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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Any way that Gingrich went more moderate as speaker to lead and get things done? Has he compromised conservative values?
Indeed, you got me there. Which is why I'm still searching for someone to vote FOR, instead of just checking the box of the least evil candidate. Make sense?
However, I do think it is possible we won't have elections in Nov 2012. And that's what Ann Barnhardt was talking about.
Or He might ask, Why did you throw your vote away on a guy who had no hope of winning, thereby giving that Kenyan Marxist four more years in the White House and a couple more pro-death Supreme Court nominations?
What is the laser sight law?
Palin’s my write-in. Nobody else out there but weak-kneed bullshitters and Marxist scum.
Sorry, Rush, but the era of Reagan is over and it is an objective fact.
Reagan died in about 2004.
Say what they want about “his ideas, policies, etc.” but it is also objectively over because we’ve had 8 years of Clinton and now a 4 year term by socialist Obama.
Is any sane person going to say this country functioning as when Reagan was in charge?
That’s total complete denial.
How much poop can be put in your water before you refuse to drink it?
THAT’S THE QUESTION NOOT SUPPORTERS NEED TO BE ASKING THEMSELVES!
Maybe they’ll all die of Cholera before the primaries.
I can hold my nose and vote for lesser evil, as voting for GWB twice shows.
However, I will not vote GOP if Willard is anywhere on the ticket. I’ll write in Daniel Greenfield or myself.
IF you think there’s a dime’s worth of difference between Willard and Obama, you should share some of that stuff you’ve been smoking.
Second Amendment
Newt on the 2nd Ammendment
Newt has been long recognized as a strong defender of the Second Amendment’s right to bear arms. Newt is a recipient of the National Rifle Association’s Defender of the Second Amendment Award. His legislative voting record was consistently scored by the NRA as either an A or A+ all 20 years that he served in Congress. Furthermore, Newt is the only candidate in the GOP race who has spoken out about the threat to the second amendment from the United Nations and other global governance organizations, and on the first day, he will instruct the Department of Justice and State Department to defend American sovereignty and block all international treaties that infringe on Second Amendment rights.
Declared 2012 Republican Presidential Candidate
Former Speaker of the House
Newt Gingrich
Gingrich Position on Gun Control
The Second Amendment: Individual or Collective Right?
Gingrich is a firm advocate of a citizen’s right to bear arms.
“The right to bear arms is not about hunting. It’s not about target practice ... The right to bear arms is a political right designed to safeguard freedom so that no government can take away from you the rights that God has given you, and it was written by people who had spent their lifetime fighting the greatest empire in the world and they knew that if they had not had the right to bear arms, they would have been enslaved. And they did not want us to be enslaved. And that is why they guaranteed us the right to protect ourselves. It is a political right of the deepest importance to the survival of freedom in America.”
April 29, 2011, speaking at the National Rifle Association’s annual convention staged in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.
Legislations
Newt accuses the Obama administration of undermining the Second Amendment through a less than open strategy of legislative amendments.
“In every possible way, the Obama administration is the most consistently anti-gun administration and anti-Second Amendment administration that we have ever seen ... They’re now developing a stealth strategy in which they combine anti-gun judges with anti-gun treaties ... They will then try to strip us of our rights by judicial fiat.”
April 29, 2011, speaking at the National Rifle Association’s annual convention staged in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Newt in Pittsburgh
Video of Newt on gun rights http://www.nationalgunforum.com/showthread.php?28403-Newt-at-NRA
We conservatives didn’t support conservative outsiders Palin or Cain enough, we allowed the E and the MSM to take them down... so we get the only conservative left standing.
Gingrich or Romney?
What’s the decision?
How did Newt vote as speaker? facts are facts. Donations by the NRA to Newt? also facts...NRA Direct Contributions to Newt Gingrich
Source: Newtwatch
NRA POLITICAL VICTORY FUND, G, Dir, 10/19/80, $1,000
NRA POLITICAL VICTORY FUND, G, Dir, 9/15/82, $1,000
NRA POLITICAL VICTORY FUND, G, Dir, 9/15/82, $1,000
NRA POLITICAL VICTORY FUND, P, Dir, 6/11/84, $250
NRA POLITICAL VICTORY FUND, P, Dir, 8/11/86, $500
NRA POLITICAL VICTORY FUND, P, Dir, 10/14/87, $500
NRA POLITICAL VICTORY FUND, G, Dir, 10/31/88, $1,000
NRA POLITICAL VICTORY FUND, P, Dir, 9/19/89, $500
NRA POLITICAL VICTORY FUND, P, Dir, 3/20/90, $2,500
NRA POLITICAL VICTORY FUND, P, Dir, 4/26/90, $1,000
NRA POLITICAL VICTORY FUND, G, Dir, 10/12/90, $2,757
NRA POLITICAL VICTORY FUND, P, Dir, 3/18/92, $4,950
NRA POLITICAL VICTORY FUND, G, Dir, 10/12/92, $4,950
NRA POLITICAL VICTORY FUND, P, Dir, 6/30/93, $1,000
NRA POLITICAL VICTORY FUND, P, Dir, 5/26/94, $500
NRA POLITICAL VICTORY FUND, P, Dir, 6/30/94, $3,450
And here is Mr. Gingrich’s letter to the NRA, quietly sent a while ago. The NRA bragged about it on their Web pages immediately, but the press somehow only discovered it months later:
January 27, 1995
Ms. Tanya Metaksa
National Rifle Association
11250 Waples Mill Road
Fairfax, Virginia 22030
Dear Tanya,
There were several articles in the paper regarding discussions that we have been having with the NRA and other fire-arms freedom groups regarding repealing the gun ban and other issues affecting the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding Americans. Let me say that this is both a discussion among friends but more importantly among like-minded individuals. As long as I am Speakerof 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. What we are going to have is a partnership of strengthening laws against the criminal misuse of firearms, which everyone agrees is the real problem issue, and eliminating harassment of law abiding gun owners who are not the problem. Republicans want to demonstrate the Second Amendment is more about the fundamental rights of the people in a government of and by thepeople. Our purpose is to remove ill-conceived and unnecessary government interference in those rights. I look forward to working with you.
Your friend,
Newt Gingrich
Mr. Gingrich voted against the modest five day waiting period in the Brady bill, the last piece of significant gun-related legislation to come up in Congress. And, if he and the radical organization backing him have their way, there won’t be any more.
Newt Gingrich will make a great president. I support him 100%
Newt or Romney, well Newt, only because he’ll verbally tear OB a new one, but in the primary, my first choice was Cain, second choice is Paul, third Newt. Romney is not even on my list, I live in maine and listen to boston talk radio, even conservative talk radio in boston finds him suspect.
Unfortunatly if it’s romney or obama, i’ll vote Romney but it’s truly a hobson choice like McCain, Obama.
I agree....
That’s total complete denial.
It's been said......"Newt is a pro-life, Reaganite....... As Speaker, he was a dynamo against the socialist democrats (that’s why they hate him).
I agree with that...Newt is a Reaganite...and his record evidences this as wehave seen.
WOW! Now that's the way to go!.... Newt's not letting any grass grow under his feet...and he's not even at the helm yet...impressive he has plans when he hits the ground running
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I have no concerns about gun control with Newt. He's simply not going to sacrifice our ability to protect ourselves, especially since he knows the islam threat.
Muslims here are attempting to directly and indirectly arm themselves.....via 'converting americans with guns' as well as and enticing small community sheriffs etc. to convert. Aditionally, attempts to get training on how to shoot. Of which some are getting into trouble for refusing to train muslims how to use fire arms.
I agree that Newt is a Reaganite, and I also believe that this era in which we live is NOTHING like when Reagan was in charge.
So, the era of Reagan is over.
That doesn’t mean I didn’t appreciate his era — it was the best presidency of my lifetime — and it doesn’t mean that I’d wouldn’t like to see something similar some day, but it does mean that this Obama quadrennium is no Reagan era.
I think he meant that...and means that today.
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