Posted on 07/10/2015 4:46:26 AM PDT by HomerBohn
Communist Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) called for more gun control following the murder of Kathryn Steinle at the hands of an illegal alien using a federal agent's gun. She even said that it is a "moral responsibility" that Congress has to act. What she failed to put at the forefront was acting with regard to illegal aliens.
"Last week, in San Francisco, our city suffered our own senseless act of gun violence with the killing of Kathryn Steinle, and our thoughts and prayers are very much with her family," she said. "Today, we must do more as a nation to prevent dangerous people from getting easy access to guns. And Congress has a moral responsibility to act. What is so unclear? What do they not understand about that?
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Good question, what is so unclear? What do people not understand about this issue?
First, let's address this moral responsibility that Pelosi claims Congress has. Neither Congress, nor any other branch of the federal government has any such authority to restrict or regulate arms of any type and the Second Amendment is clear on that issue. Therefore, to do so would be immoral, not moral. It is not their responsibility.
However, there might be a question of restrictions when it comes to agents of the federal government. After all, we know that Juan Francisco Lopez Sanchez allegedly shot and killed Kathryn Steinle with a gun… that belonged to a federal agent. It seems to me that Ms. Pelosi should not be looking to curb the rights of the people, but rather seeking to eliminate unconstitutional agencies, whose agents are being provided weapons that they cannot keep up with, or worse yet, provide to criminals to use to murder others. Does Operation Fast and Furious ring any bells with anyone?
Second, not once does Pelosi bring up the fact that Sanchez was deported five times before and she isn't calling for a halt to illegal immigration. I find this absolutely hypocritical. Deal with the root of the problem! And yes, Congress does have authority when it comes to immigration.
Pelosi continued, "The memory of these victims, the cries of their families deserve action – results, not words. Today, we will say: we will not accept a status quo defined by the daily tragedy and grief endured by so many communities. We will not accept 'the unique mayhem that gun violence inflicts upon this nation,' as the President Obama so eloquently stated in Charleston. The American people deserve a vote to finish the job, starting with comprehensive background checks. We've had this conversation over and over again."
Yes, we have had this conversation over and over and Marxists like Pelosi and Obama can't get it through their thick skulls that this is not something they have been given authority to deal with. The Second Amendment gives no authority for the federal government to intervene in the sale of guns to law-abiding citizens. It specifically says, "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." That would apply to obtaining said arms as well.
But again, the elephant in the room is an illegal alien with a federal agent's gun never gets mentioned.
"We've always said: to us, in Dan's spirit, it is inevitable that this legislation will pass. To some here, it may seem inconceivable that they will bring a vote to the floor. With 90 percent of the public supporting gun background checks, we must shorten the distance between the inevitable to us and the inconceivable to them, to finish the job."
Pelosi continues to play the same old saw of lies espoused by Michael Bloomberg's puppet Shannon Watts. The founder of Moms Demand Action has been corrected time and again for promoting the lie that 90 percent of the American people support background checks, but this is what communists do. They lie, and they lie, and they lie.
As Maine legislators recently announced, the Second Amendment is the only gun permit you need.
One day, gun grabbers may illegally, unconstitutionally and, I might add, immorally pass legislation (again) to go after guns and gun owners, but those of us who understand the right to keep and bear arms is to fight off tyrants like Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and the rest of the totalitarian thinking Marxists our forefathers fought against in foreign lands won't bow to such laws.
In the end, people like Pelosi are just like those our forefathers fought against in 1776. Those serving the British crown attempted to infringe on the people's rights to arms, eventually attempting confiscation and they were met with gunpowder and lead. Pelosi would do well to recount accurate American history and stop going down this road.
The (First) American revolution was fought over control. The gun used to kill the young woman in SF was a federal agent's weapon so Pelousy should check her facts before opening her maw.
Pelosi has for a long time given aid and comfort to the enemy, in addition to her stealing oxygen.
Not to quibble, but BOTH American Revolutions were fought over control.
First one succeeded.
Second one failed and interestingly,
they are still being punished for daring to rebel against the state.
“Federal Agent” ?
A Bureau of Land Management government bow wow...
The hypocrisy and hubris of his woman are incredible.
In earlier times, she would have been tarred and feathered by the citizenry, as the killing of this woman is a direct result of the policies that Pelosi has championed for years.
She follows the normal Leftist playbook—deflect, and play fast and loose with the facts.
Like her other legislative offerings, you’ll have to pass it to find out what’s in it.
Sort of like hubby’s latest kidney stone or things found in a stinky diaper.
I wonder what it feels to be the dumbest in the room in every room I go into.
When you suffer from a stunning lack of intelligence, introspection, shame & common-sense, all things are possible.
On a humorous note, it used to tick me off that fed.gov maintains bunkers for the likes of her. Now I find it hilarious - imagine being stuck underground 24/7 with that Can’t Understand Normal Thinking bitch.
Even Nonsensical Nancy can’t hide from Cosmic Karma.
Gun control is not about guns, it’s about control.
Am I surprised? Not at all. This is typical of Pelosi, remember last year when the huge number of illegal children crossing the border became public she said it was “an opportunity”...
I think if she is willing to spout this kind of nonsense to protect illegals, she should have 2 or 3 dozen shipped to her house. I’m sure she’d just love these guys...
This woman is crazy as a sh*t-house rat. It’s no wonder she gets elected over and over again from that outdoor insane asylum by the Bay.
Just as the location of the first Americans’ flintlock rifles, ball and powder stores were known, my firearms are not lost and they are not on the bottom of a lake or river.
The Greeks and our forebears had an outstanding offer, and these latter day tyrants—our public servants—are also welcome to come and try to take our guns.
Recall the line from the movie `The Patriot’: “Why should we exchange one tyrant a thousand miles away for a thousand tyrants a few miles away?’. So here we are.
So congress, the federal legislature, has a moral obligation to infringe that which shall not be infringed, and to ignore that which the federal government has asserted as it’s exclusive jurisdiction...
Let’s cut Nancy a little slack.
She may be either a crazed crack addict, a meth user, insane or afflicted with some other cause that’s usually manifested in leftists.
Okay, with that in mind, I have a .22/.32/.40 and dad owns a 1911A1 (new) - so what handgun should be next? A nice .357mag Colt Python?
Since we have contained within the beltway of the District of Corruption most of the lying, corrupt, prissy, arrogant, bed wetting, people from this country the next question is what to do with them? Long ago any logic there was replaced with emotional pandering and appeasement, we do not have any reasonable solutions coming from this group. We tried replacing some of them with what was supposed to be the reasonable logical group. This obviously has not worked, they went native as soon as they were elected. Now aht?
Note to self: add more rope to the preps ;-)
Democrats think they’re above the law... they follow the laws they like and ignore the others.
Kind of like the way criminals do...
BugEyes The UnterMind speaks.
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