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Congress toughens background checks for gun buyers
AP/Newsday ^ | December 20, 2007 | BETH MURTAGH

Posted on 12/22/2007 6:28:02 AM PST by lowbridge

Sen. Charles Schumer and Rep. Carolyn McCarthy's previously stalled bill toughening the national gun background check system in the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings sailed through both chambers of Congress within hours yesterday after a flurry of legislative activity.

"I don't know whether to laugh or to cry," said McCarthy (D-Mineola), who saw her legislation pass the House in June only to have it blocked in the Senate. "You don't know how many times it's come to this point."

In a statement, Schumer (D-N.Y.) said, "This simple but very important bill has been a long time coming. It will prevent gun sales to people who have no right to own one because of mental infirmity. This legislation will save lives."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: 110th; backgroundcheck; bang; banglist; chuckschumer; gungrabbers; guns; mentalillness; schumer; secondamendment; vatech; virginiatech
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1 posted on 12/22/2007 6:28:04 AM PST by lowbridge
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Image hosted by Photobucket.com i guess she just voted out her own gun rights then, cause the b!tch is mentally ill...
2 posted on 12/22/2007 6:30:15 AM PST by Chode (American Hedonist)
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Democrats should never be allowed to own a gun. Their failure to take responsibility for their actions shows they are not fit to be gun owners. Now, it’s obvious Democrats are mentally ill, which should be one more reason they should never be allowed to own a gun.


3 posted on 12/22/2007 6:30:45 AM PST by Morgan in Denver
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BULL!!

It will allow the state to confiscate your legally owned firearms with the simple statement from a dirty shrink, and an ignorant judge, even if there has never been any indication of "mental defect" in your life history..

4 posted on 12/22/2007 6:33:11 AM PST by xcamel (FDT/2008)
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A do nothing Congress, with an 11% approval rating, passes another gun law that we don't need.

Yep, par for the course.

5.56mm

5 posted on 12/22/2007 6:33:37 AM PST by M Kehoe
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To: Morgan in Denver

If we had a conservative in the White House, we could expect a veto. We can’t expect a veto.


6 posted on 12/22/2007 6:35:03 AM PST by Emmett McCarthy
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To: Morgan in Denver

Mentally ill liberal Democrats possessing enormous legislative power are a truly dangerous combination.

This bill is also known as the Veterans Disarmament Act in that a politically unfriendly physician can abrogate the gun rights of any of his patients by a finding of incipient mental illness or PTSD. In some states doctors are already reporting those who refuse to answer gun-related “health questionaires”.

Use the veto Force, Mr. President, use the veto Force!


7 posted on 12/22/2007 6:38:34 AM PST by elcid1970
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To: lowbridge
Schumer (D-N.Y.) said,... It will prevent gun sales to people who have no right to own one because of mental infirmity

Okay Chuckie, you and all your fellow 'liberal' Dem congress-critters have 24 hours to turn in all your guns as liberals are mentally ill.

8 posted on 12/22/2007 6:39:22 AM PST by Condor51 (I wouldn't vote for Rooty under any circumstance -- even if Waterboarded!)
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To: M Kehoe
A do nothing Congress, with an 11% approval rating, passes another gun law that we don't need.

And the scumbags sneak it through while most of us are paying attention to getting ready for Christmas.

Typical.

What I want to know is the DETAILS.

You KNOW that anti-gun jackals like schumer and mccarthy will try and slip in any kind of Nazi-style anti-gun legislation they can get away with.

9 posted on 12/22/2007 6:39:50 AM PST by DocH (RINO-rudy for BRONX Dog Catcher 2008!!!)
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Has this broad done anything in congress except hide behind her dead husband?
Maybe she should think about how many would have died if law abiding people would have be able to carry handguns?


10 posted on 12/22/2007 6:40:29 AM PST by newnhdad
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To: xcamel

As time goes on it won’t take a shrink and a judge. Just the knowledge that you have ever taken anti-depressants, Ritalin, or any other med that might have an impact on depression, such as (legal) steroids will preclude you from buying a gun.

Then they will expand it to anyone who has ever been to a counselor for relationship issues or has been accused of a crime (already the case in some states).

This is the slippery slope that Chucky and friends have always wanted.


11 posted on 12/22/2007 6:42:35 AM PST by webstersII
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To: M Kehoe
The "best" part is that they passed it with only an unrecorded voice vote--in both houses!

That should not even be allowed--especially when you are taking away someone's right to self defense.

12 posted on 12/22/2007 6:42:48 AM PST by basil (Support the Second Amendment--buy another gun today!)
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To: lowbridge

I propose that any child who is currently taking drugs for ADD or ADHD be banned from buying guns when they come of age. The psychiatric community defines it as an illness and that’s good enough for the government. Gun elimination through “tagging”.


13 posted on 12/22/2007 6:43:50 AM PST by Glenn (Free Venezuela!)
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To: webstersII

“Shall not be infringed”


14 posted on 12/22/2007 6:44:22 AM PST by xcamel (FDT/2008)
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To: xcamel

“Shall not be infringed”

Yeah, if only that old document by a bunch of dead white guys was still considered important.


15 posted on 12/22/2007 6:47:17 AM PST by webstersII
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Another nail in our Bill of Rights...

What also is very disturbing, to me, is that this passed with no recorded vote (a unanimous consent procedure). When this last occurred on a similar proposal, I wrote to my Representative, Kirsten Gilliband, asking how she voted. I may die of old age before getting a reply.

We really need term limits.. we really need to get these people out of office.. we need to respect our Constitution and Bill of Rights!


16 posted on 12/22/2007 6:56:48 AM PST by Spottys Spurs
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"This simple but very important bill has been a long time coming. It will prevent gun sales to people who have no right to own one because of mental infirmity. This legislation will save lives." Of course, this anti-gun turd with the smarmy, sh*t-eating grin, KNOWS this law is nothing more than "feel-good" legislation, and that criminals and crazies will NOT be deterred from getting a firearm.

And when THIS law doesn't have the desired result (which is what they already KNOW)?

Well, as always, THEN, we'll need tougher and stronger anti-gun laws to solve the gun "problem".

Eventually, in their incessant march towards a total gun ban and confiscation, it'll be like Hitler's "Final Solution", except that, instead of humans in gas chambers (although I wouldn't put it past the likes of schumer wanting to put Christians, conservatives, gun owners and 2nd Amendment supporters, etc, to death in such a way), it'll be OUR guns in smelters.

When our we going to say, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH?

NO MORE infringements upon our 2nd Amendment rights.

Am I crazy for saying that?

If chuckie schumer (or any other of his left-wing, anti-gun, anti-freedom bureaucratic ilk), or some moonbat liberal shrink or judge, thinks so, then I lose my 2nd Amendment rights.

17 posted on 12/22/2007 6:57:23 AM PST by DocH (RINO-rudy for BRONX Dog Catcher 2008!!!)
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To: M Kehoe
A do nothing Congress, with an 11% approval rating, passes another gun law that we don't need.

But, but the NRA supported this law. Even before "compromise" Senate amendments made it slightly less offensive.

18 posted on 12/22/2007 6:58:06 AM PST by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: DocH
Lest we forget...


19 posted on 12/22/2007 6:59:22 AM PST by xcamel (FDT/2008)
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REPOSTED:

shumer: "This simple but very important bill has been a long time coming. It will prevent gun sales to people who have no right to own one because of mental infirmity. This legislation will save lives."

Of course, this anti-gun turd with the smarmy, sh*t-eating grin, KNOWS this law is nothing more than "feel-good" legislation, and that criminals and crazies will NOT be deterred from getting a firearm.

And when THIS law doesn't have the desired result (which is what they already KNOW)?

Well, as always, THEN, we'll need tougher and stronger anti-gun laws to solve the gun "problem".

Eventually, in their incessant march towards a total gun ban and confiscation, it'll be like Hitler's "Final Solution", except that, instead of humans in gas chambers (although I wouldn't put it past the likes of schumer wanting to put Christians, conservatives, gun owners and 2nd Amendment supporters, etc, to death in such a way), it'll be OUR guns in smelters.

When our we going to say, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH?

NO MORE infringements upon our 2nd Amendment rights.

Am I crazy for saying that?

If chuckie schumer (or any other of his left-wing, anti-gun, anti-freedom bureaucratic ilk), or some moonbat liberal shrink or judge, thinks so, then I lose my 2nd Amendment rights.

20 posted on 12/22/2007 7:00:12 AM PST by DocH (RINO-rudy for BRONX Dog Catcher 2008!!!)
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