They MUST avoid that at all costs.
Posted on 12/18/2012 6:19:21 PM PST by lowbridge
Republicans need to "have a discussion on guns" in the wake of last week's grade-school massacre in Newtown, Conn., Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) told his conference Tuesday.
Speaking to his troops at a closed-door meeting in the Capitol, Boehner was mindful of conservatives' traditional opposition to new gun restrictions, emphasizing that Republicans wouldn't do "anything knee-jerk," according to a lawmaker in the room.
But the Speaker also said he wants to "de-politicize" the issue of gun violence, which has been thrust dreadfully into the national spotlight following the murder of 26 people — 20 of them young school children — at Sandy Hook Elementary School last Friday.
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Read the 2nd amendment Boehner. Read it out loud on national television.
Thats all the discussion we need.
Surrender Monkey! Member of the RINO wing of Vichy GOP. Resign you puke.
Everyone should switch registration to ‘Independent’...and Ohio? This is the best you can do? This vain old treasonous drunk? Get lost.
That bad?
“Trusted”? Like Daddy used to say; “Wouldn’t trust him in an outhouse with a muzzle on”! And with a short list of exceptions that escape me at the moment, same thought pretty much applies to everyone on Capitol Hill.
Better to pose the question by working forward from who would a worse job. in my view, Joe S**T the Ragman or one of the Smuckatella boys would at a minimum be honest.
They MUST avoid that at all costs.
You may be over them but they aren’t over you, well to be accurate they are over you and me. We are subject to the incompetence and corruption of these idiots.
Yep. I agree. Might was well take it over the cliff. Give the people what they want. It’s going to go there anyway. (At this point not sure it would teach anyone a lesson but give them an excuse to keep blaming someone else.)
She was terrifuc. I loved her downright truthful last sentence.
It is the real reason for the 2nd amendment, needed now more than ever.
He won’t do anything knee-jerk, except completely capitulate.
That’s quite an impressive document.
Looking across the developed world it seems that CULTURE is a big determinant (i.e., drinking in Scotland, suicide in Japan, conscription in Switzerland, etc.), NOT GUNS.
Let’s think, shall we - what does the US have in great abundance (culturally speaking) that other countries don’t?
The political correctness of all of this is what needs to stop.
It’s time people just spoke and said exactly what they mean.
Democrats, lefties, liberals, et al, want to ban guns and take them away from as many of us peons as possible. They want to make it harder for people to obtain guns. It’s not about safety or protecting anyone or stopping crime or more shootings, it’s about CONTROL. It always has bee about control. Of course, stupid people, who are already willingly giving up their guns, don’t realize this. But those people, IMO, don’t deserve to have guns anyway.
On the other hand, Republicans pussy foot around the issue, as usual. Instead of their tiptoeing around and trying not to step on any ones toes, they should be out there front and center, speaking plainly and clearly that gun control, regulations and restrictions are not the answer, never have been the answer and this “discussion” about guns, is irrelevant and a waste of everyones time. The basic fact is, we, as Americans, under the US Constitution, have a GOD GIVEN RIGHT to own a GUN. NO ONE has any right, whatsoever, to take or hinder that right. PERIOD!!!! So everyone needs to STFU about it.
Then, it won’t be politicized. See if you take the issue completely OFF the table, and refuse to discuss it, it no longer is something that can be politicized.
From there, the discussion SHOULD BE about the politicization that has been done THUS FAR and about removing any regulations and bans in place, to prevent people from choosing to carry (openly or not).
Look, IMO, the only thing that truly can be done with mentally ill “white boys” is to make people more aware and more prepared on mental health, and proper parenting. However, the federal government has no business in either issue. If the states wanted to develop programs to help with these issues, I’m all for that. But it shouldn’t be mandated or regulated. It should be ones choice to participate.
Oh, and another thing that would help, aside from allowing everyone that wants to, to carry....is providing free self defense classes to everyone that wants to learn.
Just my $02. But the politics and politicians and their non stop Political Correct BS is making me want to vomit.
Let’s think, shall we - what does the US have in great abundance (culturally speaking) that other countries don’t?
Illegals? ;)
You don’t speak for me John, you pathetic coward.
BTTT
I know.
And the Political Class will be very protected by armed people while we the “plebian classes” will be unprotected and attacked by criminals.
A “common sense” thing would be to also disarm their protective details
That way we are all equal, once they are as unprotected as us, then we can have a meaningful discussion.
Otherwise, they’re just hypocritical BS artists.
But that’s redundant.
It’s been decided. To stave off a full out ban on the evil black rifles, there will be a ban on importation and manufacture of magazines with a capacity higher than 30 rounds and probably even 20 rounds. There will be a limit on number of guns purchased and there will be a limit on ammunition purchased. They will also go after gun shows and there will be an intentional gumming up of the data collection and database updates of the NICS system to make it more difficult.
Of course none of this could have stopped the nutbag or will stop the next nutbag but it will be “something”..
They will do whatever they can and when the next shooting happens, they will say they need more.
He should just give the gavel back to Pelosi.
What a joke.
This guy is a complete cave-in failure. Unbelievable!
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