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Rep. Jackson Lee will seek meeting with NRA about response to Colo. shootings
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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."


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 112th; 2012; banglist; democrats; jacksonlee; jamesholmes; liberalfascism; youwillnotdisarmus
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To: Sub-Driver

Criminals==control them!

Crazies==control them!!

You can chose which one is SJL.


61 posted on 07/24/2012 1:12:01 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Sub-Driver

Are we sure that Holmes bought all his ammo in one place?

I could buy 500 rounds in 30 places & have 15,000 rounds & no one would be the wiser.


62 posted on 07/24/2012 1:13:21 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Arrowhead1952

I heard her story in detail not long after it happened - it made a permanent impression on me. I agree with your comment about congress.


63 posted on 07/24/2012 1:21:37 PM PDT by MissMagnolia (Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. (M.Thatcher))
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To: Sub-Driver

,Just send her a letter with one sentence: eliminate gun-free zones, let people be able to defend themselves, as it works everyday, and almost all incidents end without having a shot fired.


64 posted on 07/24/2012 1:41:14 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: cripplecreek

Yes, both the Klan AND American Socialists are for disarming people.


65 posted on 07/24/2012 1:42:12 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: Sub-Driver
TO get someone at her intelligence level, they will have to get a corpse, lobotomize it and send it to Mars (by the US flag) for the meeting, and televise it live to a flock of cats.

Then get a congress of baboons to vote for a consumption tax on the airing of the TV show. (not too different than what we have now)

Oh and BTW, the carbon units that voted her into office, well their combined IQ is that of "moron" -6

66 posted on 07/24/2012 2:02:29 PM PDT by SERE_DOC ( “The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.” TJ.)
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To: Sub-Driver

6,000 rounds? I’ve got twice that much buried in various caches around my area. It’s all for naught, though, after my accident on the lake, when my boat flipped over, all my guns were lost.


67 posted on 07/24/2012 2:08:51 PM PDT by krogers58
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To: Boomer One

I’m glad you found it interesting. It may also interest you to know:

In 1957 the NRA gave some black veterans in Monroe, N.C., a charter for a rifle club and training material. The members of the NRA chartered rifle club used military surplus arms to defend against a convoy of armed KKK members who frequently shot up the black section of Monroe.

You may also find it interesting that the Florida Supreme Court’s 1941 ruling in Watson v Stone which says:

“I know something of the history of this legislation. The original Act of 1893 was passed when there was a great influx of negro laborers in this State drawn here for the purpose of working in turpentine and lumber camps. The same condition existed when the Act was amended in 1901 and the Act was passed for the purpose of disarming the negro laborers and to thereby reduce the unlawful homicides that were prevalent in turpentine and saw-mill camps and to give the white citizens in sparsely settled areas a better feeling of security. The statute was never intended to be applied to the white population and in practice has never been so applied.” - Watson v. Stone, 4 So.2d 700, 703 (Fla. 1941)

The statists don’t want people to know the truth about gun control so the schools don’t teach it and the government controlled media ignores it. It takes a little digging to fine but the truth is out there.


68 posted on 07/24/2012 2:09:01 PM PDT by SUSSA
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To: Sub-Driver

Multiple scenarios for such a meeting:

1. Sit down and listen to her with a tape-recorder running, nod sagely as she yammers, and then tell her they’ll think about it and get back with her.

2. Sit down with her and some very low-level NRA functionary, like say, the telephone receptionist.


69 posted on 07/24/2012 2:12:46 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: cripplecreek

Post of the Day.


70 posted on 07/24/2012 2:14:34 PM PDT by Texas Mulerider (Rap music: hieroglyphics with a beat.)
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To: Sub-Driver

I just want to know why Liberal A is allowed to consume so much precious Oxygen with no oversight.


71 posted on 07/24/2012 2:17:37 PM PDT by rigelkentaurus
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To: Sub-Driver
Tell her to take a long walk off a short pier.

After you are done explaining to her what a "pier" is, I'd still give you 10:1 odds that she's dumb enough to still do it.

72 posted on 07/24/2012 2:19:20 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (I will not comply.)
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To: drypowder

“suppose 200+ years ago that all those people who were rounded up like animals and taken by force from Africa to become slaves had access to firearms..........just suppose “

Worth repeating.


73 posted on 07/24/2012 2:23:40 PM PDT by ctdonath2 ($1 meals: http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com)
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To: Sir Napsalot

I think we should pass a law barring any Congresscritter from commenting in their official capacity on any matter that takes place more than 250 miles outside their district’s borders, foreign policy excepted;)


74 posted on 07/24/2012 5:21:47 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: cripplecreek

I think the NRA should take Sheila down to the range and put a Glock 19 in her hands and let her take out some of that anger on a target. Any woman with her level of anger would take to guns like a duck to water.


75 posted on 07/24/2012 4:41:11 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Rep. Jackson Lee will seek meeting with NRA

76 posted on 07/24/2012 5:27:02 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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