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Dem. lawmaker: To get gun control, Obama must ‘exploit’ shooting
washingtontimes.com ^ | December 14, 2012 | Ben Wolfgang

Posted on 12/14/2012 7:20:24 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe

A veteran Democratic lawmaker believes the nation will go along with stronger gun control laws if President Obama “exploits” the Newtown, Conn., tragedy and nudges Congress to action.

Rep. Jerrold Nadler, who represents portions of New York City, said he was encouraged by Mr. Obama’s statement on Friday afternoon that the mass shooting, which claimed the lives of 20 young children, requires “meaningful action” by Congress, but hopes those words turn into concrete legislation.

“These incidents, these horrible, horrible incidents … are happening more and more frequently. And they will continue to happen more and more frequently until someone with the bully pulpit, and that means the president, takes leadership and pushes Congress,” Mr. Nadler said during an appearance on MSNBC’s “The Ed Show” with Ed Schultz.

Mr. Nadler was asked whether the Newtown tragedy could be the turning point in many Democrats’ longstanding struggle to enact stronger gun laws.

“I think we will be there if the president exploits it, and otherwise we’ll go on to the next” incident, Mr. Nadler said.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: 2012; banglist; democrats; guncontrol; jerroldnadler; nadler; newtown; obama; sandyhookpolitics; sandyhookshooting; secondamendment
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1 posted on 12/14/2012 7:20:25 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Who said there are no honest dems?


2 posted on 12/14/2012 7:23:00 PM PST by palmer (Jim, please bill me 50 cents for this completely useless post)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

What a dick.


3 posted on 12/14/2012 7:23:02 PM PST by Gene Eric (Demoralization is a weapon of the enemy. Don't get it, don't spread it!)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Don’t bet on it, chum.


4 posted on 12/14/2012 7:23:02 PM PST by RWB Patriot ("My ability is a value that must be purchased and I don't recognize anyone's need as a claim on me.")
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To: Tailgunner Joe

I’ll go along with it when NYC, Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta, Cleveland are safe to walk the streets anytime day or night. Let these blowhards clean up their own cities first.


5 posted on 12/14/2012 7:24:41 PM PST by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Outlawing the use of antidepressants for young men might be the wiser choice. I assume this animal - like all the others - was taking antidepressants...


6 posted on 12/14/2012 7:26:13 PM PST by GOPJ (Detroit should be renamed 'Michael Mooresville'...)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Attempting to disarm us will only get more people needlessly killed.

We need more guns in the Right hands to counter those weapons that end up in the Wrong hands...

Only then will events like today become rare...


7 posted on 12/14/2012 7:27:21 PM PST by Dead Corpse (I will not comply.)
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To: SkyDancer

If strict gun control worked, Washington DC would be the safest city in the United States - followed closely by New York and Chicago...


8 posted on 12/14/2012 7:27:58 PM PST by GOPJ (Detroit should be renamed 'Michael Mooresville'...)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
As a result of a similar shooting in Hungerford England, The Firearms (Amendment) Act 1988[2] was passed which banned the ownership of semi-automatic center-fire rifles and restricted the use of shotguns with a magazine capacity of more than three rounds.
9 posted on 12/14/2012 7:28:20 PM PST by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
This is not about guns. It is about a crazy sick young man.

Who do you blame for the warped sense of reality? TV? Schools? Pop Culture? Hollywood? Government programs?

Reality is truly dead.

NOW. Have you ever seen the coverage on an incident with so many serious errors in reporting as this developed? Wrong brother named. After right brother named it was said the other brother was found in the woods. We were told the mother was a teacher? Later we learn she was not, but might have been a volunteer.

It smells like the direction for the coverage is just like the lies that came our of Benghazi. Wonder if the MSM is taking tips from the White Hut?

This is a horrible tragedy. No one but a truly insane person could commit this crime.

And other “truly insane” people work at 1600 Penn Ave.

10 posted on 12/14/2012 7:31:03 PM PST by Texas Fossil
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To: Tailgunner Joe

“”Never let a crisis go to waste””


11 posted on 12/14/2012 7:31:13 PM PST by CMailBag
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Obesity causes 100,000–400,000 deaths in the United States per year.

Food control. We need food control.


12 posted on 12/14/2012 7:31:26 PM PST by Sooth2222 ("Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself." M.Twain)
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To: GOPJ

Forgot about DC. But yes, Bloomberg and others best take care of their own “gun safe cities” before charging in demanding Obamagabe to do something. Even if he signs some EO, it won’t be worth the paper it’s printed on. What’s that song where one part of a verse went “A lot of men tried and a lot of men died”? If people think that Prohibition was bad ....


13 posted on 12/14/2012 7:33:50 PM PST by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
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To: GOPJ

If saving lives was the goal, then there would be a law requiring a certain percentage of the teachers to be armed.


14 posted on 12/14/2012 7:35:33 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Why is the government more concerned about protecting a microbe on Mars than an unborn baby here?)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
“I think we will be there if the president exploits it, and otherwise we’ll go on to the next” incident, Mr. Nadler said

Mr. Nadler might need to be the one "exploited".

We don't take to kindly to those gun-grabbing "citidiots" around here!

15 posted on 12/14/2012 7:36:07 PM PST by MountainDad (Support your local Militia)
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To: GOPJ
3600 gun laws in America, and evil still happens. 9/11 happened with box cutters, and the Oklahoma City federal bombing was done with fertilizer and diesel. Nadler is a fool. Closer to home 11 years and 2 days ago my son in law was murdered in Tulsa Ok. He was a mail carrier and the father of my oldest granddaughter. This scum bag Jason Weed spent less than 2 years in a nut house and now lives less than 20 miles away from my daughter and granddaughter. THATS THE LAW Nadler wants? Enough law Nadler, it didn't work for my family, it worked for the man who murdered my son-in-law. My heart goes out for the families affected by this tragedy, but there is evil in the world. Pass a law against that.
16 posted on 12/14/2012 7:36:50 PM PST by JohnD9207 (Isn't freedom worth fighting for?)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Nadler, we're missing two chocolate cakes, three pies and two dozen donuts....you know anything about it?
17 posted on 12/14/2012 7:41:56 PM PST by JPG (Stay strong.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Our most recent mass shooters have only one thing in common. Government supported and approved psychotropic drugs for children.


18 posted on 12/14/2012 7:45:07 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (FR: Now, More Than Ever.)
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To: Texas Fossil
... so many serious errors in reporting as this developed

This wasn't "reporting" by any stretch of the imagination. It shows just how ridiculous the "news" media has become. This was a bunch of ghouls, rumor mongering at best. The dad is dead, no he's not, the mother was killed in the classroom with her students ... oh wait, she was shot in the face in her bed ... it's Ryan, it's Adam ... well, maybe it IS Ryan... no, it's Adam who might have had Ryan's ID ... girlfriend is missing ... is she dead? It's a rifle, no it's two handguns ... rifle in trunk ... oh wait, now ATF says maybe more than two guns .....who was in the woods? was it Ryan or Adam or a friend?? one shot in the foot, 3 at hospital - what? more are dead? it's 12 .... now it's 18, now it's 20. Oh look, now Obama is crying on TV .... CRYing, I tell you .... let's talk about Obama crying instead of kids massacred ... he's gotta DO something this time ... he will, too - did you see him wipe his eyes?

Rumors and rumors upon more rumors ... it was worse than a circus. The poor parents will have the ghouls after them for the next couple of weeks ... they've already been interviewing traumatized kids .... how did you feel when you saw your mommy? Were you scared? Ghouls and more ghouls. The "news media" is dead in this country - about as dead as decency, morals, values, respect for life and the GOP. (pardon the mini-rant, but I'm just really ticked off right now)

19 posted on 12/14/2012 7:48:20 PM PST by MissMagnolia
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To: Tailgunner Joe

This filthy cretin is is subliminally encouraging his evil leftist minions to go out and commit these atrocities so he can ban guns. FUBO you f’ing scumbag.


20 posted on 12/14/2012 7:48:32 PM PST by Newtoidaho (Fight organized crime. Vote out all incumbent Democrats!)
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