Posted on 07/24/2012 10:23:04 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Rep. Jackson Lee will seek meeting with NRA about response to Colo. shootings By Pete Kasperowicz - 07/23/12 09:23 PM ET
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) said late Monday that she would seek a meeting with the National Rifle Association (NRA) to see if there are any ways to find an agreement on how to prevent tragedies like the one last week in Colorado, where one shooter killed 12 and wounded nearly 60 others in a movie theater.
"I'm going to invite the National Rifle Association to one of my meetings," she said on the House floor late Monday. "I want to sit down and talk to them about how we can work together."
Jackson Lee said she hoped to understand whether the NRA could agree to new rules that would require retailers to notify authorities whenever one customer is buying excessive amounts of weapons or ammo, a reference to the Colorado shooter, who is now known to have bought thousands of rounds in preparation for the shooting.
"I want an explanation on why someone can buy 6,000 rounds of ammunition on an Internet without any oversight whatsoever," she said. "Why is there no basis of giving notice?
"If they'd given notice to the local police, maybe someone would have knocked on the door and found out what was going on," she said. "We can find a way to come together. This is not rocket science to determine why you're getting 6,000 rounds."
Jackson Lee also defended some parents for bringing young children into a midnight showing of the latest Batman movie. The youngest to die was a six-year old girl, which raised some questions about what parents were doing with children in the theater so late.
"I understand that," Jackson Lee said. "I was a young mother with my spouse in an area where we moved away from our family, it's hard to find babysitters, and so you take a sleeping baby to the movies. There's no sin in that."
Is she still looking for that American Flag on “Mars”?
Question 1 to ask:
- Why was no one carrying a weapon in the theater except the gunman?
Question 2:
—Why are people trying to score political points based on the act of a evil, mentally deranged individual?
Question 3:
—Why are stories of armed citizens taking action and stopping crimes not more widely publicized?
I could come up with other questions if needed.
Maybe this screeching hag will refer the NRA person to one of her expert political pals that said the island of Okinawa would tip over if our Marines put too much stuff on the Island.
“it’s hard to find babysitters, and so you take a sleeping baby to the movies.” No, Shiela-smart people do not take their little kids out in public places in the wee hours just because they want to see a movie. And a 6 year old is not a “baby” in the literal sense of the word. I wish that loon would move to some other state, and out of Texas...
Her own employees don’t want to be in the same room with her. ‘Nuff said.
She would be better off trying to stop the killings in her own district of South Central Los Angeles and Chicago. Fix that and then talk with the NRA.
Yeah, it wasn’t a good weekend wihout chewing throught a brick of .22s.
Exactly. The NRA should ignore this idiot for the imbecile that she is. There is absolutely no value added in any endeavor in which she is involved.
And she wants the answer from the NRA? How stupid can this woman be? My guess she's got as much in her noggin as Rep Johnston in Georgia (Guam would tip over if more troops were moved in).
The NRA and its law-abiding members, has as much to do with the Aurora tragedy, as Lee does with normal human intelligence.
Silly Jackson Lee’s district is Houston/Harris county, Texas. Her constituents are the only ones who even acknowledge her presence...
If Baraq had a son he’d look like Sheila....
>”why someone can buy 6,000 rounds of ammunition”<
Did the guy kill 6,000 people? I must have missed that.
“farting in a bag and saving it”
Last thing we need is ANOTHER Sheila Jackson Lee.
Somebody get in this woman’s face and tell her the truth about freedom, and herself!
Ignore these libs, call them “liberal A”
Was he carrying 6000 rounds of ammo on him when he committed the crime?
I bet he left hundreds of pounds of other stuff at home as well. What about that stuff?
Someone with jackboots?
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