Posted on 03/09/2019 4:30:22 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC) says firearm confiscation laws portend a way that Democrats and Republicans can “come together.” CNN reported that Graham has long supported red flag laws, which allow a court to issue firearm confiscation orders for individuals deemed a threat to themselves or others.
House Democrats have already passed legislation during this Congress to criminalize private gun sales and extend the instant background check for firearm purchases. They are now pressing for $50 million in annual funding to bring academia into the gun control push.
The Democrats have also been vocal in their support for gun confiscation laws, and this is where Graham believes the left and right can come together.
He told CNN, “I haven’t really looked at the House package, but this is to me the area where we can come together.” Graham has scheduled a March 26 Judiciary Committee hearing on the confiscation orders.
California, Illinois, and Florida all have gun confiscation orders via red flag laws. California’s law did nothing to prevent the November 7, 2018, Borderline Bar & Grill shooting in which 12 innocents were killed. The law in Illinois did not prevent the February 15, 2019, shooting at Henry Pratt Company, where five innocents were killed. And the Florida law did not stop the August 26, 2018, shooting at Jacksonville Landing or the January 23, 2019, shooting at SunTrust Bank in Sebring. A total of eight innocents were killed in the two Florida shootings.
CNBC noted that Graham’s willingness to “[hold] a hearing on gun control is … a remarkable development in the GOP-dominated Senate.”
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Post of the day bro. You are 100% correct, unfortunately.
What part of “shall not be infringed” do these people not understand?
From my cold dead hands.
I thought Graham’s recent activity - Trump supporter, more Conservative, etc. - was a first step towards running for president in 2024, or 2020, if Trump dropped out.
LOL - when you start talking about red flag gun confiscation, your political future in the GOP has come to a permanent end.
He’s afraid of being prosecuted for his FISA involvement, so he wore some camouflage for awhile.
That was a pretty sad day in this country.
I’m self removing any post I might make in response to this treasonous POS...
NEVER!!!!
We’ve gotta come together and get rid of both of them.
Jerk.
Will the “hearings” be conducted in English? Or Russian?
Will there be any witnesses from Venezuela? From Cuba? From Pre-Nazi Germany? Etc., etc., ad nausium...?
It has been already - we know where my State’s LE stands - they’re salivating about sending in SWAT teams to disarm us. Find it strange how the 20-somethings wearing badges and uniforms are so willing to kill us 60-somethings who also wore uniforms when we were their age. That means absolutely NOTHING to them.
It looks like Democrats aren’t after DJT.
They are after you & me. DJT stands in the way.
It appears Graham has gone full Nazi.
Heads up: South Carolina ping
These people were a danger, dontchaknow.
Let’s all highly recommend the DNC hold their 2020 convention in Dachau, Buchenwald, or Auschwitz where they will feel at home!
I’ll volunteer to teach Bernie a few phrases in German. I’ll even take him on a personally guided tour of the former Stasi HQ. The last time I ‘met’ Bernie, he had recently been forced to leave his commune in Vermont and he looked like a vagrant.
I wish he would just concentrate on getting more and more judges on the country’s. Yes 3 this week and 3 next week, but I want more. We have around 150 more judges to confirm. He doesn’t need to be involved in 2nd Amendment issues except to vote. Keep your priorities on Judges.
Liberalism is a mental disorder and should preclude them from owning firearms or making decisions about other Americans owning them.
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