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.
Just because you got problems in LA doesn't mean you need to ban guns in my county which has ZERO murders (and 6000 NRA members) in 2004.
Or was this gun something that looked like an AK-47?
Di Fi needs to be made to explain how a fedral ban on assult weapons will prevent these shootings, when the California Ban on owning them didn't prevent this shooting.
Banning city workers would do just as much to resolve the problem.
well not all Californians are stupid to keep her in office...unfortunately even the 5 million that voted for Bush are outnumbered by Dems here......it is too bad that the coasts attact liberals but it is the demographic we have to live with for now.....I'd rather we could get rid of Boxer first.......she is heads and tails much more liberal than Feinstein......
Unfortunately, Zell Miller isn't in the Senate any more.
And New York State has also jumped on the bandwagon with Assemby Bill - A03371, which would add semiauto rifles, shotguns or pistols manufactured on October 1, 1993 and lawfully possessed prior to September 14, 1994 to the definition of assault weapons. It would repeal New York State's grandfather clause for such weapons. It's clearly ex-post facto legislation and in direct conflict with Article 9, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits ex-post facto legislation.
Believe me, this fight is far from over! Molon Labe!
What the hell differnce does it make what kind of gun he used
Using the "in for a dime, in for a dollar" doctrine (so useful inside the Mafia or the Democratic party), seems to me she's now terminally conflicted.
She's a dim which means that she only recognizes laws she agrees with and diregards those she doesn't. for a dim laws are a la carte.
from what I read, what NY proposed is even more severe than Calif assault weapons ban......Feinstien to my knowledge is not trying to get rid of semi-auto shotguns or hunting rifles....don't get me wrong, I don't support any ban but NY"s bill is even more severe than Calif's........I see now that Iowa is also trying to do this.....
Believe me, they are BOTH trying to get rid of them. They are equal wolves dressed in the sheep's clothing of trying to "protect" us all from criminals and terrorists. If these initiatives got passed, criminals and terrorists would still have anything they wanted to use against us.
Or more to the point, a "weapon of mass destruction" consisting of a wine bottle filled with some unleaded regular.
well of course I know that criminals get guns at will, so the AWB is frivolous.....what I meant is that even in Calif, you get into regular firearms and she would have a problem.....don't let what you see in the news about Calif all the time fool you....more guns owned in Calif than any other state and it is like 20% of the firearms sold or something like that...the problem with Calif is if an issue doesn't effect someone too much than people here blindly follow the party line.......but if it is a huge issue, common sense usually prevail......this state passed prop 187 which cracked down on illegals but the damned court struck it down......and we even passed the marriage amendment that said marriage was between man and woman and did this years ago before the debate began.....
It probably was merely a semi-auto look alike. But actual AK-47s are not illegal. If they were produced/imported/"made" before the ban and the appropriate tax has been paid on them, they are perfectly legal to own as far as the federal government, and those of many states, are concerned. Not California of course.
Oh yeah, while we're at it, let's ban heroin and cocaine at the federal level, too. That will surely stop people from driving to neighboring states to bring drugs into Kalifornia. Whoops, those are already illegal everywhere.
Boxer, Feinstein, Schumer, et al. are actually quite aware of what they are doing. It has nothing to do with crime, despite their loud claims to the contrary. I think it is very calculated. They want the state to have ultimate power, and armed citizens are the biggest obstacle to this. These liberals are working to erase everything the nation's founders tried to establish. The Nanny State can morph into the communist/fascist state as soon as the last obstacles to this transformation are out of the way.
Then again, most of you already knew this. Preaching to the choir, as they say.
This time it isn't going to be as easy as it was for the Nazis or the Bolsheviks. More people know the strategy this time around.
Rock on, babe.
T'ain't goin' nowhur. <-- A little Georgia Lingo for ya, there.
A federal study recently showed incontrovertibly that ALL gun controls have no effect on crime.
This has nothing to do with facts whatsoever.
Sorry Hank, but you are either woefully uninformed or remarkably naïve. (Or, perhaps, overcome by wishful thinking?)
Have you failed to see the graduates of the total Leftist political indoctrination being churned out of the brainwashing camps we call schools and universities? Their group-think mentality, their total repression of opposing ideas, and their absolute absence of moral values can honestly be compared to that of the Nazi brown-shirts. (Don't forget, the Nazis were National Socialists.)
These young men and women are far more dangerous than anything this nation has seen within our borders in the past. Many of the 60's-generation radicals were misguided idealists who did not have the benefit of history to show them the true results of communism and socialism (not that I'm making excuses for them). However, many of today's youth are activist-supporters of socialism, communism, and even Islamic-fascism, in spite of witnessing the direct results of socialist, communist, and Islamic fundamentalist regimes over the past sixty years.
Don't get me wrong, I despise--and can't wait to be rid of--Pelosi, Feinstein, Boxer, Woolsy, Kennedy, Sanders, et al. They are dangerous individuals. But the "offspring" of modern "Liberalism" are more dangerous than their "parents." They are far more dangerous than those they will be replacing.
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