so the constitution is a bully eh????
Posted on 03/16/2011 10:50:34 PM PDT by neverdem
WASHINGTON -- "My administration has not curtailed the rights of gun owners," the president boasted, "it has expanded them, including allowing people to carry their guns in national parks and wildlife refuges."
No, that wasn't George W. Bush. It was President Obama in an op-ed piece published Sunday in the Arizona Daily Star that practically begged the gun lobby to support modest reforms of our lax gun laws.
He wasn't even asking for a ban on those large gun magazines, which would almost certainly have saved lives on that January day in Tucson when six people were killed and Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was among 13 wounded by gunfire.
What Obama endorsed were, well, baby steps toward strengthening background checks to keep guns out of the hands of "dangerous criminals and fugitives" and those who are "unbalanced." That's a fine idea, though his specific proposals -- "enforcing laws that are already on the books," "reward the states that provide the best data," "make the system faster and nimbler" -- were hardly the stuff of political courage...
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The first statement is a wild distortion of the position of actual advocates of sane gun laws. They are not seeking "sweeping anti-gun legislation." They are pushing tame steps LaPierre and his lobbyists reject -- thorough background checks and a ban on those big magazines. Yes, restoring the highly effective ban on assault weapons would also be good. But that's Obama's own position. Isn't it?
Obama observed last week that "bullying can have destructive consequences for our young people." It can also have destructive consequences for politicians. The president could set a good example by standing up to the bullies of the NRA.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
E.J.'s been hangin' with Charlie Sheen. Cut him some slack.
You can bet the effeminate E.J. has seen his share of bullies in his day. LOL! I bet he caught hell in school.
E.J. Dionne — what a classic douchebag
E.J. Dionne — what a classic douchebag
“our lax gun laws...”
we need “sane gun laws...”
FRiends, do not be fooled.
The effect of “GUN LAWS” is to limit ownership through humiliation and red tape, to indoctrinate adults and children (ie No Gun Zones) to fear and hate firearms, and to actually criminalize (without criminal intent) huge swaths of “illegal” behavior for the firearm owner. When to carry? Where? Loaded? Unloaded? In the trunk?...
The older I get the more I am coming to understand that ALL gun Laws are unconstitutional, and wrong.
Congress should make it an act of treason, punishable by death, to propose any new gun laws that in any way restrict the Second Amendment.
Allow? They allow? That is mighty white of 0bozo.
Yes, restoring the highly effective ban on assault weapons would also be good.
No words...
This one needed a Barf Alert :-)
They are the bullies, and they know it.
Gun control is all about controlling people, and we know it.
Only if the CRIMINAL perp were a law abiding citizen, when it came to his choice of magazines.
OTOH, none of my high capacity Glock magazines have ever done anything their smaller brethren haven't done, except give me 3-5 shot groups instead of 2, before reloading.
OTOOH, it takes almost the same amount of time to fire off 15 shots from 2-10 round mags as it does to empty 1-15 rounder; the real world difference is negligible...unless you're a fumble-fingers.
None of my "assault" rifles have ever misbehaved, either; at least not since I caught one trying to sneak out one night with the SUV. I paddled them both, and sent them to their rooms. Not a problem since.
Durn. Almost got to the bottom of the thread, hoping to tag that deficit, but you got there first.
Rules are good. Now someone needs to mention MoDo so we can invoke the CZ-J Rule.
Someone send this hack a copy of the constitution with the second amendment highlighted in marker.
E.J. Dionne, the Defender of Selective Amendments.
Moron.
Yeah and I guess the NRA shouldn’t fund ANY of your Democrat buddies, next ELECTION, huh Dion?
What a moron. Lax gun laws? Liberal garbage like this should may be popular in Boston and NYC, where the men are bedwetting crybabies, and the women are even worse, but for the rest of the country, we ain't buying it.
What a twisted headline. The NRA teaches and helps people to stand up to bullies.
Rather, think of us as a "Second Amendment Union."
Government is the bully, not the NRA.
so the constitution is a bully eh????
Leftwingtard E.J. Dionne, YOU LIE.
Obama and Holder want to BAN PRIVATE SALES of firearms. They also want to ban people from bequeathing arms to their children or grandchildren without going through a government-approved dealer, who will register the firearm in the unconstitutional government database.
Make no mistake: such bans are tantamount to the END of the 2nd and 4th Amendments. When all legal guns are those registered and ownership-tracked by the government, there is no freedom to own arms, and no right to be secure in your person and papers.
Why? Because at a moment's notice, a particularly tyrannical government can come for them. Yes, that would foment a civil war (I pray some would resist), but I believe that MILLIONS of sheeple would just turn their guns in, just like they did in England and Australia. These are Obama's model. He is following a path to confiscation.
This is a hill to die on. Private sales of firearms MUST continue. We either pay in blood now, or pay much more blood later.
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