Posted on 02/26/2005 1:02:36 PM PST by Sterrins
Feinstein to push assault-weapon ban
Shooting prompts senator to reintroduce bill
By Associated Press
Sen. Dianne Feinstein said Friday that she will reintroduce legislation banning assault weapons after a city maintenance worker allegedly shot and killed two fellow employees with an AK-47 assault rifle.
"Once again, we've seen the tragic consequences of the ready availability of assault weapons throughout our society," Feinstein, D-Calif., said in a statement.
Thomas Sampson, 25, was booked for investigation of first-degree murder early Friday for the deaths of his supervisor, Rene Flores, 54, and co-worker Ricardo Garris, 49, police said.
Sampson, who was held without bail, turned himself in Thursday after the late-afternoon shooting, said Officer April Harding, a police spokeswoman.
Garris, of Inglewood, and Flores, of the Sunland area, both had worked for the Bureau of Street Services for more than 20 years. The department fills potholes, fixes curbs and distributes asphalt in the city.
Feinstein in her statement said the shooting occurred just days before the anniversary of a Senate vote to extend the assault-weapons ban for 10 years. The legislation expired after President George W. Bush failed to urge Republican leaders to move the legislation, Feinstein said.
Feinstein said she intends to reintroduce the legislation next week and she hoped for support from Republican leaders.
Mayor James Hahn also sent a letter to Congress urging renewal of the assault-weapons ban. Though the city and state have laws banning assault weapons, they are still readily available across the state's borders, Hahn said.
"Therefore, it is critical to have an assault-weapons ban that prohibits the manufacture, importation and sale of assault weapons and ammunition throughout the United States," he said.
Sampson and Flores earlier Thursday afternoon had a dispute over Sampson being late for work, police said. Sampson later abandoned his city-owned truck on Interstate 10 in West Los Angeles and took a bus to where he parked his car. He then drove home, changed from his work clothes into a suit, armed himself with the AK-47 and drove to the field office where he waited for Flores, confronted him and shot him, police alleged.
Garris was shot because he happened to be in the office when Flores was attacked, police said.
Does Feinstein even recognize the Second Amendment?
Not this Shiite again. This woman's act got old a long time ago. Chalkboard grating is more pleasent.
Just last week we were hearing in the MSM how the DemonRATS were dropping gun control as an issue after the losses of the last 10 years. Now, they're right back at it.
They just can't help themselves.
Gee...I guess the numbnut senator forgot that it was illegal to have the AK in Kalifornia period. Sure did not stop this now did it?
The fact that a communist bloc civilian modeled weapon is quickly becoming a symbol of freedom here is ironic but fitting. Geeesh I was buying AK's before most people even knew what they were in the early 80's.
I'm getting tired of just waiting for old statists like Feinswine, Kennedy, Byrd, Specter, McCain, Dole, even free-spending Bush and the rest to die of old age to stop their pestering. They need to be pushed to the sidelines NOW, while the rest of us still have time to live as free citizens.
No bill sponsored by any Democrat excepting Zell Miller should be considered on the floor of the Senate until they stop obstructing the Senate's constitutional duties.
Now, if she could just make murder illegal.........
I'm going to have nightmares because of this picture...
"Feinstein in her statement said the shooting occurred just days before the anniversary of a Senate vote to extend the assault-weapons ban"
Your pic sums it up quite well:)
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Do you really think the new, younger statists will be any better?
Once again we see the worthlessness of Lawmakers laws...and how stupid Californians are to keep her in office
Forget Fillibuster protection. I want a majority in the senate so we can provide FineSwine the smackdown she so richly deserves for being a Kalifornian schizophrenic nutcase.
The odds will be much better with a generation not raised into believing the old, rusty, worthless FDR crap that Big Stupid Government is the way to go.
The California assault weapons ban is still in effect. Only the national ban expired.
There. Much more their style.
Any such bill will be DOA in the House..
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