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House
Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) announced at a Wednesday press
conference that Rep. Mike Thompson (D-Calif.) will lead a new task force focused on reducing gun violence in the wakeof Friday’s tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown,
Connecticut.
Thompson,
a former co-chair of
the Congressional Sportsmen’s Caucus, said in a statement that “something must
be done” to prevent further tragedy.
“I
am a gun owner, hunter, former co-chair of the
Congressional Sportsman Caucus, supporter of the second
Amendment and a combat veteran who carried an assault rifle in
Vietnam,” Thompson said. “I understand guns, their purpose and how they are
used. Military-type assault weapons and assaultmagazines have
no place on our streets or in our communities. We also need to consider
instituting more detailed background checks and making sure
appropriate mental health services are available.
As chair of this task force I will be working on
these issues as part of a comprehensive approach to reduce gun
violence and strengthen our nation’s gun laws while protecting law abiding citizens’ right to own legitimate
firearms.”
Thompson
is a member of the Blue Dog Coalition, a dwindling group
of moderate House Democrats. He represents California’s 5th congressional
district.
Pelosi’s
announcement comes just one day after House Democrats pushed for a vote on
legislationbanning the manufacturing of high-capacity magazines.
“Right
away we could pass … we could pass the ban on the assault magazine,” Pelosi
said during aninterview with MSNBC. “Just to ban
the magazine, the assault magazine, we could do it right now.”
prevention. That
initiative will be led by Vice President Joe Biden..
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5 comments:
Yea, come and get my guns-ammo first...all of it.
The sooner the military make the announcement put Pelosi, Joe Biden and the rest of the crooks in DC including judges attorney's behind bars should end the real cause of violence.
Take our guns... sounds like a suicide mission for them...too bad they'll very likely get everyone's AMMO first. What would Jefferson do? Exactly that!
"The best laid plans of mice and men oft go astray" - methinks they may be biting off more then thay can comfortably chew - even with all their trillions of dollars in preparation - ammo - death camps - super soldiers - super tanks - and all the rest. America was founded with FREEDOM at it's very heart, and America's heart will not stop beating without one hell of a fight, even if it takes a kitchen brigade of old maids with pots and pans to beat the shit out of the enemy before that bullet - or sword - has done us in. At least one of 'them' is going to feel my wrath, hopefully somewhere where it will really count. I, for one, won't go down without a fight, and I will take with me as many as I can. They will remember the spitfire from this old white haired granny. I may be old and feeble, and I don't own no gun but I sure ain't no coward. What say you neighbor? America, rise up and take your places. When 'they' have the balls to come for your guns, show 'them' you mean it when you say "Hell NO!" WILL SOMEBODY PLEASE TAKE DOWN THESE BASTARDS IN WASHINGTON, DC, THE DISTRICT OF CRIMINALS? THAT INCLUDES THE UN IN NEW YORK. LET'S GET THIS OVER WITH. GO FOR THE ONES 'AT THE TOP' WHO ARE THE TRAITORS AND INSTIGATORS OF THE WORLD'S PROBLEMS. GET THIS FILTHY SCUM OFF AMERICA'S SOIL ONCE AND FOR ALL.
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