Posted on 01/25/2013 8:55:11 AM PST by kiryandil
Edited on 01/25/2013 11:24:37 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
It will be an uphill battle--all the way. I know this.
But we need to ask ourselves:
Do we let the gun industry take over and dictate policy to this country? Do we let those who profit from increasing sales of these military style-weapons prevent us from taking commonsense steps to stop the carnage?
Or should we empower our elected representatives to vote their conscience based on their experience, based on their sense of right and wrong and based on their need to protect their schools, their malls, their workplaces and their businesses?
This legislation is my life's goal. As long as I am a member of the Senate, I will work night and day to pass this bill into law. No matter how long it takes, I will fight until assault weapons are taken off our streets.
Put simply, we cannot allow the rights of a few to override the safety of all. That is not the America that our founding fathers envisioned. And that is not the America I want my children and grandchildren to live in.
So I ask everyone watching at home: please get involved and stay involved.
The success or failure of this bill depends not on me, but on you. If the American people rise up and demand action from their elected officials, we will be victorious. If the American people say ``no'' to military-style assault weapons, we will rid our Nation of this scourge.
Please, talk to your senator and your member of Congress.
By Mr. FEINSTEIN (for herself,) Mr. BLUMENTHAL, Ms. AYOTTE, Mr. BENNET, Mr.
Meant to add, $1,599 is the price.
He didn’t say it. I didn’t say this:
He who gives up essential freedoms for temporary safety deserves neither.
The rights of a few!? Where the hell does the Constitution say that?
Put simply, we cannot allow the rights of a few to override the safety of all. That is not the America that our founding fathers envisioned. And that is not the America I want my children and grandchildren to live in.
Looks to me like she admits violating our rights and then lied about our founding fathers...in a real world she would be ostracized and impeached....
“Put simply, we cannot allow the rights of a few to override the safety of all. “
Feinstein, you’re right.
That’s why you people in congress need to be disarmed, and the rest of us armed.
Oh, and a gun free zone around you critters because it’s “adequate” for our children after all.
After all, there’s so few of you in congress, only like what 535 or thereabouts?
Why would you few people need guns while the vast majority of the rest of us should be disarmed?
Is this really the grounds on which they want to start a Civil War? Really?
Nutsos.
Your statement on this is a statement of principle, and is correct. But on pragmatic grounds, also, it is Bravo Sierra. The more guns are banned, the more the criminals and homicidal nutcases rejoice, because they much prefer unarmed and defenseless potential victims.
“This legislation is my life’s goal”
That’s literally the most pathetic and damnable life goal I’ve ever heard.
whatever happens, I will not comply
“We cannot allow the rights of a few to override safety.”
It wasn’t long ago they were blaming Rush Limbaugh, conservative talk radio and Sarah Palin for violence that happened in Tucson, Arizona. “We cannot allow the rights of a few to override safety.” could become a very dangerous slop.
*slope (but I know you know what I meant)
” Or should we empower our elected representatives to vote their conscience based on their experience, based on their sense of right and wrong and based on their need to protect their schools, their malls, their workplaces and their businesses?”
We are not wards of the state.
What part of REPRESENTATIVE REPUBLIC does this scumbag not understand?
Oh. that’s right- she understands it enough to want to destroy it, to pursue her own lust and greed.
These politicians remind me of pigs at feeding.
“It’s for the greater good.”
Benjamin Franklin had some choice words on the subject of safety and liberty—for those “few” of us referenced by this California Fine Swine—and this precise topic, regarding petty tyrants who know what’s best for the rest of us ... including (but certainly not limited to) “ ... if you can keep it.”
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Ooops...forgot federal government officials...elected,appointed and Civil Service.
What Double Speak. What she is really saying is that the government wants to take away EVERYONE's rights (not just a the rights of a few) so that she can centralize power in the hands of a few. And as for the Founders not envisioning that kind of America, let's just ask Benjamin Franklin himself, whether he thought about the sacrificing freedom for safety:
Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
--Benjamin Franklin
“That is not the America that our founding fathers envisioned.”
Yeah, and they didn’t envision treasonous POS’s like frankenswine to make a career out of destroying this country.
” And that is not the America I want my children and grandchildren to live in.”
And the America that she strives for is one that I do not want to see my son live in.
Many years ago I took an oath to support and defend the Constitution from all enemies foreign and domestic. And treasoncrat frankenswine and her ilk have proven themselves to be that domestic enemy.
#40: Re I wonder if Feinswein would allow “the rights of a few” mentally disturbed individuals to walk freely among the citizenry “to override the safety of all.”
Yes she would. They are her friends. They are called DEMOCRATS AND LIBERALS and PROGRESSIVES.
The NUTS have escaped from the asylum and now they run the bigger asylum known as Congress and the White House.
Feinstein has shown a pronounced tendency and progression towards becoming delusionally insane. Whatever rationality she once exhibited is now gone, like much of her mind.
She is just as much a danger to the individual as any wacko walking the streets, except that the taxpayer is paying her to be a wacko who is ruining our life.
NOW THAT IS CRAZY!
“Any time somebody uses the term “common sense,” they are merely attempting to distract attention from the fact that they don’t have any.”
There is no such thing as the rights of the group (or many).
Only an individual can have rights.
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