[America's Resolve]

This is stupid. What's a 'sniper rifle'? Any rifle with a scope on it? EVERY rifle above a shotgun for real hunting has a scope on it.

Moronic, Idotic, Imbicilic DemocRATS

[MJY1288]

"Sniper Rifle" What an idiot Conyers is. Doesn't that moron understand that a "Sniper Rifle" has never harmed a single soul. He needs to Probe the "Sniper"

Liberals will never get it. It's like trying to blame the Penis for the rape

[Landru]

"The request from Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich."

Sweet Jesus.
The man's dumber than your average 'Rat.

...& twice as dumb as a rock.

[shrinkermd]

From the US Bureau of Justice, BJS Data Report, 1989 (page 20) At current homicide rates, the lifetime chance of being a murder victim is --

1 in 30 for black males

1 in 179 for white males

1 in 132 for black females

1 in 495 for white females

[TheDon]

What's Conyers background in law enforcement? Or is he just grandstanding for political purposes? :^)

[RightOnline]

Fercryinoutloud...................Conyers gives idiocy a bad name.

[Vidalia]

Conyers lives in the past and his mental acuity is dwindling.

He had no idea about Dallas and JFK, but now, nearly 30 years later he cares about the capacity of any rifle to be used as a "sniper rifle".

Conyers obviously hasn't a clue about the English language either.

Here's a little help:

Sniper - A marksman who shoots at people from a concealed place.
Rifle - A shoulder weapon with a long barrel and a rifled bore.

The sniper/shooter is the peacetime criminal; the "rifle" is merely the tool of choice of mayhem. The idiocy of his argument (and the secret of the push against the Second Amendment) is that any rifle, regardless of barrel length, may be outfitted to use for sniping, from the Cal .22 short to any big game gun, some of which will literally stop a Volkswagen .

Fit any weapon (properly) with an inexpensive scope and you have a weaponthat is only dangerous in the hands of an idiot or crazed maniac.

Maybe Conyers, as a child (or even as an adult) was taken on a "Snipe Hunt" , never recovered from the personal and emotional humiliation unlike normal folk, and has vowed revenge ever since to anything spelled "s-n-i-p-e"...

[IronJack]

That won't take long. There is no such thing as a "sniper rilfe." It, like so many other firearm boogeymen, is a media fiction.

[rockfish59]

Ted is coming for your guns!

[Dan from Michigan]

Can this ASS finally retire.

[Draakan]

"Conyers Calls for Sniper Probe"

If this is not politicizing these useless murders, then I don't not what is! This socialist is a complete idiot

[Cindy]

CRIME CONTROL; NOT GUN CONTROL is a thought completely lost on Conyers and the rest of the politically correct, anti-traditional values, anti-common sense DnC crowd.

[RebelDawg]

Conyers needs to do some more research. .223s are not sniper rifles DOH!

[Clinging Bitterly]

Yeah we should talk about this.
These sniper/assault/whatever weapons are a danger to civilians (actually, everyone), when they are allowed into the wrong hands.

"In the wrong hands" being the key phrase here.

I don't know if statistics have ever been gathered, but just what do you suppose the numbers would tell in a comarison of the number of innocents killed by armed government employees (a class that virtually nobody in the political establishment seeks to disarm) to the numbers of those killed by the general population of civillian gunowners? I might be all wet, but I have a pretty good guess of who would come out smelling better here.

How about the felony conviction rates of the same two groups? Which class do you suppose stands a greater chance of having one in their lifetime?

Those oughta be some interesting things to talk about, if you're seriously interested in finding ways to improve the overall safety of American citizens.

Dave in Eugene

[ozzymandus]

Conyers is a lifelong communist, exploiting murders to push his political adgenda to disarm law-abiding Americans. May he burn in hell.

[Zon]

The top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee called on federal officials Thursday to investigate the marketing of sniper rifles, saying the weapons "pose a real danger to the civilian population."

Such irrationality that our taxes dollars are wasted on. Does Conyers not know that guns are inanimate objects and cannot kill people -- that it is people that kill people?

Come out John Conyers, step into the debate in an open public forum. Step out from behind your protective media shield. I'm just a working-class man. Surely with your great intellect you have nothing to fret over. ...Or do you?

"There is no legitimate purpose for a military rifle than to make war," Conyers said.

Target shooting, hunting and home protection. There's no legitimate purpose for irrational politicians that demonstrate that they don't comprehend that guns -- inanimate objects that they are -- cannot hurt people. Only people can chose to hurt people. In this case it is you John Conyers that has chosen to harm people by becoming an irrational politician.

 "There is no reason these rifles should be marketed to civilians."

The reason is that there is market demand for them. Again, John Conyers, you demonstrate your incompetence. Worse, it is irrationality and incompetence such as yours that us working-class men and woman are forced at the barrel of a gun to pay your salary. Forced to pay your salary so that you and your cronies in congress can continue creating 3,000 new laws and regulations each year.

As if somehow people and society could not continue to prosper without those 3,000 new laws this year and 3,000 new laws next year, year after year. How is that us working-class men and women were able to increase prosperity and well being for years and decades prior without this year's new laws, yet suddenly you and your cronies proclaim that we working-class men and women will run headlong into destruction without you and your cronies creating all those new laws.

War of Two Worlds
Value Creators versus Value Destroyers

The first thing civilization must have is business/science. It's what the family needs so that its members can live creative, productive, happy lives. Business/science can survive, even thrive without government/bureaucracy.

Government/bureaucracy cannot survive without business/science. In general, business/science and family is the host and government/bureaucracy is a parasite.

Keep valid government services that protect individual rights and property. ...Military defense, FBI, CIA, police and courts. With the rest of government striped away those few valid services would be several fold more efficient and effective than they are today. 

Underwriters Laboratory is a private sector business that has to compete in a capitalist market. Underwriters laboratory is a good example of success where government fails.

Any government agency that is a value to people and society -- which there are but a few -- could much more effectively serve people by being in the private sector where competition demands maximum performance.

Wake up! They are the parasites. We are the host. We don't need them. They need us.

[TexasGunRunner]

What classic tripe!

1) there is no record of any crime ever having been committed using a .50 BMG rifle.

2) the current "sniping" going on is using a .223 Remington, one of the weakest centerfire cartridges in existence. Contrary to published reports, it is not "high power."

3) There is no such thing as a "military rifle." There is no such thing as an "assault rifle" (more properly known as 'homeland defense rifles' - HDR). Rifles are tools and any rifle can be used in a number of ways. Typical rifle systems used by the military and police for sniper and counter-sniper roles are in fact scoped bolt-action or semi-auto rifles with flat shooting rounds (.308 Winchester or the small varmint rounds). They also happen to be perfect candidates for deer hunting or varmint hunting (which is a lot like sniping).

4)Nothing I have read so far indicates if they know whether it is bolt-action, semi-auto, or some other type of rifle. Given the range and accuracy, it is probably scoped, but there is no way for them to know until they see the rifle. They can't tell what color it is either. For all they know, it could be a hot-pink Armalite or a purple polka-dotted white plastic stock on a Browning A-bolt. It could even be a Ruger single-shot.

5) Talk to somebody who fought in World War II, like Guadacanal or the Phillipines. They will tell you the truth about whether rifles can knock down low-level slow flying airplanes or not. They can't unless they get an incredibly lucky one in a trillion shot. The same is true for armored vehicles. Any soldier who served at the Battle of the Bulge will tell you how easy it was to knock out tanks with their Garand, BAR, or M1903 "sniper rifles."

6)If the Congressman isn't smart enough to tell the difference between a parody ad on the internet (.50BMG for under $30 joke ad by Birdman) and a real ad, then his family should seek a comptency hearing because he is not fit to manage anyone's affairs.

7)If there is such a danger, then Conyers should tell us the technical difference between a scoped deer rifle (.270, .308, or .30-06) and any sub-.50BMG "sniper system" he is scared of and why it is more lethal or more dangerous.

[alaskanfan]

How in the hell does this guy (Conyers) keep getting re-elected????

[FlyVet]

He forgot to blame the NRA.

[Redbob]

"Conyers said. 'There is no reason these rifles should be marketed to civilians.'"

Politicians like Conyers are EXACTLY why rifles like these should be in civilian hands.
But various statements by Patrick Henry put it so much more eloquently than I could.