Posted on 04/10/2013 8:17:01 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele on Tuesday said he doesn't understand why gun owners fear the registration of their firearms.
"I don't get the fear of registration," Steele said on MSNBC. "I don't get the, the concern about trafficking. Are we saying that we want criminals to, you know, make … back-alley sales out of the trunks of their cars?"
Steele was part of a panel on MSNBC's "The Daily Rundown," during which former Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) said that responsible gun owners insure their guns, which means they're registered. "I mean, I don't understand," she said.
MSNBC host Chuck Todd agreed with Steele. "It feels like we're protecting the rights of the paranoid about government, rather than, sort of, the reasonable," he said.
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****during which former Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) said that responsible gun owners insure their guns, which means they’re registered. “I mean, I don’t understand,” she said.****
One reason why Arkansas voters sent her packing after her vote on Obamacare in which she told us she would NOT vote for it.
She is obviously dumb as a post when it comes to gun laws, and the current confiscation of NY guns now taking place.
http://www.ammoland.com/2013/04/new-york-gun-confiscation-underway/#axzz2Q4iMIlvg
Has anyone ever asked the obvious question to these clowns of how many guns from guns shows are used in committing crimes?
Just like those freedom clinging right wingers with an irrational fear of communism.
What brilliance Michael. Governments never do bad things to unarmed people. Ask the Jews. Ask the Armenians. Ask the Kulaks. Ask the Cambodians. Ask the Chinese, Vietnamese, Poles, Magyars and Czechs. That could NEVER happen here because our little tyrants and their follower mob are so benevolent. They don’t hate the people that oppose them. I read their comments all the time and they are just filled with love, compassion, understanding and tolerance.
Maybe Harry Reid still have time to quote Former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele on the senate floor like he did Joe Scarborough.
Becasue he's, you know - tall? Bald?
There are two kinds of people in this world; those with a religious faith in government, and those who know better.
Its not the registration Michael its the confiscation that comes right after. You moron.
The United Kingdom killed 819,000 of their own citizens last century?
I can foresee, in the not so distant future, where "your" paycheck goes straight to the government. They determine, based on some formula, what your living allowance should be and that is all you get back. Redistribution of wealth, equalizing of everything. Of course, there WILL be exceptions .... just like the Obamacare waivers, etc.
MSNBC’s favorite “Republican”.
Thanks to his insipid RINO-ism, he was beaten by a guy who may actually be the other Senator, Barbara Mikulski, in man drag. Steele ran the worst campaign ever seen and polled 9-1 against in the African-American community.
The only thing this dweeb proves is that the RNC/GOP are equal-opportunity frack-ups. Imagine The Mormon Milquetoast with a deep tan.
The United States also has a history of killing people, just not nearly as many. And we tend not to be as upset by it.
Of course, there is the Civil War, which some people think was the worst example of the government using its power against the “civilian population” of the south. Don’t want to open that argument, just didn’t want to ignore the feelings of some about that.
And I imagine the leftists should be upset about the Kent State massacre, and the response to the Watts Riots, and the attacks against the civil rights protestors, and the slaughter of slaves throughout the years (some of these are extremely small numbers).
Those on the right have WACO, Ruby Ridge, and a few other cases where it seemed the government abused its power.
But it is an interesting conceit by the left, given how they felt about government in general, that they now believe it is “crazy” to think government could EVER do something for which an armed citizenry would be a necessary deterrent.
After all, without individuals who were armed, the lefties favorite governments, like the Soviet Union and Cuba, might not have ever come into existence.
And the whole “Arab Spring” thing starts with citizens who have weapons.
If the conservatives ever get back in charge of our government, the lefties will go back to being paranoid, even though our side usually is removing government control (that’s what lefties are paranoid about, that we will let businesses free).
In fact, I’d say the leftists are more paranoid about business than we are about government. I was at college last weekend and my daughter’s roommate was ranting about Monsanto and how they control the government — apparently they saw a movie about it in class.
I don’t understand how getting homeowner’s insurance for your gun makes it “registered”.
The last thing I would want is for government to have my name on a list of people who own guns, given that the government keeps releasing those lists putting all gun-owners in danger.
Gun Registration does nothing to stop criminals, who don’t register their guns or buy them with background checks.
There are good reasons he is an EX Chairman.
You don't?? My god... are you a MORON, Michael Steele?
Steele wasn’t very bright when he was RNC chairman. It looks like his already inadequate cerebral powers have been in a downward spiral since then.
E. Pluribus Unum wrote: “There are two kinds of people in this world; those with a religious faith in government, and those who know better.”
Thomas Jefferson concurred: “In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.”
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