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Gun Controller Schumer Has Armed Bodyguard
NewsMax.com ^
| 5/14/03
| Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff
Posted on 05/14/2003 2:50:15 PM PDT by kattracks
The Senate's leading gun control advocate, Senator Charles Schumer - who's currently pressuring the White House to extend the 1994 assault weapons ban - travels with an armed bodyguard, NewsMax.com has learned.
Questions arose Wednesday morning about the gun opponent's security arrangements after the New York Post's Cindy Adams mentioned in her column that Schumer appeared at a recent event with a bodyguard in tow.
A quick call to Schumer's office confirmed that the man guarding the Senate's number one gun controller was packing heat.
"He's a New York police detective," the Senator's spokesman revealed to NewsMax. When asked whether Schumer's detective was indeed armed, the spokesman replied, "I would imagine so."
Sensing a public relations problem in the making, the Senator's spokesman explained that his boss "believes in the second amendment and the right to bear arms."
"So I don't think there's anything inconsistent about it," he insisted.
In recent days Sen. Schumer has mounted a campaign to get the White House to actively press Republicans in Congress to back an extension of the 1994 assault weapons ban, which he sponsored.
"We hope the president will not just say he supports the ban but will work to get it passed," the New York Democrat told reporters last week, adding, "This will be a good measure of the compassion in his compassionate conservatism."
No doubt the good Senator's armed bodyguard agrees.
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To: My2Cents
I bet the bodyguard carries a semi-automatic. His carries 15 + 1, yours carries 10 + 1.
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posted on
05/14/2003 5:48:20 PM PDT
by
husky ed
(FOX NEWS ALERT "Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead" THIS HAS BEEN A FOX NEWS ALERT)
To: kattracks
"Some animals are more equal than others."
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To: My2Cents
I bet the bodyguard carries a semi-automatic. I'll see your bet and raise you a high capacity magazine.
43
posted on
05/14/2003 6:05:08 PM PDT
by
TC Rider
(The United States Constitution © 1791. All Rights Reserved.)
To: GnL
Whenever this picture is posted, it should be noted that Chucky would be thrown off of most ranges in America for not wearing eye protection.
44
posted on
05/14/2003 6:06:29 PM PDT
by
TC Rider
(The United States Constitution © 1791. All Rights Reserved.)
To: kattracks
I'm sure that Shumer is happy that he isn't a gun-whore for hire like his bodyguard.
Democrats: The Party of Insufferable Hypocrites
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posted on
05/14/2003 6:08:26 PM PDT
by
VOA
To: kattracks
But he should. Don't you understand. He's not like the rest of us. HE'S SOMEBODY IMPORTANT, DAMNIT.
How dare you critize him!!! In the proper society you would be sentenced to a salt mine!
Peasant!!
46
posted on
05/14/2003 6:09:53 PM PDT
by
Tribune7
To: kattracks
Oh sure, Us pee-ons have to obey one set of rules while the liberal elite can do what ever they please. AKA, Rosey O'Donnell had the same privilage and was out spoken against guns in the possession of law abiding honest Americans. These people really sicken me. To upchuck Schumer, your a one termer!
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posted on
05/14/2003 6:17:50 PM PDT
by
Wiggins
To: kattracks
Ah, Chuckie Schmuckie, the "do as I say, not as I do" guy.
48
posted on
05/14/2003 6:46:48 PM PDT
by
SamiGirl
To: kattracks
Gee I hope the armed guard wears a mask. Chuckie Cheese sprays quite a bit I hear.
49
posted on
05/14/2003 6:54:51 PM PDT
by
eleni121
To: Wiggins
Us pee-ons have to obey one set of rules while the liberal elite can do what ever they please. Meanwhile, the tyrannical SOBs would through a nurse working the midnight shift in jail for carrying a .38 to protect herself.
50
posted on
05/14/2003 7:02:23 PM PDT
by
Mulder
(Live Free or die)
To: kattracks
[T}he Senator's spokesman explained that his boss "believes in the second amendment and the right to bear arms." Uh-huh. Of course, he also believes that the second amendment means that the Government can have guns, and you can bear them if you join the National Guard. He's said as much.
"This will be a good measure of the compassion in his compassionate conservatism."
Somehow I don't think he meant "compassion for Chuck Schumer," do you?
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
To: coloradan
He's the senior senator. Hildebeast is the junior. Well........actually, when Hillary! was elected, Herr Shumer automatically became the junior - as in the "little fella." Hillary has the press, soapbox and collective drool of the Opra-minions. Shumer is irrelevant in NY.
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posted on
05/14/2003 7:44:23 PM PDT
by
Thommas
To: basil; pro2A Mom; technochick99
Just a heads up on this development.
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posted on
05/14/2003 7:58:50 PM PDT
by
Angelwood
(FReepers are Everywhere! We Support Our Troops!)
To: umgud
He supports the 2cnd ammendment Some of us are on to that double speak.
He fails to mention that, he believes the Second Ammendment guarantees the National Guard the right to be armed, not commoners like you, and I.
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posted on
05/14/2003 7:59:09 PM PDT
by
c-b 1
To: Pan_Yans Wife
Lately, it doesn't seem like the dims are learning anything from others' mistakes. They seem to be continually, as Rush likes to point out, opening the door and smacking themselves in the nose.
Schumer doesn't seem to realize he is no longer protected by the left-wing media. The conservative media will expose him as an idiot!
55
posted on
05/14/2003 8:27:14 PM PDT
by
CyberAnt
( America - You Are The Greatest!!)
To: The Magical Mischief Tour
Senator Fineswine (Hard Leftist Anti-gunner) is an honorary ?SWORN? US Marshal who carries aboard flight. She was a former prosecutor. Can you cite proof for this? I've heard about the "honorary US Marshal" thing for twenty years, but I've never seen a shred of evidence such a thing exists.
-ccm
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posted on
05/14/2003 10:17:10 PM PDT
by
ccmay
To: joesnuffy
No, He tried to check his Uzi at the Capitol and got arrested because carrying firearms is unlawful in DC
To: CyberAnt
When the President is backing them, what makes you think it's a "mistake"? Given the loss of the younger generations to political indoctrination in the guise of schooling, time is on their side.
To: Iconoclast2
"When the President is backing them, what makes you think it's a "mistake"
I'm sorry ... I don't understand what you're asking. My comment was "the dims never learn from THEIR mistakes". How does that relate to your question ...??
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posted on
05/20/2003 1:20:45 PM PDT
by
CyberAnt
( America - You Are The Greatest!!)
To: CyberAnt
Maybe I'm wrong, but I thought I read that President Bush was supporting the ban, and hence supporting the dims efforts. I know that there are those who think that this is some sort of clever jujitsu, but I'm not one of them.
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