Posted on 01/24/2013 1:36:27 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
Earlier this morning, Democratic lawmakers gathered in Washington D.C. to unveil the Assault Weapons Ban of 2013, which is legislation that would ban “military-style” assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition clips. The press conference announcing the bill featured New York Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy, the legislation’s House sponsor, as its first speaker. Needless to say, Ms. McCarthy–whose husband was killed in a 1993 shooting spree on the Long Island Rail Road–made it clear it wasn’t going to be a speech that stuck to the script.
“This battle has been a very lonely battle for many, many years,” Ms. McCarthy began. “You know, a lot of words can be said. I’ve got a great speech here and my staff worked on it a long time and I’m probably going to do what they always tell me not to do. That means just talk from my heart.”
Ms. McCarthy expressed particular frustration that gun control legislation has stalled in Congress but argued that the recent massacre at a Newtown, Connecticut elementary school would be the catalyst for change.
“For the last several years, the massacres have been going on more and more. Going through it, I kept saying, ‘What’s the matter with all of us?’” she asked. “How many people have to be killed before we do something? I thought for sure after Virginia Tech that we would get something done. Aurora [too]. But something happened in Newtown. The people of America said, ‘How could this happen? How could this happen to our children?’”
Gun rights advocates typically argue that restrictions on firearms won’t lower crime since criminals are inherently willing to buy weapons illegally, but Ms. McCarthy countered by arguing the individuals involved in shooting sprees are not capable of buying the weapons on the black market.
“We have these machines. We have the large magazines that can take down 20 children in seconds,” she said. “Some people will say this bill won’t work. Let me tell you why it will work. Because if you don’t have these guns and the large magazines on the shelves, those who have done these horrific killings wouldn’t be able to go into a gun store and just buy them. They don’t have the background to go and look where the black market is and buy these magazines and guns. They go to the simplest place. If they aren’t in the stores, they can’t be bought. Think of the lives that can be saved. “
Adding that there’s a need for additional legislation to deal with drugs and mental health, Ms. McCarthy said, “This is only the beginning. We’re going to be working on a holistic approach.”
Ms. McCarthy also addressed the death of her husband and what the meant for her emotionally, especially in the wake of the Newtown shooting.
“There’s a lot of them saying that that’s not going to do anything. I’m saying to you that we can save lives,” she said. “Think about this, since Newtown, just about 1,000 people have died from guns. 1,000 people. Those children, their dreams–the dreams of even those who have died from other violence–never to be fulfilled. The day that that incident happened, I was actually giving an interview. And it was just a reporter following up on how do I get through the holidays. And she said to me, ‘Oh my god, do you have the TV on?’ And that was the beginning of my nightmare again….It has to stop. It has to stop. We can do it. We can make a difference.”
What an ignorant fool.
What kind of gun killed her husband?
The long-forgotten (by the MSM) LIRR racial shootings. How inconvenient, happens during Clinton’s first year, in NY, on a RR (presumably “gun free”) and involved a black man walking thru cars randomly singling out whites and Asians.
Where was the “outrage” then? Or was that somehow excusable because we were supposed to “feel his rage” as an “oppressed” minority (ala King Rodney Riots)?
She blamed the gun.
That's all I need to know about her. - Tom
Dear Carolyn,
Go suck in a Barrel.
PS how many of those evil things are protecting your Sorry UnAmerican ass?
Another ghoul, dancing in the blood of dead children while cackling about not letting a crisis go to waste...
IOW...
No.
Really now? Does Chicago, New York, Washington DC mean anything to this freaking Idiot? Hey Genious, how many killings in Chicago last year? What are the laws there now? What a worthless puke.
Going through it, I kept saying, ‘What’s the matter with all of us?’”
What, indeed? Why, for God's sake, do we insist on disarming the folks who are charged with the protection of our children? Why, for God's sake, do we insist on creating insecure public areas where the good guys are disarmed by force of law and unable to defend themselves?
It's time to stop the insanity, Carolyn! Past time, in fact.
End the gun-bans! End the criminal protection zones! Let us, the good citizens of these United States arm ourselves for our own protection and for the protection of the innocent children in our care!
If it saves even one life, Carolyn, isn't it worth it?
Google "Shoulder Thing That Goes Up" and you can watch that fool dither.
I feel sorry for these women like this one and Mr.s Brady.
Their husbands were shot and that destroyed their minds.
The consolation is that it gives them something to do.
They go after legal gun owners and forget that those who used the guns against their husbands were criminals.
Mr.s Brady’s husband was shot by a crazed man who was in love with a Lesbian.McCarthy’s husband killed by a crazed racist.
Others killed by people on drugs meant to keep them sane, but that do not work. Oh Well!! Both Brady and McCarthy have made a good living off their husbands being shot.
Carolyn McCarthy is a whore. Repeat: Carolyn McCarthy is a whore.
McCarthy is ghoul who played the victim card to get rich on her dead husbands corpse.
They will however, continue to steal them from their dead mothers after they kill them.
Someone needs to call the emotional gun grabbers on the issue of people being killed by guns. The fact is that if 1,000 people were killed by guns, and they weren’t, 990 of them would have been young urban gangsters shooting each other, in gun-free zones like Chicago. I live in the South, and other than in certain neighborhoods in Atlanta, we are not shooting each other. Our rifles just sit there and behave themselves. This idea of a “crisis” of “assault weapons” is not even accurate when referring to the young urban hoodlums. It’s a manufactured crisis, pure and simple.
Meet her half way.
From now on any Black that Voted for Obama cannot own a Firearm.
Let’s make it even simpler. Anybody, dead, alive or imaginary, that Voted for Obama cannot own a Firearm.
Gun Crime would virtually disappear overnight.
You’re Welcome America. Now, let me revise the Federal Budget.
You betcha and now has a house in The Hamptons.
So, if a Black man who hated White people purposely mowed White people down with his car, she would outlaw Automobiles?
Liberal Logic, ISN’T...
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