Posted on 06/12/2016 4:15:42 AM PDT by HomerBohn
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It remains to be seen if Bernie Sanders will get his way and have DNC boss Debbie Wasserman Schultz removed as part of a deal to gain his support for Hillary Clinton.
In the meantime, Wasserman Schultz and the Democratic National Convention Platform Drafting Committee are working on policy positions.
“Everything is on the table and nothing is off limits,” Wasserman Schultz said Wednesday as the drafting committee convened for the first time.
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North Carolina resort owner Bonnie Schaefer, who was appointed to the committee by Wasserman Schultz, made it painfully obvious the right to possess firearms will be on the table.
“I really don’t personally think anyone should have a gun,” Schaefer said on June 8.
A few days before Schaefer’s remark, Clinton was asked point blank by former Clintonite George Stephanopoulos if she wants to abolish the cornerstone of the Bill of Rights.
“Do you believe an individual’s right to bear arms is a constitutional right? That it’s not linked to the service in the militia?” Stephanopoulos asked.
Clinton did not answer the question. Instead, she said the Second Amendment is open to regulation by the government.
“I think that for most of our history there was a nuanced reading of the Second Amendment, until the decision by the late Justice [Antonin] Scalia,” she said. “And there was no argument until then that localities, and states, and the federal government had a right—as we do with every amendment—to impose reasonable regulations.”
She also outlined her plan to attack gun ownership if elected:
I’m going to continue to speak out for comprehensive background checks, closing the “gun show loophole,” closing the “online loophole,” closing the so-called “Charleston loophole,” reversing the bill that Senator Sanders voted for and I voted against, giving immunity from liability to gun makers and sellers. In May, Senator Jeff Sessions said Hillary Clinton would be “the most anti-Second Amendment president perhaps we’ve ever had.”
Sessions pointed to Clinton’s opposition to the Supreme Court’s decision in District of Columbia v. Heller, which protects individual Americans’ right to keep and bear arms.
“And what that means is, it’s no longer a personal right to have a gun, but every city, county, and state can completely ban firearms in America,” Sessions said. “This would be the greatest reduction of Second Amendment rights since the founding of the republic.”
Her old lady's the way to get the job done.
Pretty much frames the election in November. Remember when the Rats claimed they “did not want to take anybobies deer rifle...”. Surprise! They were lying.
After 8 years of nobama the USA cannot survive 4 -8 years of mama Klintoon ...
What happened to amendments/changes to the Constitution requiring 2/3rds of the states?
They dare not
Their very lives are in the balance
Clinton did not answer the question. Instead, she said the Second Amendment is open to regulation by the government.
These arrogant scumbag politicians are out of control
Trump automatically picks up another 3 million votes....
The communist-Nazi left plans to take guns from law abiding citizens who so that they could not resist them, even to the death, for the blood that they as communists and Nazis always spill under the lies of liberalism. Satan being their master and the prince of the evil world system of globalism. Only Jesus Christ is good as He is God the Son.
Don’t forget the 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th, 9th, and 10th. And if she gets through those we may be quartering soldiers in 4 years.
good luck with that. the massacre in Orlando will, I presume,preclude the lefts efforts to grab anybody’s guns.
“the right to possess firearms will be on the table”
I can tell you one thing for sure and that is THAT I WILL PICK MY GUN UP OFF THE TABLE AND USE IT TO PROTECT MY ORIGINAL FREEDOMS GRANTED UPON THE FOUNDING OF THIS COUNTRY!
The fact that she thinks the gov has “rights” in our Republic shows how far off the mark she is.
Wanting to give a safe work environment for the criminals. After, doesn’t Terry McAuliffe want to grant voting rights to inmates in Virginia?
May as well let them try.
That way we can get CW-II over with.
However, after we win, we bring back the guillotine...a rusty unsharpened onw for each and every progressive.
President Trump already had those votes.
Hillary: “I think...”
LOL
The destruction of the 2nd Amendment has ALWAYS been the DEMOCRATIC GOAL since 1962.
“Sensible” gun law demands over the years...
And to think, in 1962 Thomas J Dodd and Emaual Cellar proposed the first federal law on common firearms.
1962; “We don’t want to take away your guns, we ONLY want to register handguns! Rifles and shotguns will not be affected”.
1964: “We only want to register all your guns, not ban them! Only Army surplus guns will be banned.”
1968: “We only want to register your guns, and ban “Saturday Night Specials” and small foreign handguns along with army surplus rifles!” (They got the ban on 5 shot army surplus rifles and handguns and small foreign pistols)
1970: “We only want to ban Saturday night specials! Large handguns and rifles will not be affected!”
1976: “We only want to ban all handguns! Long guns will not be affected!”
1981: “The NRA is a rifle organization! They should give up their handguns, and they can keep their rifles!”- Lee Grant on GMA
1984: “We must ban “assault Rifles, unsuitable or hunting!”
1989: George Bush bans import of some foreign made “assault rifles” and shotguns.
1992: Assault rifle ban passed by Clinton.
2000: first calls to ban single shot .50 cal rifles...
More.......
Nelson T. ‘Pete’ Shields
Founder of Handgun Control, Inc.
“I’m convinced that we have to have federal legislation to build on. We’re going to have to take ONE STEP AT A TIME, and the first step is necessarily — given the political realities — going to be very modest.
Of course, it’s true that politicians will then go home and say, ‘This is a great law. The problem is solved.’ And it’s also true that such statements will tend to defuse the gun-control issue for a time.
So then we’ll have to strengthen that law, and then again to strengthen that law, and maybe again and again. Right now, though, we’d be satisfied not with half a loaf but with a slice. Our ultimate goal — total control of HANDGUNS in the United States — is going to take time.
My estimate is from seven to ten years. The problem is to slow down the increasing number of handguns sold in this country. The second problem is to get them all registered. And the final problem is to make the possession of all handguns and all handgun ammunition — except for the military, policemen, licensed security guards, licensed sporting clubs, and licensed gun collectors — TOTALLY ILLEGAL.”
-Pete Shields, Chairman and founder, Handgun Control Inc., “A Reporter At Large: Handguns,” The New Yorker, July 26, 1976, 57-58
The Brady Center (former HCI) now has the hots to ban anything they can, including common RIFLES AND SHOTGUNS.
Tis and Jusges alone should be enough for anyone who claims to be a Republican to wholeheartedly support Trump. Those who don’t are complicit in aiding and abetting the Left. Romney/Cruz/Ryan/McConnell/Kristol/Rubio just to name a few. Still enough on FR to make one wonder if they are Dummy plants as they claim to be “principled conservatives” and go merrily along trying to undermine our best shot at stopping Hillary and setting the Left and their RINO bootlickers back a few steps....
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