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By Karoun Demirjian (contact) 
Friday, Dec. 28, 2012 | 2 a.m.
Washington — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is a gun man, always has been. And although the Nevada native has welcomed the call by President Barack Obama to respond to the Newtown, Conn., massacre with action, Reid has yet to endorse — or even utter the phrase — “gun control.” Obama expects Reid to get the gun control legislation he’ll announce in January through Congress. Polls show a majority of Americans want Congress to act to regulate firearms after the Dec. 14 killings of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School. But before Reid can whip up votes on ...
You never know what Reid believes
Doing Obama's bidding is what he will be remembered for
Obama is taking his gun controls cues from CNNs Piers Morgan who was kicked out England for their perverse interpretation of the 2nd Amendment
Why is it that Liberals never ever want to hold the deranged killer responsibility. Why is it Liberals refuse to address mental illness. Why is it Liberals refuse to address the cultural environment of violence.
Killers will murder even if guns and clips are scarce but Liberal think that more gun control is the panacea of stopping murders.
The scam of Senate Diane Feinstein's bill is the exemption for all the guns and clip already in circulation in America and it exempt buying over 900 named guns restricting only 100 guns
*coughs*
"Deadly assault weapons have no place in Massachusetts. These guns are not made for recreation or self-defense. They are instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people."
--Gov Mitt Romney(After signing a permanent ban on assault rifles, 2004)
Markey what does that statement from Romney have to do with this article. Wake up its 2013, almost, stop living in the past and using a statement a person made that is not in politics. "cough"
Markey like most Libs has his states confused...I don't remember a mass shooting occurring in Massachusetts recently....hmm..might he be a hater of Romney?...and as for your cough...seek medical help...
Dirty Harry needs to retire and take is gun(s) out for a pity party.
Nobody with a brain changes their policy based on an aberration.
Of course, I said "nobody with a brain." Democrats are jumping all over the Newtown tragedy to take away our guns, and the media is joining them in working to take away our guns.
As for Harry. Total embarrassment.
Without the Second Amendment fully in tact, the First Amendment will be on life support. Connecticut State Troopers are already warning social networks and the lowlifes in the media of Federal laws about spreading false information whether it's believed to be true or not. These massacres are about psychopaths on drugs and everyone knows it.
"Markey what does that statement from Romney have to do with this article."
"Markey like most Libs has his states confused..."
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I m retired Military AND a reality based gun owner, and i say pare-military firearms do not belong in the hands of civilians. Period.
New restrictions are coming, because the typical gun nut "talking points" ranting i m hearing and seeing in print are excellent "ammo" to be used against them in debates, just like in the healthcare debates this year.
Example:
Raise the requirement to own para-military firearms(and large magazines) to a class 3 FFL like level, and put extra taxes on guns and ammo to help cover the costs(legal and medical) that America s gun culture inflicts on American society.
Now just take the answer that a gun owning wingnut will give to my arguement above and print it, Boom baby yeah..
"Nobody with a brain changes their policy based on an aberration."
lovinglife -- amen to that statement. Essentially this debate is giving power to what violent criminals do when they go berserk. Add into the mix the current media feeding frenzy over the issue, seems to the point every time anyone without a badge pulls a trigger it's all over the news. Essentially that's the wolves dictating to the sheep how it's going to be.
"Without the Second Amendment fully in tact [sic], the First Amendment will be on life support."
Warrior --good post. As the U.S. Supreme's Heller decision explained one of that Amendment's purposes, it keeps tyrants at bay. Eroding the liberties of those who responsibly exercise them has never been the solution. Yet what else can you expect from the men of a nation who allows their little girls to be fondled and their elderly mothers forced to remove their diapers for inspection, all in the name of the TSA keeping us "safe"??
"...government security is just another kind of violence." -- Rep. Ron Paul @ http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2012/dec...
Markey, the only "gun nuts" are those miguided folks who own firearms but would emasculate the 2nd Amendment. You apparently don't recall why the British marched to Lexington Commons in 1775 and why American Patriots were there to stop them.
"A majority of Americans support banning the sale of military-style assault weapons"
FALSE: Read the latest Gallup:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/159569/americ...
They support background checks on buying guns at gun shows, and limits on high capacity magazines, but DO NOT support a ban on "assault rifles" or handguns.
With any luck he'll not be re elected. He is a total embarrassment to the people of Nevada...
Remember the mantra of the Obama administration:
"Never let a good crisis go to waste"....
They're setting up a program that will seize guns from Americans and turn us into a toady European country.
Have a longer waiting period, a bigger fee and a batter background check for ARs AKs etc. Use the money for school security. Reid is an expert at splitting the difference.
"Remember the mantra of the Obama administration: "Never let a good crisis go to waste"....
tallison -- it's not just Obama, and it's nothing new. See below.
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." -- H.L. Mencken
Well, Reid will do whatever he's told to do by his boss.
Also, the militia issue has been settled twice recently by the SCOTUS. For those of you not paying attention this means its an individual right not a group right. The founders felt that this was so important that they enshrined it in the Constitution to make it very difficult to change and basically hysteria proof.
Very good advice here on the gun show. Enjoy yourself. Obey the law. If unsure about the law ask a show employee. Report to the authorities, anyone offering you any illegal object or transaction.
Ignore any protestors. They are there for the attention. If you engage or acknowledge them, they win.
The gun fetishists need to get real. No need for high capacity magazines and the gun show loophole.
Awesome! Arizona County Sheriff Joe Arpaio plans to deploy an armed volunteer posse to protect Phoenix-area students! I also heard there is a plan that will deal with the high unemployment rate of soldiers that are coming back from war. The plan is to hire all of them to secure the schools! They all have experience of fierce fighting, hand to hand combat, putting outposts around schools, setting tripwires, fortifying bunkers, plus a whole lot of other combat skills! The know about wearing bullet proof vests, helmets, carrying explosives on them, several weapons, gas masks and knives! We have our warriors to protect our schools".they are coming home every day from the war. And as far as covering the cost, well, if we trim a little bit from social security benefits, Medicare, Medicaid and heating assistance, we should be able to pay these warriors to save our children! NO more unemployed veterans and NO more violence in the schools"the best of both worlds!
"You apparently don't recall why the British marched to Lexington Commons in 1775"
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Sarah Palin said the Brits were a walkin there to take their muskets. So the Lexingtoners meet the Redcoats on the road and screamed; "You can take my musket from my dead hands!" and then they started blastin, you betcha..
"Ignore any protestors. They are there for the attention. If you engage or acknowledge them, they win."
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You re that scared of anti-gun protestors? Why? They don t have guns, they are basically un-armed.
Well maybe a taser or some pepper gas, but that s nothing serious for real gun folk i assume..
Mr. Markey: You said earlier that you are retired military. Please pray, what branch? I spent 20 years in the USMC. Did you bear arms in combat? I did. I also had ancestors at Lexington and the Concord Bridge.
Guns do not kill people; people kill people.
The rush to ban guns does not address the root cause issue...
We need to assess our mental health capacity in the US. We have way too many psychologists and psychiatrists who are not doing a good job.
The shooter in Colorado Movie Massacre even wrote a letter to his pschologist a couple of weeks in advance. The psychologist failed her job.
The person in Conneticutt had aspbergers - again a mental health condition. He was going to be committed by his mother and went bizerk.
We need faster responses from the mental health psychologists and psychologists to keep the public safe.
but with the rush to judgment by the radical left, they are only addressing guns. They fail to address the root cause.
Guns do not kill people.
People kill people. we need to understand why they do that.
yes, some guns may need to be limited in sales; but even in Conneticutt they had very harsh gun control laws on the books already. Conneticutt still saw this insane murder.
and when we have a President Obama who ships guns to Mexican drug lords - we will arm the illegal criminals, but we will not protect those who need protection. Makes no sense.
Shame on this idiotic writer who does not look beyond the latest fad to trash the wrong thing.
I have a CCW, I retired from the US Army after serving 24 years, including multiple combat deployments. My weapon goes with me everywhere it is legal to carry. DO I feel like assualt style weapons are needed by the average person, no. Do I believe that we need to look at regulating weapons a bit more stringently, yes. You can take your average Glock with a 10 rd magazine and reload a number of times quickly, and fire as quickly as you can pull the trigeger, so banning large capactiy magazines aren't the best answer to the problem. When I'm at home I store my weapon in a biometric gun safe so my children can't access it. I obtained a CCW to protect my family and myself, not to engage an active shooter. If my family is safe I have the training to do so, however you run the risk of being mistaken for the suspect when law enforcement arrives. I believe most CCW holders feel the same way, they got the permit for themselves, not to try and save the world. If its possible and you are trained, then maybe under the right circumstances you might engage an active shooter, but you had better be careful if you make that chice. If this meakes me a "gun nut" so be it.