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Rep. Louie Gohmert: I Wish to God that the Principal Would Have Had an M4
Townhall ^ | 12/16/2012 | Leah Barkoukis

Posted on 12/16/2012 4:04:20 PM PST by SeekAndFind

Many people are insisting we all sit down and have a thoughtful, calm reflection on the Second Amendment after the Connecticut massacre. Others, particularly on the Left, are more forthright and are demanding more gun control. If we are to engage in the former, however, I want to share some of the arguments Rep. Louie Gohmert made today on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace.

The segment with Gohmert began with footage of Eric Holder saying we need to discuss who we are as a nation, talk about the freedom and rights we have, and how they can be used in a responsible way. In other words, he wants to talk about gun control. Rep. Gohmert’s response, which brought up Fast and Furious, was priceless:

“Well I think coming from him that’s really important to note coming from a man who’s in a department that forced the sale of guns to people that would bring about the death of people like Brian Terry and there should be national outrage about Mexicans, our neighbors, 200 or more that have been killed by the guns his department have forced to be sold, so he’s right. And Sen. Durbin is right but the conversation we’ve got to have has got to have everybody open-minded. I mean, we all react emotionally that’s why we’ve all shed tears…”

Wallace then brought up the Aurora movie theater massacre and Gohmert making the argument in its aftermath for more people to carry weapons to prevent a similar situation from happening. Wallace asks: “Do we really want folks in movie theaters, and shopping malls, and schools, armed?

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Gohmert responds: “Once we have this actually open dialogue about the situation you find out…every mass killing of more than three people in recent history has been in a place where guns were prohibited, except for one. They choose this place. They know no one will be armed. You know, having been a judge, having reviewed photographs of these horrific scenes and knowing that children have these defensive wounds, gun shots through their arms and hands as they try to protect themselves and hearing the heroic stories of the principal lunging trying to protect…Chris, I wish to God she had had an M4 in her office locked up so when she heard gun fire she pulls it out and she didn’t have to lunge heroically with nothing in her hands, but she takes him out, takes his head off before he could kill those precious kids.”

Then the obligatory question by the media: Why do people need semi-automatic weapons? Wallace says these are weapons created for law enforcement, for the military, but why does the average person need these “weapons of mass destruction”? 

Gohmert: Well, for the reason that George Washington said: A free people should be an armed people. It ensures against the tyranny of the government if they know that the biggest army is the American people, then you don’t have the tyranny that came from King George. That’s why it was put in there. Once you start drawing the line, where do you stop? And that’s why it is important to not just look emotionally – emotionally our reaction is to immediately say lets get rid of all guns…you do it as a judge. You react emotionally but you use your head and you look at the facts and the facts are that every time guns have been allowed, concealed carry have been allowed, the crime rate has gone down. Washington, DC ought to be the safest place in American and it’s not…”


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; US: Connecticut
KEYWORDS: 2012; banglist; connecticut; guncontrol; guns; louiegohmert; massmurder; newtown; sandyhook; sandyhookgundefense; secondamendment
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To: crusty old prospector
At a minimum, Speaker of the House.

From your lips to God's ears.

21 posted on 12/16/2012 4:43:06 PM PST by Kenny (<p)
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To: SeekAndFind; MtnMan101

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ISRAEL TODAY


22 posted on 12/16/2012 4:44:25 PM PST by EdReform (Oath Keepers - Guardians of the Republic - Honor your oath - Join us: www.oathkeepers.org)
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To: P-Marlowe

^ You are onto something with that idea! Why do we have schools sitting empty most of the late afternoon, evening and weekends when they could be used as dispatch centers, data processing, meeting areas etc for LE.

Of course, then private schools could become a target but even so police and/or parents could patrol with a CCW. If lib parents don’t like it, take your kids someplace else.


23 posted on 12/16/2012 4:46:02 PM PST by JouleZ (You are the company you keep.)
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To: SeekAndFind
The most dangerous places in America are the gun free zones. A want-to-be-killer can use any weapon he wants, and no one would be able to stop him.
24 posted on 12/16/2012 4:47:25 PM PST by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: TurboZamboni

“Assault rifles are used so infrequently”

Assault rifles are never used. If it doesn’t have a fully automatic capability, it is not an assault rifle.

Gun grabbers, on the other hand, are assault buttholes whether semi-automatic, three-round burst, or fully automatic.


25 posted on 12/16/2012 4:47:37 PM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: cripplecreek

After 9/11, no one suggested every Muslim that flies on an airplane is a killing machine because of a few, radical, nut jobs that mass murdered with planes? Am I to think that every Muslim on a plane is going to hijack it and fly it into a building because a few did? Should we restrict them from flying...just in case? Should they be restricted to walking so they can not use a vehicle as a weapon? How many people did they murder and they are still flying...whose life changed after that massacre?

I am so sick of the Left jumping on their soapbox every chance they can when it comes to our right to bare arms.


26 posted on 12/16/2012 4:48:29 PM PST by Ms Mable
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To: SeekAndFind
Chris, I wish to God she had had an M4 in her office locked up so when she heard gun fire she pulls it out and she didn’t have to lunge heroically with nothing in her hands, but she takes him out, takes his head off before he could kill those precious kids.”

Well said, Congressman!

27 posted on 12/16/2012 4:48:49 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: Andy from Chapel Hill
I would feel comfortable taking a narrow shot in a crowd with this weapon and have more hitting power with the bigger round.

I'm sure you do but the reality is that any teachers who in the future may be allowed to carry a concealed weapon won't have the extensive seal team and anti-terrorist training that you obviously have and certainly won't have the ballistist knowledge of ammunition that you are proudly touting.......

28 posted on 12/16/2012 4:50:44 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (Jab her with a harpoon.....)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
Yeh, it's a real hoot when you have a crazy playing Grand Theft Auto with you and your students, and you have nothing to take him down now!
29 posted on 12/16/2012 4:50:54 PM PST by windsorknot
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To: SeekAndFind

A simple .22 or .380 she could fire accurately might have changed everything.


30 posted on 12/16/2012 4:52:19 PM PST by Trod Upon (Civilian disarmament is the precursor to democide.)
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To: Andy from Chapel Hill
I would feel comfortable taking a narrow shot in a crowd with this weapon and have more hitting power with the bigger round.

I'm sure you do but the reality is that any teachers who in the future may be allowed to carry a concealed weapon won't have the extensive seal team and anti-terrorist training that you obviously have and certainly won't have the ballistic knowledge of ammunition that you are proudly touting.......

31 posted on 12/16/2012 4:53:16 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (Jab her with a harpoon.....)
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To: Kenny

I have the privilege of voting for him every two years unopposed.


32 posted on 12/16/2012 4:54:33 PM PST by crusty old prospector
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To: SeekAndFind

Totally agree, man...


33 posted on 12/16/2012 4:54:39 PM PST by matginzac
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To: Kenny

Great ideas..
Forget Gohmert...Kenny 2016!!!


34 posted on 12/16/2012 4:56:33 PM PST by matginzac
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To: SeekAndFind

Tht Romney pushing, anti-Second Amendment phoney Kraphammer was calling for this kind of a sit down discussion.

We had a sit down discussion - in 1787. One of the products was the Bill of Rights. The Right to keep and bear arms was the Second item on that agenda.

The minds that met there far exceeded the experience and mental capabilities of sinister trolls like Bennett and Kraphammer (LONG TIME anti-Second Amendment drones) and the other idiots like Bloomberg, etc, who are SALIVATING at this tragedy as an excuse to excise the Right to keep and bear arms from the Constitution.


35 posted on 12/16/2012 4:59:06 PM PST by ZULU (See video: http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-first-siege-of-vienna.html)
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To: TurboZamboni
BTTT

Mass Killings Stopped by Armed Citizens

36 posted on 12/16/2012 5:00:10 PM PST by EdReform (Oath Keepers - Guardians of the Republic - Honor your oath - Join us: www.oathkeepers.org)
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To: Ms Mable
I am so sick of the Left jumping on their soapbox every chance they can when it comes to our right to bare arms.

Yet the homos kill millions with AIDs and they demand we tolerate it.

They kill millions of babies waiting to be born, and then celebrate it as a right.

They want the elderly to die so more will be left for them, and they call it "fairness."

They want to disarm the population, so only criminals and politicians (actually they're the same thing these days) will have the guns.

37 posted on 12/16/2012 5:01:07 PM PST by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: concerned about politics

And you are 100% correct!


38 posted on 12/16/2012 5:05:22 PM PST by Ms Mable
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To: SeekAndFind

Finally, a politician with the intelligence, decency, and courage to say what needed to be said.


39 posted on 12/16/2012 5:06:08 PM PST by DangerZone (If the left had their way, all of America would be as safe as Sandy Hook Elementary.)
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To: davetex

I have an AR-10. It is very big and heavy compared to an AR-15 chambered for the Russian ammo.

With a laser, a second rapid shot would not be necessary, so the increased kick would not be a big deal.

Regarding the wall penetration problem, there may be some non-full metal jacket mushrooming ammo out there - I do not know.


40 posted on 12/16/2012 5:09:28 PM PST by Andy from Chapel Hill
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