The Senate Judiciary Committee has approved a hugely controversial ban on assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition clips, but the measure faces nearly certain defeat on the Senate floor.
The proposal, authored by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), bans 157 different models of assault weapons, as well as magazines containing more than 10 bullets.
The vote was 10 to 8, with all Democrats supporting it and all Republicans opposed.
Something tells me there wasn’t much Obama “bipartisanship” in that vote. “Bipartisanship” according to Mr Obama means that every Republican and Independent vote precisely as do the Demorats. Wait; does that mean there isn’t any “bipartisanship” on the Demorat side?
Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), a member of the Democratic Party’s leadership in the House of Representatives, suggested to Jason Mattera at a Feb. 13 women’s rights rally that plans for an assault weapons ban and private-sales background checks were only the beginning of a broader gun control agenda extending to handguns as well.
Schakowsky evidently did not recognize Mattera, a conservative video journalist and senior investigative reporter for Talk Radio Network, who infamously confronted Vice President Joe Biden in the Capitol. (Mattera introduced himself to Schakowsky by name but did not indicate that he was filming or that he is conservative.) She spoke to Mattera as if he were a fellow gun control enthusiast–and Mattera played along, eliciting answers about Schakowsky’s enthusiasm for gun control.
It’s no surprise that Demorats, Leftists, Progressives and the Obama Regime wish to abrogate the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights, particularly the 2nd Amendment because — once the 2nd falls — the 1st Amendment is up for bid.
And then the individual has no control, and Government ultimate control. One then becomes a Prole, a Groundling, a Serf, a Subject to the King.
In the exchange:
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.
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.
Clear evidence, in my book.
This is nothing new. Mr Obama himself quite clearly stated that no one should own firearms.
In his new book, At the Brink, economist and author John R. Lott Jr., assesses the presidency of Barack Obama and recalls conversations regarding gun laws they had while working at the University of Chicago.
In Chapter Three, Mr. Lott discusses gun-control and takes the reader back to his time at the University of Chicago, where he and then-professor Barack Obama spoke on numerous occasions about guns in America.
“I don’t believe people should be able to own guns,” Obama told Lott one day at the University of Chicago Law School.
(A) chapter (of the book) documents the actions that Obama has taken on guns, citing the following:
In 1996, Obama supported a ban on handguns
In 1998, he supported a ban on the sale of all semi-automatic guns
In 2004, he advocated banning gun sales within five miles of a school or park, which would have shut down nearly all gun stores
Mr Obama has spoken many times. His original words are clear and undiluted: he’s coming for your American rights. He fervently believes that no individual should own any kind of firearm.
As far as Mr Obama in concerned: no American civilian is responsible or can be trusted. No one. Not you. Not me.
On February 22, “Right Views” reported that a growing number of firearm companies have suspended the sale of guns to states, counties, cities and municipalities that restrict their citizens’ rights to own them.
In just two weeks, the number of companies participating in what has been named the “Firearms Equality Movement,” has more than tripled from 34 companies to 118.
The Police Loophole lists every company and links to the statements that each has released regarding their new policies.
Let me just throw this into the mix: what did the Obama Administration already do regarding private business in America? That’s right, he forced the government into seizure of two of the three largest American automakers, GM and Chrysler. The result no one saw coming or wanted to report? Oh yes, that hundreds of dealerships closed.
“It is not at all clear that the greatly accelerated pace of the dealership closings during one of the most severe economic downturns in our nation’s history was either necessary for the sake of the companies’ economic survival or prudent for the sake of the nation’s economic recovery,” the report said.
What happens when the Obama Administration can’t get any more Colt or S&W or Ruger or Remington parts or firearms?
“Truth is to Demorats as light is to vampires.” — BZ
BZ
P.S.
Dear Readers: today is a commute day. My wife and I are driving to the northern Fornicalia coast near Ft Bragg to stay in a rental house for the next ten days. I’ll be blogging, of course, as I usually do. I just may not have a particularly timely post for tomorrow. At this time of year, where we’re going, the crabbing and whale-watching is usually very good and I hope to acquire some crab in the gullet and some whales in camera and on video.
