Posted on 07/20/2012 1:54:56 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell decried federal lawmakers for failing to pass a permanent ban on assault weapons, such as the one used in Friday’s deadly Colorado movie theater shooting.
Rendell said it was an “act of cowardice by the Congress” not to renew the ban, which expired in 2004, and blamed lawmakers for being too “terrified” of the National Rife Association, which has lobbied against the ban, to actually do it.
“We’re terrified of the NRA. We Democrats are as bad as the Republicans. Everyone is scared of the NRA,” Rendell said Friday on MSNBC. “There are some things worth losing for in politics, and to be able to prevent carnage like this is worth losing for.”
Rendell said there is “no reason” for people to have assault weapons.
“No hunter needs it, no citizen needs it to protect their home,” he said.
The former governor also called on Congress to ban high-capacity gun clips like the one Jared Loughner used to kill six people and wound Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson, Ariz., last year. Rendell said today that a ban on high-capacity magazines, which can hold twice as many bullets as regular gun clips, would have saved people from “serious bodily injury” in the Tucson shooting.
“We need leadership and we need someone to stand up and say, Enough is enough,” Rendell said.
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Well I can only guess what the weekend and next week’s news will be about.
“Hey! Look at me! It’s Fast Eddie! Remember me?!”
Yes, thats right democrats! Hurry up, jump on the Rendell bandwagon! Get out there and endorse gun control only three months before an election. I would love to see a repeat of 1994, which was the last time you all made that mistake.
More political theater....how on earth would a ban have stopped this unless all so called ‘assault rifles’ were confiscated. Is this what Rendell is implying, that they should have been rounded up? In any event there are so many available it would have been trivial to get one. That and the silliness of the original ban was all about features which wouldn’t render the weapon any less lethal. As for magazines its the same game....they would have been easily attainable. More stupid from the anti0gun crowd.
Nothing like Fast Eddie to change the subject and cash in with his bed wetting anti-gun folks. Ever notice how cockroaches like Rendell only get real bold about these looser topics when they think people will be emotional rather than rational.
Predators like Eddie Rendell only thrive when they think they can trick the people into giving all their power to government for the false hope of safety.
Once we give up our personal responsibility we loose our right to be free. There will always be bad/crazy folks out there. No amount of lying and rule making is going to have one bit of effect on those folks.
Big surprise to fast Eddie: - We need these to protect ourselves from people like you.
People who have thousands of uniformed savants who would kill us at the drop of a pin - and our dogs too.
IOW, protection against tyranny.
I am amazed this guy used to be the governor of Pennsylvania given his opinions on guns.
Well I can only guess what the weekend and next week’s news will be about.
Rendel, another useless moron!
I am a true believer that it is our RIGHT to own guns and carry them freely but I draw the line on assault, military style weapons. No citizen needs a bazooka or a grenade launcher.
abolishing the second amendment via the UN treaty on the 27th?
"Hey! Look at me! It’s Fast FAT Eddie! Remember me?!
Fixed that.
Once a person decides to go on a killing spree, it dont matter how many laws you pass.
What if this guy made bombs out of Blue Rino Propane tanks? Would you ban those too.
Rendell should go back to beating anti-union people and being Obamas bitch boy.
Earth to Ed and his Gun-Grabbing,DemonRat buddies,a Semi-Automatic(look-alike,wannabee)is Not(I REPEAT),Not an ASSAULT-Weapon!An Assault-Weapon has a selector-switch which enables the user to fire this weapon either semi(or fully)automatic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FUER!
Yes. What a Coincidence that next Friday, Obama is rumored to be signing the UN Small arms Gun Ban Treaty and will be able to use what happened in Aurora,Colorado in his signing statement as a reason to have to act. I would not ever suggest that there is a connection between the shooter and the administration. Even though they set up ‘Fast and Furious’ so people would have to be murdered ( Over 300 in fact,did get murdered ), in order to take away our Second Ammendment. Still i would not ever suggest there might be a connection between the Obama administration and the shooter.
New York State still has an assualt weapon law on the books that is nearly identical to the expired federal law. I understand that Holmes used an AR-15 type rifle. These are legal under New York assualt weapon law (and the former federal law) with a few meaningless modifications. He also used a Remington 870 shotgun, also legal under the assualt weapon law and a Glock 40 Cal. also legal under the assualt weapon law as long as the mag does not exceed 10 rounds. In other words, the assualt weapon law would not have stopped this tragedy.
“We need leadership and we need someone to stand up and say, Enough is enough,” Rendell said”
The folks did stand up and say enough Ed. The assault weapons ban was dropped. The tribe has spoken. Get over it.
Lest we forget: this same Ed Rendell, who would forbid law-abiding Americans the ownership of arms, was also the Philadelphia District Attorney who saw nothing illegal about Philadelphia police using aerial bombardment, with military-grade high explosives, upon a Philadelphia row house in the 1985 MOVE bombing. That bombing by the Philadelphia police killed 6 adults and 5 children, and also destroyed 66 houses.
Not saying that MOVE was a good organization or even that they deserved to be completely left alone ... but Philadelphia police burning to death almost all of the MOVE members and their children (there were two survivors) didn’t rise to the level of indictable activity to Ed Rendell. Law abiding citizens peaceably owning arms apparently should be indictable, according to Mr. Rendell. Quite a contrast.
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