Posted on 03/25/2018 11:43:09 AM PDT by Simon Green
Sen. Mark Warner, D-Virginia, says that now is the time for he and his colleagues on Capitol Hill to "change our positions and re-examine" bans on high-capacity magazines and assault weapons. He told CBS News' "Face the Nation" on Sunday that there needs to be a debate about restrictions in the wake of the Parkland school shooting.
"I think it's time for us to have a legitimate debate about restrictions on gun magazines and assault weapons. You get into definitions, but the basic notion of these weaponized, militarized weapons need to be off our streets. And even the Trump administration took some small step this weekend on bump stocks. So I think it's time. And I hope these kids continue to press," said Warner.
Warner has voted against bans of high-profile assault weapons and high-capacity magazines in the past, and he supported efforts to protect gun owner privacy and grant rights to carry concealed weapons across state lines. He has however, supported the Fix NICS background check bill which was included in the sweeping $1.3 trillion spending bill the president signed into law late last week.
Warner applauded student activists across the country, including those who marched in Washington, D.C., at the March for Our Lives rally on Saturday. The march drew an estimated 200,000 people to the Washington rally. Warner said after hearing students call for gun reforms, "This time it's going to be different."
"There was finally some incremental movement. But in this era of fake news and disinformation to see the genuineness of all those young people, I think this time it's going to be different," he said. "I think their demand for sensible gun control, I think we can actually get it done. And I just hope they will keep that energy alive and moving forward."
He added, "It was democracy in action, not just in Washington but all across the country yesterday."
Warner noted that the students' next planned walkout in April is "appropriate" but said registering to vote and participating in the upcoming elections is "the way you change democracy."
Suzy soccer mom in her minivan doesn't give a s**t about the pedantic definitions of assault weapons, military arms, civilian sporting rifles, magazines, clips, and the rest of all this minutia.
"Does it look like an army gun?" she'll ask. "Then ban it."
Warner’s a Demonicrat and thus a traitor. He lies like normal people breathe.
“I read that the shooter used 20 round magazines because the bigger ones wouldn’t fit in his duffle.”
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When you’re a gunman in a “gun free zone”....you have
all the time in the world to change magazines.
Marko
“It was democracy in action, not just in Washington but all across the country yesterday.”
Being a stupid horse-toothed carpetbagger i dont think he quite understands what this means.
I am trying to remember an old quote about “Congress is in session, and no man’s property is safe!”
Found it.
“no man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the Legislature is in session.”
— Gideon J. Tucker, Final Accounting in the Estate of A.B. (1866)
There should have been hundreds of thousands of gun owners in the streets yesterday carrying signs and gettin in people's faces. There were a few but not enough. I wasn't there. I should've been. We all should've been.
Are gun owners going to put up a fight in the face of losing their jobs, their savings accounts, their homes, having their kids taken away from them? Losing their freedom? Losing their lives?
I know we all think we're going to turn into a bunch of William Wallaces screaming "Freedom!" but we couldn't even attend a rally yesterday as Tide pod-eating teens bellowed that they're coming for our guns while the media cheered them on.
The whole thing is depressing. We'd better get serious.
... these stupid, idiotized stupid stupidnesses.
Why are these racists only crawling out of the woodwork after a bunch of WHITE kids were gunned down? It’s not like there haven’t been plenty of young minority victims of gun violence over the years.
Gun owners don’t demonstrate. They reload.
Red Dawn is a cult classic. It may be dated and cheesy but there are some very important lessons to be learned. The analogy is a good one. Removing 2A or at least making it useless is akin to an invasion by the enemy who swoop on in as we have zero chance to repel it. The greatest threat to America since 1945 has always been the Leftist no matter what “ism” it spawns.
The enemy that “swoops in” will be a domestic one. The make-up of that domestic enemy i’ll leave to your imagination.
Hey moron, do you know what an assault weapon is? 4 airplanes on 9/11 was...A truck mowing down kids in New York is, those bombs in Austin is...North Korea bombs are...
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