Little-Acorn
Well-Known Member
It's the crisis the leftists in Congress have been waiting for: A high-profile shooting of one of their own, along with a Federal judge and a nine-year-old girl. And they are faithfully following the Obama administration's advice in such situations: Never let a good crisis go to waste.
The blood of the dead is barely cold, but new legislation is being hastily written Congress to disarm insane people like this shooter... by disarming everybody.
Should we really be surprised?
There's an old saying that emergencies make for bad law. But we still have people in Congress who believe there is no bad law... and this emergency is a mighty handy thing.
It may become the first important test of the new Republican majority in the house: Can they say NO to legislation that the media and other leftists are making popular, but that is ineffective? And even unconstitutional?
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http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0111/47338.html
Carolyn McCarthy readies gun control bill
Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-N.Y.), pounced on the shooting massacre in Tucson
By SHIRA TOEPLITZ | 1/9/11 5:57 PM EST
One of the fiercest gun-control advocates in Congress, Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-N.Y.), pounced on the shooting massacre in Tucson Sunday, promising to introduce legislation as soon as Monday.
McCarthy ran for Congress after her husband was gunned down and her son seriously injured in a shooting in 1993 on a Long Island commuter train.
“My staff is working on looking at the different legislation fixes that we might be able to do and we might be able to introduce as early as tomorrow,” McCarthy told POLITICO in a Sunday afternoon phone interview.
Gun control activists cried it was time to reform weapons laws in the United States, almost immediately after a gunman killed six and injured 14 more, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, in Arizona on Saturday.
The blood of the dead is barely cold, but new legislation is being hastily written Congress to disarm insane people like this shooter... by disarming everybody.
Should we really be surprised?
There's an old saying that emergencies make for bad law. But we still have people in Congress who believe there is no bad law... and this emergency is a mighty handy thing.
It may become the first important test of the new Republican majority in the house: Can they say NO to legislation that the media and other leftists are making popular, but that is ineffective? And even unconstitutional?
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http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0111/47338.html
Carolyn McCarthy readies gun control bill
Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-N.Y.), pounced on the shooting massacre in Tucson
By SHIRA TOEPLITZ | 1/9/11 5:57 PM EST
One of the fiercest gun-control advocates in Congress, Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-N.Y.), pounced on the shooting massacre in Tucson Sunday, promising to introduce legislation as soon as Monday.
McCarthy ran for Congress after her husband was gunned down and her son seriously injured in a shooting in 1993 on a Long Island commuter train.
“My staff is working on looking at the different legislation fixes that we might be able to do and we might be able to introduce as early as tomorrow,” McCarthy told POLITICO in a Sunday afternoon phone interview.
Gun control activists cried it was time to reform weapons laws in the United States, almost immediately after a gunman killed six and injured 14 more, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, in Arizona on Saturday.
