The 2013 Assault Weapons Ban Thread

[WideLoadTimmy]

The "shoulder thing that goes up," video was Carolyn McCarthy. Not sure if that's the video you guys are thinking of.

I remember that. I like that irritated look on the anchor man's face when he confirms she knows **** all.

 

[dennishoddy]

As I've stated a zillion times before about what is an "assault weapon", I'm watching Hannity, and he has Jesse Duff (lady shooter) is demonstrating different styles of guns that operate just like AR's.

Gas guns, piston guns, Grandpa's guns, its all the same. Hopefully there will be a youtube video that I can post.

 

[HackerF15E]

Dianne Fienstine was shown a barrel shroud in an interview. (its illegal in her bill) She didn't have a clue what it was.....

Carolyn McCarthy, and she was asked about it, not shown.

The video is from the 1990s.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rGpykAX1fo

 

[poopgiggle]

Found this elsewhere on the Internet and it was too good not to post SOMEWHERE but I'm trying to keep this crap off Facebook.

Enjoy.

 

[Dustin Cantrell]

Found this elsewhere on the Internet and it was too good not to post SOMEWHERE but I'm trying to keep this crap off Facebook.

Enjoy.

I saw that a couple weeks ago. Good stuff.

I've been trying to get through to the anti gunners. It's hard. I've had several over the past couple months ask me why I need to have firearms or so much ammo. I respond by telling them it's a right, not a need, in some form or another. I read earlier today of somebody that made a reference to Rosa Parks in regards to rights. "Rosa Parks didn't need to sit in the front of the bus."

This isn't just an attack on gun rights but rights as a whole. Maybe the Rosa Parks reference will communicate better the big picture to some of the anti gunners.

 

[poopgiggle]

Bill Clinton to Democratic donors: "Don't trivialize gun culture"

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/01/bill-clinton-to-democrats-dont-trivialize-gun-culture-86443.html

Former President Bill Clinton warned a group of top Democratic donors at a private Saturday meeting not to underestimate the passions that gun control stirs among many Americans.

“Do not patronize the passionate supporters of your opponents by looking down your nose at them,” Clinton said.

“A lot of these people live in a world very different from the world lived in by the people proposing these things,” Clinton said. “I know because I come from this world."

...

Clinton said that Republicans have been struggling in presidential politics since 1992 â€" noting that 2004 was the only time a Republican has won the popular vote in more than 20 years. But, he said, the party has been successful in energizing its supporters for midterm elections.

“You have the power to really democratize America,” Clinton said. “You can do it on immigration reform, you can do it on these economic issues. You can do it on implementing the health care bill.”

But, Clinton warned, the issue of guns has a special emotional resonance in many rural states â€" and simply dismissing pro-gun arguments is counterproductive.

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Clinton recalled Al Gore’s 2000 campaign against George W. Bush in Colorado, where a referendum designed to close the so-called gun show loophole shared the ballot with the presidential ticket. Gore publicly backed the proposal, while Bush opposed it.

Though the referendum passed with 70 percent of the vote, Gore lost the state. Clinton said that the reason was because a good chunk of the referendum’s opponents were single-issue voters who automatically rejected Gore as anti-gun.

And Clinton said that passing the 1994 federal assault weapons ban “devastated” more than a dozen Democratic lawmakers in the 1994 midterms â€" and cost then-Speaker of the House Tom Foley (D-Wash.) his job and his seat in Congress.

“I’ve had many sleepless nights in the many years since,” Clinton said. One reason? “I never had any sessions with the House members who were vulnerable,” he explained â€" saying that he had assumed they already knew how to explain their vote for the ban to their constituents.

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Clinton closed his remarks with a warning to big Democratic donors that ultimately many Democratic lawmakers will be defeated if they choose to stand with the president.

“Do not be self-congratulatory about how brave you for being for this” gun control push, he said. “The only brave people are the people who are going to lose their jobs if they vote with you.”

I left out some "bitter clinger" stuff because I wanted to highlight him saying that gun bans are a dangerous issue politically.

If you read the article it also goes into how Obama For America is going to have to gear up to try to sell this to the public. OFA is a really big, really well-organized PR machine so I'm not sure what will happen. Knock on wood.

 

[dennishoddy]

Carolyn McCarthy, and she was asked about it, not shown.

The video is from the 1990s.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rGpykAX1fo

Yep, thats it. It was a few years back, and I was thinking it was Feinstein. Slept once or twice since then. Thanks for the reminder of how ignorant legislators can be about their own legislation.

 

[threegungeezer]

Most don't know whats in it when they vote for it ,but you expect them to know whats in it when they write it, yeah right. :triniti:

 

[HackerF15E]

Most don't know whats in it when they vote for it ,but you expect them to know whats in it when they write it, yeah right. :triniti:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoE1R-xH5To