Posted on 01/18/2011 4:01:18 PM PST by DarthVader
In the aftermath of the attempted murder of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords earlier this month, lawmakers on Capitol Hill have proposed a cluster of gun control measures ranging from a ban to knowingly carrying a firearm within 1,000 feet of certain high-profile government officials to a proposal to allow members of Congress to carry firearms in the U.S. Capitol.
Rep. Carolyn McCarthy formally introduced her own bill on the House floor Tuesday that would ban high-capacity ammunition clips like the one Jared Loughner used to gun down 19 individuals in the Tucson shooting Jan. 8.
McCarthy, who is regarded as one of the toughest gun-control proponents on Capitol Hill, has dedicated her congressional service to reducing gun violence after a tragic incident in 1993 in which gunman Colin Ferguson unleashed a hail of bullets aboard a packed Long Island Railroad commuter train, and used 15-round magazines to kill six people, including McCarthys husband, and injured 19 more, including her son.
I know what its like to have tragedy brought to your life in a split second by a madman with high-capacity ammunition magazines, McCarthy said. Im working to stop it from happening again. We need comprehensive reform to reduce the number of people hurt or killed by gunfire in America, but one simple way we can do that is by keeping the worst tools of mass murder away from the general public. This nation has come together before to support this simple, commonsense measure, and it is the law in several states right now. It is a small sacrifice that law-abiding gun owners can make once again in order to increase everyones safety.
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They became godless liberals and now they are pathetic human beings. Just contrast parts of the country politically/culturally and see the conditions of the economy, crime and other factors.
I remember when McCarthy ran for office for the very first time. She claimed to be a lifelong Republican that changed over to Democrat because of the gun control issue. She claimed that she still supported everything the Republicans did and said on all other issues. The gun control issue being the only reason for her switch.
A couple weeks later I watched her give a campaign speech in which she denounced Republicans on Medicare and Social Security. Claiming that Republicans wanted to throw old people out into the streets, etc. She had dusted off an old DNC propaganda handbook and was reciting it word for word while some DNC handler of hers stood beside her smiling. A few years ago the liberal ADA gave her a 90 liberal rating.
If Castle from Delaware and Mark Kirk from Illinois' 10th Congressional District north of Chicago were still in the House, they probably would have jumped on it. Castle is now history, good riddance, and Kirk has to worry about votes from the whole state of Illinois.
Crime is irrelevant. This was a psychotic nut by all indications hoping for suicide.
McCarthy’s measure will be stonewalled by Boehner. Case closed.
HIgh capacity “clips”? Bad news for owners of M1 Garands and broomhandle Mausers.
McCarthyism!!!
I certainly hope so.
Thanks, but your lesson is still wasted on a liberal. They still think all parts of an icky gun are the same.
Ironically, if magazines holding over 10 rounds had been banned, Loughner might well have chosen a heavier caliber, such as a .45 ACP or a .44 Magnum revolver, since the ability to get high-capacity magazines is a major selling point for semiautomatic pistols in 9 mm Parabellum. And in that case, Gabby Giffords, who’s making a nice recovery, would be either dead or horribly disabled.
I’ll respond to Congresscritter McCarthy in true, sensitive, deeply meaningful and respectful NFHale Civil Discouse 101 fashion (with an honorable nod to my buddy Gilbo_3 for verbiage):
“Bite me, ya ignorant commie B*tch. Molon labe.”
Was that mean? Was that harsh? Was that wrong? Do I care?
In other words...did I elevate the debate to new heights of civility??? THAT is the question one must ask oneself at all times...
“...She claimed to be a lifelong Republican that changed over to Democrat because of the gun control issue...”
She is exactly what she has always been - a lunatic fringe liberal.
Her husdband’s tragic death just gave her the sainthood to proselytze and a soapbox to preach from.
“Never let a crisis go to waste”...she learned it well from her handlers.
She needs to be sent home to whatever asylum she came from and be replaced.
Never forget: the American Revolution began when the British tried to take the Colonists’ guns.
'corolyn you ignorant slut' and in response to her dead husband 'he shouldve armed himself'...
what ??? thats too harsh ??? dancing in her husbands blood...
she started it...
I had forgotten that the Communist traitor-lawyer Kunstler was his attorney. I remember the "black rage" defense; I had forgotten that it was Kunstler's squeezeout and that it was part of the Ferguson case.
Tks for the reminder. Kunstler's Red shysters are still around ..... trying to get George W. Bush and Dick Cheney dragged off to The Hague for a Leftist show-trial.
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