Virginia Tech Aftermath: Gun Control Twit Introduces First Bit Of Reactionary Legislation

• April 18, 2007

It’s called the Anti-Large Capacity Ammunition Feeding Device Act of 2007, and it’s being introduced by Rep. Carolyn McCarthy despite a lack of any evidence suggesting that the shooter, Cho, actually used a large capacity clip or anything like that (and even evidence to suggest that he didn’t use any such thing).
But hey, these grab-the-guns busybodies are nothing if not opportunists. School shootings and the like are what they live for. Without them, these legislators wouldn’t be able to gin up the level of self-righteous indignation it takes to introduce these laws as though they should actually be taken seriously.
They need the violence in order to justify their infringements upon our rights. I’m not saying they like it, just that they aren’t opposed to using it as so many political poker chips.
And speaking of small-minded, liberal opportunists here’s Keith Olbermann tacitly blaming the Virginia Tech massacre on Bush/Republicans:

Of course, Olbermann is completely wrong. High-capacity magazines were never a part of the assault weapons ban. Not that someone like Olbermann is about to let a little bit of fact get in the way of some primo Bush bashing.
Don’t expect a correction.

Tags: Guns, Politics

http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

No guns in Japan, they even confiscate air guns, some pocket knives, swords, prescription drugs, etc.

Yes! And they’ll enter your house to search for them without a warrant any time they choose! How many of the first ten amendments to the Constitution are you willing to repeal to emulate Japan?
http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

BTW: Keith Olbermann is a boil on the butt of the MSM. (Nasty comment to follow!)
http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

Great point Dan.
http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

Among the chilling statistics:

from a dubious source:

the Brady Centre To Prevent Gun Violence. “Every day there’s about 80 people killed in America with guns

First, they didn’t cite any source for their statisitic. Second, the Brady Bunch has a bad habit of lumping together justifiable homicides, police shootings, and gang and drug related shootings as if they would all go away with the wave of a gun control law.
Brad Millar

And a hundred more died from gunshots yesterday … and a hundred more today, tomorrow … … I make no judgement. I don’t know any answer and I suspect no-one else does either.
http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

I am calling the NRA tomorrow to update my membership.

In California, we had an anti-gun politician named David Roberti. I was not really concerned about gun rights when I was in my 20′s, but everytime David Roberti would propose banning all handguns in Ca, I would join the NRA for a year. I’d let it lapse and along came Roberti with another hairbrained sceme and I’d join again. Finally (living in California) it just became cheaper to become a Life Member.
Thanks, Mr. Roberti!
http://rfraley301.blogspot.com/ Roger Fraley

Good thinking here and in your 180 reassessment. I have to nit-pick about the high capacity clip thing. The higher than 10 rounds clip ban started (and ende with the ‘assault weapon’ 10 year ban; so I have to think it was related, indeed, in the same bill. If the shooter used a Glock 17 or 19 (which is very likely) he had clips of 17 and 15 respectively. Like it matters. Keep up the good work,
http://ndgoon.blogspot.com/ goon

I am calling the NRA tomorrow to update my membership.
The left is just waiting for an opportunity to jump on the gun confiscation bandwagon.

Notice the first thing they say after they are sorry is there ought to be a law, or we have to make fire arms illegal.
http://www.willisms.com/ Zsa Zsa

Neither predictable nor preventable??? Wake up! You don’t have to be Nostadamous to predict another mass murdering freak will do it again if possible…Harry Reid is showing what an idiot he is again!
http://www.willisms.com/ Zsa Zsa

We need to learn from history and our mistakes. This is stupid and insensitive to even entertain the idea of confiscating guns at this time especially! Those kids that were murdered and wounded HAD the RIGHT to be protected and or to protect themselves. The school should have protected those kids since they were not allowed to protect themselves! It seems the school should be liable for the students protection???
Mark D

No guns in Japan, they even confiscate air guns, some pocket knives, swords, prescription drugs, etc.
Is it safe? What is their crime rate?
No one can say for sure that if firearms were allowed on campus that there would have been less fatalities, we can only speculate.
There was a time when if you bumped into a total stranger there would be an exchange of apologies, now there is an exchange of profanities or dirty looks.
Bat One

O’Reilly has been all over this issue of non-reporting since the shooting. According to Fox’s research, there is no federal law that mandates reporting to the FBI. The reporting of felony convictions and some state institutional commitments are mandated, but not this. Apparently some states do report, but that is on their own volition and not because the feds require it.

On the other hand, there is no reason to think that a deranged individual like Cho, would have stopped his intended slaughter simply because the state law would have made it more difficult to obtain the necessary weapons. Only a hopelessly simplistic moron would believe that.
Dan McKee

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/04/20/ap3634679.html

A district judge ruled that Cho, the shooter, was mentally ill before he bought his guns. Thus he was not eligible to purchase firearms under federal law, but state and local authorities (citing lack of funds) don’t send all such rulings to the federal government and instant background check system (as they would have for a conviction). Like pro-gunners have said all along, don’t rush to make new laws, enforce the ones we already have.
Scrapiron

The democrats are a blood thirsty lot. They caused the death of millions in Southeast Asia. They are the direct cause of hundreds of deaths in Iraq and now they start on the Americans. If the gun control nuts had not blocked it there could have been someone on campus with a concealed weapon and they could have saved a dozen or so lives. They just had to have their gun free zone and the result is 32 murdered. That makes them as much a murderer as the terrorists and the nut at VT.
http://ludogo.linda-errol.com/ Brady Bunch fan

I loved the “Brady Bunch” when I saw it on the TV repeats, back in the 1980s. I think the show jumped the shark when the character Cousin Oliver was introduced, though. But it was still a good show, definitely a family favourite.
docdave

All police organizations say that more guns make their job more dangerous.

Not true, many cops support arming civilians

All medical organizations say that more guns mean more gun injuries and death.

Yeah, I’m really interest in my doctors opinion on gun ownership.

More guns don’t make us safer.

Another lie. You just pull this stuff out of your ass because you either have an anti-gun agenda or you have an abnormal fear of guns.
Hawk

All police organizations say that more guns make their job more dangerous. All medical organizations say that more guns mean more gun injuries and death. More guns don’t make us safer.
http://kartikgopalan.blogspot.com/ Kartik Gopalan

I know you guys are all pro gun, but here’s an article you may want to read.

http://www.sundayherald.com/analysis/analysis/display.var.1346571.0.0.php

Among the chilling statistics: 250 people are shot each day, 80 people die each day, and 50 teens die each week from gun violence in the US. If more guns made us safer, we should be the safest nation on earth, while exactly the opposite is true. I for one, shudder at the thought of a college campus, dorm, or classroom, where each kid carries a concealed weapon.
http://www.willisms.com/ Zsa Zsa

Why would anyone want another Freedom taken away???
http://www.willisms.com/ Zsa Zsa

I didn’t spell Nostradomus right. I guess I better look that up? Sorry!
Neiman

cio-cio-san: A few men a lot smarter than you (Founding Fathers) said that possessing and owning guns was a Right, the same as Free Speech, Freedom of Religious Worship, Freedom of the Press and every other basic human right. It places in the hands of people the means to their own self defense against criminals wishing them or their family harm, and that includes our right to defend ourselves against the tyranny of the government. That is why liberals are for gun control, they want to control every aspect of our lives and deny us our basic human rights, our guns tell them that many Americans are willing to resist their tyranny even unto death – their death!

You are free not to have a gun and move where fools permit gun control laws to exist, and when someone comes to kill you or your family, you can try and talk them out of it, I’ll shoot them!
http://www.drug-rehabs.net/ cio-cio-san

There is too much violence in this world. For trying to stop it I think it’s better to begin with our children’s education: not so many warlike toys and movies and PC games…
Chuckie

I decided the other day to do a little research on my own to help figure out what I though about the gun control issue.

I went to the FBI crime statistics site and went through the states and figured out what were the safest states to live in according to their stats, and found both New Hampshire and North Dakota at the bottom of the crime stats lists. I then went to the Brady site and found them both to have D- and D ratings, because they both have almost no gun control.

Take a wild guess at what I think about gun control.
http://www.sayanythingblog.com/ electnixon

I saw somewhere else where european media were talking about how those stupid Republicans let the ‘assault’ weapons ban expire. What a bunch of twits. There was also a BBC article that referred to “quick action shotguns” or some similar leftard term.

How do either of these issues apply to the recent shooting?
http://sayanythingblog.com robport

250 people are shot each day, 80 people die each day, and 50 teens die each week from gun violence in the US.

And how many people die from car accidents each day? About 115 is what I’ve heard.

Maybe we should ban cars too.
WOOFX

Guns effected, but did not cause the killings. They were the means by which an unbalanced, disturbed individual carried out his rage.

If he couldn’t buy a gun, he would have stolen one. Or used explosives, in which case the death toll might have been higher.

This was an isolated event that was neither predictable nor preventable.

Harry Reid

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