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Calm down, they're not coming for your guns...or are they?
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“We want everything on the table,” Schakowsky told Mattera. “This is a moment of opportunity. There’s no question about it.”
One poignant exchange was as follows:
Schakowsky: We’re on a roll now, and I think we’ve got to take the--you know, we’re gonna push as hard as we can and as far as we can.
Mattera: So the assault weapons ban is just the beginning?
Schakowsky: Oh absolutely. I mean, I’m against handguns. We have, in Illinois, the Council Against Handgun... something [Violence]. Yeah, I’m a member of that. So, absolutely.
In another exchange, Schakowsky proposed allowances for states and municipalities to ban guns--though such laws have been repeatedly rejected by the Supreme Court: Mattera: We’ll never get a handgun ban with the Second Amendment as stated.
Schakowsky: I don’t know. I don’t know that we can’t. And there may be an allowance, once again, for communities--I have communities in my district that prohibited handguns within their borders. The rights of municipalities and states to view that as a sensible way to keep people safe--I don’t think it’s precluded.
When Mattera asked why legislators were not pressing for a handgun ban, given that most murders are committed with handguns, Schakowsky replied: “Because we’re not going to be able to win that. Not now.” She went on to explain why background checks were a useful interim policy, arguing that they would “address any kind of weapon.”
Calm down, they're not coming for your guns...or are they?
“We want everything on the table,” Schakowsky told Mattera. “This is a moment of opportunity. There’s no question about it.”
One poignant exchange was as follows:
Schakowsky: We’re on a roll now, and I think we’ve got to take the--you know, we’re gonna push as hard as we can and as far as we can.
Mattera: So the assault weapons ban is just the beginning?
Schakowsky: Oh absolutely. I mean, I’m against handguns. We have, in Illinois, the Council Against Handgun... something [Violence]. Yeah, I’m a member of that. So, absolutely.
In another exchange, Schakowsky proposed allowances for states and municipalities to ban guns--though such laws have been repeatedly rejected by the Supreme Court:
Mattera: We’ll never get a handgun ban with the Second Amendment as stated.
Schakowsky: I don’t know. I don’t know that we can’t. And there may be an allowance, once again, for communities--I have communities in my district that prohibited handguns within their borders. The rights of municipalities and states to view that as a sensible way to keep people safe--I don’t think it’s precluded.
When Mattera asked why legislators were not pressing for a handgun ban, given that most murders are committed with handguns, Schakowsky replied: “Because we’re not going to be able to win that. Not now.” She went on to explain why background checks were a useful interim policy, arguing that they would “address any kind of weapon.”
Thankfully, SCOTUS disagrees with her. Elected officials should be punished for proposing laws that are unconstitutional.
Cold dead hands can't pry guns away from living ones. Its all moot anyway, the american people will never allow that kind of fascist event, gun banning , to take place.
Now everybody needs to write ammo and gun manufacturers and tell them to increase production to meet the demand. Hire and keep up the overtime.
Don't liberals understand by now that the issue of gun control is dead on arrival? Coburn backed out of bipartisan background investigation requirements because Democrats insist on a gun registry. Democrats needed Coburn to push the BI bill forward. He's out....a gun registry is a non-starter....therefore the bill is a non-starter. There will not be an assault weapons ban because there are too many Red State Senate Democrats up for re-election. High capacity magazine ban **may** garner bi-partisan support, but only as a pawn to the larger gun control movement.
The best that Democrats can expect are Harry Reid allowing amendments to be voted on in order to at least let Democrats look like they are trying even as they know the amendments will fail.
Thankfully, SCOTUS disagrees with her. Elected officials should be punished for proposing laws that are unconstitutional.
I made a thread about that, but someone said that it might be difficult to figure out if a law is unconstitutional or not, and that's why we have the Supreme Court.
Don't liberals understand by now that the issue of gun control is dead on arrival? Coburn backed out of bipartisan background investigation requirements because Democrats insist on a gun registry. Democrats needed Coburn to push the BI bill forward. He's out....the bill is a non-starter. There will not be an assault weapons ban because there are too many Red State Senate Democrats up for re-election. High capacity magazine ban **may** garner bi-partisan support, but only as a pawn to the larger gun control movement.
It's not "just starting".....It's already "dead."
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^THIS, is what I've said here over and over and over for YEARS.
So many posters seem to just not get the fact that supporting any type of gun control would be political suicide for AT LEAST a dozen democratic Senators from rural states.
What we are hearing is potificating by politicians so that they can get camera time and show their constituents that they are fighting on the issue. Do so few posters understand how the house and senate work?
Thankfully, [the current] SCOTUS disagrees with her.
I hope there are no changes on the court for the next four years.
Not on the conservative side anyways.
My guess they will take a carry outside the home case in the next term and that should give us a ruling some time next June. Hopefully they will establish strict scrutiny for the 2nd ammendment like the other enumerated rights http://content.csbs.utah.edu/~dlevin...ny%20table.pdf
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