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. Obamas 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 MSNBCs 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 well go on to the next incident, Mr. Nadler said.
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Who said there are no honest dems?
What a dick.
Don’t bet on it, chum.
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.
Outlawing the use of antidepressants for young men might be the wiser choice. I assume this animal - like all the others - was taking antidepressants...
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...
If strict gun control worked, Washington DC would be the safest city in the United States - followed closely by New York and Chicago...
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.
“”Never let a crisis go to waste””
Food control. We need food control.
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 ....
If saving lives was the goal, then there would be a law requiring a certain percentage of the teachers to be armed.
Mr. Nadler might need to be the one "exploited".
We don't take to kindly to those gun-grabbing "citidiots" around here!
Our most recent mass shooters have only one thing in common. Government supported and approved psychotropic drugs for children.
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)
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.
Try it!...You damn giant a-hole!
.....Shameless,soul-less,opportunistic blood suckers!
Gun control has zero to do with safety. It has to do with power of the leaders over the people. Look at the power of political leadership where there is strict gun control, both in the cities you named and in other countries.
Strict gun control most certainly does work, and it has nothing to do with preventing crime.
mini-rant?
Certainly warranted.
If there was ever an industry that deserved extinction, it is the Mass Media in the U.S. A collection of fool, useful idiots and outright Traitors. There was a time when Treason was a serious crime, is that over? If so, the Republic is dead.
Hey Nadler! Could we at least tone it down until they clean up the blood? Now is not the time for your Nazi fascist kneejerk reaction. Moron!
This kind of thing should never happen. But, someone has pointed out that gun free zones mean that only bad guys have the guns.
If teachers and principals were armed this kind of thing wouldn't expand to the awful magnitude that it does.
And, if we didn't condense everything into super-sized schools the opportunity wouldn't exist the way it does.
I have heard very cogent arguments for the one-room school house that goes up to eighth grade. After that perhaps trade schools and college prep academies.
In the final analysis however, more gun control means more opportunity for the bad guys.
There is NO discipline, no moral compass, and in most cases, lack of a Traditional Family, with fathers in the home as head-of-household.
You reap what you sow.....
Yep...Nadler has exploited a few too many cheeseburgers...lol
These freaks...these frickin GHOULS...couldnt even wait to exploit this...I lack the words to properly voice my disgust...
The American Revolution began when the British tried to disarm the colonists.
Wonder if we still have that kind of grit today.
There are many more of us than they realize.
I thought Nadler retired? No such luck? Not that you’d end up with anyone much different given the district.
The real test will be how we respond to legislation that infringes on our inalienable rights, takes our goods, and makes us criminals overnight.
I wonder if Obama sheds tears over children killed as collateral damage from drone attacks. It couldn’t possibly be phoney and part of a move to gun control, could it?
Hey Nadler, here’s the deal, I have a proposition for you..I’ll give you twenty whole dollars if you can get a gang banger in Chicago to give up his piece..just go ask him “Pretty please Mr. Gang banger, please give up your gun” and see what he says..if you make it out without your body being riddled with bullets I’ll buy you a steak
It’s never quantity.
It’s always quality.
“3600 gun laws in America,”
More like 20,000 plus.
First person shooters.. thank you x-box...
Yet not one word about the 52 million babies who have had a hole drilled in their skull, their brain sucked out and their bodies burned.
Miserable hypocrites.
The other places you mentioned are armpit cities.
"Chum" is about right.
never let a crisis go to waste, that’s all he’s saying, just worded differently
The feds come to steel our weapons and a whole lot of feds will die.
Going back to institutionalizing the mentally ill is what’s really needed. In the last two weeks, mentally ill people have shot up a mall in Oregon, killing some shoppers, pushed somebody under the subway in New York City, killed a college professor in front of his students with a cross bow, and now killed some thirty people, most of them small children.
And that’s only the assaults that were gruesome enough to get reported nationally.
obozo has already said that he will exploit it!
‘I will use the power of the president to help....’
said obozo yesterday.
obozo has the power to raise the dead, when these dead people don’t inconvenience him!
He also has the power to condemn Americans to death when they are in his way, such as the 4 Americans in Benghazi on 911, 2012!
obama, thy name is ‘exploit’ !
The left is adept at dancing in the blood. And orchestrating tragedy. Waco(Holder was involved in that, too)Fast and Furious, Benghazi, and now, quite likely this.After all, Ayers, Obama’s long time friend said as many as 25 million might have to die before total compliance.
The left is adept at dancing in the blood. And orchestrating tragedy. Waco(Holder was involved in that, too)Fast and Furious, Benghazi, and now, quite likely this.After all, Ayers, Obama’s long time friend said as many as 25 million might have to die before total compliance.
“You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that - it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.”
Rahm Emmanuel
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