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."
I’d like an explanation on how someone as ignorant as Liberal A can hold public office. I think Liberal A should take a stroll down MLK Blvd. at midnight with a large purse in order to gain a new perspective.
We called it a “Fire in the hole” day.
The farm we all worked on had a deep hollow in the woods with a pond in the bottom of it. We’d set up bottles and cans on the opposite side of the hole and spend the afternoon talking about cars and girls, insulting each other and shooting. It was a seriously good time.
Not to be pickey and it does not change your point, but I think it was Guam.
Yeah, what's wrong with expecting your baby to sleep through a summer blockbuster?
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She won't like it, because it's going to involve a national time of prayer and the preaching of the unadulterated gospel of Jesus Christ.
Seriously, it’s really a sore point when I see kids in R rated movies. The movie soundtrack is so loud it’s at least terrifying if not damaging to little ones’ ears.
I’ve seen kids screaming because of the scenes on the screen were scaring them so bad.
Some people just don’t realize, I guess, that once you’re going to have a child, it’s not about what YOU want anymore.
“Somebody get in this woman’s face and tell her the truth about freedom, and herself!”
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The proper one word descriptor for the theiving racist Lee, just might merit the electric chair in confused, cowardly, non-judgmental 2012 America.
You’re right.
Most people have heard of Medgar Evers. Most people do not know that Mr. Evers believed in his right to own and carry arms. Myrlie Evers, Mr. Evers widow, said the following: “now we had guns in every room of our house. I slept with a small revolver next to me on the nightstand. He slept with a rifle next to him. We had one in the hall, we had one in the front room. We often talked about it, and he said: “Yes, I will use it if it’s necessary to protect myself, to protect my family, to protect my friends.” Voices of Freedom, Henry Hampton and Steve Fayer, Bantam Books, 1990, p.152
Even fewer people know about the Deacons for Defense and Justice. The Deacons for Defense and Justice, was a group of African American men who were mostly veterans of World War II and the Korean War, who joined together and organized the group in Jonesboro, Louisiana, on July 10, 1964. They were founded to defend the black community and civil rights workers. These were armed black men who armed themselves in self-defense against the white elites who were trying to keep them “in their place”.
The Deacons for Defense and Justice mostly protected civil rights workers from CORE who were registering black voters in Louisiana and Mississippi. This protection also extended to the black neighborhoods where CORE was housing the civil rights workers and to the black churches where CORE was holding voting rights seminars. Armed Deacons escorted the civil rights workers to and from meetings and patrolled black neighborhoods.
By 1965 the Deacons had between fifty and sixty chapters spread across Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. In Bogalusa, Louisiana the group had about 900 members.
James Farmer, who was then the head of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), was scheduled to go to Bogalusa. He received a warning from the FBI that the Klan was making death threats against him.
The Deacons must have heard about the threats too because they met Mr. Farmer at the airport. They escorted Mr. Farmer and provided tight security for him during his visit. Mr. Farmer even stayed at the home of the chapter president.
Not only were the Deacons willing to use force to repel an attack, they were armed for the job. This capability and willingness to use force to defend themselves and others provided an effective deterrent to the Klan terrorists. Mr. Farmer wrote about his stay with the Deacons in his autobiography, “ . . .unless a bomb were tossed . . . the Klan could only reach me if they were prepared to swap their lives for mine.”
Floyd McKissick, of CORE, and Martin Luther King, of SCLC, had the Deacons protect the marchers on the “March Against Fear” in 1966. This march, from Memphis, Tennessee to Jackson, Mississippi, was organized after James Meredith was shot while trying to make the 220-mile walk by himself. When the marchers reached Greenwood, Mississippi, Stokely Carmichael gave his famous Black Power speech.
Dr. King and Mr. McKissick had the Deacons for Defense and Justice scout ahead of the marchers looking for snipers, and ambushes. They also had them guard the marchers at night as armed guards against raiders.
Today’s race hustlers and political hacks who not only defend the racist and elitist anti-civil rights laws but work to pass them, are spitting on the work of people who were giants compared to them. The hustlers and hacks can’t lick the boots of men like Martin Luther King, James Farmer, Roy Innis, Medgar Evers and James Meredith, never mind walk in their shoes.
Civil rights groups like the NRA (the nation’s oldest civil rights group) have their work cut out for them and need the support of every freedom loving person to roll back these anti-civil rights laws and to hold the racists and elitists at bay.
But the greater point is these people get to utter complete asininities with zero fear of public criticism from the press.
The roots of Michigan gun control are found in the case of a black doctor named Ossian Sweet who killed a member of a mob trying to drive him out of “their” Detroit neighborhood.
Sweet was acquitted of murder and almost immediately calls for gun permits and registration as well as gun boards arose and laws were passed. The gun boards virtually never approved blacks for gun permits and things have grown from there.
Happily Michigan is dismantling the whole system and we’re even freer than states like Texas in some respects. For instance, Michigan is an open carry state.
Again I agree. It’s a disgrace that Texas doesn’t have Vermont style open carry.
The entire history of gun control is racist and elitist. The nation’s very first gun control law was a Virginia race based law that prohibited “negroes, slave and free, from carrying weapons including clubs.”, and further stating that “free Mulattoes, Negroes and Indians...shall appear without arms.”
Point well made!
I joined NRA years ago because I want no “Warsaw Ghetto” in the USA!
NUF SAID!
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A meeting sponsored by Jackson-Lee will be full of anti-gun nuts that will shout down anything the NRA rep tries to say. The MSM will video the entire meeting and then selectively edit the footage to make it look as bad as possible for gun owners.
Nope...no deal. I would however invite the Representative to a meeting at a place of my choosing. No audience and with the proceeding streamed in real time on the Internet.
Jackson-Lee would probably not agree to that, progressive hate a fair fight.
If 0 bummer had a sister, she might be just a tad smarter than Queen Shelia.
Nice post. I appreciate the history lesson.
Thanks for posting that video of Suzanna Hupp. I wish every member of congress was forced to view that clip once a year as refresher training to remain in their seat. Suzanna is often a guest host on KLBJ in Austin and one of my favorites ever.
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