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Pelosi pledges compromise on assault weapons ban
The Hill ^

Posted on 04/07/2009 8:03:22 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

Pelosi pledges compromise on assault weapons ban @ 10:29 am by Michael O'Brien

The ball is in Congress's court to craft a compromise in reinstating regulations on assault weapons, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) acknowledged Tuesday.

During an interview on ABC's "Good Morning America," Pelosi said that the Congress will work to find some middle ground between the previous ban, which expired in 2004, and the precedent laid by the Supreme Court in a ruling enumerating more concrete gunowners' rights last term.

"We have to find some level of compromise," Pelosi said, citing 53 victims of gun violence nationwide in less than a month. "And we have to rid the debate of the misconceptions people have about what gun safety means."

"Yes, it is," the Speaker said when asked if the ball is in Congress's court now that Democrats control the White House. "And we are just going to have to work together to come to some resolution."

Pelosi indicated that new regulations might entail registration and prohibitions on transporting some firearms across state lines.

The Speaker also expressed displeasure at the attachment of a gun rights provision to legislation that would grant Washington, D.C. a voting member of Congress.

"Right now, we have the debate in Congress over the District of Columbia wanting a vote on the floor of the House, something we all want. That's a civil rights issue," she said, pledging to find "middle ground" on the issue. "And, yet, they want to put a gun…bill, attach that to that. I don't — I don't think that that should be the price to pay to have a vote on the floor of the House."


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1 posted on 04/07/2009 8:03:22 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

look for the RINOs to meet her halfway.


2 posted on 04/07/2009 8:06:09 AM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: Sub-Driver

No Freaking Compromise !


3 posted on 04/07/2009 8:06:49 AM PDT by TYVets
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To: Sub-Driver

Here’s a response .... “and the horse you rode in on”.


4 posted on 04/07/2009 8:06:49 AM PDT by mgc1122
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To: Sub-Driver

When (if) that is signed, it will signal opening day of hunting season.


5 posted on 04/07/2009 8:07:08 AM PDT by MileHi ( "It's coming down to patriots vs the politicians." - ovrtaxt)
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To: Sub-Driver
citing 53 victims of gun violence nationwide in less than a month.

52 of which were rival gang members....
6 posted on 04/07/2009 8:07:18 AM PDT by gimme1ibertee (For the sake of our Republic....RAISE HOLY HELL!)
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To: Sub-Driver

If nobody responds to whatever unconstitutional law they ‘pass’, there ain’t a damn thing they can do about it. They can say and do whatever they want, but once they start coming for the guns, the war begins, in earnest.


7 posted on 04/07/2009 8:07:19 AM PDT by raptor29
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To: Sub-Driver

Compromise from Pelosi means you compromise everything, she compromises nothing.


8 posted on 04/07/2009 8:08:02 AM PDT by Malsua
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To: Sub-Driver

Gee, I didn’t know this was an election issue? It was so effective the first time. Why not demand proof?

“Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace.” — James Madison

One left ...


9 posted on 04/07/2009 8:08:07 AM PDT by Tarpon (You abolish your responsibilities, your surrender your rights.)
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To: Sub-Driver
Here's the plan: No assault weapons ban. None. No compromise, no nothing. In its place -- we start repealing all the unconstitutional infringements on our constitutional right to keep and BEAR (that means carry) firearms.

That's the plan. Get with it.

10 posted on 04/07/2009 8:08:21 AM PDT by Jerrybob
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To: Sub-Driver

Keep your powder dry folks.


11 posted on 04/07/2009 8:08:37 AM PDT by P8riot (I carry a gun because I can't carry a cop.)
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To: Sub-Driver
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
12 posted on 04/07/2009 8:09:22 AM PDT by DTogo (Time to bring back the Sons of Liberty.)
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To: Sub-Driver
Incrementalism. How much do they expect us to take? All of it and keep our mouths shut or else.
13 posted on 04/07/2009 8:09:27 AM PDT by benasawin
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To: Sub-Driver
"We have to find some level of compromise," Pelosi said, citing 53 victims of gun violence nationwide in less than a month.

Hey, Nancy. How about the estimated 200,000,000 disarmed dead, murdered by socialism/communism? You moron.


14 posted on 04/07/2009 8:09:32 AM PDT by pabianice
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To: raptor29
They can say and do whatever they want, but once they start coming for the guns, the war begins, in earnest.

Agreed. Gun sales since the selection of The Zero have been thru the roof. My response (and like many, many others) to Herr Pelosi:

"Molon labe."

15 posted on 04/07/2009 8:09:36 AM PDT by kromike
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To: Sub-Driver
"We have to find some level of compromise," Pelosi said,..

We have to compromise the 2nd amendment of the Constitution?

16 posted on 04/07/2009 8:10:00 AM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, Question everyone else)
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Pelosi recruited a number of NRA friendly Dems, a couple years ago, to help her in her rise to Speaker.
Pelosi will not have an easy go of it, with those Dem Members of Congress.
I have mixed emotions here.
NO, I do not want gun control, in any form, but let us not forget all of the folks who fell for Obama’s line that he was NOT out to take our guns.

Obama will have EVERYONE mad at him, very soon.

Prolifers
Gun owners
Taxpayers
Military families.
Military construction workers
Energy industry workers
Financial industry workers
Charities
Charitable contributors.

How many people can he piss off and still hold on to power?

17 posted on 04/07/2009 8:10:00 AM PDT by Kansas58
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"We have to find some level of compromise," Pelosi said, citing 53 victims of gun violence nationwide in less than a month. "And we have to rid the debate of the misconceptions people have about what gun safety means."

"Compromise?"

How about we make sure no law violates the 2nd Amendment? That seems "reasonable" to me.

"Misconceptions"?

Nancy ... just about everything you think you know is wrong. Cure your misconceptions first. Then we can talk.

18 posted on 04/07/2009 8:11:29 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: P8riot
Keep your powder dry folks.

Oh, he!! yeah!

19 posted on 04/07/2009 8:12:10 AM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, Question everyone else)
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Photobucket

Since the pile of Pelosi masquerading as a sentient human seems incapable of comprehending words alone, perhaps this image will aid her understanding.

NAAAAAHHHHHH....


20 posted on 04/07/2009 8:13:01 AM PDT by Dick Bachert
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