Sen. Schumer: "...there is an individual right to bear arms..."

Schumer Website ^ | May 8, 2002 | Chuckie Schumer

[Still Thinking]

Not to put too fine a point on it, but if New York City had Arizona's gun laws, Times Square would look like the OK Corral.

Uh, okay. If so, then why hasn't Arizona reverted to OK corral-hood? Don't forget, even in the old West, the OK Corral incident made news (so was more the exception than the rule), and actually involved LEO's anyway, whom none of today's laws seek to prohibit from having weapons.

[RetiredArmy]

But, but, Bush likes him. He hugged him at the speech. He is a pal. A friend. Even if he is a communist, pig sucking, democratic socialist sack of **it!

[aomagrat]

Uh, okay. If so, then why hasn't Arizona reverted to OK corral-hood? Don't forget, even in the old West, the OK Corral incident made news (so was more the exception than the rule), and actually involved LEO's anyway, whom none of today's laws seek to prohibit from having weapons.

Exactly my point.

[rapsux]

This guy is such a lyin' sack. Claims he believes in the Second Amendment but has NEVER voted pro-gun. NOT ONCE.

Chucky's afraid he's losing the gun grabbing issue. The Dem's found that grabbing guns wasn't a vote winning strategy.

[EternalVigilance]

LOL...that is one great picture!

Ranks right up there with Du'kaka's riding in a tank, or Gore looking down the barrel of his M-16.

Wonder if the guy has ever gotten his hands dirty in his life?

;-)

[zoyd]

"When it comes to guns, this is the biggest shift in policy we've seen in decades. It could undermine hundreds of state and local laws that have drastically reduced gun violence and saved countless lives.

Repeat the lies often enough, and people start to believe it.

I'd like to ask Chuckie for some proof that all these gun laws have 'drastically reduced gun violence and saved countless lives'. It's just a lie.

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

Someone should tell Chuckie his view is irrelevant. The phrases "Congress shall pass no law" & "shall not be infringed" as well as others pretty much speak for themselves.

It is scary....the No Water in the Desert Lawyers are taking over the country.

[onedoug]

It's always the preamble: "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state...."

I would submit that NOBODY knows what that means, and that ANYONE's interpretation is as valid -
or invalid - as anyone else's.

"...the right of the People to keep and bear arms," however, "shall not be infringed."

The body is quite clear.

[SoDak]

We in the corporate world refer to statements like his as CYA Memos. Dems know for a fact that the Gun Control issue led directly to Algore's defeat. They won't let that happen again, at least not in their rhetoric. Tim Johnson in my state has ads with him walking around a marsh with a gun. They know, even in NY. I think they're content to let Gun Control simmer in the background while they work on us a little more, but make no mistake, if Chucky could do it, he'd be rounding up guns this afternoon.

[rapsux]

But, but, Bush likes him. He hugged him at the speech. He is a pal. A friend. Even if he is a communist, pig sucking, democratic socialist sack of **it!

shhhhhh

[JFoxbear]

"The broad principle that there is an individual right to bear arms is shared by many Americans, including myself. I'm of the view that you can't take a broad approach to other rights, such as First Amendment rights, and then interpret the Second Amendment so narrowly that it could fit in a thimble."
-Senator Chuck the Schmuck Schumer- 2002

Mark your targets men, for this man has overextended himself for sure this time.

Anybody remember that "Flat Earth Speech" a few years back?

[Benson_Carter]

the Al Gore picture is on my other computer

[Ajnin]

For over sixty years, the Justice Department has interpreted the Second Amendment as applying to those with a reasonable relationship to a well regulated militia

Where are they getting this BS from?

[Sender]

Chuck him and the whores he rode in on.

[SevenDaysInMay]

Corrupt socialism is fascism. Since FDR, LBJ, JFK, WJC, the Democrat Party has proven to be the thriving fascism movement in America. Armed citizens are the only counterbalance to the police state statutes and mindset resulting from 9/11. With RINO complicity, with Hillary or any other current Demo leader as President, we would be facing a Constitutional crisis over an armed citizenry.

Any doubts? Read the proposed "Model Emergency Health Powers Act". During the Clintons' last term, about $1,000,000 federal tax dollars from the CDC funded three years of research to write the model EHPA for the states to enact. Some 3 dozens states to date have voted on this police state empowerment. The "State" is thereby granted total powers to seize people and their assets. Fail to take your ordered vaccines, and go to jail with asset forfeiture. There should be no doubts that in this war our families will be "at the front".

The abolute police power of the State is being enacted. Habeas corpus can be suspended, again. Republicans should not be "the party of Lincoln". We must not give away our liberty "under penalty of law".

[rapsux]

But, but, Bush likes him. He hugged him at the speech. He is a pal. A friend. Even if he is a communist, pig sucking, democratic socialist sack of **it

but, but, we must be tolerant of all views, as long as it doesn't conflict with the politically correct view of gun control, or anything else. sarcasm off (tried to find on my HTML boot camp copy, how to make the off sign for sarcasm.

[Nuke'm Glowing]

And in other developments, Schumer proposed the only firearm American citizenry should be allowed to own, is yes, the same that the Minutemen used in 1776, a breechloading flintlock. Oh, and he mentioned something about registering all citizens for potential internment if you don't contribute to his campaign for re-election.

[Sender]

I can see the court ruling that the RKBA can be restricted

Yes, because the antis will use the tried-and-true bazookas-and-nuclear-warheads argument to force the court to admit that some categories of weapons can be excluded. Then it's just a short hop for a lying sack-o-shinola lawyer to arrive at 'assault weapons' and big magazines. If you give them an inch...