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.
However, if the democrats win the whitehouse in 2008 and make gains in congress I wouldn't be surprised if the illusion quickly drops and they attempt to ram through the expanded assault weapons ban, gun-show loophole bill and anything else they can dream up between now and then. After all they will eventually have to pay back all the gun grabbing liberals that have been keeping quiet on gun control these last few years.
They won't try for the Kucinich handgun ban until Hillary's second term...
Actually, moonbats like Kucinich would be happy to ban motor vehicles, too!! He would prefer we all lived as drooling, stinking hippies on collectives governed by HIM.................
“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms…disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.
Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants;
they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater … confidence than an armed man.”
- Thomas Jefferson, quoting Cesare Beccaria in On Crimes and punishment (1764).
Sorry, but I am a Texan, not a “Civilian” (directed to the democrats, not GOP lady).
I will continue to purchase and posses, and, NO I am NOT transferring or selling any already owned. Nor will I register or surrender. So don’t you democrats misunderstand.
Civil War II.
Start by removing the handguns of the Capitol Police.
whats good for the Prols is good for the Elite.
The Dennis Kookcinich to do list:
1) Ban conservative talk radio;
2) Ban guns;
3) Ban opposition;
4) Ban ban ban and more ban!!!!
Come and get it (with a veiled reference to "300").
Dear Congresswussie Crapfurbranes:
Molon Labe!!! (unveiled reference to King Leonaidas I's response to the Persians. Come and take them!!!).
Oh, and Crapfurbranes, have the stones to come yourself, rather than sending someone hired by you and yours with my tax dollars.
Mr. Fairness Doctrine wants to tell us what we can say, how we can defend ourselves, and won’t publically give the rationale behind his move to impeach Cheney.
Putz.
Dennis the Menace, should come out to Montana and make the first confiscations personally.
I second.
Kucinich - the New Tarzan. No more thundersticks!!!!!!
How comical.
“This little weasel needs to be hanged for treason.”
Same thought crossed my mind.
——signed, future “re-education camp” inmate dynachrome
I’ll volunteer to pull the lever. Hell, I’d pay.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
It’s amazing that Kucinich gets to keep his job every two years. It’s obvious he thinks up legislation while sitting on the toilet.
He doesn’t appear to work very hard.
That’s four of us. Any idea on how to submit charges to Congress? Specific language to be used, ect...?
LOL - Dennis doesn’t need a handgun. He married a six foot, red-headed amazon as his personal human shield.
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