Even by the standards of the Conservative Political Action Committee event where he recently spoke, the NRA's Wayne LaPierre was over the top.
He explained to all of us in America that "the guys with the guns make the rules."
Most of us believe that in a democracy, the voters make the rules.
Two days ago, a deranged man in Alabama killed 10, including women and children, before taking his own life. He had the firepower of assault weapons to execute his plan of mass carnage.
Americans who have lost loved ones to gun violence are tired of the guys with the guns making the rules.
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D977SAJG0.htm
I think the real motive behind a new AWB has nothing to do with crime, its about control. I believe the far leftist's in Congress fear millions of Americans being in possession of AR's and AK's, therefore they want to ban them. If this is the case, then I say good, this is what keeps a government in check. All throughout history, civilian disarmament is followed by tryanny.
By the way Brady Campaign, the reason you're having so much difficulty right out of the gate with the new Congress, 3 words.....Blue Dog Democrat! These guys aren't going to vote for you're crap.
Breaking news:
23 year old man recently "released from jail after serving time on a gun charge" attacked three sisters with a knife, at the 5 year old sisters birthday party. Like Paul suggests, a call was made to the police during the attack. Miraculously, they did arrive in time to shoot him dead as he was stabbing his 9 year old sister.
However, they weren't there just prior to this when he stabbed him 17 year sister to death and then beheaded his 5 year old sister.
And this all in Milton Massachusetts (just outside of Boston), one of the states with the strictest gun control laws.
Not having a gun didn't prevent this guy from committing unspeakable violence. Quite simply, this guy was a criminal that shouldn't have been released from incarceration.
Is this the kind of "gun free" world Paul wants to force all of us to live in?
source:
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,25261752-5001028,00.html
I watched the little video clip Helmke has on his website, there is one blatant lie that I noticed. Helmke says that someone can go into a gun dealer and "fill a truck full of AK-47's", no questions asked. This is false. Anytime someone buys more than one gun in a 5 day period, special paperwork must be filled out and submitted to the ATF. A truckload of AK-47's will bring the ATF right to that gun dealer pronto, guarantee'd. Besides, if someone is straw buying for the drug lords, those guns will be traced back to him, that person should do a minimum 15 year prison sentence. The gun dealers are not knowingly supplying the drug lords, that would result in their business being shut down and them going to jail, you think they want that? The last thing a gun dealer wants, is the ATF breathing down their neck. By the way, X-Caliber guns in Pheonix, the dealer the Brady's crucified for supplying Mexican drug lords, was aquitted of all charges recently.
David
It's theorized that one of the reasons that the Mexican police refuse to share the serial numbers of the weapons they confiscate is because many of them are weapons the US government sold to the Federales, and via corruption and desertion, the weapons find their way to the cartels.
Hillary did mention it the other night on Fox. It was an interview with Greta Van Sustern. She lamented the "automatic weapons" entering Mexico from the US. She then commented how these "automatic weapons" had been successfully controlled under the Clinton "assault weapons" ban. I thought I was going to puke.
David
A Gun Ban Gets Shot Down
http://www.newsweek.com/id/191414
If the BC was only concerned about Dangerous people getting Dangerous Weapons(tm), why would Paul Helmke recommend "Mexico-style" gun laws??
http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/2009/03/25/helmke-calls-for-sweeping-gun-bans/
Tough to hide that true agenda, isn't it?
David
The bill banning private sales in Illinois (HB 48) goes down in flames.
No mention on Huff?......hmmmmm.......
Can't have that when your whole position is based on misrepresentation and ignorance.
Substantiated with, you guessed it, another Brady Report.
I wonder if their report addresses the 150(k) members of the Mexican Army who have deserted in the past 6 years??
Doug?
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/03/11/mexico.desertions/index.html
03-11-2009
"Alabama killer Michael McLendon fired more than 200 rounds from his military-style semiautomatic assault weapons. He lived in a state that has pathetically weak guns laws: In the Brady Campaign’s recent state scorecards, Alabama earned a score of 15 out of 100. Assault weapons were banned under federal law until four years ago."
http://www.bradycampaign.org/media/release.php?release=1117
Notice how the tap dancing began a day after the Alabama shootings. However, it's going on about 3 days now since the Oakland shootings and not a peep. The difference? 64 points and 18 places on the Brady scorecard.
Sad.
Like ProGunAmerican mentioned, those of us "who only think about guns all day" would like to know why you've been silent on the Oakland shootings? I know it's tough to regurgitate the same "weak gun laws blah blah blah" mantra when it happens in your A+ rated utopia and all, but maybe this is your chance to shed light on the real issue of lenient prison sentences and our judicial system's failure to keep criminals behind bars?
Or maybe not.......
Criticizing the Bush administration's abuses of the 4th and 2nd Amendments;
Criticizing the NRA's refusal to condemn Bush for the above-noted abuses after endorsing him twice;
Criticizing the new Republican (Christofascist-controlled) party.
These three things make me, an owner of guns since 1967, an advocate of disarming law abiding citizens? You can connect these dots? Oh, I forgot ... in your world, refusal to participate in the Pavlovian response experiment which consists of lambasting on cue everything that Helmke / Shedances utter automatically makes one a liberal gun grabber. Black and white .... no gray .... how very, very simple it all is.
This episode also points to the blatant failure of the California AWB and gun control in general. The guy was a convicted felon is possession of an SKS, already illegal. California's myriad of model gun laws did exactly squat to stop this guy.
http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2009/03/man_impersonating_new_orleans.html