Posted on 01/11/2011 9:04:15 PM PST by Second Amendment First
>> [the public debate about incendiary punditry] has overshadowed the more important role that mental health played in the deadly shooting.
Negligence can be deadly. Even if the City managed to prevent Loughner’s gun purchase, he could have still killed using any other type of weapon.
Was Loughner’s condition ever evaluated after the numerous expulsions from the community college?
GOOD, Mr. Speaker...
now ..
Don’t go “Wobbly” on us!!
He has no choice, he’s from NYC. Sorry FReepers from New York, but I don’t understand the fear of tools that most of the population there suffers from, if they aren’t wielded by someone with a union card.
this ain’t no KneeJerk unless you know something that EVERYONE else doesn’t know.
i hope when Nanny Pelousy hears this every sound bite burns her ears
this ain’t no KneeJerk unless you know something that EVERYONE else doesn’t know.
i hope when Nanny Pelousy hears this every sound bite burns her ears
If the Republicans want to borrow a leaf from the Democrat playbook and use this tragedy to grab an issue and ride it I would suggest using this incident to publicize and reform the outrage that decades of fashionable liberal “deinstitutionalization” of the mentally ill have brought us.
Because schizophrenics can’t be committed and end up on our streets and jails America sees most of its mentally-ill citizens routinely condemned to a life in the gutter. The homeless-industrial complex and the lefty lawyers guild have seen to it. This would be one ripe, juicy tomato ready for squashing. I’d like to see the dem politician willing to take a public stand for the status quo in the face of an all-out political/PR offensive.
Then there’s this little matter of marijuana legalization. I recall reading mentions for a decade now of research proving that teenage pot use leads to a much higher rate of schizophrenia. Mark David Chapman (John Lennon R.I.P.) was also a heavy pothead as a teen. This would be another nice, heavy, paddleboard to (constructively) belabor the Left with.
Why hasn't this been done before? I mean, you know, it's so simple!
Well a mentally ill person is not going to listen to the law anyway.
At one time I had a lot of hope for Cantor but he's striking me as being way too soft. This is a bill that is nothing more than kneejerk stupidity on its face and Cantor's office acts like its something that could be seriously considered. King needs to be told without playing games just how ridiculous the bill really is.
It’s interesting that the shooter’s arena was a liberal event and the only known nearest gun (other than the shooter’s) was being carried by a kid in his early 20s not in attendance but buying cigarettes away from the scene who hears the shots and moves toward the sounds and ends up sitting on the shooter’s neck. Seeing the shooter already subdued the kid never even bothered to pull out his gun but assisted in holding the shooter down until sheriffs arrived.
Like any manager, expect Cantor to be respectful of his troops in public -- especially when discussing their actions with the press.
We aren't privy to what is being said in private. Nor should we be.
If this 1,000ft rule was in place before the shooting, it would not have stopped it. The law abiding citizens would not have had their guns and the criminals would done what they would have done anyway.
boo hoo
Good points, but I'll be happy if the Republican just get back onto the agenda they've already established. I don't think the people who elected them are asking them to do anything about this situation, except to honor the dead and wounded.
Crazy happens. It's a fact of life on planet earth. It can't be legislated out of existence. If anything, Boehner needs to toss back any ridiculous knee-jerk bills the House Dems offer right now. He's already tossed back one.
now, what is he going to do about all the current gun laws? Less regulation = more freedom.
YOU WORK FOR US........ AND IF YOU Drive THE UNBALANCED MINORITY OF the US public WHO HAPPEN TO BE CRAZY AROUND THE BEND........take your medicine.
We are witessing a liberal fascist race AWAY from further accountability. They fear for their very lives. I kinda like that.Perhaps they will see that its just not a good idea to keeop screwing their constituents, as they intend to keep doing, which is why they want , "additional protection."
Manwhile the left withers under the wages of politicizing the Arizona tragedy. A POX ON THE LEFT!!!
The ARIZONA corpses are not even cold in the ground and the left is attempting to prevent the roll back of their totalitarian health care bill by changing the issue based on this horrible tragedy? EFF THEM!!
OH WILL AMERICA EVER REMEMBER THIS IN 2012!!!!!
OBAMA MUST GO. RESIGN OBAMA!!!
I applaud Boehner - better nip this idiotic idea in the bud before it gets demagogued by the left.
“Rep King is just trying to jump on the political bandwagon.”
No, he’s just scared of getting shot, and also a stupid Liberal gun-grabber who has the usual Liberal delusion that gun laws work.
“Roving, random felon bubbles.”
Roving, random, felon generator!
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