President Obama says gun control is now a “central issue” of his second term. He rightfully went beyond the 20 first-graders massacred in Newtown, Conn., and spoke about police officers, women, and children shot in everyday violence in America. He said it was a level of violence “we cannot accept as routine.”
But the response of many House Republicans was all too routine, indicating they will remain central figures against gun control. A spokesman for Alaska’s Don Young said the congressman “will not support an assault weapons ban.” Jim Jordan of Ohio said in a statement, “Passing more restrictions on law-abiding citizens will not deter this type of crime.” Louie Gohmert of Texas said he wished to God that the principal of Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown “had an M-4 in her office.”
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The President has been too late to the party. He should be ashamed at his lack of leadership on this issue.
To Mr. Gohmert: I know quite a few teachers, although I am not one myself. I can't picture any of them engaging in a gun fight. Think for a moment of the teachers you knew in elementary school - very few of them would ever want to own a gun let alone use it. Mr. Gohmert should have his testosterone levels checked.
The one place with the highest concentration of people who have minds that work like Adam Lanza is the public schools. They're filled with troubled kids. Not a great place to have a bunch of guns.
I hear nothing from those opposed to "gun control" except nonsense. I've heard nothing but political hyperbole and paranoid insanity. The "blue helmets" are coming, the "black helicopters" are coming, "I have to be able to fight the armed forces of the US if the govt. does something I don't like", "there's fluroide in the water", oh wait, that was the 50's. But I heard that nonsense then and I hear it now and it is basically pathetic.
You wanna play with assault weapons, you wanna shoot at people, join the army, go to war, I did, you won't like it. But for the love of God and I assume most of these gun nuts are religious, let us do what we can do to prevent these types of killings. You'll never prevent them all, but we can at least try to minimize the damage. We can at least apply some common sense to what folks need. You don't need a hundred rounds to kill a deer nor ten. If you can't hit a target by let us say 5, (I'm being generous), give it up. Take up another sport.
Good column. You can have a pistol for home protection, although you're more likely to shoot yourself or a family member rather than an intruder. You can have a rifle for hunting. Why have a large arsenal of weapons that can wind up in the wrong hands? Other countries certainly have learned that lesson with good result. The gun nuts do not wish to be confused by the facts.
Pelosi, Reid and Obama should be ashamed
Seriously "be", ashamed of what? Failure to pass legislation. I'm curious as to what they should be ashamed of that the Republican's or the American public shouldn't be ashamed of.
“Perhaps you’re familiar with the 60-vote rule in the Senate," Pelosi told me. "Our members are very courageous. They’ll walk the plank on any tough vote. But I don’t want them to walk the plank on something that’s not going to become the law.”
“This is a very high priority for us," Pelosi continued. "But because of what is—money. Let’s face it. Big money out there on the side of those would be opposed to gun safety.”
“The fact is if there was no prospect of success, we wanted the members to be here to continue to make the fight, so that when there was
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