraceG

there are many like him. Senile fools who would gladly trade principle for self interest.

the ability to limit capacity in the era of 3d printing and cdc fabrication is looooooooong gone.


31 posted on 01/25/2013 2:11:53 PM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Red Steel
They are just throwing everything they can think of up against the wall in hopes that we might be stupid enough to let something stick.
32 posted on 01/25/2013 2:16:45 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (TYRANNY: When the people fear the politicians. LIBERTY: When the politicians fear the people.)
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To: Red Steel
Feinstein said...

"Sandy Hook is more eloquent testimony than any of us could possibly give," she said. "If members of this body are so insensitive to what happened to those small bodies from that Bushmaster when it all becomes known, America is hopeless."

No, fine swine, America's congress is hopeless. Your chamber democrats are worth about as much as used toilet paper. That gun did not go there on its own and create havoc. A crazed killer kid did, and not one of the guns I have ever owned has ever gotten out on its own, loaded itself, aimed itself at anyone and pulled the trigger.

33 posted on 01/25/2013 2:23:15 PM PST by Arrowhead1952 (0 bummer inherited a worse economy in 2012 than he did in 2008.)
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34 posted on 01/25/2013 2:28:09 PM PST by Nachum (The Obama "List" at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

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35 posted on 01/25/2013 2:29:09 PM PST by Nachum (The Obama "List" at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum

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36 posted on 01/25/2013 3:32:12 PM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Red Steel

So you limit a mag to 7 rounds. This protects children...and an 8 round mag would kill children. Now there’s some real logic for you. And you hear Juan Williams on Hannity this afternoon stating he had no guns in his house to protect him and his family? These people are all morons.


37 posted on 01/25/2013 4:18:52 PM PST by ThePatriotsFlag (...and to the Republic for which it STOOD...)
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To: Red Steel

“Vice President Joe Biden said Thursday that he’s more concerned about limiting the number of rounds in a gun magazine than about banning assault weapons that account for a small percentage of gun deaths.”

I agree. Joe, Buckwheat and the mercenary secret service traitors ought to be more concerned about the number of incoming rounds.

Next question.


38 posted on 01/25/2013 4:55:50 PM PST by sergeantdave (The FBI has declared war on the Marine Corps)
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To: cripplecreek
Heres a great video to show how silly Bidens statement is..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=w0o7YgiTFm4

this should go viral...

39 posted on 01/25/2013 5:27:26 PM PST by M-cubed
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To: M-cubed

Thank you. That is exactly the argument I’ve been making. I’ve already tweeted it on twitter and will be sending it out in emails to friends and family.


40 posted on 01/25/2013 5:43:47 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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