“I will tell you these are ammunition, they’re bullets, so the people who have those now they’re going to shoot them, so if you ban them in the future, the number of these high capacity magazines is going to decrease dramatically over time because the bullets will have been shot and there won’t be any more available.” – Rep. Diana DeGette in CO Democrat Doesn’t Understand High-Capacity Magazines Can Be Reloaded [courtesy realclearpolitics.com]
Connecticut Must now drop its “The Constitution State” moniker-it is no longer befitting.
The Fractionated Constitution State?
At the same meeting, when responding to a concerned senior citizen, who (I’m pretty sure) was asking why he can’t have 30-round magazines to defend against assailant(s) with similar weaponry:
“Good news, you live in Denver and the DPD would be there within minutes.” That got another chuckle from the audience. And then she had to try and save face by nervously saying this: “Probably be dead anyway…with that kind of firepower.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WypFNHOl5_Q
Hat tip to Miguel at gunfreezone.net
I wouldn’t mind some pics of this nature…
http://www.vilnaghetto.com/gallery2/d/11615-2/A_gallows_with_the_bodies_of_ten_Polish_civilians.jpg
Another comment from the article, “‘The Congresswoman has been working on a high-capacity assault magazine ban for years, and has been deeply involved in the issue; she simply misspoke in referring to “magazines” when she should have referred to “clips,” which cannot be reused because they don’t have a feeding mechanism,’ Johnson said.”
Again, dafuq I just read?? Those were words and they were all joined together in the form of sentences, and it looks like English, but close examination shows it to be pure gibberish.
Agreed.
Just strung a bunch of mag and ammo related words with the party line dogma. My heart sunk deeper after seeing this the first time. Of course, I live in Colorado.
Again: you’re not the type of person they’re talking to!
One wonders how many of these nimrods thought the same thing and so imagined the mag ban would eventually eliminate them.
She isnt alone. I distinctly recall one of those moron round tables on MSNBC soon after Newtown where no less than two of the idiots at the table agreed that magazines were disposable single-use containers that you bought charged and tossed once empty.
Not to mention several articles from the UK in the Independent and the Telegraph which alluded to the same functionality.
There is no requirement for anyone to know what they hell they’re talking about to write up or support legislation over it.
A witch hunt. It’s all magic and heat-seeking armor-piercing incendiaries with shoulder things that go up to these imbeciles. Oh snap! Nikon makes rifle scopes!
Maybe she was ineloquently suggesting a ban on the sale of actual ammunition?
A thirty round mag containing the last four bullets, after all, would be less “dangerous.”
Scary.
Having heard the whole clip (news magazine…?) I must conclude that it’s a wonder that she can dress herself – poorly.
It’s plastic, therefor it’s disposable. Yeah. Oh – wait – so are guns. Once you empty them, you then throw them. Right?
DeGette is just one of the dumber than a bag of rocks liberal democrats that have infested Colorado over the last 20 years………………
It is difficult to understand how people this stupid are even allowed to vote, let alone hold public office.
I wish they would all have a big cup of STFU and then PTBAGTFO…………
“… just one of the dumber than a bag of rocks liberal democrats ”
That is an insult to rocks to be compared to someone that completely incompetent.
This is step one to disarming the public, wait for the “next” Sandy Hook, then they will come for your registered assault weapons and high capacity magazines. Anyone who registers their weapons is an idiot.
Rep Degette, what you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
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True dat…
Waaaaaaaaaaaat
Yeah cause that there high capacity magazine will only take high capacity bullets so sooner or later you gonna shoot up all dem high capacity bullets from the high capacity magazines……what kind of a law did this dumb soulless bimbo think she passed? a total ammunition ban? I am sure they would of, if they could have…but I disgress, you should actually be required to have some basic knowledge of a product before voting to ban it!
What we need is universal background checks before someone can run for public office….
Oh, wait…. That doesn’t work for stupid, does it?
This woman has the IQ of a snail – with apologies to all the snails.
We have them, but they only disqualify one based upon sexual activity. Stupididy is actually preferred.
All you Obama voting gun owners around here fell for the rhetoric hook-line-and-sinker and thought you were voting for “marriage equality” or some such nonsense. This is the agenda, bitchez. Now DEAL WITH IT.
If you preach “Don’t Comply”, are you willing to be the 1st to test the prosecutorial will of the State? Any unregistered guns will be effectively taken out of circulation as the risk of getting caught with it outweighs the gun owners desire to fully support the 2A. The line at the PVC gun burying store will be shorter than the gun registration line.
She just went full retard. You never go full retard.
My White Guilt Bank is closed, permanently. Get over it, people.
Agree!
I love the term “slave state” when used to describe states that severely infringe on our Second Amendment rights. And it’s not just the laws, but likely the attitude of the legal system and the media in that state. You know gun owners are going to be treated like second class citizens.
I think people should lighten up a little. Everyone is soooo PC these days that you cant even call a buddy a “Fag” in gest, that someone around the corner takes a offense. You’re a writer Robert, and things are written to appropriately respond to those that oppose our ideas writing in a similar manner. If someone doesn’t get that, then maybe he doesn’t need to be fighting this 2nd Amendment battle, because he certainly doesn’t understand the 1st.
I’ve previously advocated for TTAG to use “full retard”, despite the propensity to offend, because it encapsulates the way that willful idiots are acting. I think “slave state” also fits that criteria. It could offend, but it is an accurate description of the mindset of the powers that be in those states. A person whos personal defense is delegated to the state is not a free person. A person who has no option of last resort has no political power. It is a type of slavery, guilded cages not withstanding.
Let’s go with what the founding fathers said:
“[W]hen the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British Parliament was advised by an artful man, – who was governor of Pennsylvania, to disarm the people; that it was the best and most effectual way to enslave them; but that they should not do it openly, but weaken them, and let them sink gradually, by totally disusing and neglecting the militia.” –George Mason, speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention, 1788
The backup “she meant clips, not magazines” doesn’t answer the original question. What’s worse, clearly not understanding the topic or twisting the answer to fit her argument to the point of not even answering the question? It may be she doesn’t know the difference between a magazine and a clip, which is just as bad. Anyway you write it it’s sheer stupidity.
“How would banning mags over 15 rounds be beneficial”?
“If you shoot all the clips in the world you won’t have any clips left”.
“And what about the actual question”?
I live in her district. The sad thing is that this won’t make any difference when she runs again.
Why not use it? It’s accurate. The slaves who live there may be unaware of their servitude, but slaves they are nonetheless.
I have no problem with it.
No problem with the term at all. Aggravates me that folks can be so hypersensitive to race issues that use of the term ‘slave’ in any other context than those defined by our moral superiors is challenged. Grow up. Get over it.
That said – I agree with previous poster that ‘subject’ is more accurate to describe the “citizen/state’ relationship, but you can’t call CT a ‘subject state’ – ain’t got no rhythm to it!
“the government is us” now excuse me while I go piss on the Constitution with the consent of the entire Federal apparatus, including SCOTUS.
Full retard
Use whatever term you want, but please recognize that those states passing gun control measures are merely being more blatant about their slavery. Every “citizen” is enslaved to the government and must pay tribute to the “king” under threat of death.
“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”
– Goethe
We had an incident last night on an Arlington bike trail which demonstrates the effectiveness of SA. Two thugs set up a roadblock on a bike trail. The first biker saw what was up and managed to run the roadblock. He tried to get the attention of the guy in trail but failed. Biker #2 got robbed at gun point. If you have good SA you often never get to the DGU phase.
It’s been a long time since I have said this but I think that tactical courses for CCW should spend more time on learning how to avoid the threat than what to do when you encounter one.
Cup-and-Saucer, JLH? Really?
Farago, you need to offer that young lady a refresher handling course.
1uped the b!tch from New York, you know “The shoulder thing that goes up”
If a term in-and-of-itself or because of its “political charge” (for lack of a better term) needlessly distracts or allows the belligerent opposition to intentionally distract from the central important issue /topic then don’t use it. If a term, albeit a charged one, is needed for accuracy or is central to effectively discussing an important issue then use it. “Slave” is probably the former for the topic of gun control and “illegal alien” the latter when discussing border security and immigration.
This of course can be taken too far. I mean, just because pseudo-journalist & uber-jackass Chris Matthews says the word “apartment” is racist doesn’t make it so.
So, everyone is going to the 2A rally on The Mall in DC May 25th, right?
You use words and phrases like this because you know it pushes people’s buttons.
If you’re in this for site hits, keep doing so. If you keep this blog in the interest of constructive discussion, tone down the button-pushing loaded words and keep the conversation on gun rights/reviews.
Why is it that our side is always called upon to be restrained and guarded in our language and our actions? The bigots who oppose freedom are unrestrained!
How is it that some of you guys don’t see that our opponents want us cowed into submission, criminalized and imprisioned, or dead?
This isn’t some sort of intellectual discussion on Internet chatrooms anymore. Democrats and fellow traveller moderate Republicans are materially changing what it means to be an American. They are succeeding in changing the relationship between citizens and government so that “the government” is supreme and we are nothing but subjects, and expected to shut up and defer to our betters.
…this reminds me of the famous phrase from SNL:
“Jane, you ignorant slut”.
Re: Rubin’s exposure of Obama’s loss of national traction:
The gun control crowd is always going to be more successful at the state legislative level where the upper and lower houses are both population based: one person – one vote. As long as heavily populated liberal metropolitan areas hold more seats, the gun grabbers are going to focus their attention on state legislative bodies and bribe or coerce the legislators into party line compliance.
And many of the state legislators are eager to please their party leaders, and are too fearful, or ignorant (like Rep. Diana DeGette), or both to resist the pressure from the democrat leadership and outside Democrat influences (like Bloomberg’s expensive efforts to influence election outcomes) .
“We can never undo the tragedy that happened Dec. 14…” ~Governor Dannel Malloy, 4 April 2013
Yet, sir, you are trying to do just that, what with this fascist, feel-good, nonsensical, impotent, and emotionally-driven clusterf**k of a legislative action. It’s all about those dead kids!Okay, if this is so, and you really can do anything about it with laws, then write a law that magically resurrects those dead kids and we’ll call it even.
Innocent blood is crying out, Malloy. But not for more gun control. It is crying out for justice that you cannot give it no matter how many fascist laws you pass.
Ah, yes, “several emotional weeks of debate” and a “profoundly emotional day”.
Sadly, logic and reason were not invited.
Quote: “…An Act Concerning Gun Violence …”
My guns have yet to commit an act of “violence”…
Memo to gov. malloy….
FOAD!
Either a Smith 340 PD .357 for ultralight backpacking, Glock 23, Glock 27, Glock 35, Smith 4006 (doubles as a boat anchor) or a Smith .460 XVR. The Glock 35 with Underwood +P is essentially a 10mm.
I wouldn’t carry a custom $4500 .45 or 10mm schlepping through the woods. That’s a beautiful safe queen, not a woods gun. Happy hiking, y’all.
my backwoods/mountain gun is my Taurus 608. 8 shots of 180gr. Buffalo Bore hardcasts will hurt anything that roams this continent.
So, does this mean that cops and bodyguards in CT are only carrying ten rounds?
I wish that lying skunk would shut his fully automatic mouth.
The “clips” correction was one of the simplest tricks in the book…. Delay Delay Delay. Someone called her on her mistake, she makes up some nonsense “correction” and the person that caught the original mistake just slaps their forehead and says “Fu&% it”. We’ve probably all been guilty a time or two of just letting things go instead of arguing with a brick wall.