U.S. Rep. Kennedy calls for closing of terrorist gun loophole

Herald News ^ | 12-8-15 | Will Richmond

[smokingfrog]

Last week during a visit to The Herald News, U.S. Rep. Joseph Kennedy III spoke about the difficulty of addressing the issue of gun control in Congress. From Herald News reporter Michael Holtzman's report: He remembered his freshman orientation to Congress at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. The mass shooting of innocent children and teaching staff at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, happened that day. Kennedy spoke of the Colorado Springs, Colorado, killing of three people at a Planned Parenthood clinic, including a campus police officer, a week ago and then a much worse massacre days ago. Of his past three years in Congress, remembering the slaughtered innocent victims of gun violence, he said, “Do you know how many times we’ve had a moment of silence?”

[smokingfrog]

http://www.c-span.org/video/?c4499809/senator-kennedy-watch-list

Probably the only time they got something right on the no fly list.

[colorado tanker]

California has passed all of the measures he talked about and the guns were still purchased legally. And the "terrorist" measure he advocates would not have stopped the Cali shooters as there were not on any watch list and were not under investigation.

Why doesn't "common sense" gun control have to bear any relationship with reality that would actually prevent one of these incidents?

[VeniVidiVici]

Is this the Kennedy with a drinking problem?

Oops. Never mind.

[eyeamok]

U.S. Rep. Joseph Kennedy III

Hey didn’t your Great Grandpa help Hitler in his crusade for Gun Control? Yep he sure did!