Pelosi 'We want them registered'

Washington Times ^ | Monday, April 13, 2009 | Editorial

[JohnRLott]

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, announced last week that she wants to register guns. Her next move will be to try to confiscate them.

The speaker picked a television show with a viewership of 4.6 million to float the Democrats' coming gun-control push. Questioned on ABC's "Good Morning America" about the prospect of new gun-control laws now that "it's a Democratic president, a Democratic House," she responded, "We don't want to take their guns away. We want them registered."

Politicians and bureaucrats routinely claim that registration helps solve crimes. If a registered gun is used in a crime and left at the crime scene, registration supposedly lets the police trace the gun back to the criminal. Though this turn of events might work on fictional TV crime shows, it virtually never occurs in real life. Criminals' guns are rarely left at crime scenes. When guns are left behind, it usually is because a crook has been seriously injured or killed and the police are poised to catch him anyway. . . . .

[Misterioso]

This is/was a proposed ordinance. Did it pass? This hardly supports your statement.

[Misterioso]

Barry wants a "National Police Force", and it is my opinion, that trained ACORN hippies will be used, if he can pull it off, to confiscate weapons house to house.

REMEMBER, AN ACORN IS A NUT.