Posted on 03/24/2009 7:49:10 AM PDT by SmithL
If history repeats itself, the fatal shootings of four Oakland police officers on Saturday afternoon will become the next benchmark in the national debate on a federal law to ban assault weapons.
If there is a grain of hope to be gathered from a loss so tragic, it's that last weekend's horrific events will help end the debate on an unresolved policy issue that has resulted in thousands of deaths and helped sustain veritable demilitarized zones in some of our nation's largest cities.
In Oakland, a city already struggling with high crime and gun violence, the deaths of two officers gunned down with an AK-47 qualify city officials to lend their voices to any national debate on the issue.
While the tragedy in Oakland lacks the scale of the shootings at Virginia Tech in 2007 and Columbine High School nearly a decade ago, the deaths of four officers in a single incident is a significant event that sends shock waves across the nation.
The use of the deadly weapons - which can fire hundreds of rounds per minute - has become an all-too-familiar feature in the gun violence being played out.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
The use of liberal mouths that can fire off hundreds of lies per minute.......
Someone out there, help me solve this very complex issue.....”
He he...yeah, complex.
That there is the true intent of all gun control laws. It's not to stop the violence, carnage, and mayhem caused by a few.
What if the Weathermen had done this...
What would the crime rates be if there were no blacks or illegals in this country?
Arent most shootings and murders caused by black and Hispanic perps?
What are the facts? Not the causes or all the multi-cultural and politically correct baloney and philosophy, but the facts of who actually commits the crimes."
This needs to be repeated ad infinitum until justice prevails...
Don’t forget Southern gentlemen with the middle name of “Wayne”.
As a convicted felon, Mixon was prohibited by law from owning ANY gun.
I just can't grasp the concept..
I like the term. It's perfectly applicable, and with a chilling reference to Elizabeth Bathory.
Or Earl, Jim or Bob.
Another expert on firearms shows off his vast knowledge.
First in with the “racism” charge! You win a sweet potato pie.
This will be actually quite true when the plans of the liberals reach the point where they start forcing their more extreme Marxist/National Socialist agenda on us peasants.
When the confiscation squads start going house to house as they did in New Orleans they will consist of police (like they did in New Orleans) and any resistance by the peasants will pe predicated on those peasants being armed. If they are armed, then some of the government's beloved police heroes will indeed be killed "in the line of duty" supressing the remaining freedom in the USA. Hence, the high priority drive to create "an America where only the police and military are armed"
When guns are outlawed...
Speaking to voiding the Second Amendment, Former state Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata, who wrote a state law in 1999 that banned sale of the weapons, said...”With a Democratic administration and Congress, there is little political threat, and who knows when we’re going to have an opportunity like this again?”
Never let a tragedy go to waste, huh?
Yes. Many of us apparently become serial killers.
;^)
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