More national gun-control legislation coming?

[RKCheung]

Just read this article from CBS - looks like the media is going full-force to try and get new federal gun-control legislation in. Stay vigilant!

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/08/30/politics/main1953669.shtml

Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty spoke Wednesday at the Police Executive Research Forum, where he was barraged with a series of highly critical questions from some very unhappy police chiefs and mayors...

The first question went right to the heart of the Bush administration's policy on guns — and the fact that Congress "is making it harder for the police and ATF to track" them. The questioner begged McNulty's aid in making it easier to trace the guns, making the point that the problem is kids with guns and tracing them would make their partnerships work more easily. McNulty seemed unaware of the issue. What in particular, he asked, was the problem?...

Kilpatrick argued the need for an effective, national emergency response. It's "the NRA versus the rest of everybody else," he lamented, adding that help is necessary now that "every city in the country is saying I got 13-year-olds with guns" robbing and killing.

 

[El Tejon]

Bah! I have 8 and 5 year olds with guns. And more guns coming! Take that East Coast Eloi!

RK, the media has always been and will always be against us. However, this points out the crying need for common sense media control.

The First Amendment only applies to state-run newspapers. Control the media--for the children.

 

[AJAX22]

Last I checked you couldn't LEGALLY buy a gun at thirteen years old... some one should deffinitly tell these kids they are breaking the law.

 

[Thefabulousfink]

I read the whole article, it starts of blaming the NRA and ATF for not tracking guns good enough, but then it goes on to say that the REAL problem is lack of Federal funding to police agencies. So it is not a complete bliss-ninny article. I think crime would go back down if we could get more $$ and more officers out on the streets.

Of course the bliss-ninnies will use this article to push for AWB II and other nonsense.

 

[longeyes]

The problem is politically-correct mayors and police chiefs who don't want to talk about the real causes of crime in their communities. Instead of creating more and more illegal alien sanctuaries and promoting more and more government bureaucracy as the answer to all human problems, they should be asking why there are so many kids having kids and kids being raised not by parents but by gang-tribes and the values of rap and MTV.

These phonies make me sick.

 

[RNB65]

If the Democrats gain control of both houses of Congress in Nov as many predict, you can be sure that new gun control legislation will be on the way. Hopefully, Bush will have the nads to veto it.

 

[ceetee]

If the Democrats gain control of both houses of Congress in Nov as many predict, you can be sure that new gun control legislation will be on the way. Hopefully, Bush will have the nads to veto it.

Bush is alread on record as favoring whatever gun bans come to him for his signature. The only way that'll change is if someone high up in the Republican Party manages to grasp the idea that our votes count for something...

 

[longeyes]

Social realities will prevail. You can bet that after a certain point the stiffer gun control laws will just be ignored. If this government wants a huge black market in illegal firearms, abrogating all of the ATF strictures, all they have to do is keep ignoring the real causes of lawlessness.

 

[EarlofSandwich]

The media doesn't seem to want to acknowledge the fact that it's a more entrenched problem in our culture that is leading to a lot of this delinquency.
The popular culture in this country has just gotten that much more toxic since the civil rights movement. And it takes that much more vigilance from parents to deal with it and all its travails. Many parents just simply aren't equipped to meet the challenge. Also the fact that both parents have to work and no one is really watching the kids.
It is difficult for parents out in the suburbs, I can only imagine how it must be for parents of inner-city youths where the thug culture is glorified.

And efforts like this latest one from the media just shows me how off-the-mark they really are.

 

[Nathan Williams]

now that "every city in the country is saying I got 13-year-olds with guns" robbing and killing.

Sigh the answer always seemds to be more gun control. Why not more kid control? Heres a idea lets actualy let/make parents control their children, and take responsibility for their actions.