This bill accomplishes nothing more than ego stroking...
Posted on 01/18/2011 4:01:18 PM PST by DarthVader
In the aftermath of the attempted murder of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords earlier this month, lawmakers on Capitol Hill have proposed a cluster of gun control measures ranging from a ban to knowingly carrying a firearm within 1,000 feet of certain high-profile government officials to a proposal to allow members of Congress to carry firearms in the U.S. Capitol.
Rep. Carolyn McCarthy formally introduced her own bill on the House floor Tuesday that would ban high-capacity ammunition clips like the one Jared Loughner used to gun down 19 individuals in the Tucson shooting Jan. 8.
McCarthy, who is regarded as one of the toughest gun-control proponents on Capitol Hill, has dedicated her congressional service to reducing gun violence after a tragic incident in 1993 in which gunman Colin Ferguson unleashed a hail of bullets aboard a packed Long Island Railroad commuter train, and used 15-round magazines to kill six people, including McCarthy’s husband, and injured 19 more, including her son.
“I know what it’s like to have tragedy brought to your life in a split second by a madman with high-capacity ammunition magazines,” McCarthy said. “I’m working to stop it from happening again. We need comprehensive reform to reduce the number of people hurt or killed by gunfire in America, but one simple way we can do that is by keeping the worst tools of mass murder away from the general public. This nation has come together before to support this simple, commonsense measure, and it is the law in several states right now. It is a small sacrifice that law-abiding gun owners can make once again in order to increase everyone’s safety.”
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Carolyn we will oppose you at every turn you despicable hag!
Piffle ... and I love your reply!
Sad little woman shouldn’t be holding elected office.
IT’S NOT THE GUNS OR CLIPS. Shut down the criminal element....problem solved. Our country is turning into a criminal haven..........including Washington DC.
Another braindead Democrat!!!
15 rounds is high capacity? Bull.
Outlaw everything but muzzleloaders. I mean, if they were good enough to win the revolution, they’re good enough to protect us from a despotic central government. Right?
The chief criminal element resides in the souls of LIBERAL politicians. We must continue to expose and vote them out. Cut off the head of the snake.
A better law would be to elected officials to be restricted from going within a 1000 feet of a gun. One unenforceable moronic gun law is as good as another. Or they can just read the constitution and follow what is says.
Once you use your husband’s death to achieve power, all other acts of macabre opportunism are a piece of cake.
This woman is a human vulture.
McCarthy, who is regarded as one of the toughest gun-control proponents on Capitol Hill, has dedicated her congressional service to reducing gun violence after a tragic incident in 1993 in which gunman Colin Ferguson unleashed a hail of bullets aboard a packed Long Island Railroad commuter train, and used 15-round magazines to kill six people, including McCarthy’s husband, and injured 19 more, including her son.
Exactly.
A great tragedy and at least two wasted lives - her husband’s and hers.
Instead of rationally attacking the kind of justice system which allows a guy like the maniac who killed her husband wander around in the first place and cheat justice by not hanging afterward, she has focused her entire life, her entire soul, brain and body on... sportsmen who legally own and employ guns and law abiding citizens who seek to defend themselves.
Ms. McCarthy appears to me to be a deeply disturbed person whose sense of logic has been warped by her personal tragedy.
Unfortunately, sinister elements in the Media and the Democrat Party to whom the Constitution and Bill of Rights are merely an inconvenient piece of paper obstructing the ability of the better class to control us lesser mortals have employed her for their own ends.
Are we also going to ban SUV’s, because a schizophrenic can mow down more people using one of them in a crowded area than a smaller vehicle, and take out more people than Loughner did with his 9 mm.
Why weren’t airplanes banned after 911.
To late.....
No way. The ammo clip is not the issue. As always, when the people are unarmed, then the criminals are the only ones armed.
It takes me less than 5 seconds to drop a ~9 round clip from my pistol and push in another. And with a pocket of them, I could be continually lethal for quite a while.
Dianne Feinstein at an anti-tea party rally???
Oh, please.
This vindictive woman has dedicated her "career" to punishing every gun owner in the United States, for the actions of one man: Colin Ferguson.
BTW During the 10 years of the so-called "assault weapons" ban (which also regulated magazines holding more than ten rounds), there was no shortage of "pre ban" high-capacity magazines.
And here's an FYI for the "journalists" out there:
"Clips" and "magazines" are not the same thing, and are not used for the same purpose.
A "clip" is used to charge/load a "magazine" with cartridges.
A "magazine" is a device which feeds cartridges into a firearm (usually via a spring-loaded follower).
The same media idiots that can’t tell an AK47 from a shotgun are never, ever going to understand the distinction between a clip and a magazine.
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