Posted on 04/18/2007 11:09:27 AM PDT by GOP_Lady
Congressman drafting legislation to make owning a hand gun illegal.
Cleveland) - Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich wants to ban hand guns in America.
Kucinich is currently drafting legislation that would ban the purchase, sale, transfer or possession of hand guns by civilians. A gun buy-back provision will be included in the bill.
Kucinich announced this move in the aftermath of Monday’s deadly shooting at Virginia Tech.
Kucinich noted in a speech to congress that about 32 people die each day in America due to hand gun related incidents. 33 died at VT.
Kucinich says it's becoming "painfully obvious" that the easy availability of handguns constituents a growing national crisis of public health and safety, one that he says calls for a powerful, wide-ranging response from congress.
He says the level of violence in our society constitutes a national emergency.
Already this Congress, Kucinich has introduced HR 808, legislation to establish a Department of Peace and Nonviolence. It would address the issue of domestic violence, gang violence, and violence in the schools, which is reflected in the current homicide rates.
Kucinich notes recent studies that indicate many killers had histories of mental illness. He says the lack of parity for mental health care remains one of the most serious deficiencies in healthcare in the United States.
Kucinich has also proposed HR 676, Medicare for all. It would establish a universal not-for-profit healthcare system, which would provide full and comprehensive mental healthcare.
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Phooey. Harry Reid has gone on record as saying they won’t touch gun control. Dennis the Menace is pretty much alone here, as the fringe of the fringe.
And I’ll bet you a dollar to a stale donut Big Denny has a permit and packs everywhere he goes. But you and I, no no no no no, get the guns away from us.
“”Never forget, even for an instant, that the one and only reason anybody has for taking your gun away is to make you weaker than he is, so he can do something to you that you wouldn’t let him do if you were equipped to prevent it. This goes for burglars, muggers, and rapists, and even more so for policemen, bureaucrats, and politicians.”
He heee!
Let’s ban Kucinich instead : )
I can’t say anything nice, so I ain’t gonna say it. [But I can think it...]
Why is it every time I see this guy he reminds me of Howdy Doody, the wooden headed one, not the ventriloquist ...
I think I have found a flaw in Dennis’s sterling character; he is a flagrant opportunist.
Not only does he want to violate my Second and Forth Amendment Rights seizing my firearms he wants to use the confiscatory Federal Taxes to pay for them.
Let’s see 200 milliion hand guns in the US. I’ll estimate a conservative average value of $400 per hand gun. That comes to $8 billion dollars just to pay for the guns. And you can at least double that to pay for administering the program. So we can conservatively estimate $16 billion dollars of taxpayer money to violate the rights of Americans. Chump change.
What do you expect from Denny the Commie. Even the Dems won’t support this, not after the 2000 election in which the Conservatives came out in droves to beat back the gun grabbing Liberal Dimocrats.
“From my cold, dead hands, DENNIS!” Universal Medicare? No problem. Just attach a clause that eliminates WELFARE and I’ll consider it!
Hope and Mitzvah are on my “to read” list. The Lever Action essays are excellent. Try some of his North American Confederacy novels. Start with the Probability Broach. Fun stuff with a political punch. ;-)
“Probability Broach”
1st one I ever read by him. Set in Denver, so a lot of familiar places. I like Pallas a lot, also.
One result of the incident in Virginia will be an uptick in gun sales, especially as the Left anti-gun noise machine gets cranked up in response to the massacre. Of course the anti-gun mania might just as well be an anti-Korean mania or an anti-man mania for all the good the assumed solutions would be for solving the problem.
“Moron obviously never read his Constitution.”
Problem is he thinks Karl Marx and Adolf Hitler wrote it.
-Eric
The Democrats only concern is getting and keeping more power and authority over our lives. But they know that if they push the gun control issue, they're in trouble. So although the media is pushing hard to see it, rational politicians are staying away from it.
Even Rosie O'Donnell and the folks at Democratic underground are backing away from the idea, and it's hard to find a politician who is more clueless than them.
At the end of the day it would be good for us (if a little aggravating) if it gained a little traction, but I don't think it's going to happen. As it stands, the only people who will still be for gun control are Mike Bloomberg, the city councils of New York City and San Franciso, and the leading Republican candidates for president.
I'd love to see some of his NAC stuff on the Big Screen.
Is it asking too much to expect members of Congress to have a basic understanding of the Constitution?!
Six people in Congress have read the Constitution over the last 70 years. None of the rest care...
We should require these moonbats to come and get the guns personally, and not hide behind military or police. After about two or three time they’d get the picture, or their replacements would.
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