Posted on 01/28/2011 1:20:14 PM PST by Sub-Driver
House Dems call for gun hearings By: John Bresnahan January 28, 2011 12:46 PM EST
A top House Republican rejected calls by Democrats for hearings on gun safety in the wake of the Jan. 8 shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), suggesting that such hearings could interfere with the prosecution of the alleged gunman, Jared Loughner.
Rep. John Conyers (Mich.), top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, and 15 other Democrats on the panel sent a letter to Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) on Friday seeking hearings on several gun-safety issues related to the Tucson shooting. Six people died in that attack and 14 others, including Giffords, were wounded. Giffords was transferred to a Houston hospital this week to begin a long-term rehabilitation program.
Smith said the inquiries Democrats proposed have merit, but timing them before Lougher’s trial could have the “unintended effect of prejudicing the ongoing criminal proceedings.”
While acknowledging that there is little support in Congress for broad gun-control measures, Conyers and his Democratic colleagues suggested the hearings - and congressional action - should be “a carefully crafted and narrowly focused review of these issues and other possible loopholes in current law.”
“We fully recognize and appreciate the sensitivity of the subjects raised by the recent tragedy in Tucson in which our colleague, Gabrielle Giffords, was shot and eighteen other were wounded or killed, including members of her staff, a Federal judge, and several other citizens,” the Democrats wrote. “However, we also believe it is not only possible, but imperative that Congress review the relevant issues in a civil and objective [manner].
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Anything to detract attention from the debt crisis.
Notice how they didn’t call when they could have done something. It’s just scumbags stirring up the radicals to make noise. Ignore them.
They will use executive orders and ATF regs this time.
Setting up the ol' "If you disagree with us, you're uncivil and unobjective" argument.
Give ‘em a ball and tell them to go play in the street.
There are many rural liberals, who no matter how liberal they are, know that they need guns (guns being a fact of life in rural America).
I would go along with this if the law simply stated that no democrat or democrat supporter could ever be allowed to purchase or own a firearm.
Tell John Conyers to pay more attention to his jailbird wife and his son driving around in Govt. Caddillacs, and dont be so bothered about passing new laws on guns.
We have plenty of laws now thank you.
Not if they don’t want us to emulate Egypt! Private citizens in the USA have over 6000% more weapons than the military and law enforcement combined .
Gun safety issues? Like proper backstop, safe handling, and hearing and eye protection? I can go for that.
“imperative that Congress review the relevant issues “
The “relevant issue” is Sheriff Dipstick! I lay all the fault in his lap! And I think that that will all come out during the investigation and trial.
Pity the stupid Liberals fail to recognize that we, in the rest of America, have a Different Definition of GUN Control.
Theirs is Confiscate.. ours is...
HITTING the TARGET
YO, IDIOT LIBS ...you SURE you wanna try this????
Gun hearings and seeings and feelings.
Any little thing, now. Any little thing at all...
I’d invite them to the .50 cal range and then not offer any ear protection. That way they’d get the full benefit of their requested gun hearings. They shouldn’t be able to hear too much after a long day at the range but I’m sure they’ll enjoy it.
.....shall NOT be Infringed!!
Trying to wrap my hands around the words “rural liberals”.
“Yes We Can!” stickers on their tractors?
Raise only free-range chickens?
Kinda confused.
BTW, there are lots and lots of hypocritical urban liberals who own guns and when pressed say they need them for protection against violent conservative criminals.
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