Posted on 06/14/2017 2:43:57 PM PDT by richardb72
Before the facts were even known about Wednesday morning’s 7 AM shooting in Alexandria, Virginia, gun control advocates were already calling for more stringent laws.
■ David Frum, senior editor for the Atlantic, called for background checks, gun licensing and registration, long gun permits, limits on magazine size, and restrictions on open carrying of guns.
■ Windsor Mann, a columnist for USA Today, blamed “easy access to deadly weapons.”
■ Democratic Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe blamed the attack on “too many guns” and immediately called for more gun control.
We don’t even know yet whether these laws could conceivably have made any difference in preventing this attack. And Frum is already correcting his posts for misstating Virginia’s gun control laws.
After each mass public shooting, President Obama would call for expanded background checks on private transfers of guns — even though not one of the shootings would have been prevented by such a law. Indeed, not a single attack since at least 2000 would have been stopped.
“News” coverage of these events also shows the same knee-jerk biases for more gun control. Guns are often referred to as “assault weapons” even if they function exactly the same as a hunting rifle. Nowhere do the news reports mention whether an attack occurred in a gun-free zone. They never examine the thought process of attackers who want defenseless victims.
One thing is clear. As Rep. Mike Bishop, R-Mich., told WWJ radio in Detroit, “The only reason—the only reason—why any of us walked out of this thing: By the grace of God, one of the folks here had a weapon to fire back and give us a moment to find cover..” . . .
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Perhaps liberals need to have their use of guns regulated...
This situation makes me think there is more need to carry. I bet some of those congressmen would have preferred to have something to defend themselves than be sitting ducks.
It is a diversion folks. Instead of a discussion about how insane and violent liberals are and have gotten, they blame the guns.
David Frum, alleged conservative, is actually nothing more than a neocon turd. Has anyone else noticed that the socialist, statist roots of the neocon world revolution philosophy are now being fully exposed in the age of Trump?
They are importing terrorism and the violent third world and think they’ll take our guns away. This is tyranny.
Every gun I own is an assault weapon, including my pellet and BB guns.
Democrats should NOT be able to own guns! Everyone else, guns galore!
They know the only way they can kill us all is to take our guns away.
Trotskyists.
Not even a butter knife. They as a group are unstable and they project their mental incompetence to everyone else.
Ah, David Frum. The red Tory Canadian who became speech writer and adviser to Bush.
Why do any democrats own guns? They don’t want anyone to have them but they are the ones using them.
It seems to me that what is really needed after so many attacks is the Democrats need to learn self-control above all else.
it’s not guns.. it’s their hate speech and broadway plays and late night shows with hate... Trump needs to bring charges against what are threats instead of freedom of speech.. freedom of speech is used to freely give out threats.. it’s a crime, but political correctness has taken over. Trump can change that back to some sense.
***David Frum, senior editor for the Atlantic, called for background checks, gun licensing and registration, long gun permits, limits on magazine size, and restrictions on open carrying of guns. ****
Not much has changed...
1962: We ONLY want to register handguns! Rifles and shotguns will not be affected!
1964: We want to register ALL GUNS! and ban the import of 5 shot bolt action army surplus rifles.
1968: We demand the registration of ALL FIREARMS, and a ban on foreign Saturday night specials and army surplus rifles (They got this ban).
1971: We demand a BAN on all SATURDAY NIGHT SPECIALS!
1976: We demand a ban on ALL HANDGUNS! Long guns will not be affected!
1981: The NRA is a RIFLE ORGANIZATION! They should give up their handguns and they can keep their rifles!
1986: We DEMAND a ban on semi-auto rifles and shotguns!
1993: They got a 10 year ban on new military style rifles.
2000: We demand a ban of single shot .50 cal rifles!
They are never satisfied, ever!
Sorry... all gun owners did not shoot the congressmen.
Just one democrat fanatic
Well, I added a quick draw holster to all the motorcycle tank bags. Does that count?
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