Feinstein: All Vets Are Mentally Ill And Government Should Prevent Them From Owning Firearms
During the Senate Judiciary meeting today to markup a potpourri of bills designed to deny the American people their rights under the Second Amendment and disarm them, Senator Dianne Feinstein opposed an amendment to her so-called assault weapons ban legislation that would allow veterans to continue buying firearms the bill would outlaw. Feinstein basically said all veterans have PTSD and should have their Second Amendment stripped. In response to the amendment, she said the following:
…this adds an exemption of retired military. As I understand our bill, no issue has arose in this regard during the 10 years the expired ban was effect… and what we did in the other bill was exempt possession by the United States or a department or agency of the United States… that included active military. The problem with expanding this is that you know with the advent of PTSD, which I think is a new phenomenon as a product of the Iraq War, it’s not clear how the seller or transferrer of a firearm covered by this bill would verify that an individual was a member, or a veteran, and that there was no impairment of that individual with respect to having a weapon like this. So you know I would be happy to sit down with you again and see if we could work something out but I think we have to — if you’re going to do this, find a way that veterans who are incapacitated for one reason or another mentally don’t have access to this kind of weapon.
#1. To: whyofcourse, *Military or Vets Affairs* (#0)
The problem with expanding this is that you know with the advent of PTSD, which I think is a new phenomenon as a product of the Iraq War,
What a freaking maroon! THIS idiot creature has literally earned millions of dollars over the years as a US Senator,and many more millions selling her office to the highest bidder,and she has never heard of shell shock from WW-1,WW-2,and the Korean War,which later became PTSD in a little place called Viet Nam.
Given that her husbands business partners played for the other team in both the Korean and the VN Wars,you would think she would be more familiar with it.
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
Weapons used by government officials and law enforcement will not be prohibited by the law proposed by the California Democrat, which would prohibit the sale, manufacture and importation of 158 specifically named semi-automatic weapons and ammunition magazines that hold more than 10 rounds. Any weapons legally owned before the bill’s enactment would also be exempt, although those firearms would have to be registered in a national database.
In addition, more than 2,200 types of hunting and sporting rifles and manually operated firearms would also be exempt.
The ambitious measure seeks to reinstate and expand the federal ban on assault weapons that expired in 2004. While gun control restrictions -- typically extremely unpopular -- have floundered in Congress in recent years, there has been a renewed push for tighter regulations in the wake of last month’s elementary school shootings in Newtown, Conn.
But gun rights activists, led by the National Rifle Association (NRA), have vowed to oppose any legislative action that could increase regulations on firearm ownership, claiming it is an undeniable violation of the Second Amendment.
"Senator Feinstein has been trying to ban guns from law-abiding citizens for decades," the gun lobby said in a statement. "The American people know gun bans do not work, and we are confident Congress will reject Senator Feinstein's wrong-headed approach."
Some tea-party affiliated conservatives have alleged the Obama administration is attempting to strip citizens of their weapons in a move that has constantly been compared to Adolf Hitler’s Nazi takeover of Germany. Pro-gun extremists, such as NRA board member Ted Nugent, have recently stated that any additional gun laws are the first step toward all-out confiscation, an event the conservative blogosphere argues could potentially lead to the rise of a totalitarian state. The exemption of government officials and law enforcement from the Feinstein bill may encourage that line of thinking.
Nugent, for his part, recently told the conservative World Net Daily that gun owners should model their resistance on the 1960s civil rights movement.
“There will come a time when the gun owners of America, the law-abiding gun owners of America, will be the Rosa Parks, and we will sit down on the front seat of the bus, case closed,” Nugent said, comparing gun owners to the civil rights hero.
Feinstein basically said all veterans have PTSD and should have their Second Amendment stripped.
She didn't say anything even basically near that...
It doesn't really matter what she said, this is the kind of thing she is afraid of when the people finally get tired of what she and our government is doing!! She thinks her POS legislation will head this off at the pass and save her a$$.... NOT!!
When some dumb bastard hates you for no good reason then give them one, tell them what your political affiliation is!!
The Corporation is a Legal Person. Get Over It www.professorbainbridge.c...l-person-get-over-it.html ... Jan 21, 2010 – In a Slate column prompted by Citizens United v. FEC, entitled The Pinocchio Project: Watching as the Supreme Court turns a corporation into a .....
The corporation was created specifically to shield PERSONS engaged in commercial activity - fundraising, btw, is a commercial activity - from PERSONAL liability. It took a very twisted contortion of logic to conclude that an entity created, by law, to be separate from a person to shield a person from personal liability, IS a person, itself...and it takes a moron to believe it...
I'll believe that a corporation is a person 1 second after Texas executes one...
She won't have her way and it's the output of a simple mind that would believe otherwise...the biggest fear mongering group in the US is the NRA...
I doubt that it will go anywhere but with the amount of losers currently in the House and Senate you never know how the vote will go... (that's the sad part)..
You know what would really be nice is if we didn't have to suffer simple minded assholes like her, but there are so many no information voters out there getting rid of them is almost impossible... Look who just got re-elected in November for the perfect example!!
"Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it."
Warren had all the help that she needed from her opponent...Scott "Just Look At Her!!" Brown...
You would have thought the people of Massachusetts would be sick and tired of being screwed over by the Democrat "faux elites" but I guess not... but then again it may have been voter fraud hmmmmm...
Glad I don't live in that schitthole..
"Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it."
Yep. Cruz was reduced to Classroom Snot who won't get the birthday party invite...
She was pissed because he called out her "stupidity" (lack of knowledge and respect for the Constitution) and so she "Libbed" out at him...
His questions underscored his own lack of understanding of the 1st Amendment. There are laws that reduce speech from a plenary proposition to one that does have boundaries...libel...public safety...would Cruz argue that parade permits are an infringement on free speech? What's even more ironic is that he clerked for Rehnquist while Rehnquist, Scalia and others were running amok over 1A...
I'll believe that a corporation is a person 1 second after Texas executes one...
What did you do to provoke these dedicated public servants?
I'll bet you did your asshole act, right?
He's too funny. Not an ounce of taking responsibility for his own actions from that one. Do you think he was under Nurron's skirts, hiding from them too?
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
Speech is any expression of belief or a means used to communicate a message.
Marches and demonstrations is an expression of belief if they are for a purpose and protected under the First Amendment.
Porn is an communication regarding one's sexulality and is also protected by decissions by the Supreme COurt as speech under the First Amendment.
Speech is communication. It is something much more complex than verbal, written or sign language conveying meaning.
And speech can be unconstitutional if you shoot up people for a political message, yell fire in a theater, or threaten someone. Speech has limits and the SCOTUS has ruled this is so if it is something that causes or can cause physical harm to people or endanger them.
You don't like the fact we have a system of law where court cases creat precidents that establish limits. But in this quirt of yours', your argument is with the SCOTUS, not us.
We just try to get the facts through your rather thick skull when we argue with you on a topic like this.
Feinstein is as fine of a Senator that this nation has ever seen and her *bitch* slap of Ted Cruz is an absolutle classic...
You're delusional (no surprise) if you think Cruz's schooling of the senile senior Senator from California on the meaning of the US Constitution amounts to a *bitch slap* against him.
To me it doesn't matter what wrapping *Moron* comes in.
" Cruz started out -- and then asked whether the First Amendment should "only apply" to certain books or the Fourth Amendment should only protect certain people from unreasonable searches.