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| What we need is big time gun control |
There’s a hitch in the passage of gun control laws in the
Senate with Republicans objecting to the Democrats who want some record keeping
when it comes to passing a law to require background checks. The Guardian reports that
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) wants private sales made at gun shows and through the
internet, not only to be put through the FBI-maintained National Instant
Criminal Background Check System (NICS), but they also want such sales to be
recorded.” The GOP (and the NRA) says
no.
The National Rifle Assn. (NRA) led by head gun fanatic Wayne
LaPierre, has always been against any kind of registry of names on who owns
guns fearing that once that is in place, the government will come into gun
owning homes and take away their weapons.
"There absolutely will not be record-keeping on legitimate,
law-abiding gun owners," Sen. Tom Coburn, a Republican, said. This kind of thinking should illustrate to
the American public just what a group of gun worshipping maniacs LaPierre and
his NRA minions are.
And Chris Matthews,
progressive anchor for MSNBC’s Hardball,
said: “Support Gun Control or an American President Could Be Murdered,” in a
closing commentary in a show last week.
It is worth repeating, below:
CHRIS MATTHEWS: Let me finish
tonight with this: I was in a big city hospital recently and the issue of gun
control, gun safety came up. The doctor said if I wanted to know the impact of
guns, he could show me, take me down and show me. Look, gunshot wounds can be
truly horrible. The reality justifies the discussion, today, about the need to
try and do something about the proliferation of assault rifles, huge ammo
magazines and the loopholes in the requirement that there be background checks.
People have told us of the horrible sight of those young kids up in Newtown,
Connecticut. I personally don't want to be part of a movement to keep those
semi-automatics flying into the hands of all sorts of people as they are today,
the hoarders, the survivalists, the paranoid, the criminal and downright
politically nutty.
Why? Because the next mass shooter
could well emerge out of this pack. Check the shooters of John F. Kennedy and
Jerry Ford, who got shot at twice. Look at the men that shot Bobby Kennedy and
Martin Luther King and Malcolm X and George Wallace. They all had political
motives and they all had guns. Got them easy and put them easily to use. And if
you're not against this movement, you're with it. Write your congressman and
say what you think and what you feel. Do it tonight before you go to bed. The
address of Congress, for all the congressmen is Congress, U.S. Congress,
Washington, D.C., 20515. That's Washington, D.C. 20515. It will get there. And
that's Hardball for now. Thanks for being with us.
Well done!
Did you know that the United States, specifically Waikiki, Hawaii,
is a haven for tourists who just want to shoot guns, all kinds of guns, because
the gun laws in this country allow you to do pretty much anything you want with
a firearm? There are four shooting
ranges along Waikiki’s Kalakaua Avenue where they learn how to shoot assault
weapons. A large majority of these
tourists are Japanese, who are frequent visitors to Hawaii anyway, here because
they can get their hands on guns they are not allowed to own in Japan. There, only shotguns are legal.
USA Today says that, “…fewer
than 1% of Japan's population owns a gun and the death rate from gun-related
violence is extremely low.” There were
only 19 gun-related homicides in Japan in 2010 and in comparing that with gun
violence in the U.S., “47% of Americans own a gun, according to a 2011 Gallup
poll, and 8,583 Americans were killed in gun-related homicides, according to
the FBI's 2011 crime report.” It is
pretty pathetic to think that tourists coming to America do it because of loose
gun laws, which causes the gun carnage in the U.S.
But on a final note, at one of this country’s
largest firearms manufacturers, Beretta USA, one of its lunatic executives,
Jeffrey Reh, the company’s general counsel, is quoted in The Washington Free Beacon as saying, “Maryland
Democratic Gov. Martin O’Malley’s Firearm Safety Act of 2013 is ‘tantamount to
a legislative effort to ban certain books.’”
Just when you think you’ve heard it all.
Wacky Wayne would be proud of this sycophant of the gun rights
fruitcakes who probably, himself, has never read a book outside the law. Amen
