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Dem Sen On Oregon Shooting:"Complicit"Politicians "Should Be Held Accountable"
Breitbart.com ^ | October 2, 2015 | Pam Key

Posted on 10/02/2015 12:54:08 PM PDT by Biggirl

Friday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) said presidential candidates and Congress were “complicit” in mass shootings like the one in Oregon yesterday because they are not endorsing and passing gun control laws. Blumenthal said, “My hope is this latest horrific unspeakable tragedy will galvanize the Congress, but more importantly galvanize the American people to demand from Congress it end its complicity, and it is really complicity, in these massacres and 30,000 deaths that occur every year.”

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Connecticut
KEYWORDS: banglist; blumenthal; guncontrol; oregon
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To: Biggirl

The only thing complicit in these type slaughters is the stupid “Gun Free Zones. Every time you enter one of these havens for the mentally disturbed you increase your chances of not coming out alive. Stay away from them if you possibly can.


41 posted on 10/02/2015 1:20:52 PM PDT by Happy1947
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To: Biggirl

Yes, politicians who push dumb gun laws that prevent citizens from arming themselves so they can effectively deal with criminals and maniacs should be punished.


42 posted on 10/02/2015 1:20:54 PM PDT by ZULU (Mt. McKinley is the tallest mountain in N. America. Denali is Aleut for "scam artist.")
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To: bigger; All
”… because they are not endorsing and passing gun control laws."

The states have delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate guns for the armed forces as evidenced by the Constitution’s Clause 12 of Section 8 of Article I.

But I don’t see anywhere in the Constitution where the states have constitutionally delegated to the feds the specific power to regulate intrastate arms for civilians (corrections welcome). And given FDR’s reputation for ignoring the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers, I find it disturbing that federal gun laws regulating civilian arms seem to have started appearing in the books while he was president.

Franklin Roosevelt: The Father of Gun Control

But let’s not let the corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification Senate off the hook. The low-information, FDR-era Senate shouldn’t have helped to pass civilian gun control laws without the constitutional authority to do so.

The ill-conceived 17th Amendment needs to disappear, and corrupt senators who help to pass unconstitutional gun control bills along with it.

43 posted on 10/02/2015 1:25:00 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: goldstategop

People who coerced students and teachers to disarm in order to enjoy the services of the publicly subsidized school are complicit. They made it so that not one single person was capable of stopping the murderer - not even the security staff! One hero stepped forward and gave his life in the attempt to stop the scumbag, using his body to stop the killer. If he had been allowed his civil right, human right, constitutional right that hero may have been alive today and this tragedy might have been lessened or averted. Indeed, it seems pretty clear that these murderers deliberately choose places where they know they will encounter no resistance. Politicians who create these environments need to be held accountable. Nobody would put a sign in front of their house “we have cash & jewels are are unarmed please don’t rob us” and likewise no place should advertise that people are sitting ducks for killers.


44 posted on 10/02/2015 1:25:52 PM PDT by monkeyshine
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To: Biggirl

Constitution? 2nd Amendment? Real black and white words there.


45 posted on 10/02/2015 1:26:46 PM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: goldstategop

When law abiding students can conceal carry on campus this crap will cease.


46 posted on 10/02/2015 1:28:41 PM PDT by Lumper20 ( clown in Chief has own Gov employees Gestapo)
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To: Biggirl

What was it Trump said....we vote for really stupid people...or words to that affect. Sen. Richard Blumenthal comes as close to filling that picture imho....


47 posted on 10/02/2015 1:29:00 PM PDT by yoe (Few things are more worthless than an unloaded shot gun)
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To: Biggirl

And politicians who constantly push more gun control and encourage nut-jobs to go on mass shooting sprees to further the cause should be held accountable too......


48 posted on 10/02/2015 1:29:49 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: Biggirl
Any public official who is afraid to be surrounded by angry, armed constituents is a public official the constituents need to be armed against.

"Ceterum censeo 0bama esse delendam."

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)

LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

49 posted on 10/02/2015 1:34:21 PM PDT by LonePalm (Commander and Chef)
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To: BillyBonebrake

CT has strict gun control laws, therefor it is safe to walk around Hartford at night, right?


50 posted on 10/02/2015 1:38:47 PM PDT by matt04
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To: Lumper20
When law abiding students can conceal carry on campus this crap will cease.

Or like this young man Chris Mintz who did his best to stop the shooter much like the three young Americans in France who used their intelligence and stopped a terrorist, all acting like adults/men. Chris Mintz could have used some back up......God bless him!

51 posted on 10/02/2015 1:44:39 PM PDT by yoe (Few things are more worthless than an unloaded shot gun)
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To: TBP

The dems should be voted out for not providing adequate security at schools.


52 posted on 10/02/2015 1:48:21 PM PDT by refermech
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To: Biggirl
Yet another politician PONTIFICATING his a$$ off in an attempt to pander and PLACE BLAME.

LEADERSHIP, SENSIBLE discussion... they're still NON-EXISTENT among the political class.

53 posted on 10/02/2015 1:48:43 PM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: Biggirl

Was talking to grandson today about the Oregon shooting. His final response, “Well I do believe it’s your turn Grams to buy another gun and some more ammo before those idiots say we can’t”.


54 posted on 10/02/2015 1:50:50 PM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: Biggirl

30,000 deaths a year? If he’s talking about abortions, he’s shy by about 1,000,000.


55 posted on 10/02/2015 1:58:45 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: yoe

True.


56 posted on 10/02/2015 1:59:13 PM PDT by Lumper20 ( clown in Chief has own Gov employees Gestapo)
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To: 2banana
The dems really want a civil war.

They do indeed.

57 posted on 10/02/2015 2:00:02 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: The Toll
Wait till your goons try to come for the guns homie. You haven’t seen “unspeakable tragedy” yet.

That's a fact.

58 posted on 10/02/2015 2:01:36 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: so_real
I listen to the liberals speak, and it sounds to me like they are anticipating a Civil War to break out.

Because that is what they want. It looks like they are actively trying to disarm their opponents in advance. This concerns me.

Gear up, and be prepared to fight the good fight. It's been coming to this for awhile.

59 posted on 10/02/2015 2:06:05 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: Biggirl

I agree with him

The politicians complicit in this are those who DEMONIZE CHRISTIANS


60 posted on 10/02/2015 2:07:02 PM PDT by Viennacon
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