GOP lawmaker to introduce new gun control legislation

Ackeman proposes gun-control bill to close 'firesale loophole'
Rep. Gary Ackerman is the third New Yorker to propose gun-control Legislation in the wake of the Mass Shooting in Arizona. Ackerman said his bill would close the “fire sale Loophole,” which allows gun dealers with revoked licenses to legally sell weapons as their personal collections. They don't need to run an FBI Background Check on the buyer, which would be mandatory at a regular firearm Dealership. Ackerman is one of a handful of members of Congress talking about Gun Control, ...

Can we retire the "if everyone has guns, no one will need guns" theory now?
Can we retire the "if everyone has guns, no one will need guns" theory now? Gosh, who could have predicted that the Tucson shootings would revive the Gun Control debate yet again? Instead of paying attention to the frustrating cuts to Mental Health services in Arizona and elsewhere, we have the Villagers all focused on guns and gun control. Conventional Village wisdom goes like this: In situations where a bad guy has a gun and is shooting everyone in sight, a good guy with a gun will ...

Boehner Shuts Down Peter King Gun Control Legislation
I guess Rachel Maddow called me out, among other people, a bit for displaying a bit of cynicism over the possibility of Gun Control Legislation getting through Congress. I’m all for rallying the Troops with a “we can do it” Speech, but when I wrote that, I was thinking of this. The Speaker of the House, who sets the schedule, just does not support new Gun Control legislation, it seems. Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) is rejecting gun-control Legislation offered by the chairman ...

Changing gun laws would test advocates, NRA
As a leading Gun Control advocate in Congress prepares a bill in response to the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, we look at the political clout of the National Rifle Association. Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, a New York Democrat whose husband was killed in the 1993 Long Island railroad shooting, is getting ready to file Legislation seeking to ban the type of high-capacity weapon clip used by alleged Arizona shooter Jared Loughner. McCarthy told the Huffington Post today that she is realistic about...

How We Enable Crimes of Insanity
The deranged expression on the face of Jared Lee Loughner in the Mug Shot released by the police—taken within hours after he allegedly killed six innocent people and wounded 14 more, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords—suggests that we may never fully understand whatever illness afflicts him. The law requires us to assess his mental state and motivations, but we might do better to analyze our own craziness. That doesn't mean trying to determine whether events like the Tucson massacre...

911 tapes log harrowing chronicle of Tucson shootings
Tucson, Ariz (Reuters) - A calm male voice surrounded by haunting cries of pain tells a 911 dispatcher of multiple Shooting Victims outside a Tucson Supermarket and of wounds to Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. "There was a shooting at Safeway at Ina and Oracle where Gabrielle Giffords was, I do believe Gaby Giffords was hit," the male voice says, with almost animal cries and groans of pain in the background. "At the Safeway sir? ... Was somebody shot there sir?" "It looks like a guy had a sem...

House honors Giffords, shooting victims
The House is paying tribute today to Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and the Victims and heroes of the Arizona Shooting Spree with a resolution expressing its grief and outrage. "What this institution needs right now is strength -- holy, uplifting strength," House Speaker John Boehner said, at times weeping openly. "Today it is not ceremony, but tragedy that stirs us to renew our commitment to full our oaths of office. Let us not let this inhuman act frighten us into doing otherwise." Boehner, as he clo...

NYT editorial makes sense
From the Hill: “Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) is rejecting gun-control Legislation offered by the chairman of the Homeland Security Committee in response to the weekend shootings of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) and 19 others in Arizona. Rep. Pete King (R-N.Y.) announced plans Tuesday to introduce Legislation prohibiting people from carrying guns within 1,000 feet of members of Congress.” Bravo, Mister Speaker. The country needs to stop panicking every time something bad happen...

Palin lashes out at blood libel critics over Arizona shooting
TUCSON,Arizona — Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin on Wednesday lashed out at critics for Manufacturing “blood Libel” with claims she bore some responsibility for the attempted Assassination of Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. In a lengthy video posted on her Facebook page, Ms. Palin rejected charges she has stoked political anger to dangerous levels and urged Americans to reject calls from those “seeking to muzzle dissent with shrill cries of imagined insults....

Idiocy Repeated
Rep. Peter King (R-NY) is set to propose Legislation that will make it illegal for any mere mortal to carry a firearm within 1,000 feet of our betters Congressman and other high ranking officials. King says “It would give Law Enforcement the weapon they need to protect federal officials, and just as importantly, it would provide a large measure of security for those who want to meet with their federal elected officials”. Of course, it’s just a shame others hadn’t thought ...

Boehner rejects new gun regulation
Image by Getty Images via @daylife The Hill: Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) is rejecting gun-control Legislation offered by the chairman of the Homeland Security Committee in response to the weekend shootings of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) and 19 others in Arizona. Rep. Pete King (R-N.Y.) announced plans Tuesday to introduce Legislation prohibiting people from carrying guns within 1,000 feet of members of Congress. ...How are you going to enforce a moving 1,000 feet exclusion zone again...

Gun Owner Who Showed Restraint, Good Judgment Is Apparently an Argument Against Gun Ownership
That seems to be the takeaway from this Will Saletan piece. Does the Tucson, Ariz., massacre justify tighter Gun Control? Don't be silly. Second Amendment advocates never look at Mass Shootings that way. For every nut job wreaking mayhem with a semiautomatic weapon, there's a citizen with a firearm who could have stopped him... The new poster boy for this agenda is Joe Zamudio, a hero in the Tucson incident. Zamudio was in a nearby drug store when the shooting began, and he was armed... But bef...

NY Times: More Gun Control! John Boehner: No
NY Times: More Gun Control! John Boehner: “No” Why, yes, the NY Times editorial board is still beating the anti-gun drum, in an attempt to make sure a good tragedy does not go to waste. After discussing Rep Peter King’s silly notion of not allowing guns within 1,000 feet of politicians, something which criminals and wacko’s would surely ignore, because they are criminals and wacko’s, we are treated to Representative James Clyburn, a Democrat of South Carolina, said ...

I Blame Jared Lee Loughner
The man who should burn for the crimes of Jared Lee Loughner is Jared Lee Loughner. Not Rush Limbaugh, who said yesterday that Democrats are supporting the man who shot a Democratic congresswoman in the head: "What Mr. Loughner knows is that he has the full support of a major political party in this country. He's sitting there in jail. He knows what's going on, he knows that... the Democrat party is attempting to find anybody but him to blame . He knows if he plays his cards right, he's just a v...

Analysis: Why we shouldnt ban bulls-eyes (Exclusive to Yahoo! News)
By Ken Paulson President, the First Amendment Center A Pennsylvania congressman is targeting bull's-eyes. In the wake of the attempted Assassination of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., and the Murder of Federal Judge John Roll, Rep. Robert Brady, D-Pa., says he plans Legislation that would ban language or symbols that could be perceived as threatening federal officials and members of Congress. Pointing to an existing federal law that criminalizes threats against the president and vice-preside...

911 tapes log harrowing chronicle of Tucson shootings
By Tim Gaynor Tucson, Ariz | Wed Jan 12, 2011 3:37pm EST Tucson, Ariz (Reuters) - A calm male voice surrounded by haunting cries of pain tells a 911 dispatcher of multiple Shooting Victims outside a Tucson Supermarket and of wounds to Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. "There was a shooting at Safeway at Ina and Oracle where Gabrielle Giffords was, I do believe Gaby Giffords was hit," the male voice says, with almost animal cries and groans of pain in the background. "At the Safeway sir? ... W...

Palin talks "accountability," doesn't take any
It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby Sarah Palin is a Daisy Buchanan for our time -- a careless person, indeed, who tosses around words or images with nary a thought as to their effect, before she retreat...

Sec. Clinton says Arizona shooter motivated by extreme political views
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday that the Arizona shooter who killed six and injured 14, including Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D), was motivated by political views. In an interview with CNN Wednesday Clinton, who had recently referred to the shooter as an "Extremist," doubled down on her comments saying that the shooter was an extremist who acted on his "bizarre" political views. "Based on what I know, this is a criminal defendant who was in some ways motivated by...

Line several blocks long for Arizona service
University of Arizona Students and others made up a line several blocks long by midday Wednesday outside of the Tucson arena where President Barack Obama is scheduled to speak. Deputies are present to control the crowd. Some people brought lawn chairs, food and snacks. Obama is expected to remember the six people killed Saturday in an Assassination attempt against Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who had been meeting with constituents outside a Grocery Store. The White House said Obama would meet privat...

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED Tucson Tea Party Leader Receives Death Threats This Week
Mission Accomplished! After blaming the Tea Party for the mass slaughter on Saturday one tea Party Leader is receiving death threats. The sheriff’s office told Tucson tea Party Leader Trent Humphries to stay home. The Tuscon Tea Party leader started receiving death threats since the shootings at the Safeway on Saturday. Trent Humphries, the leader of the largest Tea Party group in this mourning southern Arizona city, has nothing but praise for the way President Obama has led the nation th...

Sen. Gillibrand To Az. With President To Address Shootings; Condemns Sarah Palin's "Vitriol"
Among the dignitaries who will pay their respects to the Victims of alleged gunman Jared Lee Loughner's Tucson Shooting Spree along with President Obama today: Our own junior senator, Kirsten Gillibrand. Gillibrand is slated to first visit the University of Arizona Medical Center to visit with Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ husband, staff, and other Victims and their loved ones. The senator is a close Capitol friend of Giffords, who is expected to recover well after being shot in the head a...

Palin Plays the Victim Card
It's becoming increasingly clear that Jared Lee Loughner is mentally unstable. Sarah Palin's bullseye on Arizona Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords did not direct Loughner to shoot Giffords point-blank in the head on January 8, 2011. Did the vitriol in political discourse, crosshairs and phrases like "Don't retreat, reload" (by Sarah Palin) or "If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun" (by President Obama) influence Loughren's state of mind? Perhaps in an idiosyncratic way, according...

Obama, Gillibrand en route to Tucson for memorial
President Obama and a delegation of lawmakers jetted off to Arizona Wednesday afternoon for a memorial service for the Victims killed during the Assassination attempt of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, a close Capitol Hill pal of Giffords, joined Obama aboard Air Force One. The groups of lawmakers, which included Giffords' friends and her fellow Arizona reps, planned to first visit her at the Hospital, where she's being treated for a gunshot wound to the head. "We ma...

Giffords is moving spontaneously
TUCSON, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- Doctors said Wednesday they're encouraged by the progress made by U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., who was shot in the head during the weekend. Dr. Peter Rhee of the University Medical Center in Tucson, Ariz., said Giffords still is in critical condition but is making more and more spontaneous movements -- even fixing her Hospital gown on her own. GALLERY: The aftermath of the Rep. Giffords shooting "We're very happy at this point," Rhee said of Giffords' progress...

Greens, Libertarians Re-Affirm Commitment to Non-Violence in Wake of Arizona Shooting
The Arizona Green Party is both saddened and outraged in response to the acts of Domestic Terrorism that plagued not only the City of Tucson this weekend, but our whole nation. Our hearts go out to Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords as well as all the Victims and their families, friends, and communities affected by this senseless tragedy. Our sincerest condolences to those lives that were lost devastatingly on Saturday and we hope for a speedy recovery to those beginning their healing process. Non...