Tucson Shooting Survivors Lobby Lawmakers for Stricter Gun Laws
A dozen survivors of the January shooting rampage in Tucson, Ariz., that severely wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) lobbied federal lawmakers Tuesday to broaden federal background checks on potential gun owners.
The effort marked the first time since the shooting, which killed six and wounded 13, including Giffords, that a large group of Tucson survivors have banded together to weigh in on the politically charged issue.
"Politically charged"? Try "politically motivated". Look who's pushing this turkey - Bloomberg, Menino, Schumer. They're standing on top of the bodies of the victims actually pretending that anything they might pass could have prevented the shootings. Like a mentally disturbed person - who was never actually committed against his will, which is the only way one can be disqualified from buying a firearm - would try to buy a gun legally, be stopped, and then just give up and go home?
No, they're trying to make it harder for the rest of us - the sane, law-abiding, non-shooting-spree type people - to buy firearms. Is it far-fetched to see them trying to stretch "mental health issues" to cover folks who are, say, undergoing grief counseling? Or taking Valium for medical reasons? Or any other host of thinly veiled attempts to stop as many people from legally acquiring firearms as possible?
The real scary thing is not that they're trying this. Restricting freedom is what nanny statists do - you can't control a free (armed) people. You make as many of them criminals as you can; you make more ineligible; until finally the number of legal gun owners is small enough to legislate out of existence. What's scary is that there are people out there that think by passing a law making someone ineligible to own a firearm, a mentally disturbed individual who would shoot up a politician's campaign stop would simply give up and go home. That's "restraining order" type wishful thinking: "That piece of paper will protect me!".
As tempting as it may be, we can't legislate ourselves safe...
That is all.
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Maybe the survivors should start by asking the Pima Community College police why they didn't attempt to have the alleged shooter involuntarily committed and/or reported to NICS. I could have been done without violating due process. After all, they (the PCC police) thought the shooter was enough of a danger to himself and others that they went to his home and served him with what amounted to a no trespass order to stay off of campus property until he was medically cleared.
So basically they didn't give a rat's ass what he did or didn't do, as long as he did it off campus.
I'm sufficiently pissed off enough now that I believe I'll recycle an older post which alleges that - according to my analysis and interpretion of the timeline of events released by the Pima County Sheriff's Office, as well as the audio recording of their radio dispatch traffic - the first cop didn't arrive on scene until approximately 10:19am, roughly 8 minutes after the shooting started.
I was living in the Tucson area when this happened, and the local (and national) MSM seemed uninterested. Since then, other problems with Tucson's 911 system have came to light.
When you read the names here; Bloomberg, Schumer, Menino, there is something to be said: Politically Charged and Motivated Hacktivists. to borrow a word they themselves probably hate.
What would stop someone from crossing the border there and obtaining their firearm from a fast and furious dealer?
DO
"As tempting as it may be, we can't legislate ourselves safe..."
As children, when watching "Peter Pan" on stage, screen or TV, we believed in fairies with all our hearts so that Tinkerbell would live.
As adults, we hope that another piece of legislation will take care of the problem, that those who would be violent would understand the logic of the consequences of their violence and modify their behavior. Just one more tweak of the system is all that it takes.
Both approaches are believing in fairy tales. What motivates you to do something or not do something does not necessarily motivate or demotivate everyone or anyone else, as much as you wish it would. Be grateful when your expectations are met or even better exceeded, but do not be disappointed when they are not.
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