Posted on 11/24/2009 8:06:50 AM PST by neverdem
Today, Michael Bloomberg's coalition against illegal guns placed a full-page ad in the Washington Post urging lawmakers to prevent suspects on a federally maintained "terror watch list" from being allowed to purchase guns.
"500 mayors agree with the Obama and Bush Administrations: stop terror suspects from getting guns," the ad says.
It's also been an issue that Rahm Emanuel voiced support for back in 2007, according to this video clip.
"We got to make this a number one issue, as a test vote, and take it into the election." He added, "If it's between that terrorist list and the NRA, I know where America is going to be every time."
Bloomberg said closing this loophole was his "number one priority." He also offered the following description of why gun control critics have been so successful in blocking this kind of restriction: "There's extremists in the pro-gun movement who threaten our elected representatives around the country, whether they're in the legislature or executive side with working to get them removed, to remove them from office if they don't support the line that the extremists want: no reasonable restrictions, no enforcement of federal laws, elimination of federal laws. And we've just got to say 'we're not going to take it anymore.'"
Hmmm... Eight (or nine - depends on the set of answers for #9 that qualify) out of ten. I don't put stickers on my vehicles any more.
I guess I'm in!
Doesn’t he have a city to unconstitutionally run? Why can’t he just shut the heck up and go to North Korea where they’ll be more welcoming to him?
It doesn’t matter that only 500 mayors don’t believe in defending one’s self, what matters is that the other 17,500 are quiet. All anybody hears is Bloomberg’s side.
Four million NRA members willing to fight back. Seventy four million gun owners whining they got an NRA fundraiser letter in the mailbox.
Michael Bloomberg and Rahm Emanuel (among others), chose to dance with the devil in the pale moonlight. If only they could see the sunlight, they might be saved.
Prayers offered for their conversion.
5.56mm
Do you remember the co-ordinated raids to capture violent felons under AG Gonzalez? 10,000 were targeted in one of them. Practice, practice, practice...
Imagine if you were in Venezuela and spouted pro-gun, pro-liberty ideas. You'd be shot on sight. Yet, these scum continue to spew their hatred for all things American (yes, the 2A is uniquely American) and don't even get popped up-side the head.
Schools and parents are doing a piss-poor job of educating children as to what this country stands for- Freedom. Voting by said idiots only exascerbates the problem.
Not sure how you do it, but those who vote should only come from a pool of people who understand the basics behind what it means to be "American". And, the right to keep and bear arms is almost as basic as the right to breathe- in fact, without it, the State is under no obligation to be concerned with your oxygen intake. Just as Mr. Chavez could care less about your lead intake.
The leftist aka progressive gun haters sure love the word loophole.
This is no loophole, it is the law. A law they agreed to.
The leftist aka progressive gun haters will come back every year after agreeing to a gun control law and cry loophole.
Rahm fixed brakes on trucks.
He’s also a viscious anti-zionist and hater of Israel, probably thanks to severe daddy-problems.
BTW, I gotta bridge for sale in Brooklyn and how do you want to handle the down payment?
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