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McCarthy: I will embarrass Obama on gun control
politico44 ^ | 12/14/12 | REID J. EPSTEIN

Posted on 12/14/2012 2:47:20 PM PST by ColdOne

In the wake of the deadly Connecticut school shooting, Rep. Carolyn McCarthy said she has warned the White House “the gloves are off” if President Obama fails to act on the issue.

McCarthy (D-N.Y.), the foremost gun control advocate in Congress, said she spoke with White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew before Election Day and told him she will exert pressure on the White House to push for gun control legislation.

“I said, ‘Jack, I know the president is going through an election and I’m telling you after the election I’m coming out full force,’” McCarthy told POLITICO Friday. “I was just giving the White House a heads up that the gloves are off on my side and I was going to do everything I possibly could. … If that meant embarrassing everybody, that’s what I would do.”

Embarrassing the White House, McCarthy said, meant building a large-scale pu

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KEYWORDS: 2012; banglist; carolynmccarthy; cw2; democrats; guncontrol; liberalfascism; mccarthy; sandyhookpolitics; sandyhookshooting; secondamendment; tyranny; youwillnotdisarmus
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To: TonyM
"I believe Hollywood is more at fault than anything else."

I still believe that the BATFE should be repurposed to exclusively stamp out the use of Alcohol, tobacco, firearms, & explosives in all of their products.

Then we'd be rid of Hollyweird, as they would be defunded by the public.

121 posted on 12/14/2012 5:35:54 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: csmusaret

Great analogy. I might have to borrow that.


122 posted on 12/14/2012 5:36:33 PM PST by matt04
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To: ridesthemiles

Well stated, ridethemiles. You said just what I’ve been thinking about this tragic day and several previous incidents. It should also be said that it was/is the liberals/progressives that abolished those full-time care programs that protected society and helped the serious mentals by housing them and taking care of them. Instead the social activists and many electeds back in the 70’s and 80’s felt that full-time institutions deprived them of their “rights” and they should be put on the streets with pharmaceuticals. The subsequent amount of crime, death, and tragedy is the result and it is both painful, and shameful.


123 posted on 12/14/2012 5:40:49 PM PST by vox_freedom (America is being tested as never before in its history. May God help us.)
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To: ColdOne

Your loss is unfortunate, McCarthy, but you don’t speak me.

The murderer, Ferguson, should have been dispatched by armed passengers.


124 posted on 12/14/2012 5:41:47 PM PST by Gene Eric (Demoralization is a weapon of the enemy. Don't get it, don't spread it!)
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To: wtc911

“”She used her insurance money to buy a house in the Hamptons””

Who did she collect insurance money from? The railroad? Certainly not her husband’s attacker....


125 posted on 12/14/2012 5:44:31 PM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: ColdOne

I guess she’d better tell the Supreme Court, too.


126 posted on 12/14/2012 5:51:28 PM PST by Persevero (Homeschooling for Excellence since 1992)
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To: chris37

“What you need is criminal control.”

We also really need to KINDLY incarcerate people who are hallucinatory.


127 posted on 12/14/2012 5:54:15 PM PST by Persevero (Homeschooling for Excellence since 1992)
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To: ABQHispConservative

“Never let a crisis go to waste.”


128 posted on 12/14/2012 5:54:50 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Gator113

Heh; you’d need to see it in person, to fully believe and appreciate what’s in there.


129 posted on 12/14/2012 6:07:45 PM PST by Carriage Hill (Don't whiz on the electric fence. Awwwww-yeah!)
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To: ridesthemiles
They didn’t ban Oldsmobiles after Chappaquiddick. They didn’t ban Kennedys, either!!

I did a little calculation along the theme of auto deaths. When the LIBS agree to ban all autos, then I will participate in a discussion about banning guns. We have a constitution that gives us a right to own and bear an ARM, but an auto drivers license right is no where to be found in the Constitution.

2010 data (last year I could find for both)
USA Population 308,745,538

US Guns committing murder 2.8 per 100,000 pop (8,775)

US Auto deaths 10.7 per 100,000 pop (32,885)
130 posted on 12/14/2012 6:20:33 PM PST by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: Persevero

You know I am not certain what his mental state was but, he stole those guns he used from his mom after he killed her, and punishment is not an issue for him because he killed himself.

Nothing could have prevented this except an armed person with a gun who shot him dead before he did damage.

That’s it.


131 posted on 12/14/2012 6:28:56 PM PST by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: ColdOne

I can see the White House calling all sorts of Congress critters, asking them to demand that the White House do something about guns.


132 posted on 12/14/2012 6:35:20 PM PST by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America (IMPEACH OBAMA)
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To: ColdOne

Does McCarthy get the Queen of Hearts, or the Queen of Diamonds?


133 posted on 12/14/2012 6:47:30 PM PST by kiryandil (turning Americans into felons, one obnoxious drunk at a time (Zero Tolerance!!!))
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To: manc

was the shooter raised taking Isotropic drugs? the shooter in columbine was.


134 posted on 12/14/2012 7:02:50 PM PST by stickywillie (God Bless Lord Monckton)
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To: ridesthemiles
Connecticut Shooter Adam Lanza: 'Obviously Not Well'
135 posted on 12/14/2012 7:09:11 PM PST by EdReform (Oath Keepers - Guardians of the Republic - Honor your oath - Join us: www.oathkeepers.org)
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To: ColdOne; All

These mass killings have happened in states that have strict gun laws. Mass killings are NOT happening in states with reasonable gun laws, and concealed carry. Waht does that tell you?


136 posted on 12/14/2012 7:27:53 PM PST by Marcella (Prepping can save your life today. Galt is freedom.)
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To: ColdOne

Ban all security details for politicians and celebs. No private security forces with any weapons that the average joe can’t buy at their local gun store.


137 posted on 12/14/2012 7:48:36 PM PST by A Strict Constructionist (We're an Oligrachy...Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. Thomas Jefferson)
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To: ColdOne

first thing outlaw stupidity in
Congress


138 posted on 12/14/2012 7:57:24 PM PST by rolling_stone
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To: Flycatcher

bringing loaded firearms into an elementary school is aleady against the law
And so, if I’m not mistaken, is the murder of innocent children.

No, that’s legal.

Codified by Roe v Wade.

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That’s right. Sorry, America —you sit by and allow the destruction and murder of MILLIONS of innocent children every single day in this country. In fact, with your recent vote, you continue to CONDONE it. And yet we fake outrage and horror at this event. This society is SICK. Expect it to get MUCH worse — we live in upside down world where Christian values are prohibited, marriage and families are mocked, and families ..families all over are broken, dysfunctional, isolated, and ill. What else would we expect in a country where life is so constantly devalued?


139 posted on 12/14/2012 8:47:42 PM PST by LibsRJerks
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To: ABQHispConservative

Her whole career has been made on profitting off her dead relatives.


140 posted on 12/14/2012 8:57:11 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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