Posted on 07/01/2008 10:54:32 AM PDT by neverdem
The director of the FBI is not happy with the Supreme Court's recent handgun ruling.
Robert Mueller says he tends to believe that "weapons harm people, and more often than not they harm the people carrying them."
Mueller said the high court's decision, which threw out a handgun ban in Washington, D.C., "does throw a lot of things up in the air."
Mueller said communities will now have to decide their own licensing programs.
Mueller was speaking at a convention of the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators in Hartford, Connecticut.
He says with his grandchildren going to college, he hopes "those campuses will be weapons-free."
So instead of supporting gun buy-back programs, he's been giving guns to criminals when they leave prison?
And I'm sure he's already taken all the guns from his agents so they don't hurt themselves.
Remember, he’s director of an organization that’s really distinguished itself in the past on fields of honor like Waco and Ruby Ridge (sarc. off).
He’s basing this opinion on the discredited “Kellerman study”,
doesn’t matter how much this position has been disproven, it fits their agenda.
And, just wondering, how exactly is he going to keep criminals from taking weapons on the college campuses that his grandchildren will attend?
Got a link that is more current than the one I provided?
THIS is what the left is afraid of -
demonstration of the failure of their policies when the crime rate drops.
There is no problem that we face today that isn’t the result of a liberal policy, and there is no problem that the left will take responsibility for.
The M-14, which replaced it, had and has far better manners, IMHO, from having qualified with both, Marksman with the M-1 and Expert with the M-14.
http://www.lubbockonline.com/stories/071401/loc_071401040.shtml
Not in my ideal world. Even if I didn't think I needed them to defend myself, since I did not feel that way at the time, I do/did like to hunt and target shoot. No reason I shouldn't be able to keep my tools with me at college, is there?
Oh you might want to provide secure storage, as my campus did (IIRC), back in the dark ages. I didn't live on campus so it wasn't of great concern to me, but I do seem to remember that the students guns were kept at the campus police station, where they were accessible 24/7, since you might need to leave campus at 0'dark thirty for a trip to the duck blind or the deer stand, and you might not get back until well after normal hours upon your return.
So...that means there were about 18,360 suicides per year. Assuming the remaining 5% resulted from accidents, that would give us an accident death toll of 1,800 for a grand total of 20,160 self-inflicted gun deaths.
That's out of 80 million gun owners. Somehow I don't think that matches up very well with Mueller's insistence that we harm ourselves "more often than not."
Someone needs to ask these people what kind of state they envision if they get their way -
where only the police and military have weapons.
Seems to me this has happened a few times in history... to some disastrous results.
But, then again, I keep forgetting that today’s liberals consider themselves smarter than anyone who ever lived in the history of the world, and smarter than God Himself.
You’re right, it’s downright scandalous, and the worst part is that people like Mueller and the Brady Bunch always seem to know all about guns that kill people on their own, but they never seem to be willing to point us to these labor-saving devices.
Well, given that there aren’t some sort of health reasons for pre-mature resignation...
Well this fully armed and operational battle tested citizen says that both the wolves and sheepdogs had better mind their P's and Q's when trespassing upon my rights as a U.S. citizen.
Stopping? Yes there is. Everything has a beginning and an end. I just hope the end to this particular form of abuse by a government agency doesn’t require the same amount of “pain” the really big historical changes have usually required.
That was out of memory - may have been a week plus in hospital/jail. Did search and come across this where they mention at least 5 days (handcuffed) in the hospital and the bullet in the gut down near the bottom of the article.
http://www.lubbockonline.com/stories/080201/loc_0802010028.shtml
I can understand that.
No tryant or despot is.
The nerve of these pesants, to think that they have rights.
We, their lords and masters of the government, are the only ones who have rights. The serf’s have privileges as we see fit to confer on them.
At this point in time it is not too late to save the Republic, but the point of no return is approaching at the sppd of light.
Maybe we should make Marines, Judges, and FBI Directors take an oath to honor and defend the US Constitution.
Oh, wait a minute, THEY DO!
I’ve done the same for the last 38 years, first with a .357 mag. and now with a Beretta .40. There’s been a .357 mag. in my car’s glove compartment for the last 10 years. Something’s terribly wrong with them; none has ever gotten out of the drawer or glove compartment and shot me. Can you give some advice about these terribly defective weapons?
Robert Mueller says he tends to believe that “weapons harm people, and more often than not they harm the people carrying them.”
If he believes that , then he should disarm his agents.
They are the ones that got their rocks off burning to death live children.
Dear Director,
The Constitution, which you presumably swore an Oath to uphold, actually wasn't crafted with your official ass' Pursuit of Happiness at the top of the list. Either put on your big girl panties and deal with it or resign to make way for a true public servant.
Sincerely,
An Increasingly Pissed-off Citizen
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