House Democrats Call For Gun Control Hearings. GOP Response: Pound Sand…
Never let a good crisis go to waste.
A top House Republican rejected calls by Democrats for hearings on gun safety in the wake of the Jan. 8 shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), suggesting that such hearings could interfere with the prosecution of the alleged gunman, Jared Loughner.
Rep. John Conyers (Mich.), top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, and 15 other Democrats on the panel sent a letter to Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) on Friday seeking hearings on several gun-safety issues related to the Tucson shooting. Six people died in that attack and 14 others, including Giffords, were wounded. Giffords was transferred to a Houston hospital this week to begin a long-term rehabilitation program.
Smith said the inquiries Democrats proposed have merit, but timing them before Lougher’s trial could have the “unintended effect of prejudicing the ongoing criminal proceedings.”
While acknowledging that there is little support in Congress for broad gun-control measures, Conyers and his Democratic colleagues suggested the hearings – and congressional action – should be “a carefully crafted and narrowly focused review of these issues and other possible loopholes in current law.”
“We fully recognize and appreciate the sensitivity of the subjects raised by the recent tragedy in Tucson in which our colleague, Gabrielle Giffords, was shot and eighteen other were wounded or killed, including members of her staff, a Federal judge, and several other citizens,” the Democrats wrote. “However, we also believe it is not only possible, but imperative that Congress review the relevant issues in a civil and objective [manner].
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LOL Elections have consequences.
I call for ‘Abortion Control’ after 7 babies were murdered, and dozens others were injured, in Philadelphia.
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Oh shoot…the dems got shot down- again.
Dang it all anyway…lol.
Check for a payoff from someone with anything that Conyers is involved with.
Also we cant hold the hearings on Saturdays because thats visiting days for his crooked ass wife in the pen.
I’m FOR gun control; ALL dem/communists BANNED from ever owning them.
Pound Sand, Pound Pud, but keep your hands off our guns.
You know that is a joke.
The ONLY gun control is how EXACT you are in hitting the bullseye!
Everyone must own at least TWO OPERATIONAL guns. It’s THE LAW!!!
Hey Convers, why dont you figure out a way to control the ILLEGAL guns in your district? Why dont you call for legislation to execute the thugs that kill people with ILLEGAL guns in your district?
Clean up your own backyard before you try to control mine. Jerk!
gastorgrab… I like the way you think. Abortion Control. Very sound reasoning.
Blammmmm and the GOP smack down on democrat face plant continues .
Hee, hee…
Conyers the man who needs to lawyers and a weekend at Folsom Prison
Wants’ gun control?
When your prostate is larger then your brain its time to retire John Conyers or are you wife’s Attorneys fees kicking your old saggy ass?
I love commieobamie’s remark!!! If every spectator at the event had a firearm and could control it the bad guy wouldn’t not be in jail but in the ground.
Just look up Kennesaw, Georgia and see what happens when the head of every household is required to have a firearm and ammo for it.
“The supposed quietude of a good man allures the ruffian; while on the other hand arms, like laws, discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as property. The same balance would be preserved were all the world destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside … Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.”
Thomas Paine
“The great object is that every man be armed.” and “Everyone who is able may have a gun.”
Patrick Henry
And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.
I consider it a DUTY to armed. Liberty and the preservation of Liberty demand no less of those who enjoy it’s blessings and love it for themselves, their family and fellow citizens. Look not to your neighbor, your elected representatives to preserve Liberty. Look to yourselves first, and expect that everyone else who does make the same Pledge.
Our guns are the only thing that is stand between us and slavery to the state. Don’t ever forget that…
I hope the leftists realize that if they fail to consolidate their power in this “fundamental transformation” of the United States, they are pretty much screwed.
They have acted so far outside their authority already that some of them will surely go to prison in 2013.
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I have never met John Conyers and I am sure he would never speak to me. So would somebody please give him a call and ask him to please come over to my house this afternoon or early Saturday morning as is convienent and confiscate all my guns? I might have a hard time getting them out to the car and would need some help. Please ask him to hurry as I am impatient.
Thanks.
They know they can’t control the guns….they will instead, go after the CONTROL of ammunition instead. Watch and see.
Sure, let’s have hearings; on Pelosi’s use of the government aircraft, on the lack of domestic oil production, on how Barney Frank effected the housing crisis, on the Dodd banking crisis, on Global Warming Fraud…………you know, things like that.
I’m so damn tired of these dumb bastards that want to enact more gun laws, instead of enforcing the ones we have every time we have a tragedy. And, these are the same dumb bastards that have armed security protecting them as they strive to take away the average Americans right to protect themselves. G-d I can’t wait for hunting season.
Conyers is a top-notch race-baiter. Outside of that he’s a man with a very small brain. maybe he forgot that the adults are in charge now. So don’t be telling him to go pound sand. Go buy some more ammo and hit the range. Then tell little Johnnie to go fuck himself.
Obama is a dictator just like his buddy Fidel Castro but yet the left calls Hosni Mubarak and Fulgencio Batista ruthless dictator.
To anyone who is scared of guns and wants them banned:
MOVE TO EUROPE! They don’t allow civilians to own them for the most part.
Oh yeah and they will be watching you with cameras 24/7, of course just to protect your safety… *Cough*Spy on you*Cough*
If you are so willing to give up the rights bestowed buy our forefathers then you are a treasonous pig. The paper says “A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” Do not and i repeat… DO NOT distort what is said. It is very, VERY clear.
To paraphrase a poster on another site:
“They can have all my guns and ammo, but they will get it one bullet at a time”.
‘Gun safety’…..good one, Conyers.
I’m pleased with the response, but I think what the House Republicans should do is decide to revisit the issue sometime in 2012 prior to the electioin, where the same thing will likely happen and the Dems can once again put themselves on record as being the party of gun-grabbers right before everybody heads to the polls…
BUT BUT don’t you see it’s all those damn gun’s fault for people getting shot. You just have to stay out the way when guns are walking around after all them guns are mean ornery critters ya know.
Say have you ever seen an ornery car, they’re pretty nasty also, or how about a knife or a sword, they can be pretty nasty and evil to. I heard it’s a misdemeanor to carry a concealed gun in California, but it’s a felony to carry a club–go figure.
Here it comes America! You knew he had to find an excuse to grab every weapon in private hands. I’m surpried it took so long for him to try but now that the rag is off the bush it is time to find that tight little hiding place for them and your ammo. In the mean time try to buy up as may as you can. Come and get em Hussein!
Congressman Louie Gohmert of Texas had the best rationale for gun grabbers. “I could say obesity is caused by forks. We need to ban forks.”
The First Wookie hardest hit.
@Mackie says: LOL!!!
You have no idea the battle I go through every day when I get home from work.
I unlock the front door, and have to do an immediate duck and roll to get inside. I dodge and weave all the way to my recliner, and I have to choke down all of the guns in my house that pop up and start firing at me, all on their own. They are possessed!! I swear.
Liberals are totally incapable of realizing that it’s people that kill people.
WHY does anyone need a gun?
WHAT are they AFRAID of?
If they’re that INSECURE,
maybe they shouldn’t be armed.
If the American public is as MAD as the majority of the above comments;
all the more reason to curtail their concept of “freedom.”
Kansas, I second your motion. Add to that list of investigations why Conyers had a government/taxpayer owned Cadillac Espalade and why his kid was driving it.
“Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom.”
Hey Jim Kendall, who the fuck are you to ask if someone needs a gun? Men far wiser than you deemed it an inalienable right granted to us by our creator that government shall make no laws to infringe upon. Obviously you don’t live in the Great state of Texas asking asinine questions like that.
What part of a laser like focus on job creation does gun control fall under again?
He should hold hearings under the Good and Plenty clause in the Constitution. Good and plenty guns sounds like a great idea.
soxfan4life says:
January 28, 2011 at 8:45 pm
What part of a laser like focus on job creation does gun control fall under again?
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When he tries to go after them, manufacturers start pumping them out, and maybe hiring more people. Business at gun shops goes through the roof. This happens EVERY time one of these idiots scream new gun laws.
Maybe more gov’t jobs considering the massive inflow of background checks that need to go gone over?
Take a hint from someone who has been through the pointless insanity of gun control. DONT GIVE AN INCH.
Dont let them add another law, and regulation, another rule. If you do you will end up like us fools in the Peoples Republic of Australia. We gave an inch, they took a mile. Now I have to justify my reasons for purchasing an air rifle to the Police, pay $30 for the paperwork and wait a month to pick it up. And thats for a “weapon” firing a projectile that would bounce off a wet shirt at 10 paces.
Google Australian states gun laws some time when you get bored, then remind yourself how good you’ve got it there in the US. And dont ever ever let them change it.
Personally, I think every household should have an 81mm mortar and 100 rounds of HE.
Remember, even though most of us were taught in school that MacCarthism was bad NO ONE was able to dispute the facts “the demorat party had many communists as members”!!!! It seems that not much has changed!!!
First order of business get there guns!!
Andrew, I like that poster too and agree with it 100%
That’s My Boy!
Apparently has yet to realize that passing new gun laws will not effect current criminals, as (shocka!) they already don’t care about breaking the law!!!!
Holy CRAP I hope the redistricting combines my (Conyers’) district w/ Dingel’s – that way we would at least get rid of ONE of those tired useless d-bags.
CMU – yeah, prosecute the little turd herder, and find out WTF he was doing w/ $27k of concert tix, too?
it’s almost like they (democrats ) are baiting us to use those guns…
Gun control USMC
Sight alignment, sight picture
natural point of aim, adjust
breath
pull slow and too the rear, follow through
Do the words “shall not be infringed” ring any bell,….anyone….?
There is not left or right, just a corporatocracy of foreign banking oligarchs.
Government is the puppet show for the ignorant masses to get all spun up about. Governments are the shields of their owners. Government does not work for the people or the country.
What do you sheeple think “AND DOMESTIC” means. It doesn’t mean against the people, it is talking about the tyranny government through the looking glass of all history.
semper fi
wake up sheeple