Mitch McConnell: “King” Obama out to grab yer guns!
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, who faces re-election in 2014, is doing his part to model the new spirit of moderation and bipartisan compromise that the GOP hopes to demonstrate to voters in the days ahead.
Here’s how he begins a new email message sent out to supporters:
Dear Patriot,
You and I are literally surrounded.
The gun-grabbers in the Senate are about to launch an all-out-assault on the Second Amendment. On your rights.
On your freedom.
Just the other night, President Obama urged them to act. And then he went one step further, spelling out the 23 different Executive Orders he will take to get your guns.
My friend, our freedom is under direct assault.
From those who want take your guns. From those who want to shred our Constitution, and as our good friend Rand Paul from Kentucky says, from those who want to be King.
Let me tell you, Mitch McConnell is ready to lead the fight to protect your rights.
Will you stand with Mitch today? …
Below I’ve included the full list of 23 executive actions issued by the gun-grabbing “King Obama” regarding firearms. I confess to being curious: When McConnell describes these actions as steps that “(Obama) will take to get your guns,” which specific actions does he mean?
Is it the effort to keep identify people who are too crazy to buy guns? Is it the “national safe and responsible gun ownership campaign”? Or the order to trace all weapons recovered in the commission of a crime? The initiative to train first-responders on how to respond to a school shooting?
Every American voter ought to read McConnell’s letter (full text here), read the list of executive actions issued by Obama, and then decide for himself or herself which party represents the sane, rational way forward for the people of this nation.
1.) Issue a Presidential Memorandum to require federal agencies to make relevant data available to the federal background check system.
2.) Address unnecessary legal barriers, particularly relating to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, that may prevent states from making information available to the background check system.
3.) Improve incentives for states to share information with the background check system.
4.) Direct the Attorney General to review categories of individuals prohibited from having a gun to make sure dangerous people are not slipping through the cracks.
5.) Propose rulemaking to give law enforcement the ability to run a full background check on an individual before returning a seized gun.
6.) Publish a letter from ATF to federally licensed gun dealers providing guidance on how to run background checks for private sellers.
7.) Launch a national safe and responsible gun ownership campaign.
8.) Review safety standards for gun locks and gun safes (Consumer Product Safety Commission).
9.) Issue a Presidential Memorandum to require federal law enforcement to trace guns recovered in criminal investigations.
10.) Release a DOJ report analyzing information on lost and stolen guns and make it widely available to law enforcement.
11.) Nominate an ATF director.
12.) Provide law enforcement, first responders, and school officials with proper training for active shooter situations.
13.) Maximize enforcement efforts to prevent gun violence and prosecute gun crime.
14.) Issue a Presidential Memorandum directing the Centers for Disease Control to research the causes and prevention of gun violence.
15.) Direct the Attorney General to issue a report on the availability and most effective use of new gun safety technologies and challenge the private sector to develop innovative technologies.
16.) Clarify that the Affordable Care Act does not prohibit doctors asking their patients about guns in their homes.
17.) Release a letter to health care providers clarifying that no federal law prohibits them from reporting threats of violence to law enforcement authorities.
18.) Provide incentives for schools to hire school resource officers.
19.) Develop model emergency response plans for schools, houses of worship and institutions of higher education.
20.) Release a letter to state health officials clarifying the scope of mental health services that Medicaid plans must cover.
21.) Finalize regulations clarifying essential health benefits and parity requirements within ACA exchanges.
22.) Commit to finalizing mental health parity regulations.
23.) Launch a national dialogue led by Secretaries Sebelius and Duncan on mental health.
– Jay Bookman
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jeffrey d
January 22nd, 2013
12:35 pm
more gun control…that won’t reduce gun violence by any significant measure
1) How could it hurt? And don’t talk about this “They’re tryin ta disarm us!!” crap. If you can’t feel safe without an assault rifle and 3,000 rounds of ammo, then you’ve got a problem.
2) So you’re saying we shouldn’t bother making laws because the bad guys are going to commit crimes anyway?
Doggone/GA
January 22nd, 2013
12:35 pm
“First, gun violence is NOT a disease”
but the mental state of the violent offender COULD be due to a diseased state. If we don’t study it, we’ll never know for sure.
Joe Hussein Mama
January 22nd, 2013
12:35 pm
0311 — “RX or GUNS ?
School Shooting
Prozac WITHDRAWAL”
Oh no. Scouty McScouterson’s been listening to the SCIENTOLOGISTS! (giggling)
LUCIFER
January 22nd, 2013
12:36 pm
Of course this old fart is nuts! I knew that right off the bat when he proclaimed the GOP’s key objective during Obama’s first term was to limit him to one term, thus employing obstructionism to kill every idea Obama had — even though many of those ideas were first hatched by Republicans. The guy reminds me of an old, wrinkled turtle. And his recent gun letter is just another fine example of the Pubs ginning up votes by fear mongering and outright deception. The people of Kentucky should recognize that his old man should be put out to pasture and send him packing in 2014!
getalife
January 22nd, 2013
12:36 pm
The cons try to make everything political.
joe
January 22nd, 2013
12:36 pm
Say what you want, but here are a few facts: Obama is redistributing wealth. Obama is causing small businesses to lay off employees to get under 50 to avoid obamacare regulations. Obama is raising taxes on just about everyone except the very poor. Obama continues to spend more than any other US president with no end in sight. Obama will leave office with a national debt over 20 trillion, leaving your kids that heavy burden.
Adam
January 22nd, 2013
12:37 pm
USinUK: Thulsa’s answer when someone followed down his rabbit hole: Not very good. So far I read “perhaps”, “might”, and “could have” 5 times. Try again.
Can I call em or what?
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vinny
January 22nd, 2013
12:37 pm
obama is a pathological liar and therefore cannot be trusted.
Have you gone out and try to buy a 9mm Glock or a 15rd magazine? Everyone is sold out because American’s are smart enough not to trust the lying s.o.b. barack hussein obama.
getalife
January 22nd, 2013
12:37 pm
joe,
Lie much liar?
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
January 22nd, 2013
12:38 pm
Oppressed Suth’ner: LOL !!
getalife: Guns !
Adam
January 22nd, 2013
12:38 pm
joe: Obama is causing small businesses to lay off employees to get under 50 to avoid obamacare regulations.
Show evidence of this actually happening please. As opposed to threats made by CEOs on public airwaves that they later cave on.
Thulsa Doom
January 22nd, 2013
12:38 pm
“As someone posted in another thread, if your first reaction to the news of the Newtown shootings was to rush out and buy a gun and worry about the government taking your guns, then perhaps you need a morality check!”
Fallacious thinking. Buying a gun has nothing to do morally with an event such as Newtown. Questioning someone’s morals for doing so is ridiculous.
“We are Americans. We can do better….and “talking about” it is NOT the gateway to “Kenyan socialist, brown shirtted, Nazi loving, freedom hating Commies” coming for your guns….”
Sorry but that’s just a bunch of liberal gobbledeegook and rhetoric.
DannyX
January 22nd, 2013
12:38 pm
td, earlier you wouldn’t even read a link to Republican Joe Scarborough’s comments claiming some weird liberal conspiracy. Now you want “progressives” to watch your Hannity video? Weird.
RB from Gwinnett
January 22nd, 2013
12:39 pm
Adam, from below, do you actually think there are managers out there thinking “well, I was going to pay Sally less than Steve because she’s a she, but because Sally can now sue me further back in time, I think I’ll pay her the same”?
Unless you believe there are actually people making their pay decisions that way, then the bill did NOTHING to help women achieve equal pay. But as usual, you liberals are all about feel good legislation that does nothing for any real world problems, but it gives you that tingling feeling up your leg as if you’ve actually done something.
Kinda like all of Obama’s gun grab garbage that won’t do anything to prevent the crimes he claims show the need for them. Just another feel good waste of time.
USinUK - just grateful not to be snowbound
January 22nd, 2013
12:39 pm
“USinUK: Thulsa’s answer when someone followed down his rabbit hole: Not very good. So far I read “perhaps”, “might”, and “could have” 5 times. Try again.”
considering the question was if any of them COULD HAVE prevented Newtown … oy.
getalife
January 22nd, 2013
12:39 pm
vinny,
ODS much kook?
Oppressed Suth'ner
January 22nd, 2013
12:39 pm
Doctor: “Well Sally, I see here that you have been troubled by occasional depression, and have used anti-depressants. Let’s see: no indications of violent behavior towards anyone, nominated for parent of the year at your child’s school, very active in community social activities.
I’m required to report you to the Federal Government. They will be sending an agent to your home to collect your firearms immediately.
Have a nice day. BTW, that’ll be $1,000. Just pay the receptionist on the way out.”
Joe Hussein Mama
January 22nd, 2013
12:39 pm
C. Frog — “Second, the CDC is BLATANTLY liberal, not even remotely objective.”
(laughing) Your proof, please.
Adam
January 22nd, 2013
12:40 pm
Obama is raising taxes on just about everyone except the very poor.
Cite
Obama continues to spend more than any other US president with no end in sight.
Cite
getalife
January 22nd, 2013
12:40 pm
“getalife: Guns !”
Me too.
Mr Right
January 22nd, 2013
12:40 pm
USinUK – just grateful not to be snowbound
January 22nd, 2013
12:22 pm
“Justice Scalia, the most conserevative justice to ever sit on the Supreme Court, says that you do have a constitutional right to own a handgun to protect your home and family and you do have a constitutional right to own a rifle or shotgun to hunt. However, he says, you do NOT have a constitutional right to own an assault weapon”
Ever notice how conservatives are the stupidest people ever till they say something Libs agree with, suddenly what they say is gospel? LOL
PlainTtruth
January 22nd, 2013
12:41 pm
55 MILLION CHILDRED HAVE BEEN ABORTED…WHERE IS THE JUSTICE THERE! OBAMA IS THE MOST RADICAL PRESIDENT IN HISTORY AND HE AND DEMOCRATS WILL HAVE TO ANSWER ONE DAY FOR THESE MURDERS!
Morality?
January 22nd, 2013
12:41 pm
After years and billions of dollars spent on gub’ment created jobs for research : Conclusion Adam is a disease.
Corbin Sharpe. I think, therefore I am...I think.
January 22nd, 2013
12:41 pm
td
January 22nd, 2013
12:31 pm
Never said the NRA opposed background checks. I just said Scouts post was a good argument for mental health checks too. I really don’t give a fig what the NRA thinks or doesn’t think,
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
January 22nd, 2013
12:41 pm
It all boils down to culture:
ILLINOIS VS. VERMONT
Illinois (most restrictive gun laws and probably most dangerous state).
Vermont (least restrictive gun laws and probably least dangerous state).
Joe Hussein Mama
January 22nd, 2013
12:42 pm
P. Truth — “HE AND DEMOCRATS WILL HAVE TO ANSWER ONE DAY FOR THESE MURDERS!”
Google “ex post facto” law. Then go take a hike, pal.
USinUK - just grateful not to be snowbound
January 22nd, 2013
12:42 pm
Oppressed – 12:39 – considering your side of the aisle constantly says that the mass murders are the result of people with mental illness, so no gun control is needed, just dealing with imbalanced people, what’s your problem with that?
Thulsa Doom
January 22nd, 2013
12:42 pm
Scout at 12:22 delivering a big
B
O
O
M
!
Adam
January 22nd, 2013
12:43 pm
RB: Adam, from below, do you actually think there are managers out there thinking “well, I was going to pay Sally less than Steve because she’s a she, but because Sally can now sue me further back in time, I think I’ll pay her the same”?
Yeah.
Hell, managers think crazy sh*t all the time. Just look in the mirror.
Hairless Reid
January 22nd, 2013
12:43 pm
Guns are to protect us from the federal government!
USinUK - just grateful not to be snowbound
January 22nd, 2013
12:43 pm
“ILLINOIS VS. VERMONT
Illinois (most restrictive gun laws and probably most dangerous state).
Vermont (least restrictive gun laws and probably least dangerous state).”
name me one city in Vermont that is on par with Chicago.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
January 22nd, 2013
12:43 pm
Mr. Right:
Scalia gets a lot of things right but he’s wrong on this one.
Plus, he gets one vote on the court.
getalife
January 22nd, 2013
12:44 pm
If you cons are scared about mental health checks, you might want to write sane comments dealing with reality and facts.
They can use your comments to prove you are too crazy to own guns.
Just sayin.
Doggone/GA
January 22nd, 2013
12:44 pm
“He’s Kenyan born and raised ”
got proof?
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
January 22nd, 2013
12:44 pm
He’s Kenyan born and raised and we are stuck with him for four more years.
Annnnndddd after I stopped laughing, I stopped reading. However I DID get a good laugh off of that one. That Kenya born thingie NEVAH gets old!
Jefferson
January 22nd, 2013
12:45 pm
Spend money of guns and bullets and neglect dental care…. is that the model Mac wants ?
Morality?
January 22nd, 2013
12:45 pm
PLEASE do not ask ADAM to prove anything – especially what ADAM makes up.
F. Sinkwich
January 22nd, 2013
12:45 pm
Thanks for the video, td. Informative.
Plus Jessie hot. Would love to watch her perform, er, compete.
GT
January 22nd, 2013
12:46 pm
The country gives far too much gravity to backseat driving. How does the state of Kentucky get one point on the Richter scale of politics? We, as showed in Deliverance, written by local writer James Dickey, have breeding grounds for the mentally challenged, in this country yet our most articulate rightwing representative come from these thinly populated, incestual, geographies And if that is not enough they now have mobile reconfiguration of congressional districts like butterfly nets to capture the purest of the weak minded.
Adam
January 22nd, 2013
12:46 pm
PLEASE do not ask ADAM to prove anything – especially what ADAM makes up.
PLEEEEASE dont’ throw me in the briar patch!
getalife
January 22nd, 2013
12:46 pm
Actually scalia is right but doubt they will ban AR’s because of politics.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
January 22nd, 2013
12:46 pm
USinUK:
Exactly ! It’s culture.
Doggone/GA
January 22nd, 2013
12:46 pm
“Say what you want, but here are a few facts”
Sorry, bud. Lies don’t become facts just because you’re dumb enough to believe them
ClydeFr0g
January 22nd, 2013
12:46 pm
Adam and USinUK;
Obviously you didn’t see my previous post about the correlation between violent crime and ice cream sales. That’s scientific as well and based on sound data. I’m an analytics professional and I know very well that there are three kinds of lies; lies, damn lies, and statistics.
So burglary, rape, and auto theft are diseases? REALLY? Tell me Adam and USinUK, is everything bad in the world a “disease”?
Oh well, I’m done with the pointless bickering with militant liberals for the day. Good luck with that rational “discussion” about guns!
TiredOfIt
January 22nd, 2013
12:46 pm
Mitch is an AINO ( American in name only)
Thulsa Doom
January 22nd, 2013
12:47 pm
Rwanda 1996- 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus are slaughtered with the weapon of choice mostly being hoes and machetes. Going by liberal logic they should then ban hoes and machetes in a subsistence agrarian country. Even in a 3rd world country like Rwanda the people realize it wasn’t the hoes and machetes that killed them. It was the hands that wielded them. Moral of the story? 3rd world people get it. American liberals don’t.
breckenridge
January 22nd, 2013
12:47 pm
Plain Truth all this blah blah whining about abortion is nothing but fiscal liberalism at its purest. If you did away with abortion you would see an immediate deluge of requests for welfare, Medicaid, food stamps, etc. That is NOT, in any way shape or form, fiscal conservatism.
And what the Bible says about life starting at them moment of conception, or anything the Bible says about anything, is completely irrelevant to US law.
“Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.” Thomas Jefferson, 1814.
Doggone/GA
January 22nd, 2013
12:48 pm
“Everyone is sold out because American’s are smart enough not to trust the lying s.o.b. barack hussein obama.”
Everyone is sold out because some Americans are dumb enough to believe the lies about President Obama
Adam
January 22nd, 2013
12:48 pm
ClydeFr0g: Oh well, I’m done with the pointless bickering with militant liberals for the day.
Mission ACCOMPLISHED
Don’t let the Canadian border hit you on your way out.
cramer
January 22nd, 2013
12:48 pm
Anyone else think that Michelle looks like Tina Turner in her new do? Let’s hope Barack doesn’t go all “Ike” on her.
Seriously Folks
January 22nd, 2013
12:48 pm
And there confirms my suspicion about your posts, Thusula. Next time, instead of saying, “how could any of these prevented” you need to clarify and say, “list things that could have prevented this, but know that I will take the chance to say, “Ha! you said, might, may have, but nothing to fit into my tiny insulated closed mind”…that would have been better. Because to have an honest debate on an event that ALREADY happened, you need to have an open mind. Not the mentality of heads I win, tails you lose…..
I mean, did the government do this with Benghazi? With the Iraq invasion and lack of WMD’s? With 9-11? We looked at what COULD have been done different, and tried to take measures to ensure it doesnt happen again.
td
January 22nd, 2013
12:49 pm
DannyX
January 22nd, 2013
12:38 pm
td, earlier you wouldn’t even read a link to Republican Joe Scarborough’s comments claiming some weird liberal conspiracy. Now you want “progressives” to watch your Hannity video? Weird
I was asked if I had seen what he said and I said no. I read the link once you posted it and responded to it on the previous blog. Joe did not even try to explain how people in Congressional districts voted to put Obama in office while at the same time put their Republican Congressman back in office (See Paul Ryan’s district for just 1 of many examples). This proves that those voters knew exactly what they were doing and it was to not allow the Obama agenda to get passed.
Morality?
January 22nd, 2013
12:49 pm
“Obama is Kenyan born and raised”…….. you are at least partly wrong – raised in Hawaii.. Not sure about the other part as to date no birth certificate has been provided by either side.
Thulsa Doom
January 22nd, 2013
12:49 pm
“So burglary, rape, and auto theft are diseases? REALLY? Tell me Adam and USinUK, is everything bad in the world a “disease”?”
To be fair they have emphatically proven that liberalism is a mental disease.
Adam
January 22nd, 2013
12:50 pm
I mean, did the government do this with Benghazi? With the Iraq invasion and lack of WMD’s? With 9-11?
With Meth labs (Sudafed restrictions)? With Federal building bombings (Fertilizer restrictions)?
Doggone/GA
January 22nd, 2013
12:50 pm
“55 MILLION CHILDRED HAVE BEEN ABORTED”
You can’t abort a child
Seriously Folks
January 22nd, 2013
12:50 pm
Enter your comments here
USinUK - just grateful not to be snowbound
January 22nd, 2013
12:50 pm
“Exactly ! It’s culture.”
it’s urban vs. rural
Adam
January 22nd, 2013
12:51 pm
Thulsa: To be fair they have emphatically proven that liberalism is a mental disease.
And that is what makes the door open for me to claim anything as a disease. See how this works?
USinUK - just grateful not to be snowbound
January 22nd, 2013
12:51 pm
“Obviously you didn’t see my previous post about the correlation between violent crime and ice cream sales.”
yep.
another numpty who doesn’t understand the difference between cause and correlation.
Oscar
January 22nd, 2013
12:52 pm
doom – to pick just one. No 12 would have reduced the harm, particularily if a teacher had a gun as a result of the implementation of numer 12, and probably even if not.
Welcome to the Occupation
January 22nd, 2013
12:52 pm
getalife: “The cons try to make everything political.”
Meanwhile the liberals bend over backwards trying to find spaces not infected by the political.
The result, it’s quite a “vicious circle” you might say.
td
January 22nd, 2013
12:53 pm
Still waiting on any of you progressives to watch the link I provided and then come on and let us know the definition of assault weapons? Which one of these guns is most lethal and which is least?
Oppressed Suth'ner
January 22nd, 2013
12:53 pm
“considering your side of the aisle constantly says that the mass murders are the result of people with mental illness, so no gun control is needed, just dealing with imbalanced people, what’s your problem with that?”
That’s exactly the problem. Anyone who is or has ever experienced and been treated for something as minor as depression (experienced by millions of people) is “mentally ill”? Well, they can certainly use that excuse to take away guns from a lot of folks.
Morality?
January 22nd, 2013
12:54 pm
“Some Americans are dumb enough to believe the lies about Obama.” His voters believe the lies coming from Obama’s mouth and the Repubs believe the lies coming from their mouths. Which lies do YOU believe?
Plain Truth
January 22nd, 2013
12:54 pm
Just as the Nazi’s thought that Jews were less than human and disposable…the Democrats think unborn babies are less than human and disposable! They all will stand before God one day and explain these murders!
Welcome to the Occupation
January 22nd, 2013
12:55 pm
Hey conservatives, looks like capitalism’s really sucking wind, struggling mightily just to cut the mustard in delivering wide-spread prosperity for the world’s peoples.
What’s wrong with your system, why is it struggling so?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21136667
World jobless numbers rise, says UN labour agency
The number of jobless people around the world rose by 4 million in 2012 to 197 million and is expected to grow further, the UN labour agency warns.
In a report, the International Labour Organization (ILO) said the worst affected were youth: nearly 13% of the under 24s were unemployed.
It said global unemployment was projected to rise 5.1 million this year and by a further 3 million in 2014.
The trend reflected a downturn in economic growth, the document said.
This was particularly the case in developed countries.
‘Massive waste’
The report – Global Employment Trends 2013 – said that 6% of the world’s workforce were without a job in 2012.
It revealed that long-term unemployment was also growing, pointing out that a third of Europe’s jobless had been without work for more than a year.
Many were giving up, with the report estimating that 39 million people had withdrawn from the labour market.
“An uncertain economic outlook, and the inadequacy of policy to counter this, has weakened aggregate demand, holding back investment and hiring,” ILO director general Guy Ryder said.
The report also called for more funds to be injected in vocational training to equip young people to do the jobs available.
“This is a massive waste of the lives of young people and their talents, and extraordinarily damaging to the people themselves and their societies,” Mr Ryder said.
getalife
January 22nd, 2013
12:55 pm
td,
No.
stands for decibels
January 22nd, 2013
12:55 pm
Shorter Scout:
having 4x the murder rate of Canada and the UK is A-OK with me!
USinUK - just grateful not to be snowbound
January 22nd, 2013
12:55 pm
” Anyone who is or has ever experienced and been treated for something as minor as depression (experienced by millions of people) is “mentally ill”? ”
Depression is “minor”???
so, now the only thing we have to worry about is if they hear voices – anything else is inconsequential
Doggone/GA
January 22nd, 2013
12:56 pm
“That Kenya born thingie NEVAH gets old!”
Never does, but I did get an extra laugh out of upping it to “AND raised”!
TiredOfIt
January 22nd, 2013
12:56 pm
indigo
January 22nd, 2013
12:14 pm
McConnell’s rant is just the latest evidence we have as to how low and dirty the Republicans are willing to go in order to stay in power.
++
Here is another as they lower and lower:
Virginia Redistricting 2013: State GOP Rams Bill Through Senate In Absence Of Democratic Sen. Henry Marsh.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/22/virginia-redistricting-henry-marsh_n_2523818.html
getalife
January 22nd, 2013
12:57 pm
It is about the slaughter of 20 kids at school.
Post term abortions if you will.
USinUK - just grateful not to be snowbound
January 22nd, 2013
12:57 pm
And, to follow up on that thought – don’t you think that THAT is something that the CDC should look at – to see exactly what KINDS of mental illness is more apt to turn to gun violence? maybe depression could be a bigger contributing factor than you realize. or maybe not, whereby your concerns would be moot.
whatever the case, I’d like it to be science-led.
Thulsa Doom
January 22nd, 2013
12:57 pm
Seriously folks,
I’m open minded about solutions but I realize that there is danger in the world and that there are inherent dangers and risks in everyday life. We can’t insulate ourselves from all manner of risks. Nor should be because the cost would be prohibitive. We could station 1 or 2 cops in every elementary, middle school, and high school in the country. But at what cost? We lose more small children to swimming pool drownings every year then we ever will to random shootings by a crazy man.
And lastly exactly how much in resources should we spend to counter a nearly impossible to detect crime- a lunatic who takes guns from a legal and lawful gunowner and then embarks on a madman’s mission. Do you guys think about any of these things? Or do you just regale in taking a supposedly morally superior stance regarding guns?- While all the while ignoring the realistic ability to stop such events as well as the sheer cost of protecting against such random horrors?
skipper
January 22nd, 2013
12:57 pm
I talked to a gun-shop owner. He was hoping for an Obama victory…he knew his business would get beyond belief! It did………..(usually he is very conservative…….)
Oscar
January 22nd, 2013
12:58 pm
There were a lot of abuses in the big mental health institutions,but closing them down was a big mistake. A number of the shooters should have been in an institution. Thy were known to have been disturbed
Treating mentally ill with drugs in the community, as 0113 points out is not working.
getalife
January 22nd, 2013
12:59 pm
TiredOfIt ,
The only way the gop can win is to cheat.
They set the example for our cheating culture.
JamVet
January 22nd, 2013
12:59 pm
Just as
Nazi’sAmerican Jews think thatJewsRepublican neocons are fascistic ignoramuses and wont vote for them….What was the the rest of Plain Liar’s rant about?
Mr Right
January 22nd, 2013
1:00 pm
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
January 22nd, 2013
12:43 pm
Mr. Right:
Scalia gets a lot of things right but he’s wrong on this one.
Plus, he gets one vote on the court.
Agreed with you on that, my point was that the libs blast consevative till one says something they agree with then it’s like,see there, if they say it, it’s the truth!
USinUK - just grateful not to be snowbound
January 22nd, 2013
1:00 pm
“Never does, but I did get an extra laugh out of upping it to “AND raised”!”
haha …
have you heard the latest? he didn’t have two bibles yesterday, he had a bible and a koran! oy to the vey.
Joe Hussein Mama
January 22nd, 2013
1:00 pm
P. Truth — “They all will stand before God one day and explain these murders!”
Sorry, nothing doing.
Oscar
January 22nd, 2013
1:00 pm
doom = how much are you willing fo us to spend in protecting ourr kids.
Morality?
January 22nd, 2013
1:01 pm
While like BRAIN DEAD ZOMBIES you lemmings follow Obama over the FISCAL CLIFF of 2013 …. you concern yourself with gun control which is simply a favorite Obama tactic to take your mind off of the coming Big “D” of 2013…… sure to be Obama’s legacy ’cause even HE can’t create enough smoke and mirrors to change the fact that the BUCK STOPS HERE!
Thulsa Doom
January 22nd, 2013
1:01 pm
Welcome to the Occupation
January 22nd, 2013
12:55 pm
“Hey conservatives, looks like capitalism’s really sucking wind, struggling mightily just to cut the mustard in delivering wide-spread prosperity for the world’s peoples.”
Perhaps you would be happier in a worker’s paradise- like say North Korea. And btw much of the world doesn’t even practice real capitalism anymore- certainly not Western Europe which seems closer to socialism. Perhaps that is the problem.
Oppressed Suth'ner
January 22nd, 2013
1:02 pm
” Anyone who is or has ever experienced and been treated for something as minor as depression (experienced by millions of people) is “mentally ill”? ”
“Depression is “minor”???
so, now the only thing we have to worry about is if they hear voices – anything else is inconsequential.”
So anyone who has ever been depressed, but never given any indication of any violence of any kind, is unfit to own a firearm? Like I said, it becomes all too easy for the government to have an excuse to confiscate the firearms owned by civilians.
getalife
January 22nd, 2013
1:04 pm
They could label conservatism a mental defect and take guns in the future.
Probably after the next slaughter of children.
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January 22nd, 2013
1:04 pm
USinUK:
“it’s urban vs. rural”
Oh, I see ………………… urban assault rifles vs. rural assault rifles.
Hummmm …………………………….
Welcome to the Occupation
January 22nd, 2013
1:04 pm
Plain Truth: “Just as the Nazi’s thought that Jews were less than human and disposable…the Democrats think unborn babies are less than human and disposable! They all will stand before God one day and explain these murders”
But by your coldness towards and contempt for the realities and needs of the people actually living and struggling, the women who have real needs and hardships, you betray the emptiness of your claim to a higher moral ground and of your cause.
You’re bankrupt.
Granny Godzilla
January 22nd, 2013
1:05 pm
King?????
When did the GOP demote him from Messiah?
silly silly silly
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
January 22nd, 2013
1:05 pm
Show evidence of this actually happening please
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To the “Abortions Have killed millions poster — Ignorance has killed many, many more. Please be careful walking and chewing gum today lest you become a victim too.
USinUK - just grateful not to be snowbound
January 22nd, 2013
1:05 pm
“So anyone who has ever been depressed, but never given any indication of any violence of any kind, is unfit to own a firearm?”
see my follow-up at 12:57
Morality?
January 22nd, 2013
1:06 pm
God is real – sadly you are fake.
Mick
January 22nd, 2013
1:06 pm
doom
Guns and all the death that goes with them, are the price we pay for our freedom. Military style assault weapons are a whole different animal, they should be totally restricted to whom they are sold to. In other words, an intensive background check. Something must be done about the availability of this type weapon to people losing their minds…
getalife
January 22nd, 2013
1:06 pm
morality is having a melt down.
Seen a lot of those lately.
USinUK - just grateful not to be snowbound
January 22nd, 2013
1:07 pm
Scout – “Oh, I see ………………… urban assault rifles vs. rural assault rifles.”
you take “deliberately obtuse” to all new levels.
godless heathen
January 22nd, 2013
1:07 pm
Lets see, IF there was a national registry for assault weapons, the perhaps the ATF could have known that a person had purchased several assault style weapons (the shooters mother) and could have found that she was a “doomsday” believer, in that she was stockpiling guns to protect from all those “coming to get her.” It MIGHT have registered on someone’s list.
I have yet to see any credible report that the CT shooter’s mother was a doomsday prepper. It was stated that she was worried about societal collapse by her EX SISTER IN LAW.
The guns and ammo she had in her home were not that much for someone who takes up sport shooting as a hobby.
So you going to have police investigate everyone that might, in someone’s opinion, have too many guns?
When did libs quit being defenders of civil liberties? 2008?
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January 22nd, 2013
1:08 pm
Mr Right:
“Agreed with you on that, my point was that the libs blast consevative till one says something they agree with then it’s like,see there, if they say it, it’s the truth!”
I hear you and you are absolutely correct !
Grasshopper
January 22nd, 2013
1:10 pm
Are you joking Jay?
The whole point is that ‘King’ Obama is trying to regulate us to death. This list of ‘executive actions’ proves that point; just more dumb rules that help strengthen the dfederal bureacracy and make do-gooders feel even better about their control. And will do next to nothing to curb gun violence.
Where is his list of demands on the entertainment-gore industry?