Posted on 02/06/2015 4:13:45 AM PST by Daffynition
Members of the 113th Congress introduced 10 bills on Thursday relating to gun violence, most of which came from Democrats seeking new restrictions on gun ownership.
The flurry of legislative proposals show that members are likely to push the issue in the wake of the December shooting at a Connecticut elementary school that left 20 children dead.
Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-N.Y.), whose husband was shot to death in 1993, introduced four of the bills. The congresswoman has vowed to seek changes in federal law in response to the school shooting.
H.R. 137 and 138 from McCarthy would require people prohibited from buying firearms to be listed in a national database, and would prohibit the transfer or possession of large capacity ammunition clips.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
This was two years ago.
The 2nd amendment is under attack yet again, by a group of nefarious cowards.
I bet each one of them have a pistol in the drawer at home, they deny basic rights to others but not for themselves.
When the people have no arms, things happen like in Kurdistan.
These perfidious a$$hats need to be relegated to the dust bin of history.
I wonder how many bills they passed since Jan. 2013, when this article was written?
Yes. McCarty retired.
Thanks. I copied the wrong article. Sorry.
Same old stuff. Same actors.
January 24, 2013|By TAMARA LYTLE, Special to The Courant, The Hartford Courant
WASHINGTON — — Bearing photos of murdered loved ones, a parade of shooting victims joined lawmakers Thursday in proposing a ban on new assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.
The bill introduced Thursday by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and co-sponsored by Sens. Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy, would ban future sales, manufacturing and transfer of semiautomatic rifles and pistols, including more than 150 types of firearms, as well as outlaw magazines that hold more than 10 rounds.
I say require all citizens to have access to or own at least one gun, except felons, be trained on how to use them effectively against burglars, robbers, home invaders and thugs in general with a follow-up course on civil lawsuits as to the repercusiions and benefits of letting them live or die and how much it will cost them if they sue them and win if they only shoot and maim them...: )
I bet crime will plummet. We can’t go soft when dealing with the ferals. They need to know its going to cost them and that they have no right to rob or steal from good hard-working people who earned what they own.
After watching Carolyn McCarthy in action I suspect her husband jumped in front of that bullet on purpose.
**We can’t go soft when dealing with the ferals. They need to know its going to cost them and that they have no right to rob or steal from good hard-working people who earned what they own.**
When I read the police logs, urban crimes commited by felons with unregistered guns in Connecticut, we see the charges plea-bargained away. Feels like the film groundhog day. The term assault rifle is also troubling. We need to keep calling/writing our reps.
LOL!!!!
> When I read the police logs, urban crimes commited by felons with unregistered guns in Connecticut, we see the charges plea-bargained away. Feels like the film groundhog day. The term assault rifle is also troubling. We need to keep calling/writing our reps.
The reason they plea bargain them away is because the jails are too full of the scum already, the high volune of cases they need to “clear” off their desk and because its just “easier” that way. The problem won’t be going away anytime soon because they don’t treat the root cause of what creates ferals in the first place - fatherless homes, a lack of discipline, morals, goals, respect / recerance and self-reliance, irresponsibility, non-accountanility, and bad role models to follow. Forget the socio-economics they always espouse; that being poor caused it. It has absolutely nothing to do with it. You can go into the poorest countries and find good, honest, hardworking people full of integrity. The parents create who the child becomes; not the state.
Punishing them (rightfully without treating the root cause of the problem is like using a hammer to knock yourself out to get rid of the pain of a toothache. Money will not fix it. Letting parents punish their children and having the rest of the village shame them and their parents (holding their feet to the fire) worked in centuries past and it will work now.
> When I read the police logs, urban crimes commited by felons with unregistered guns in Connecticut, we see the charges plea-bargained away. Feels like the film groundhog day. The term assault rifle is also troubling. We need to keep calling/writing our reps.
The reason they plea bargain them away is because the jails are too full of the scum already, the high volune of cases they need to “clear” off their desk and because its just “easier” that way. The problem won’t be going away anytime soon because they don’t treat the root cause of what creates ferals in the first place - fatherless homes, a lack of discipline, morals, goals, respect / recerance and self-reliance, irresponsibility, non-accountanility, and bad role models to follow. Forget the socio-economics they always espouse; that being poor caused it. It has absolutely nothing to do with it. You can go into the poorest countries and find good, honest, hardworking people full of integrity. The parents create who the child becomes; not the state.
Punishing them (rightfully so) without treating the root cause of the problem is like using a hammer to knock yourself out to get rid of the pain of a toothache. Money will not fix it. Letting parents punish their children and having the rest of the village shame them and their parents (holding their feet to the fire) worked in centuries past and it will work now.
Depending on the neighborhood where one chooses to live, US crime isn't all that high to begin with. With the exception of a readily identifiable group of special people who it is too Politically Incorrect "to have frank conversations about", violent crime isn't all that high in the US.
If we exclude the half of all US homicides that Holder's People commit, the US has a homicide rate similar to Norway. Which hasn't been considered a particularly violent place since about the 12th Century.
"More Guns=Less Crime" and there is still room for improvement!
Source -->Pew: "Why Own a Gun?"
This is a great time for them to do "something" even though they know it doesn't have a chance of passing now, just so they can tell the party base "we tried, but those mean old Repubs foiled us again".
Why is an article from two years ago being posted now?
It’s a little late to hold the 113th congress’ feet to the fire.
I'm going to try that argument on mt wife to see if she'll let me get the new Savage A17.
"But honey, don't you want to help me reduce crime?"
Just say it.
Violent crime is worst in black neighborhoods, and least in white neighborhoods. The 'black community' needs to clean up its act.
No where to be found yet.Ammo is really pricey. BTW,Don’t ask the wife, “ Just Do It”
I'll say it!
My question involves why a media that can go on for years embellishing Iraq War Stories that never happened can't bring themselves to say it. If we can't even talk about the problem, we will never, ever fix the problem.
(The stranger part of this is that the group that claims to represent the victims is also the group that represents a “nation of cowards” to the greatest extent and least wants "to have frank conversations about racial matters".)
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