Posted on 12/18/2012 6:19:21 PM PST by lowbridge
Republicans need to "have a discussion on guns" in the wake of last week's grade-school massacre in Newtown, Conn., Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) told his conference Tuesday.
Speaking to his troops at a closed-door meeting in the Capitol, Boehner was mindful of conservatives' traditional opposition to new gun restrictions, emphasizing that Republicans wouldn't do "anything knee-jerk," according to a lawmaker in the room.
But the Speaker also said he wants to "de-politicize" the issue of gun violence, which has been thrust dreadfully into the national spotlight following the murder of 26 people — 20 of them young school children — at Sandy Hook Elementary School last Friday.
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DUMP BONEHEAD BOEHNER!!!
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Admin Moderator, can you pull this off this thread? It was intended to go here, where I've now posted it...
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/2970283/posts?q=1&;page=52
If not, okay, let's have a discussion.
Let's discuss whether Boehner has gone mad. In my community, most **DEMOCRATS** would be annoyed if a local Democratic elected official said something like this.
Then, let's discuss whether to make Boehner write the Second Amendment 100 times on a chalkboard in front of the Capitol, and follow it up by retyping the recent Supreme Court decision on gun ownership being an individual right before he posts it on his congressional website.
This is crazy stuff coming from a Republican. Gun rights and the Second Amendment are core issues for Republicans, aren't they?
Or maybe the Second Amendment is like abortion and other social conservative issues which are “divisive” and on which we need to stop driving away moderates who might want to vote Republican. After all, we do know social issues reflect a radical right wing minority view that loses elections, right? (/sarc)
Boehner’s “discussion” should begin and end with the text of U.S. Const. Amend. II.
If you want to change a Constitutional right? Change the Constitution. It’s that simple.
John Boehner (R-Ohio)
He’s just laying out his roadmap to switching Partys....
I wouldn’t doubt it.
HA HA , I have this new old guy neighbor from CT, he moved down here and hates guns, moans about trees, , fox, racoons, any kind of wild life, hell he wants the county to give him paths, street lights but moans about taxes.
He said the other day he would never have a gun when I said shoot te critter if he;s digging up your new grass all the time and he replied he;d neevr have a gun, hates guns, even when I said shoot with a pellet gun he said he hated them too.
Why he;s even moved south is beyond me but that sign is brilliant and I might put one up myself and see what he has to say
“Boehner, what part of “Shall not be infringed” is so damned hard to understand?”
The constitution means almost as little to that Federal tyrant as it does to the democrats. He can no more understand the word No to more power than he can see the obvious fact that this Massacre was a result of Gun control not for lack of it.
That had Washington not disarmed the teachers & printable them defenseless children need not have been left to the mercy of the criminal nut-jobs of our population.
“The question I have is, who would replace Boehner as speaker?”
I nominate my Mickey, having no speaker is better than having Boehner. Washington politicians serve only to grow their own power at the expense of our pocket books and most importantly our liberty.
They acknowledged no limits upon their tyrannical power, and every day they are in secession our rights, liberty’s, and pursuit of happiness is at perpetual threat.
For the love of liberty SHUT DOWN THAT LAWLESS GOVERNMENT!
I think you're 3 elections too late.
Thanks for that chart. Very enlightening.
The GOP has already been destroyed.
It seems like Boehner and the state of OH want to go down in history as the state that did the most to destroy the Republican Party. We know that a Republican candidate for president has never been elected without OH.
By the time the Old South became Republican, the party had practically ceased to be as a national force.
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