Posted on 01/09/2013 5:26:20 PM PST by marktwain
The White House just realized it had to at least pretend to listen to America’s 100 million gun owners. Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. invited a representative from the National Rifle Association (NRA) to attend a White House meeting with anti-gun groups scheduled to take place Thursday.
Up to now, gun owners have been left out of President Obama's task force seeking “solutions” to gun violence by the end of the month. The simultaneous high-profile media blitz is meant to ready the public for radical limits on the Second Amendment.
New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg appears to be calling the shots. The billionaire is exploiting the second anniversary of the shooting of former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords with a new TV advertisement running in 20 markets where there have been mass shootings, including Tucson, Ariz.; Roanoke, Va.; Denver; and Milwaukee, along with Washington, D.C.
It features the mother of a 9-year-old girl killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School saying, “I have one question for our political leaders. When will you find the courage to stand up to the gun lobby?” Hizzoner’s “Demand a Plan” initiative intends to impose government background checks on private sales, ban guns that have certain cosmetic features and outlaw “high-capacity” magazines.
Ms. Giffords and her husband, Mark Kelly, announced Tuesday they have started “Americans for Responsible Solutions” to raise money to fight gun-rights groups. “We saw from the NRA leadership’s defiant and unsympathetic response to the Newtown, Conn., massacre that winning even the most common-sense reforms will require a fight,” the couple wrote in a USA Today op-ed.
They were not specific regarding what laws they will be pushing, but they hinted at a shared agenda with Mr. Bloomberg by suggesting the need to do something about “weapons designed for the battlefield”
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Yeah let's be honest.
Yes Romney won't now speak out against this.
Now back to Granny's original point. Romney would not have started this.
And that’s a great point if you want to keep reliving yesterday’s fight. How about today?
The nut job that did the shooting was a LEFT WINGER whose favorite books were Mein Kampf and the Communist Manifesto.
And Granny’s original point was multifaceted. A main part being that we must vote for the pubbie nominee. I asked which pubbies were going to stop this. Can you name one?
We all were certain that people were fed up before the election. Look how that turned out. A lot of idiots, including a few million “true conservatives” in one way or another elected this traitor. I believe that was our last hope to turn the tide, which will now sweep us all away.
Yep - my 1911 .45 was designed for the battlefield yet it only has room for 7 rounds in the mag...
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