Here We Go: McCarthy readies gun control bill

Here's the really sick part of all this - first the Dems whip their mentally unstable left-wing base into a frenzy by lying, manipulating, and using martial imagery with violent undertones to send their carefully crafted message. Of course, they should know better, because anyone with an intact frontal lobe knows that at the heart of pretty much all political violence lie left-wing ideas. Then they brazenly use the blood of the victims of the tragedy (that they likely incited) as so much political capital to advance their twisted, unconstitutional agenda.

You know, a committed right-winger who takes his or her ideology to an extreme is likely to buy a few dozen acres somewhere in Idaho or Montana. It's possible that they would open fire on anyone who came onto their property, but it isn't very likely that they'd otherwise try to impose their individualist ideology on anyone else - "You better start supporting limited government or I'll blow your head off" may exist somewhere in Keith Olbermann's imagination, but I doubt it's ever been uttered in real life.

On the other hand leftism is, by its very nature, predicated on the idea that it's OK to take from one group of persons in order to give to another group of persons. Inherent to that concept is the necessity to view people in groups. Once you've identified the group that's causing all the "problems" you're just a hop, skip, and a jump away from the next left-wing inspired genocide. Take your pick: Stalin's purges, Mao's Cultural Revolution and Great Leap Forward, Stalin's starvation of the Ukraine, Pol Pot's Killing Fields, and, yes, even Hitler's Holocaust. All predictable results of the left-wing's identity politics. "You better support healthcare for everyone or I'm going to start tearing this place up" doesn't sound so unlikely to hear, does it?

Anyway, enough of my rant. One of the first things that has to be done to ensure a docile and compliant population is to disarm them. Carolyn McCarthy's a one-issue drumbeater who has, in my opinion, illogically spent her career fighting to pass ridiculously restrictive gun laws ever since the moment her husband and son were unlucky enough to run across a guy who was ignoring all the gun laws anyway. I'm sorry about her husband and son, but I don't see how wallowing in the blood of the victims of yesterday's tragic shooting in order to advance an absurd, and dangerous, political agenda fueled by lies and misinformation is going to help matters one bit.

McCarthy readies gun control bill By: Shira Toeplitz January 9, 2011 05:57 PM EST

One of the fiercest gun-control advocates in Congress, Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-N.Y.), pounced on the shooting massacre in Tucson Sunday, promising to introduce legislation as soon as Monday. McCarthy ran for Congress after her husband was gunned down and her son seriously injured in a shooting in 1993 on a Long Island commuter train. “My staff is working on looking at the different legislation fixes that we might be able to do and we might be able to introduce as early as tomorrow,” McCarthy told POLITICO in a Sunday afternoon phone interview. Gun control activists cried it was time to reform weapons laws in the United States, almost immediately after a gunman killed six and injured 14 more, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, in Arizona on Saturday. Many said that people with a history of mental instability, like the alleged shooter, Jared Lee Loughner, should not be able to buy a gun — and no one should be able to buy stockpiles of ammunition used by the 22-year-old assailant. McCarthy said she plans to confer with House Speaker John Boehner and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to see “if we can work something through” in the coming week. McCarthy’s bill will look to protect ordinary people, she said, but did not offer further details. “Again, we need to look at how this is going to work, to protect people, certainly citizens, and we have to look at what I can pass,” she said. “I don’t want to give the NRA – excuse the pun – the ammunition to come at me either.” Pennsylvania Rep. Robert Brady, a Democrat from Philadelphia, told CNN that he also plans to take legislative action. He will introduce a bill that would make it a crime for anyone to use language or symbols that could be seen as threatening or violent against a federal official, including a member of Congress. Another vocal supporter for gun control, Illinois Rep. Mike Quigley, told POLITICO that he hopes “something good” can come from the Arizona tragedy – perhaps discussion on a new assault weapon ban, sales at gun shows and tracing measures. Loughner legally purchased his weapon – a Glock 19 with an extended magazine – from an Arizona store. The same kind of extended magazine was illegal under the assault weapons ban that expired in 2004. “The ability to buy a weapon that fires hundreds of bullets in less than a minute,” said Quigley. “He had an additional magazine capability. That’s not what a hunter needs. That’s not what someone needs to defend their home. That’s what you use to hunt people.” After the Virginia Tech massacre in 2007, in which a student with a history of psychological problems killed 33 and injured 25 others, lawmakers immediately started looking at gun control reforms both in the state and atthe federal level. Then-Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine issued an executive order making it harder for people who have been committed to mental health treatment centers to buy a gun. In 2008 President George W. Bush signed a law expanding the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, which registered gun dealers use, to include more comprehensive reporting of mental health records. Under the current law, it is illegal for anyone who has been “adjudicated as a mental defective or committed to a mental institution” to purchase a firearm, according to the FBI’s website. However, Loughner did not fall into either of those categories, according to Josh Horwitz, the executive director of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence. “I’ve seen no evidence that he falls into those categories. It’s the same thing as this guy at Virginia Tech,” said Horwitz. “We can do a much better job checking people’s mental health background.”

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