Posted on 07/18/2007 9:23:35 AM PDT by kiriath_jearim
The House Appropriations Committee has just passed an amendment -- the Tiahrt Amendment -- that forbids the sharing of information police need to find the source of guns used in crimes. This amendment is opposed by a broad coalition of police chiefs and mayors, who are desperate to stop the flow of guns into the cities.
Why vote to cripple police efforts? Because the gun lobby, led by the National Rifle Association, demands it. The gun lobby opposes sharing the information on where the guns used in crimes come from because it fears that information would be used to enforce current constraints on gun dealers. What was once a concern for ensuring that hunters would have access to the guns they need for their hobbies has become an obsession that serves criminals and terrorists.
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Well, Jesse, I’d say our cities have more to fear from you and your race-mongering minions than from the “gun lobby.” You enslave them; guns can save them.
It’s a crying shame the NAACP didn’t bury this idiot with the N-word.
“that forbids the sharing of information police need to find the source of guns used in crimes.”
It would be a lot more helpful if police energies were directed to finding the human source of crimes and dealing with them. Looking for things and criminalizing things is the usual liberal waste of time. Consider the raging success of the war on booze, the war on drugs, the war on tobacco, the war on poverty, and on and on.
If Jesse’s gun had been controlled better, there would be at least one fewer illegitimate child in the world. Clean up your own life before the sanctimonious lectures, JJ.
"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
“My pappy was a pistol, and I’m a son-of-a-gun!”
Jesse Jacka**
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