Posted on 12/05/2011 3:04:42 PM PST by Outlaw Woman
Prior to the “Republican Revolution” of 1994, Rep. Newt Gingrich of Georgia had earned an A rating with Gun Owners of America. But that all changed in 1995, after Republicans were swept to power and Gingrich became Speaker of the House.
The Republicans gained the majority, thanks in large part to gun owners outraged by the Clinton gun ban. And upon taking the reins of the House, Speaker Gingrich said famously that, “As long as I am Speaker of this House, no gun control legislation is going to move in committee or on the floor of this House and there will be no further erosion of their rights.”
His promise didn’t hold up, however, and his GOA rating quickly dropped to well below the “C-level.” In 1996, the Republican-led Congress passed the “gun free school zones act,” creating criminal safe zones like Virginia Tech, where the only person armed was a murderous criminal. Speaker Newt Gingrich voted for the bill containing this ban.[1]
The same bill also contained the now infamous Lautenberg gun ban, which lowered the threshold for losing one’s Second Amendment rights to a mere misdemeanor.[2] Gun owners could, as a result of this ban, lose their gun rights forever for non-violent shouting matches that occurred in the home -- and, in many cases, lose their rights without a jury trial.
While a legislator might sometimes vote for a spending bill which contains objectionable amendments, that was clearly NOT the case with Newt Gingrich in 1996. Speaking on Meet the Press in September of that year, Speaker Gingrich said the Lautenberg gun ban was “a very reasonable position.”[3] He even refused to cosponsor a repeal of the gun ban during the next Congress -- despite repeated requests to do so.[4]
Also in 1996, Speaker Gingrich cast his vote for an anti-gun terror bill which contained several harmful provisions. For example, one of the versions he supported (in March of that year) contained a DeLauro amendment that would have severely punished gun owners for possessing a laser sighting device while committing an infraction as minor as speeding on a federal reservation.[5] (Not only would this provision have stigmatized laser sights, it would have served as a first step to banning these items.) Another extremely harmful provision was the Schumer amendment to “centralize Federal, State and Local police.”[6]
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I will as soon as I can. My computer is running slow and it’s slower here for me than anywhere else. Taking forever to post, lol.
Didn’t know about the TeaParty flag, guess you got it over the months.
Just don’t get a Confederate Flag, lol. Big fight going on here about having it on license plates!! - if you choose.
Can I intrude upon you and ask that you post an image.?
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On THIS thread? Are you NUCKING FUTS? Nowhere is there a more consistent Republican concerning his hatred for the 2nd Amendment! Rudy is a gun grabbing RINO of the highest order.
Yes, the Gadsden flag. What does the Tea Party Flag look like? They use this, is there a variation?
Ok I see it’s the Gadsden flag. Thought maybe a ‘New’ flag was made for the Tea Party. Never can tell .... I’m an old person and don’t always catch when a new fangle design or idea comes out :O
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This is the flag I have seen used here - also on T-Shirts
There is another original variation of a DTOM flag
This yellow background flag is the one the lefties and the media attempted to label as “racist”
I guess that OWS uses a big OD XHD Hefty trash bag as a combo poncho/tent/flag
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I don’t know what a DTOM Flag is but if you look up Gadsden flag under Google images there are tons of varieties. Lot of Photoshopping going on I guess.
Don’t Tread On Me
Sorry, I seem to be losing it tonight. It’s late.
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Recent interesting “flag” incident
A black college student had a Reb flag displayed in his dorm room
The college said he had to take it down -
He balked - and fought back - said it was tradition (I believe)
His Reb flag is back up on his dormroom wall (There are several flags - 1st, 2nd, - one was similiar to the US flag)
Must have caused a stir there
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I had mentioned the Confederate Flag to you upthread. Our newspaper has had a lot of letters pro and con about it.
I own two laser sights. Make ‘em illegal and I’m a felon. I’m done f*cking around.
And I am not alone.
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Revising history
There was a wealthy black woman in Mississippi that owned hundreds of black slaves on her huge plantation
There were black soldiers in the Confederate armies
After the war Tennessee passed the “Army and Navy” gun laws that made it illegal for blacks to own or use certain firearms - The NRA has good info on that and will mail it to you
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It’s the Blacks who are objecting to the flag here in my town. There are always objections to things.
Yeah, bad and worse. OR what he said (OK), and what he actually did (terrible). So if you go by what he did rather than what he says he fits right in on the couch with Pelosi. As much as Mittens sucks, Newt sucks even worse.
I think Rudy could beat Obama hands down is a POTUS election.
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