Parolee Kills 3 Oakland Officers

Off Topic Politics & World Issues
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[quote]Cockney Blue wrote:

I’m guessing that as he was on parole the gun wasn’t legal anyway so not sure what the argument would be from the anti gun lobby.[/quote]

Well, the argument from the anti-gun lobby isn’t necessarily required to be a rational one, Cockney.

Neither federal law (the Gun Control Act of 1968) prohibiting felons from owning firearms, nor nationwide background checks (as provided by the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act of 1993) to ensure that a potential handgun purchaser is not a felon or fugitive, nor the most stringent and numerous State laws in the United States restricting concealed handguns and assault rifles, was able to prevent this convicted felon from somehow obtaining both a concealed handgun and an assault rifle.

This fact, of course, will be lost on the anti-gun lobby, who will focus, as always, on the mechanism and configuration of the weapon, rather than on the killer who wielded it, and will argue that what we really need is another law.

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(Here we go!!X-()…Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is calling for the reauthorization of the federal ban on assault weapons… Experts estimate that one in five law enforcement officers slain in the line of duty is killed by an assault weapon. Crime experts say semi-automatic assault weapons are the “weapon of choice” for drug traffickers, gangs and paramilitary extremist groups in the U.S. and abroad. The Federal Assault Weapons Ban was signed into law by President Clinton in 1994. It expired in 2004.

Well now who the hell are these so-called “Experts”? (Flippin’ statistic cooking bald faced liars is what they really are)…The Camel’s whole head is now under the tent, but all we are seeing here is the filthy, smelly, stinkin’, fly swarmed, rear end of the animal in the form of grandstanding politicians and their lying media mind-control “Big-Lie” promotin’ syncophants seeking to turn firearms owners into instant felons merely for what sits in their gun-safes(?)…Does this Brady-Soros Pimp even realize how oppressive California’s unconstitutional “laws” already are? (and wants this totalitarian trash to go nationwide?). Does he even care?. You all know the answers…
As the slimy politician from the police procedural film “Bullitt” (1968) put it(paraphrase)…The publicity “propels one into the spotlight with subsequent effect on one’s career”…Let’s seek to make that “effect” a negative one!!..

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New Poll Finds Majority of American Voters Don?t Fault U.S. Gun Laws for Mexican Drug Violence
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has stated that the Obama administration would like to resurrect the Clinton ban on semi-automatic firearms, as well as other gun control laws.

[i]One of the reasons for bringing back these unpopular laws, according to Holder, is that Mexican drug cartels are becoming increasingly violent and warring with Mexican government troops. Holder says that some of the guns being used by the Mexican drug mafia are being obtained illegally from the United States.

Mexico is a country with a reputation for political corruption and a healthy disregard for the individual rights of its citizens. Still, Holder and the Obama administration think that limiting the Second Amendment rights of U.S. citizens is a cure for drug violence in Mexico.[/i]

However, according to a recent poll conducted by The O?Leary Report and Zogby International, a vast majority of the American voting public disagrees.

The poll, which was conducted March 20-23 and has a margin of error of plus-or-minus 1.5 percentage points, asked 4,523 likely voters:

?Mexican officials, gun control groups and officials at the Department of Homeland Security claim drug cartels are crossing the U.S.border in order to obtain guns illicitly. Others say that the Mexican drug cartels are equipped with military hardware including grenades, anti-tank missiles and mortars ? all weapons that are not available to the American public. Which of the following do you think is the main source for Mexican drug cartel arms??

Sixty-five percent of voters say that the international black market is the main source for Mexican drug cartel arms, while only 13.5 percent think these arms are coming from U.S. gun stores (3.5 percent think the arms are coming from somewhere else and 18 percent are not sure).

Among voters aged 18-29 years old, one of President Obama?s strongest groups of supporters, 73 percent say international black market, and just six percent say U.S. gun stores (two percent say somewhere else and 19 percent are not sure).

A strong majority of self-described Independent voters (65 percent) also say that the international black market is main source of arms for Mexican drug cartels, and only 12 percent say U.S. gun stores (four percent say somewhere else and 19 percent are not sure).

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[quote]Varqanir wrote:
Cockney Blue wrote:

I’m guessing that as he was on parole the gun wasn’t legal anyway so not sure what the argument would be from the anti gun lobby.

Well, the argument from the anti-gun lobby isn’t necessarily required to be a rational one, Cockney.

Neither federal law (the Gun Control Act of 1968) prohibiting felons from owning firearms, nor nationwide background checks (as provided by the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act of 1993) to ensure that a potential handgun purchaser is not a felon or fugitive, nor the most stringent and numerous State laws in the United States restricting concealed handguns and assault rifles, was able to prevent this convicted felon from somehow obtaining both a concealed handgun and an assault rifle.

This fact, of course, will be lost on the anti-gun lobby, who will focus, as always, on the mechanism and configuration of the weapon, rather than on the killer who wielded it, and will argue that what we really need is another law.[/quote]

True