Legal gun owners are walking timebombs according to the BATFE

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WOW!! I was so unaware, I wish someone would have told me earlier! I think we should thank him for his service of letting us all know that we are all psycho killers. Is there a way we can write this guy a letter or send an email?
 
Fine. Let's pull the BATFE's funding plug. When the agency learns to respect the people whose taxes support it, we'll think about reinstating its funding—assuming, of course, we don't discover we can get along without it.
 
How about kicking his teeth in and breaking several bones. No firearms were used in this senario. What is his response to this.
 
When your hired to do one thing only, enforce the current laws, showing bias one way or the other should be grounds for immediate unemployment.
 
Lets do the math shall we.

How many people have I killed? Hmmm carry the 12, divide by six....uhh ZERO!!!
How many people have the people I shoot with killed? Lemmee see oh yeah NONE!!!
How about all the folks at my local gun shop......NADA!!!!

Now how many innocent folks have members of the BATFE killed? Yeah, I rest my case.:scrutiny:
 
I will be sending this letter via e-mail and snail mail tomorrow to Senator Trent Lott, Senator Thad Cochran, and Representative Gene Taylor (with appropriate names, of course.)

If you want to do the same, please feel free to take this letter and make it your own as you need to. I do ask that you all fire off one to those who represent you.

-- John


Letter:
Honorable Senator Lott:


I am writing to call your attention to recent comments made by Jim McNally, a spokesman for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in the Boston Field Division.

In a recent article which can be found at:

http://www.sentinelandenterprise.co...rint_article.jsp?articleId=5727469&siteId=106

Mr. McNally stated

"Someone buys a gun legally, and they're a walking timebomb.”

I am outraged at his irresponsible and slanderous character-assassination of 59,100,000 law-abiding and legal gun owners.

In this age where the 2nd Amendment is under attack by numerous special interest groups and activists within your congressional ranks, I find it astonishingly inappropriate for a government agency employee to make statements which damage law-abiding citizens.

Furthermore, his position in the BATFE allows his opinion to be utilized as an “expert” well beyond his organization’s mandate, and far beyond the “job description” of such an individual or agency.

As a representative of a staunchly pro-2nd Amendment state and its people, I ask that you will call for McNally to justify his statements within the constraints of his agency’s role within our governmental organization.

The BATFE’s mandate is not to make characterizations of law-abiding Americans. Its role is to regulate our nation’s firearms laws. If he is unable to operate within such constraints and unwilling to recant his statement publicly, I then ask that you call for his termination.

We should not have to endure such slander from our own government agencies and their “spokesmen.”

I thank you for your continued support of our constitutional rights, and for your dedication to the people of Mississippi. As always, I have been proud to support your work on our behalf.

Sincerely I remain

John Warren
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My understanding is once the courts deemed the VT shooter a threat to himself and/or others, he could no longer purchase a firearm legally in Virginia.

Do you suppose the VT shooter lied in order to pass the background check?

Wouldn't the firearms he purchased have been purchased illegally then?

If so, then McNally's comments are moot.
 
Not to pour cold water on the bashing, but is not this twit a "FORMER" BATF twit.

When the CG of his name was on screen,I seem to recall the caption after his name included the word former. Anybody else rmember this?



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Does the president have the authority to can this guy? I would think that writing Bush and asking him to relieve this guy of his job might yield results if you point out that his lead in the '04 vote was about the same as the number of NRA members. It's very likely that gun owners kept him in office; I think a little reciprocity would be nice.
 
macmuffy
Not to pour cold water on the bashing, but is not this twit a "FORMER" BATF twit.
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"Someone buys a gun legally, and they're a walking timebomb. It's almost impossible to ask law enforcement to determine when somebody is going to cross that line," said Jim McNally, a spokesman for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in the Boston Field Division.
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I see the word spokesman.
 
I find it curious how bATFE representatives mimic the current language of the anti-gun crowd. Combine language with parallel argumentation and you've the picture of a governmental entity, theoretically charged with enforcing law, actually in an advocacy mode of operation. Just another reason for disbanding the agency.
 
"Someone buys a gun legally, and they're a walking timebomb. It's almost impossible to ask law enforcement to determine when somebody is going to cross that line," said Jim McNally, a spokesman for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in the Boston Field Division.
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couldn't this as easily be said about law enforcement officers?
 
Here's my letter I'm sending today

April 25, 2007

Glenn N. Anderson
Special Agent in Charge
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
Boston Field Division
10 Causeway Street, Suite 791
Boston, Massachusetts 02222

Mr. Anderson:

I was appalled to read the comments from Jim McNally, your Field Office’s spokesman, in the Sentinel and Enterprise Newspaper. You can find the article at this URL
www.sentinelandenterprise.com/portl...rint_article.jsp?articleId=5727469&siteId=106

Mr. McNally’s comments can certainly be interpreted as inflammatory and antagonistic towards law abiding gun owners. He said “Someone buys a gun legally, and they're a walking timebomb. It's almost impossible to ask law enforcement to determine when somebody is going to cross that line." With that statement, Mr. McNally has essentially said that all legal gun owners are “guilty until proven innocent” as we are all just one tick-of-the-clock away from becoming a homicidal maniac. Using that logic, ANYONE, including our police, military and even your own ATF agents are at any moment likely to be serious threats to society simply because the possess a legal firearm.

This kind of language is outrageous from an agency that is committed to strong relationships with the industry and its user base to ensure the nation’s laws are followed. From the BATF’s own website www.atf.treas.gov/about/mission.htm , your values include high sevice, strong external partnerships, a well-trained work force and embracing learning.

If Mr. McNally’s statement does not reflect the Agency’s position, I hope that you will redirect his attitude and actions as well as any other personnel who share this opinion. If the position that all legal gun owners should be viewed with extreme suspicion as potential criminals, I am saddened and disgusted.

I will be copying this letter to my own Senators and Representatives as well as those serving the Boston area.

Sincerely


Elmer Fudd
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I'd like to know why these blazing instruments which wield death with such precision (semiautomatic handguns) are too powerful for us neanderthals to own according to BATFECES, but law enforcement need ski masks, MP5's, M4's and M60 machine guns in addition to their "good" semiautomatic handguns.
 
"Someone buys a gun legally, and they're a walking timebomb. It's almost impossible to ask law enforcement to determine when somebody is going to cross that line," said Jim McNally, a spokesman for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in the Boston Field Division.
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Sure, because LEO's aren't there at the instant of of a crime going down. It IS impossible to ask such a thing to be foreseen and stopped. The BATF sure isn't able to do anything good.

But, it ISN'T impossible to ask exactly that of the victims. An armed victim is, by contrast, able to do something simply by virtue of being armed and there.
 
When your hired to do one thing only, enforce the current laws, showing bias one way or the other should be grounds for immediate unemployment.
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I thought bias was one of the things they looked for in the firearms branch of ATF. The explosives and arson sections are highly regarded for professionalism. The firearms branch . . . not so much.
 
Who does he think he's kidding?

Let me see if I have this right.
1. If you buy a car, you are a walking (rolling) time bomb. You may be some idiotic woman, and drive your kids into a lake and drown them. We need to ban all cars, or cars with more than two doors?

2. If you buy a house, with a stove and bath tub, you may be a walking time bomb. You might just put your small child in it and scald them to death. We need to ban all high cap bath tubs?

Enough already, I think you get the picture. These bozo's ( my apologies to the clown) need to get re-educated, and realize that it is the human element that cause these horrible crimes, not the method.

Common sense prevail, probably not if they had any they would be working a real job, not relying on the public to support them because they don't have any common sense.
 
I am sending letters to Glenn Anderson (Agent in Charge in Boston), Ted Kennedy and John Kerry (MA Senators, fat lot of good that will do though), John McCain and John Kyl (my AZ senators) and Harry Mitchell (my AZ district rep).

This garbage has to stop.
 
2. If you buy a house, with a stove and bath tub, you may be a walking time bomb. You might just put your small child in it and scald them to death. We need to ban all high cap bath tubs?
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Ban those evil bathtubs altogether. You don't NEED a bathtub you can shower. Andrea Yates has shown that people with those evil bathtubs are just ticking timebombs. If she hadn't had a bathtub nothing would have ever happened. So what if she had a sink, knives, etc. It's was the bathtub, she would have never considered any other method.

And don't get me started on swimming pools. There should be absolutely no private citizen with a swimming pool, they are far too dangerous. Only the state should have swimming pools and if you want to swim there you must pay a fee to cover the state trained and employed Life Guards. Only their Life Guard training aquired magical jedi skills can endow them with the ability to keep people from drowning in pools. Regular citizens can never aspire or train to the level of skill and competance to handle swimming pools like the Official State Life Guards.</sarcasm>

Anybody else sick of these two attitudes?

And I am cooking up a letter of my own to send off. Just not sure who to send it to with Lurch and Splash for senators....
 
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