Posted on 07/01/2008 10:54:32 AM PDT by neverdem
The director of the FBI is not happy with the Supreme Court's recent handgun ruling.
Robert Mueller says he tends to believe that "weapons harm people, and more often than not they harm the people carrying them."
Mueller said the high court's decision, which threw out a handgun ban in Washington, D.C., "does throw a lot of things up in the air."
Mueller said communities will now have to decide their own licensing programs.
Mueller was speaking at a convention of the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators in Hartford, Connecticut.
He says with his grandchildren going to college, he hopes "those campuses will be weapons-free."
As evidenced by the high rate of military and police forces shooting themselves?
Ok... There was the Lubbock "Circular Firing Squad" the SWAT team there pulled, but I'm ok with only allowing law enforcement tightly regulated access to firearms.
Everyone else in the civilian population is MUCH more capable of carrying arms for their own defense and requires no such regulations.
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Another Bush appoint matching the quality of Norman Mineta or Harriet Myers. Sigh....
He's right.
My M-1 bit my thumb once, and it doesn't do my right shoulder any favors.
Has anyone else noticed how the talk seems to center around the licensure of a fundamental right as if it were mere priveledge?
Keep your forms, Mr. Mueller, save the taxpayer a grundle on printing and paperwork. This is my right. Maybe we should start talking about what "shall not be infringed" means.
In an ideal world there would never be weapons on a campus. As we saw from Va. Tech, when a loon wants to bring a gun on campus they don't check to see if the rules allow them.
Weapons do NOTHING, people harm people.
Exactly right. Moller, hand in your resignation.
You are sworn to defend the Constitution of the United States. Now hit the road.
The amendments that don’t refer to procedural matters, address individual rights. How can anyone come away from the Second Amendment thinking it is the only Amendment that has an escppe clause.
The government answers to us. It is not the other way around. We are the ones who grant government the right to be armed in our nation. It IS NOT the other way around.
The chief is in denial of clear data available to him.
The crime rate will fall, now that potential victims can defend themselves.
The chief is just another control freak, afraid of a citizenry able to defend itself.
Another Bush appointee strikes again. Yet another idiot who believes guns crawl out of cabinets, load themselves and go off and shoot people.
I hadn’t had any weapons for many years. Bill Clinton and Janet Reno made me reconsider, and to join the NRA.
Well, at least one DEA guy with a Glock 40...
So does Mueller carry? Is he willing to quit? Would he be happy if all his agents stopped carrying? Jus’ aksin’...
Never mind; I know the answer.
Seems Robert Mueller has enough to worry about at the F.B.I. then get involved in decisions of the Supremes.
Has the F.B.I. allowed any more innocents to go to jail for long periods of time to protect their murdering informants?
Has the F.B.I. killed anyone lately? Like they did in Waco or Ruby Ridge?
Has the F.B.I. covered any embarassing incidents lately? Like The jet shoot down over N.Y? The waco fiasco? The Ruby Rigde fiasco? The Murrah building attack? The conviction of only Tim McVeigh instead of him and the others involved?
Mr. Mueller, me thinks your F.B.I. has its own internal problems for you to spend time dealing with, not MY GUN RIGHTS.
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He needs to be asked to resign right now.
I’ll sure be glad once we get a republican administration back in the White House.
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No rights were given to us at our Nation's creation. They were given to us at OUR creation.
The Constitution enumerates them, but it most certainly doesn't grant them. It lays down governments ability to restrict them.
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