Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee heard testimony on the subject “What Should America Do About Gun Violence?” The goal was to figure out what steps the government should take to increase gun control (if any). The witness list so far has actually been fairly balanced, inviting both NRA Veep Wayne LaPierre and Mark Kelly (Gabby Giffords’ husband and gun control advocate), as well as some people who actually have skin in the game such as Baltimore’s chief of police. But an equal airing of views isn’t really what Dianne Feinstein and in mind, so she’s planning on holding a hearing of her own. Or, in the words of Eric Cartman, “screw you guys, I’m holding my own hearings” . . .
Via Politico:
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), unhappy with the witnesses slated to testify at Wednesday’s Judiciary Committee hearing on guns, will hold her own hearing on her proposed ban on assault weapons.
“I’m concerned and registered my concern with Sen. [Patrick] Leahy yesterday, that the witnesses are skewed to the anti-gun, anti-assault weapons position,” Feinstein told POLITICO. “He agreed that I would be able to do my own hearing on the assault weapons legislation which I will proceed to do.”
DiFi’s legislation is drowning. Her attempt to relive the crowning achievement of her political career, the implementation of the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban, is slipping further and further from her clutches. There’s little chance of it getting out of committee, let alone going to a Senate vote or being passed by Congress. So, out of options, she is trying to coordinate a “kangaroo court” of Senate hearings where the only opinions expressed will be those that she agrees with. An echo chamber of gun control propaganda.
It’s doubtful that anything will break the current deadlock against her bill. It has been described as “political suicide” by many Democrats, and rightly so. But there’s always the chance that some of the toxic sludge will seep out of DiFi’s special hearing and attach itself to one of the other dozen or so bills being considered that would restrict American’s gun ownership abilities.
In short, keep calling.
she looks like gollum eating potatoes
What?? You mean the MSM would fake a video??
I’m shocked, SHOCKED, I tell you!
> “What Should America Do About Gun Violence?”
If they really believe that guns cause violence, then disarm the 13% of the demographic group that is responsible for 1/2 to 2/3 of the violent crime. * Make it illegal for members of that demographic group to own a gun.
It wouldn’t end all gun violence, but focusing efforts on a minority portion of the population would have a disproportionate effect of reducing gun violence. For a small cost, the payoff would be big.
And since they really believe that owning a gun is not a right, then nobody’s rights would be violated.
* It’s been many years since I’ve crunched those numbers so (1) I’m going off of memory, and (2) assuming that the trends haven’t changed since then.
> Men make up 49% of the population and account of
> the 90%+* of gun violence.
But as a thought experiment, what would a society where only women were allowed to own guns be like? More violent? Less violent?
Given that women weren’t allowed to vote for over 100 years, maybe some turnabout would be fair.
> Individuals are responsible for their actions, not groups
Not to to the gun-control crowd.
>Not to to the gun-control crowd.
Quite true…one of their many failings, and one which should not be emulated.
Another ‘Reichstag fire’ is worrisome.
she kind of looks like a female cartman…very hansom
I think Fienstien is skewed and anti gun, does that mean she will boycot her own hearing lol
As someone who has been treated with anti-depressants for years and has never had a violent inclination either on or off of them, I’d be pretty annoyed if this turned into another witch hunt against people who are on such meds. I get enough crap for being pro-2nd amendment. I don’t need any crap for knowing enough about my own moods to know when to seek help. Saying people can’t buy guns if they’ve ever been on anti-depressants is just asking for people who own guns not to bother to seek help with their problems.
First, it isn’t about witch hunting those on, going on, or going off these meds. It is about appropriately monitoring these people when they start taking, and if they stop taking these meds.
Second, I’ve yet to see a single case where these drugs were used where legitimate mental therapy wouldn’t have been 10x better. These drugs are pharmaceutical wallpaper that is being used to paper over both real mental issues that get ignored and for vague suspicions of mental issues that never existed to begin with.
‘Legitimate mental therapy’ doesn’t apply in cases such as these; Psychiatry, and clinical psychology, are simply not CAPABLE of ‘fixing’ the severely mentally ill. Mental-health professionals can work WONDERS with those who are mildly disabled in interactive skills, the depressed, those suffering from phobias, those who have (or had) a grasp on reality and may be chemically imbalanced, or have non-organic neurological disorders that can be treated with therapy and certain drugs.
On the other hand, there is NO cure for those who have organic brain disorders, whose wiring just ‘ain’t right’, who are psychopathic and/or sociopathic, or dangerously schizophrenic, delusional, deeply paranoid, or have anything else wrong with them mentally that prevents them from discerning reality from illusion, innocence from threat, right from wrong.
‘Treatment’ of the truly dangerously-mentally-‘sick’ is either to drug them into zombie-hood and keep them that way, or to keep them secured away from those that they endanger.
No, I’m not speaking off-the-cuff; 19 of my years as a police officer were spent as a negotiator.
The truly sick ones mentioned above are really not uncommon; What’s amazing is that more of them don’t do what they did. What else is amazing is that we know that these human beasts exist, but we still let them walk amongst us, as many people still truly believe that there is ‘no such thing as a bad boy.’ Trust me–there are some rotten, evil, defective monsters out there.
Some of them have been elected to public office.
I hope it passes, but it if it doesn’t, don’t be disappointed.
In Texas it’s difficult to pass most bills the first time. It’s intentionally hard to pass bills here, and the legislature meets only for a few months, in every other year.
If it doesn’t pass this time, don’t be shocked. Just keep trying until we get it. And keep contacting your legislator.
The neurotransmitter theory of mental disease, cited in one of the previous posts, has a long way to go before it should be given much credence. For example, such theory as it relates to “schizophrenia” is that the schizophrenic’s brain has too much dopamine. But to my knowledge there has never been any direct evidence that that is true. Nor have the brains of depressives been found to be deficient in serotonin, as one of the neurotransmitter theories of depression supposes. Bottom line: those who place their faith in the ability of psychopharmacological agents that are believed to regulate brain chemistry, reliably to control or abate “crazy” thinking and behavior, are likely to be sorely disappointed.
I watched these hearings, and Gabby Gifford’s husband kept using Jared Loughner as an example for why we need universal background checks. I thought this was strange, since he passed a background check. No one pointed this out to him.
Well sign me up for the difi/brady suicide pact. Do you get extra points if a person punches themselves in the face when being shot to death? You’ve heard of suicide by cop & now we have…drumroll.. suicide by criminal. Its one thing for those losers to crash their car into a bridge abuttment, its another to head on a nice family. difi really should be first in line for those necessary mental health checks, Randy
we have pre-emption at the national level.
It’s called the Constitution.
Good lord…she’s like the evil troll I read about as a kid…only worse…and uglier.
Damn, I can’t wait for the old moonbat to retire. Confine her to her natural habitat, San Fran, which is so messed up that she can do no further harm.
She looks like a female version of Emperor Palpatine from Star Wars…or maybe the Wicked Witch from Wizard of OZ. “I’ll get you my pretty, and your little AR too!”
Dear lord, that is the funniest thing I read today. I almost lost a finger though, I was touching up a blade when reading, and fyi Coke through the nose hurts. Too true.
Another mass shooting in a GFZ will happen. The anti’s are wasting everybodies time and energy defending against useless gun laws that will have no effect on the next Lanza.
What the anti’s are not doing in any meaningful way is increasing the security in these places to prevent the next shooter. I was at an elemtary school last week that had no locked doors, no fences and the only security was an unarmed female office staff, just like Sandy Hook.
If she was serious about preventing another tragedy Difi would drop this foolish AWB and work with both partys and the NRA to insure these unprotected schools have the security they need.
Thank you for this, and I echo the comments of those above me. Glad you can protect yourself and yours.
they are right though – pursuing this further is going to be political suicide.
if any of this creeps into 2014 toward november, we will very well remember this and finally vote some of these idiots out
Yeah, crazy that you can’t OC in Texas. Like what Phil from Michigan said, we have OC in Washington, no permit required. I do it all the time during the summer.
Welcome!!!!!!
Is it not odd that anyone or org. that takes a position of standing for integrity and truth inevitably finds itself described as part of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, Stingy White Folks, Bitter Clingers, et al. Yet the very PPL that label them so are the true enemies of egalitarianism, Truth and Justice?
I hope Mr. Fargo and Co. are steeled for what is about to engulf them, their familys, and friends (as will befall us all) in the very near future.
Well you can’t fix stupid, but you can certainly shoot it dead.
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“Down the side of your gun is written “Replica”. Down the side of mine is “Desert Eagle .50…..”
So Mr.Berwick has a hole in his leg.
Sounds like Mr. Muse could use a little time at the range.
Still one (1) out of two (2) ain’t bad.
And he did have his gun handy.
If the DA was really interested in reducing crime, the surviving perps should be charged with felony murder.
how bout rule #0… get a clue on the basics before you touch the gun AT ALL. Same applies for people who debate about gun control.
I’m willing to bet more people are killed by bee stings then by negligent discharges. We place to much emphasis on this phenomenon. It’s certainly no reason to shut down an entire show, any more than a vehicle accident in the parking lot should shut down the show.
In the old days they used to shoot empty whiskey bottles in the saloon for target practice. That’s the kind of America I want to see, not the feminized, pantywaist, afraid of its own shadow nation we’ve morphed into. I’m tired of this crap.
I don’t drink but I bet I could shoot a bottle cap off a bradys head. If I miss? oh well, practice makes perfect. Yes, I am joking, for the humor challenged, Randy
So, as people become more desperate in a down economy (down 1% as of Q4 2012), it’ll become more common to see criminally-inclined youths ganging up to take on John and Jane Homeowner.
Remind me again why 7 is the new 10?
I got an email noting that a coworker was jumped by four such youths en route to campus. Not a robbery, just a beating–and the advice given is “do not resist.” I’m really hoping my state goes “shall-issue” soon, not that I’d be able to carry to and from work.
In other words, they’re spending millions to do absolutely nothing.
We already have observers, what we need are interdictors.
Wtf? How is this supposed to do a damn thing?
Could be these kids are double or tripleing their dose just looking for a buzz. You know they might think one feels good, two would be better. Then they start hearing voices & flipping out. Just another possibility.
Vests and radios…
“Stop, or I’ll say ‘Stop’ again!”
In a related comment, cocaine is a hell of a drug.
Weren’t they all on drugs? Also those drugs, from what I heard (even the commercials state this), make a person want to harm others and themselves. They become suicidal and violent.
If that be the case why drug them up when it will lead to violence? If you need to have someone on drugs, in the attempt to keep them apart of society, then maybe they shouldn’t be.
The family is responsible for these people when they choose not to have them committed to a help center. If family and friends have firearms they should always have them locked in a safe and they should keep the code secret.
The problem is that parents refuse to acknowledge their kids issues or their failures as as parent. They don’t want to deal with it what so ever, they run away from the issue every time it comes up. They feel that as long as they have their child inside the house they will not have any problems. Just let them go on the internet, watch TV and play video games all day. Of course that is until their child kills themselves or harms others.
this is just one of the emperors plans to make jobs but still not benefit the country. the anti gun people argue that the armed guards at Virginia tech did nothing so how will unarmed guards do a thing?
Thank you, MomWithAGun. You’re the embodiment of the American spirit, from your decision to uproot and move to the US, to your embrace of the universal right to self-defense as expressed in the Second Amendment. Right on.
With a sheriff and a police chief who have both professed the belief–under oath in deposition–that more guns means more crime (a proposition for which neither they nor anyone in their offices could supply any factual support), it is hardly surprising that being a school security guard is not “good cause” for issuance of a permit to carry a handgun. Fame, fortune, political connections, those are “good cause”, but not much else.
I actually find this hilarious, how do these people NOT feel like bullet magnets!? “here’s a bullet proof vest and a radio, go stop a active shooter”. . …. only in CA….
Id say ban BIG City Cops (NY and LA gestapo especially) too. They are not cops who protect us just the brown shirts of BIG corrupt mayors. They shoot more people by mistake than bad guys (NY Empire state building shooting). Bump fascist wannabes.
Not sure if IAAGO or hostage ransom picture…
Testing.
Look everybody! We’re doing something! See what we did? We’ve protected our… Wait, what? That nutjob shot the unarmed guy on a Segway too? S#!t! Well, that didn’t work, guess we’d better go back to banning stuff arbitrarily.
Times like these, I hate being a CA resident. Don’t think it’s gonna be easier any time soon.
So the witch hunt for the deranged men in hockey masks & boiler suits continues, much to celebration of those middle class nitwits.
Enter the need for a Federally recognized psychiatrists psychometric testing results to be presented when application for a concealed carry license is provided to the issuer.
Let the kick backs through Obama care begin.
I’d say yall misunderestimate the Social Passing skills that somebody like Obama would have learned in the Ivy League. Part of what is taught there is how to disengage from one’s inborn sense of morality in order to take one’s place in the orders of the elites. If one is also afflicted with narcissism and a savior complex to atone for one’s father’s deficits, it surely can lead to the development of a political personality that can pull a trigger for political expedience. Just ask Joe Stalin.
adding reynolds wrap to portfolio
I think a fitting tune for these politicians would be PIL’s 1984 “Order of Death”. “This is what you want this is what you get, this is what you want this is what you get…….”