A New York Democrat said President Obama now needs to “use the bully pulpit of the presidency to lead a crusade for meaningful and strong gun control legislation.”
“We know the gun lobby has strong support in Congress because people — members of Congress are terrified of their alleged political power,” Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) said last night on CNN.
“But the president can lead a campaign and can make it — and can direct the moral opprobrium of the country at members of Congress or senators who refuse to support strong gun control legislation.”
Nadler didn’t want to get into what Obama did or did not do in his first term, and said what matters is what the president does now.
“The president had a lot of things on his plate. He had a depression. He had an obstructionist Congress,” he said. “What’s important is what happens now and if the president steps up and leads a crusade and we save God knows how many lives by getting something done, that’ll be great. That’ll be a monument to his administration.”
Nadler named some of the key Dem targets: automatic weapons ban, restriction on high-capacity magazines, restriction on how many guns can be purchased at one time, and eliminating gun-show exceptions.
“I know that there will probably be people on this show later or maybe there were who will say that guns don’t kill people, people kill people and, you know, you should arm more people they’ll stop the crooks,” he said. “But the fact of the matter is, there was a maniac on Friday who attacked an elementary school in China with a knife, not a gun. Twenty-two children aren’t — you know, were injured. Nobody died.”
“We have 9,146 murders with guns in the United States or deaths in the United States a couple years ago. Germany had 158, Canada 173. The United States has 15 times more than anybody else in a population base in any other industrialized country,” Nadler continued. “There’s one reason and one reason only and that’s our insane attitude toward guns. This has got to stop. And the NRA should stop. They won’t, but we should stop them from being enablers of mass murder.”
“Nadler named some of the key Dem targets: automatic weapons ban, restriction on high-capacity magazines, restriction on how many guns can be purchased at one time, and eliminating gun-show exceptions.”
None of which would have prevented the CT shooting. Don’t even try to bring up the so-called “high-capacity magazine” issue – it’s the matter of seconds to change magazines, and if official policy has decreed that you should be sheep, that’s not enough time for one of the sheep to do anything. Once again, the dimbulbs who screech about “common-sense gun restrictions” propose things that make it harder for everyone except criminals to get weapons. The next “common-sense gun restriction” I hear from them will be the first.
“He had a depression. He had an obstructionist Congress…” Not for the first two years. I guess it just wasn’t as important as some other items…
“I know that there will probably be people on this show later or maybe there were who will say that guns don’t kill people, people kill people and, you know, you should arm more people they’ll stop the crooks…” Like happens frequently, just not in the magical “gun-free” zones.
“But the fact of the matter is, there was a maniac on Friday who attacked an elementary school in China with a knife, not a gun. Twenty-two children aren’t — you know, were injured. Nobody died.” What’s his point? Would he rather be stabbed than shot? I would prefer neither – and a handgun is the best defense for that.
How do we lose elections to these ignorant twerps?
“How do we lose elections to these ignorant twerps?”
By nominating Romney.
The question was plural, not singular.
McCain, Dole, but by hair’s breadth Bush…
As I recall, there are more elections than the presidential one held in this country. Perhaps I’m mistaken.
– to stop Nadler’s gluttony. Oh, wait! Those are coming to Obamaland.
This has got to stop. And the NRA should stop. They won’t, but we should stop them from being enablers of mass murder.”
Demonizing the NRA is lynch mob politics, and is not the way to run a democracy.
It is in Obamamerica.
Bully pulpit? I understand the Gettysburg Address got said yesterday. I doubt anyone will be able to recite one phrase from it a year from now. Or a week from now, for that matter.
Stand firm. We are not going to live in a freedom-by-lowest-common-denominator society, nor should the Dmocrats be trusted, as their entire history of the last three decades is of taking small ncremental steps till they get that which they truly desire, but dare not utter.
A dearming of the population is a legitimate grounds. Especially with the brand of Democrats we are getting lately, who will throw any trite thing out there to escape scrutiny. “Concussion”? Perhaps, but…
“The president had a lot of things on his plate. He had a depression. He had an obstructionist Congress,”
Now that’s a hell of a thing to say about the democrats who controlled both the House of Representatives as well as the Senate while Obammer was head of the Executive branch for the first two years of his presidency….
I thought they got along just fine while they rammed their social engineering experiments down our collective throats and that Ol’ Chief Betrayer John Roberts figured out how to re-write it for them to make it all nice and constitutional-like.
I should have stopped reading at “Democrat from New York”.
Wait a minute, in 1927, Bath Township Elementary school (Michigan) Chicago’s neighbor. A School board Official bought some explosives lacing the school with these devices. He waited for children to attend classes, later detonating the whole school building. Then, making matters worse, he loaded his car with these explosives, detonated it-his car and himself, in the midst of first responders. 38 children killed, and countless civilian first responders, too. FDR came along and made matters worse…along with chicago’s infamous”speak-easies!” Al Capone, anybody? (reference to Rahm Emmanuel’s comments)
Then along comes LBJ and his “Great Society.” Takes veterans with mental health issues, removes them from government programs, throwing them out into towns and cities across all USA. Crime rates increase, especially in large metropolitan areas. Later, congressional wisdom by We the Elite People of culture of corruption in Washington DC, expands this program of eliminating mental heath care across the USA to ALL American citizens. This action alone,further ratcheting upward Americas crime statistics. Cheaper to administer medication than have treatment centers. Timothy McVeigh, UnaBomber (Kazinsky), Son of Sam, Jeffry Dalmer (cannibalism-Chicago) et al proliferated.
Now, these same We The Elite People of culture of corruption in Washington DC are wringing their hands over the absolute and total disaster they have created, blaming explosive manufacturers, arms manufacturers and suppliers of all weapons related paraphenalia for Congressional stupidity and just plain greed, power and corruption agendas. See, money they “saved” by suspending care for the mentally ill, was allocated to “bringing-the-bacon-home” earmarks, socially “beneficial” programs (Planned Parenthood – mass infanticide program), NPR, PBS, Air America, welfare/unemployemnt/SNAP-food stamp handouts, etc.
Sorry, the finger pointing should be to legislators (themselves) for having made”penny saved and pound foolish” decisions causing todays “unintended consequences.” Pray. Amen.