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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Seriously Folks
January 22nd, 2013
3:51 pm
So Doom..the only suggestion you have is to arm the teachers….so more guns will curb gun violence?? Aren’t we the most heavily armed society on the planet, yet we have the highest instances of gun-related deaths?? That IS a puzzler, huh?
Thulsa Doom
January 22nd, 2013
3:52 pm
TBS,
I didn’t say all were armed. The point is that for the most part it works.
Adam
January 22nd, 2013
3:52 pm
Aren’t we the most heavily armed society on the planet, yet we have the highest instances of gun-related deaths??
Cue the “but if you count ALL murders….” people.
TBS
January 22nd, 2013
3:53 pm
RB
What have the police said about the concealed weapons carrier in Oregon?
What did the cameras show?
That Black Guy
January 22nd, 2013
3:53 pm
Below is yet another example of why there can be no rational, civil, and PRODUCTIVE discussion about gun control:
_______________________________________________
Robert
January 22nd, 2013
11:21 am
Gun ownership is a community problem and should be discussed and solved by neighbors. It is no longer acceptable to say “my gun is none of your business”. As my neighbor I have a right to know if you are a registered gun owner especially if we live in a community with a high population density (townhouses, Condo, single family homes, apartments, etc.). – Do I have a *right* to know if your kid has ADHD? If your wife has PPD? How about if you EVER had a DUI, or any other convictions?
Today, communities have home owners associations (HOA) and everyone must follow the rules for pets, trash pick-up, keeping your grass cut, rules for using the community facilities, how many parking spaces allowed, etc. Communities across the USA are faced with choices to solve the gun ownership problem. – WHAT gun owership problems?
Yes, we all agree that a background check and a mental health screening are a good step in the right direction but the American People will have to make a choice. – To make *YOU* feel better while NOT addressing the problem, i.e. CRIMINALS with guns.
1. Do we act like adults and take responsibility for our actions and live with our neighbors in peace and harmony by opening a meaningful dialogue on guns in our community and their impact on our quality of life? – You may want to start with your own push for invading your neighbors privacy.
2. Today, we publish names and addresses of child molestors, rapist and other people who use “fear” as their weapon of choice. Is it time for all registered gun owners to be listed in a national register just like we do to protect our children from predators? – So now, you equate CRIMINALS (rapists and child molestors) with LAW ABIDING, HONEST, RESPONSIBLE citizens? Is THAT how you start meaningful dialog?
If gun owners have nothing to “fear” they should embrace the opportunity to explain to their neighbors why they feel compelled to own guns in our neighborhood. We have a choice. – They DO NOT owe you S**T!! Much less an explaination. YOU don’t want a close neighbor, YOU move.
It is time for adults to act like adults for the sake of their family, friends and neighbors… – You should start FIRST.
Your gun is my business…- NO IT IS NOT. Just like your bedroom in none of MY business.
Act responsible – Act mature.
RB from Gwinnett
January 22nd, 2013
3:55 pm
Keep, “Yep RB. I posted that article in December when Senior Digits tried to make a similar claim. Unsupported after the fact claim with absolutely no supporting evidence. Wonder why? “Wannabe hero syndrome”?”
You go with that if it makes you feel better, Keep.
Nobama
January 22nd, 2013
3:56 pm
I hear voices….the voices say kill ‘em, kill ‘em all ! Bite me Jaybird
Granny Godzilla
January 22nd, 2013
3:56 pm
Well,
perhaps it would be simply easier to (as I have seen suggested here) control people instead of controlling guns.
y’all do understand what that means for white middle class men, right?
TBS
January 22nd, 2013
3:57 pm
Thulsa
My bad, not sure how I made that assumption based on the following….
“Teachers aides in Israel are armed and have thwarted or deterred attacks by terrorists”
My apologies for implying you said they were armed
Thulsa Doom
January 22nd, 2013
3:57 pm
“So Doom..the only suggestion you have is to arm the teachers….so more guns will curb gun violence??”
Seriously folks,
What is it about the concept of deterrence that you guys simply cannot understand. Take a look at the Batman movie shooter. The guy bypassed 2 or 3 theaters that were closer to his home. He went to the one farther out because it had signs stating no guns allowed. So he knew no one would be armed that obeys the law and rules. Is that just too much common sense for you to understand? If you’re a shooter are you going to go to a school where you know that several of the teachers are armed? Um. No. Its just common damn sense really. Jeez.
“Aren’t we the most heavily armed society on the planet, yet we have the highest instances of gun-related deaths?? That IS a puzzler, huh?”
Go back and see scout’s post at 12:22 showing that the U.S. is far less deaths per 100,000 than a whole range of countries. Facts are facts sir.
Adam
January 22nd, 2013
3:58 pm
TBG: Below is yet another example of why there can be no rational, civil, and PRODUCTIVE discussion about gun control:
Sure you can. You just have to ignore and/or dismiss the loony arguments.
If you really want to have a reasonable dialog, it should be centered around a goal. A goal we can all agree on. And if that can’t even be achieved, as seems to be the case, that is when we can’t really go very far.
Real Scootter
January 22nd, 2013
3:58 pm
Tired of seeing the blood of little children being used as a pulpit by the NRA for even MORE guns.
Tired of seeing the blood of little children being used as a pulpit by the Prez for even more gun control.
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
January 22nd, 2013
4:00 pm
Keep: DDR, well don’t forget with that kind of “genius” you need to always add a BOOM to show you’ve got full blown Pompous Assenisity.
I’ve got to make BOOM in my pants? Just to show I’m a freaking genius? Eeeewwww!
===================
Granny G: Let’s start with assault weapons for the New Black Panthers. Then “feminazis” and womens health providers.
OOh granny ….what big eyes you have! Me likey! Let’s go buckwild with it! Teenage underage drinking a problem? Let’s require ALL teenagers to have guns in order to buy a beer or hard liquor!
or
Tired of being called a “racial profiler” for shooting unarmed kids? Just make all skinny, unarmed teenagers carry guns!
or
Got caught in that “To Catch A Predator” porn sting — profiled on National TV? Well, here ya go — All predators MUST carry a gun just in case the 13 year old boy/girl they were trying to “hook up with” online is really some 40 year old hag with curlers in her hair!
Profile THAT beeeyoootches!
Viola! Problem solved! And they said this was hard….
oh wait!
Boom!
TBS
January 22nd, 2013
4:00 pm
Thulsa
There are armed guards and what I have read the schools are very well protected with security features of various sorts. You might want to read up on those “armed teachers”.
I’m not saying it doesn’t work and maybe we should be looking into what Israel does. Not sure if it was you or another blogger, but I have read the same assertion about teachers in Israel and generally speaking it doesn’t really cut the mustard
Boris Badnoff
January 22nd, 2013
4:01 pm
Used to have a lot guns. But my aim was lousy. So I traded them in for hand grenades.
Paul
January 22nd, 2013
4:02 pm
Okay, it’ been about 600 comments and frankly, I got a bit tired of scrolling, so can someone please tell me (or confirm, as I’ve a pretty good idea of the answer): did anyone of our “Obama’s trying to take our freedoms and McConnell’s a true patriot!!!” bloggers have the wherewithall to address
“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? ”
I’m guessing I already know the answer.
So the next question is, why haven’t any of you addressed it?
Thulsa Doom
January 22nd, 2013
4:02 pm
TBS,
Its ok. If you take it that teachers aides means ALL teachers aides then I can understand your mistake. No biggie. Just ask me for clarification next time before spouting your mouth off.
Adam
January 22nd, 2013
4:03 pm
House GOP digs itself in deeper by not raising the debt limit, but instead passing a bill to IGNORE IT ENTIRELY
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/house-republicans-plant-to-keep-debt-limit-but-suspend-it-until-may/2013/01/22/14bc4f3e-64ae-11e2-85f5-a8a9228e55e7_story.html
I really don’t think this will have the effect the House GOP is hoping for. LOL
Jerome Horwitz
January 22nd, 2013
4:03 pm
I will go take a long shower after this, but, I agree with Doom about Newtown. There’s not much you can do to end this type of violence. We can arm teachers, add more Resource Officers, etc. and if someone wants to take this type of action they will. I would like to see it harder for the Lanza’s, Holmes of the world to obtain weapons thru background checks, but, where’s the a will there’s a way. And I doubt that a teacher with a gun or a theatre patron would have stopped these crazies – both had high powered weapons and body armour. Reminds me of the scene in BH Cop where judge Rhinehold stands up to the drug runners with his badge and pistol.
TBS
January 22nd, 2013
4:04 pm
Real Scooter @ 3:58
Great point……….
End of the day, they are both guilty of doing exactly what you said
Uh Huh....Uh Huh....Ashley Judd is Gunning for McConnell
January 22nd, 2013
4:04 pm
@Real Scootter
January 22nd, 2013
3:58 pm
Tired of seeing the blood of little children being used as a pulpit by the Prez for even more gun control.
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TIRED of seeing the UGLY mug of Mentally ill Mitch.
He got a face ONLY an UGLY mother would love.
TBS
January 22nd, 2013
4:05 pm
awww
Thulsa got mad
That really bothers me
awwwwwwwwwwww
And again, read up on it, because your general assertion is not exactly the truth, but keep “mouthing off” with it if makes you feel better
RB from Gwinnett
January 22nd, 2013
4:06 pm
TBS, “What have the police said about the concealed weapons carrier in Oregon? What did the cameras show?”
If you have something to share, share it.
TaxPayer
January 22nd, 2013
4:06 pm
If cons are tired to seeing the blood of little children, they should quit pumping them full of .223 rounds. Does it have to be your own children riddled with bullet holes by some idiot with an assault weapon before that message sinks in or would that even phase some of you. I doubt it.
TBS
January 22nd, 2013
4:06 pm
Thulsa
And so you know. I don’t really care if it is “ok” with you or not, but thanks for letting me that it was
TaxPayer
January 22nd, 2013
4:08 pm
Ashley Judd has Mitch McConnell in her sights. Ooooh! The connotations.
indigo
January 22nd, 2013
4:08 pm
Morality – 2:18
I am dumb?
Says the person who refuses to akcnowledge his/her “God of love” looks the other way while thousands of women spontaneously abort every week but considers abortion to be a sin.
Thulsa Doom
January 22nd, 2013
4:09 pm
“When McConnell describes these actions as steps that “(Obama) will take to get your guns,” which specific actions does he mean?”
Paul,
It’s just pure hyperbole and rhetoric imo. The right does it as well as the left.
Uh Huh....Ashley Judd is Gunning for McConnell
January 22nd, 2013
4:10 pm
PAY no attention to the ugly Mitch McConnell.
Mitch is being a &itch.
Mitch is JEALOUS of Obama because Obama is
sexually attractive than Mitch.
Mitch is GONE in 2014.
Go get him Ashley.
TBS
January 22nd, 2013
4:10 pm
RB
No you share it. You have a “story” that no surveillance film or police have confirmed. No witness or anything
If you buy into it, that is your choice.
Reason the national media didn’t run with the story is because it has no corroboration. It got some local press and right wing press and still nothing to confirm it.
Wonder why?
Redcoat
January 22nd, 2013
4:10 pm
The control culture is in fear of the irresponsible, but in their call for control (and they are always right), it limits the responsible and never the irresponsible, causing their fear to be realized as more and more irresponsible acts by the irresponsible escalate as more responsible are controlled……
Thulsa Doom
January 22nd, 2013
4:11 pm
TBS,
You’re welcome. Doomy always here to help.
TaxPayer
January 22nd, 2013
4:12 pm
I heard the drug cartels down in Mexico sent the Republicans and the NRA a big thank you note for their continued efforts to keep the purchase of assault weapons here in the US so easy for them.
Real Scootter
January 22nd, 2013
4:12 pm
End of the day, they are both guilty of doing exactly what you said
Not trying to start an arguement TBS but I haven’t seen the NRA put a bunch of kids in front of a camera to push their agenda. Jus sayin……….
Erwin's cat
January 22nd, 2013
4:12 pm
If cons are tired to seeing the blood of little children, they should ……
turn the channel
Redcoat
January 22nd, 2013
4:14 pm
indigo……”free will”……”judgement after death”….something like that?
TaxPayer
January 22nd, 2013
4:14 pm
Not trying to start an arguement TBS but I haven’t seen the NRA put a bunch of kids in front of a camera to push their agenda.
What sort of agenda would they push with a bunch of kids full of bullet holes posing in front of a camera. Something about prying cold dead fingers perhaps.
cloudodust
January 22nd, 2013
4:15 pm
Am I to assume that BHO’s modern day General Gage (yet unnamed) will set up a blockade on my stretch of GA 400 northbound and then march on the civilians to grab their powder and shot..? Don’t make us send a silversmith out for a night-time horse ride…
TaxPayer
January 22nd, 2013
4:15 pm
Turning the channel is the next best thing when the unskewed polling data no longer does the trick for you.
Real Scootter
January 22nd, 2013
4:16 pm
4:06 pm
If cons are tired to seeing the blood of little children, they should quit pumping them full of .223 rounds
This statement is beyond absurd.Whew!
Brosephus™
January 22nd, 2013
4:16 pm
Israel has mandatory military service for most all citizens. Arming people with military training isn’t the same as arming people who’s closest experience to military/law enforcement training is eating in a booth at IHOP that’s right beside people who have that training.
Arming teachers and/or aides opens up all kinds of liability issues for the school system.
td
January 22nd, 2013
4:17 pm
TaxPayer
January 22nd, 2013
4:12 pm
I heard the drug cartels down in Mexico sent the Republicans and the NRA a big thank you note for their continued efforts to keep the purchase of assault weapons here in the US so easy for them.
What is an “assault weapon”? I have read every gun source I can and can not find where they are selling assault weapons at.
TBS
January 22nd, 2013
4:17 pm
Scooter
Well Obama’s kids were not available but they sure were brought into the picture by the NRA regarding guns and security.
I’m sure we have different opinion on it, but camera or no camera kids were brought into the picture
And for the record, I am a gun owner (NOT an NRA member) and not for any gun confiscation as some on the right are implying is about to happen.
People saying ban all guns and those saying Obama is coming to get your guns are mostly fringe folks imo.
indigo
January 22nd, 2013
4:17 pm
Redcoat – 4:14
Are you saying God is going to judge God?
Thulsa Doom
January 22nd, 2013
4:17 pm
“awww
Thulsa got mad”
TBS,
Nope. Not mad at all. You’ve just been rude to me the last several times you’ve posted to me so I’m just returning the favor. Gloves came off is all. We used to have civil disagreements but my guess is that you started your rudeness possibly to ingratiate yourself with some of the kooks when ya’ll have a beer. In other words an arsekisser. Its cool though and like I said I don’t mind taking off the gloves with anyone.
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
January 22nd, 2013
4:17 pm
Interesting – I googled “Why did the Colorado Shooter Single Out Cinemark Theater?” and what did I get? Well, a whole bunch of “OPINON” posts from Fox News outlets, Ammoloand.com; popliticalwrinkles.com AND defensivecarry.com. IOW a bunch of ANTI-gun restriction 2nd Ammendment websites. ESPECIALLY the one(s) for Fox News.
PS — OPINION does not equal FACTS.
https://www.google.com/search?q=why%20did-colorado-shooter-single-out-cinemark-theater&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
williebkind
January 22nd, 2013
4:18 pm
“he “grey area” is where your right to bear arms, crosses my right to do what I want without a gun. Just because its a right does not mean it doesn’t have responsibility…”
I a amused of what rights
Keep Up the Good Fight!
January 22nd, 2013
4:18 pm
The NRA had no problem putting Obama’s kids into their arguments.
Thomas
January 22nd, 2013
4:18 pm
Illegal Aliens Released by Obama Administration Commit 19 Murders, 142 Sex Crimes
No weeping President. No outrage by Biden. No lil’ blog by Bookie.
Don’t worry about it- it’s all good.
Seriously Folks
January 22nd, 2013
4:19 pm
Doom. Okay…so by your logic, if we put “no guns allowed” in EVERY movie theater he wouldnt have done it???? And somehow, I don’t think most movie theaters would encourage you to post “Armed patrons inside, please come spend your money”…since ALOT of families would opt for the less armed places to go.
TBS
January 22nd, 2013
4:19 pm
td
Guess you can refer to what was listed under the last ban or call up Scalia for a definition?
You ask that every day. Military has a definition, NRA has one, this group has one, that group has one.
What is your point?
Uh Huh....Ashley Judd is Gunning for McConnell
January 22nd, 2013
4:19 pm
@Jerome Horwitz
January 22nd, 2013
4:03 pm
There’s not much you can do to end this type of violence but, where’s the a will there’s a way.
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So Romey we should DO NOTHING?
Just throw in the towel?
If this happened to YOUR child I bet you would come up]
with a SOLUTION.
It is easy to ignore when it is OUT OF SIGHT..OUT OF MIND.
If you do not see it….. you will forget about it.
Fred ™
January 22nd, 2013
4:21 pm
So do we have anything from the right yet except their normal hate filled, angry little FOXBOT lies and fear mongering?
I mean what a great combination. You give assault weapons to these irrationally hate filled folks with their impotent rage who are afraid of everyone who isn’t a FOXBOT………….
Thulsa Doom
January 22nd, 2013
4:21 pm
“Arming teachers and/or aides opens up all kinds of liability issues for the school system.”
So failing to reasonably protect children doesn’t offer liability issues?
Keep Up the Good Fight!
January 22nd, 2013
4:21 pm
Well see, TBS, those who push “personal responsibility” are always the ones who claim “it’s your fault”.
Real Scootter
January 22nd, 2013
4:21 pm
What sort of agenda would they push with a bunch of kids full of bullet holes posing in front of a camera. Something about prying cold dead fingers perhaps.
AND,even more absurdity! You are on a roll Taxpayer.
williebkind
January 22nd, 2013
4:23 pm
DebbieDoRight – A Do Right Woman
January 22nd, 2013
4:17 pm
Why did that liberal single out that theater?
TBS
January 22nd, 2013
4:23 pm
Thulsa
Do what you need to do fella You can be the biggest RICHARD on this blog and have little room to talk, but that wont stop you and that is your right. Nothing new and you have been rude to me as well. So you are getting back what you give as well, you Bruno wannabe
Redcoat
January 22nd, 2013
4:23 pm
indigo……..”In the beginning……..” changing with a question?
Lynnie Gal
January 22nd, 2013
4:24 pm
Americans don’t like Republicans anymore, and this is why. We don’t like them. They don’t like each other, either. This is the party of hate. The party of ignorance. The party of violence. And any Republican who has half a brain is bailing out or is hiding and hoping this idiocy passes soon. There’s just no defending this nonsense. I came home from work today to the news of yet another school shooting. How many school shootings will it take? How many? Give us a number, Republicans. How many children are going to have to die or suffer injury from school shootings before you stop talking this rightwing militia-loving, gun-appreciating BS?
RB from Gwinnett
January 22nd, 2013
4:25 pm
TBS, “No you share it. You have a “story” that no surveillance film or police have confirmed. No witness or anything”
It doesn’t work that way, TBS. I posted a news report from the area with the story. If you have some evidence the story is false, post it.
And for the record, I haven’t seen any surveilance video of Bin Laden being killed either, so can we both agree that didn’t happen too?
Seriously Folks
January 22nd, 2013
4:25 pm
uh gee willie..how about the right to assemble…(or walk home from a grocery store in a Florida neighborhood wearing a hoodie…or the right to attend a rally of their congresswoman in Arizona…or the right to enjoy a movie in Colorado)…uh..THOSE rights!
Because while you have the right to “bear arms” the rights of others to enjoy their life the way they see fit, is just as protected. So if one of you “trigger fingers” pulls a gun because some kids are being too loud or dress funny, guess what. You dont get to hide behind the “self defense” crap…
IF a criminal breaks into your home, by all means…but last time I checked, the dude in Florida was neither in his home, being assaulted by an unprovoked incident..but immediate claimed he was protected by the Florida law designed by “gun rights” advocates.
TBS
January 22nd, 2013
4:25 pm
Keep
Exactly. The “you started it” manta from Thulsa. I’ve read that one a time or ten
Granny Godzilla
January 22nd, 2013
4:26 pm
Thomas
Then you support the administrations position to prioritize deportation of illegals who are criminals
over students?
Good for you!
Thulsa Doom
January 22nd, 2013
4:26 pm
“Okay…so by your logic, if we put “no guns allowed” in EVERY movie theater he wouldnt have done it????”
Nope. Not what I’m saying at all.
“And somehow, I don’t think most movie theaters would encourage you to post “Armed patrons inside, please come spend your money”…since ALOT of families would opt for the less armed places to go.”
I didn’t suggest or say that movie theaters should openly welcome armed people. Just that by making a rule that in making a rule that no private arms are allowed that the only ones who will obey it are the law abiders. The criminals and mass murderers are just going to dismiss it. Why you still can’t understand this is beyond me. And as for families opting for less armed places to go those would probably be the Dem families that can’t think very well.
Real Scootter
January 22nd, 2013
4:27 pm
TBS
January 22nd, 2013
4:17 pm
Agreed TBS. I own a few guns also but they are all for hunting only,well I do have a handme-down from WWII that is not legal for hunting but it stays in my gun safe.
TaxPayer
January 22nd, 2013
4:28 pm
This statement is beyond absurd.Whew!
Kids riddled with bullet holes and cons acting like it’s their guns that are being slaughtered is beyond absurd. Whew!
williebkind
January 22nd, 2013
4:28 pm
That Black Guy
January 22nd, 2013
3:53 pm
You should ask permission from the federal government to write on a blog! Hey you cant have the 1st amd and take my 2nd amd rights. All you said is a backdoor to take my rights!
Thulsa Doom
January 22nd, 2013
4:28 pm
Looks like TBS is joining kreep in some ankle biting. If this keeps up we’ll have enough for a flea circus.
Uh Huh....Ashley Judd is Gunning for McConnell
January 22nd, 2013
4:29 pm
@Thomas
January 22nd, 2013
4:18 pm
Illegal Aliens Released by Obama Administration Commit 19 Murders, 142 Sex Crimes
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YOUR family needs to stop procreating within the family.
Your babies will look like Mitch McConnell.
Brosephus™
January 22nd, 2013
4:30 pm
So failing to reasonably protect children doesn’t offer liability issues?
That’s not what I said. Don’t use me to fight your invisible man.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
January 22nd, 2013
4:31 pm
Let’s remember that when a school officer leaves his gun in the school bathroom for a kid to find, these very same cons also claim “accidents happen”. SO now their real assertion, without a shred of evidence, is that guns in schools will intentionally save more kids than those that will be accidently killed or injured because of the presence of those very same guns that they urge be present.
Thulsa Doom
January 22nd, 2013
4:31 pm
Looks like we now have 2 fleas biting on the ankle Doomy. Enough for a flea circus. Kreepy.
TBS
January 22nd, 2013
4:32 pm
Thulsa is taking is gloves off
wow……………..
Really?
hahaha
williebkind
January 22nd, 2013
4:32 pm
“uh gee willie..how about the right to assemble…(or walk home from a grocery store in a Florida neighborhood wearing a hoodie…or the right to attend a rally of their congresswoman in Arizona…or the right to enjoy a movie in Colorado)…uh..THOSE rights!”
Well why do these liberals keep killing children and elected officials? Because you want a different world?
cloudodust
January 22nd, 2013
4:32 pm
TaxPayer@ 1612 : That Thank you note went to Washington DC, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave
Thulsa Doom
January 22nd, 2013
4:34 pm
Makes ya wonder if some idiots can’t figure out already that we have police officers in some schools. Jeez.
Paul
January 22nd, 2013
4:34 pm
Thulsa Doom
“It’s just pure hyperbole and rhetoric imo. The right does it as well as the left.”
Okay, so McConnell’s statement is pure hyperbole. No argument from me. But again – why does it take 600 pages for someone who’s not keen on gun control to say so?
Can’t any of the others say so? Or maybe they think McConnell’s right but they just can’t think of a way to say so in face of the facts?
TaxPayer
January 22nd, 2013
4:34 pm
AND,even more absurdity! You are on a roll Taxpayer.
Allowing kids to be riddled with bullet holes and then having to listen to Republicans rant about how their rights are being accosted at the hands of these poor dead kids is indeed absurd, Scootter. Keep it up if you think it helps your cause. I sure as hell will.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
January 22nd, 2013
4:34 pm
Scummy sure do like his name-calling.
josef
January 22nd, 2013
4:35 pm
Are we seriously discussing the security needs of Israeli schools in the same context as the security needs of American schools?
TBS
January 22nd, 2013
4:36 pm
Scooter
I own several hand guns and a shot gun. Used to go to the range a decent amount but not so much last couple of years.
For the record, closing of some “loopholes” and might do some good, but none of the Obama proposals imo will stop a crazy man from doing what he did at that school.
It is as much window dressing as anything
Fred ™
January 22nd, 2013
4:36 pm
Look, a gun range with a lounge. Has anyone been there yet? Only $19.00 an hour to rent an AR 15 or AK 47. Anyone wanna go shooting?
http://www.sandyspringsshootingrange.com/default.aspx?categ=home
Thulsa Doom
January 22nd, 2013
4:38 pm
Brocephus,
I did not state that you said that. I asked a rhetorical question. Why do you always think that someone is trying to put words in your mouth? I’m simply asking wouldn’t people be inclined to sue a school system if they felt there wasn’t reasonable security to begin with?
Thomas Heyward Jr
January 22nd, 2013
4:38 pm
It’s getting real in New York.
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I never underestimate the utter evil, brutality, and deceitfulness that is the State. And if New York’s rulers force this thing, the scenario you describe is tragically probable — a few “examples” here and there, whom the cops murder or imprison to the praise of the New York Slimes and other reprehensible propagandists.
Those New Yorkers who own guns should understand how likely it is that some of you will die. When the Redcoats marched on Lexington and Concord to seize the Patriots’ arms, they killed farmers who resisted — exactly as the standing army among us called cops will kill you. But for sure, if some don’t die, if we don’t resist this lawless, unconstitutional, despotic theft of our weapons, the government will slaughter many more in concentration camps or gulags, the fate of other peoples whose governments have disarmed them. I also urge all who love freedom, no matter where you live, to rush to your fellow serfs’ defense if Cuomo and his fiends begin shooting New Yorkers.
The line in the sand is grabbing guns. We can live, albeit in horribly reduced circumstances, with an economy Our Rulers have devastated. We can circumvent official sexual assault at the airports by boycotting the airlines. We can buy and sell contraband on the black market. But we can’t defend ourselves and our families without guns.
David Gay, the speaker in this video, sent it to me (thanks, David!). As encouraging as his speech and its enthusiastic reception is the size of the crowd. The dire scenarios Bill and I envision may never descend: after all, not even the worst totalitarian can wreak his wickedness if enough people defy him. And plenty of New Yorkers are defiant. Keep the faith, Sons of Liberty, keep the faith.
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/131140.html
Real Scootter
January 22nd, 2013
4:38 pm
Well why do these liberals keep killing children and elected officials?
Dang willie,didn’t you get the memo? It’s the CONS stupid!
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
January 22nd, 2013
4:39 pm
Scooter: Tired of seeing the blood of little children being used as a pulpit by the Prez for even more gun control.
I thought, in my confused-cum-bye-ah state, that even YOU wouldn’t make a comment so asinine so devoid of feelings for those poor children and reality……however, in your quest to appear even MORE ignorant than the next guy, you’ve proven me wrong. Congrats.
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TaxP: Turning the channel is the next best thing when the unskewed polling data no longer does the trick for you.
Too funny! thank you for that. After reading Scooter’s post, your levity made me feel clean again; reading Scooter’s mad ravings is like walking around barefoot in your back yard and then stepping in a big pile of sh###t that dog left on the ground.
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td: What is an “assault weapon”? I have read every gun source I can and can not find where they are selling assault weapons at.
Well that’s the problem! Perhaps if you googled it, you’d find it. Allow me: check here. Enjoy.
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TBS
January 22nd, 2013
4:39 pm
Fred
Didn’t know about the one in Sandy Springs. Read a few months back where the same type set up was being built somewhere in Cobb Cty.
Thulsa Doom
January 22nd, 2013
4:40 pm
Sand flea sure do like being kreepy.
St Simons - aboriginal Bootakook 2014
January 22nd, 2013
4:40 pm
Harry Reid – ‘Filibuster Reform in 36 Hours’
hell yes. Get out of the way, cons
Keep Up the Good Fight!
January 22nd, 2013
4:40 pm
Well, limiting the amount of cold medicine you can purchase at one time does not stop the making of meth but the Missouri lawmakers and those in many other states sure do believe it works for something other than just stopping the common cold.
TaxPayer
January 22nd, 2013
4:44 pm
That Thank you note went to Washington DC, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave
President Obama usually likes to have the Dept of Homeland Security screen such mail before forwarding it to Mitch McConnell.
Fred ™
January 22nd, 2013
4:44 pm
I read that too TBS but I didn’t know where it was. I thought maybe it was this one. I think I’d prefer the trap shooting though. We ought to go. Me, you, Bro, TBG, and Kam.
Thulsa Doom
January 22nd, 2013
4:45 pm
“Are we seriously discussing the security needs of Israeli schools in the same context as the security needs of American schools?”
josef,
Yes. We are. That’s if people really believe that these school shootings are an epidemic as some seem to believe. If its not very serious or its not the epidemic that some people think it is then we need not do anything. So do you think the situation is serious enough to look at serious alternatives or not? And if some teachers are allowed to bring guns as long as they are trained and as long as the guns have trigger locks then what is your concern?
TBS
January 22nd, 2013
4:46 pm
Fred
Groupon runs a special from time to time on that place off of Camp Creek. I’m game
Keep Up the Good Fight!
January 22nd, 2013
4:48 pm
Now we have cons calling for shooting cops based on imaginary possible atrocities.
These are “freedom fighters”, but of course, in LA, they were “rioters”.
Welcome to the Occupation
January 22nd, 2013
4:49 pm
Ted Nugatory’s at it again.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
January 22nd, 2013
4:49 pm
TBS, don’t think Groupon will be running specials for that anymore. http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/01/22/1476721/groupon-guns
Brosephus™
January 22nd, 2013
4:50 pm
Doom
As it stands now, teachers are responsible for educating students. When you arm them, they become law enforcement, and their job duties, responsibilities, and liabilities change as a result. There are other options that don’t change the operation or structure of the school system.
You can redesign schools with safe rooms and escape pathways to quickly get students out of harms way. Schools can be upgraded with ballistic doors. Schools can also be reconfigured to lock down sections at a time to isolate any incident and lock the assailant into a small area making it easier for police to respond. That said, I see arming personnel as a liability more than a benefit.
Real Scootter
January 22nd, 2013
4:50 pm
TBS
January 22nd, 2013
4:36 pm
Agreed again TBS.I have one pistol that is legal for deer hunting and haven’t used it in years.