More gun control legislation in the wake of Gabrielle Giffords shooting

Giffords attack sparks gun control fight
Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-L.I.) pushed to ban high-capacity gun clips on Monday in response to the Arizona shootings, but quickly got pushback from her Staten Island rookie colleague. McCarthy, whose husband was killed in the 1993 Long Island Rail Road massacre, noted her experience of "senseless gun violence firsthand" in drafting Legislation that would ban gun clips and magazines with more than 10 bullets. Rep. Michael Grimm (R-Staten Island), the newest member of the New York delegation, tol...

In Wake Of Shooting, Congress To Weigh New Gun-Control Measures
What is this? Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY), one of the fiercest gun-control advocates in Congress, told NPR's Steve Inskeep that she will introduce Legislation to outlaw the kinds of high-capacity ammunition magazines used in Saturday's shootings. "We're not dealing about guns here," she said.  "We're dealing about a piece of equipment that goes [on] the gun. I think when you think about just common sense here, large capacity clips that can basically, in my opinion, be weapons of mass destr...

Tucson shooting and the predictable Congressional response begins
It’s ironic that when you look up the definition of “knee-jerk” on Merriam Webster, they use “knee-jerk liberals” as an example of usage of the term. It’s proven true once again as the Tucson shooting, starring an idiot acting out his “conscience dreams” using a gun, brings the Gun Control freaks out of their closets with their Morality banners held high. Congress… who’ll take any advantage of a crisis or tragedy to exerciser power or ...

Lautenberg And McCarthy Crafting Gun Control Bill
Democrats Frank Lautenberg in the Senate and Carolyn McCarthy in the House are drafting Gun Control Legislation in the wake of the Arizona tragedy. “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,” Ms. McCarthy told Politico. The Democrat, one of the staunchest Gun Control advocates, said the incident indicates a need for change in how the nation looks at Gun Rights and gun control. ...

Shooting response has partisan tinge
Even as congressional officials made a solemn Bipartisan show of unity at the Capitol on Monday for Victims of Saturday’s Tucson, Ariz., massacre, they returned to partisan gamesmanship over the need for a legislative response to the attempted Assassination of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and the killing of six others. The contrast between official events — a moment of silence in the still, cold morning air on the front steps on the east side of the Capitol; a prayer service in the his...

Christianity and Gun Control
In the wake of the horrific massacre in Arizona Saturday, there are calls to renew restrictions, some of which lapsed when Congress permitted the federal assault weapons ban to expire in 2004, on certain types of weaponry, particularly the high-capacity magazine used by the Arizona shooter. Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY), whose husband was murdered in a 1993 rampage on the Long Island Railroad, plans to introduce a measure in the House, and Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) in the Senate. The General B...

Obama Will Be in Arizona for Memorial
(NewsCore) - President Barack Obama will head to Arizona Wednesday for a memorial service being held in honor of the Victims of a shooting rampage that killed six and wounded more than a dozen Saturday, including US Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, Fox News Channel reported. Obama earlier Monday thanked Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik for his department’s efforts in the aftermath of the shooting. The president also rang two heroes from the scene of the shooting, Patricia Maisch and Ro...

How Better Gun-Control Laws Could Have Stopped the Tucson Massacre
Much of the debate surrounding the massacre in Tucson over the weekend has focused on why Jared Lougher did it — whether violent political Rhetoric, madness, or a combination of both motivated him to go on a deadly rampage. But an equally important discussion taking place revolves around how America's Gun Laws allowed him to do it. Scrutiny has fallen on two potential flaws in the nation's Gun Control system. First, the ability of Loughner to buy an extra-long magazine for his Glock, one th...

Democrats Scramble To Exploit the AZ Shooting With Anti-Gun And Anti-Speech Legislation
The nation is still reeling after the horrific Mass Shooting in Arizona this weekend, which left Rep. Gabrielle Giffords fighting for her life, multiple bystanders injured, and six dead, including a nine-year-old girl and a Federal Judge. People were clamoring for answers, and the left wasted no time blaming the tragedy on Sarah Palin and the Tea Party. Once the shooter was identified, it quickly became clear that Jared Lee Loughner was an anti-government, anti-religion nut with no discernible t...

Democrats Scramble To Exploit the AZ Shooting With Anti-Gun And Anti-Speech Legislation
The nation is still reeling after the horrific Mass Shooting in Arizona this weekend, which left Rep. Gabrielle Giffords fighting for her life, multiple bystanders injured, and six dead, including a nine-year-old girl and a Federal Judge. People were clamoring for answers, and the left wasted no time blaming the tragedy on Sarah Palin and the Tea Party. Once the shooter was identified, it quickly became clear that Jared Lee Loughner was an anti-government, anti-religion nut with no discernible t...

Pima County GOP Chair Calls On Obama To 'Stop The Blame'
TUCSON, AZ -- With President Obama reportedly set to visit this divided and mourning Arizona city Wednesday, the chair of the county Republican party is calling on the president to help put an end to what he calls "assigning blame" in the wake of Saturday's shooting at a constituent event for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) that left six dead and the congresswoman gravely wounded. Brian Miller called on Obama to "lead the effort to stop the blame" after the shooting, responsibility for which he...

Tea Party Chair recalls the hate speech she endured during her own campaign
Article sent to [email protected] (read the full thing here): ORLANDO – One of the first things that Peg Dunmire thought of when she heard about the tragic shootings in Tucson, Arizona that critically injured a local congresswoman was the final day of her own campaign for Congress last November. On that single day, Dunmire and her staff and supporters watched uncomfortably as four men followed them from one event to the next. It was Election Day, and Dunmire 

Giffords News Roundup
According to Gabrielle Gifford's husband, the best way to show your support is to make a donation to one or both of the following organizations: Community Food Bank 3003 S Country Club Rd # 221 Tucson, AZ 85713-4084 (520) 622-0525 American Red Cross, Southern Arizona Chapter 2916 East Broadway Boulevard Tucson, AZ 85716 (520) 318-6740 It now appears that the suspect became obsessed with Rep. Giffords after meeting her in 2007 and finding her answer to his question to be unsatisfying. What did h...

That was fast: Democrats use Arizona shooting for fundraiser, and as excuse to crush 2nd amendment
The bodies were still warm as Democrats ironically targeted an explicit individual right in the US Constitution. From The Politico via memeorandum: Carolyn McCarthy readies Gun Control bill 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 targeting the high-capacity ammunition the gunman used. McCarthy ran for Congress after her husband was gunned down an...

The massacre in Arizona
There is no way to make sense of an act as senseless as the shooting rampage Saturday that killed six and wounded 14, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, outside an Arizona Grocery Store. Witnesses reported the gunman strode up to Giffords and fired, point blank, at her head. Then he turned and fired haphazardly into the crowd. Killed were John M. Roll, a Federal Judge; Gabe Zimmerman, Giffords' director of community outreach; Phyllis Schneck, a Retiree and widow; Dorwin Stoddard, who shielded hi...

Gabrielle Giffords shootings: Congresswoman proposes tightening of gun laws
A Democratic Party congresswoman has pledged to introduce Legislation that would limit the use of high-capacity ammunition magazines, as advocates of Gun Control insisted that the US had to stiffen its laws in the wake of the Mass Shooting in Arizona....

Arizona Proves That the Politics of Guns Leave Us Defenseless
It seems as though it never ends. Mass Shootings. Blood baths. Angry, disturbed killers. Innocent Victims mowed down. We go through it on a regular basis. And nothing seems to put it to a stop. The attack on Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, in Tucson, by Jared Lee Loughner in which six others were killed and 14 wounded, has focused the nation’s attention on the widespread use of guns and the great obstacles we face in trying to limit gun violence. The Arizona congresswoman said in March o...

Tragedy and Opportunity
While many in the left are making a valiant effort to convince the country that Conservatives are somehow responsible for the actions of a murderer, others are taking the advice of a certain Chicago Mayoral Candidate. Over to you, Senator Lautenberg. Make Rahm proud. One of the Senate’s most outspoken advocates of tighter gun restrictions said he plans to introduce language banning the type of supplemented gun clips that the shooter in Arizona used on Saturday. Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J...

McCarthy, Lautenberg seek to ban high-capacity ammo magazines
Source: NBC/MSNBC Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., and Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, D-N.Y., with the backing of Gun Control groups, are drafting a bill that would ban the sale of high-capacity magazines such as the one that was used allegedly Saturday by Jared Lee Loughner, the man accused of murdering Federal Judge John Roll and trying to assassinate Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., according to two Gun Control Activists working with McCarthy's staff. Gun control proponents are hoping to move rapidly ...

Massacre hero Col. Bill Badger speaks out for better gun regulation
This evening on the Situation Room, Blitzer had on retired Army Colonel Bill Badger, in order to tell the story of his part in the takedown of Jared Loughner. I can't find any video of it, but Badger's composure and recall of detail in retelling the story makes the segment worthwhile on its own. As the interview is wrapping up, the Colonel makes use of his brief moment of fame to actually try and make something good come out of this travesy: BLITZER: Colonel, do you own or carry a gun? BADGE...

Megyn Kelly to Democrat Sheriff Clarence Dupnik: Why are you politicizing this tragedy?
Why is Democrat Sheriff Clarence Dupnik politicizing the Assassination attempt on Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords? It’s almost as if he’s channeling Doug Henning, minus the skin tight body suits and 70s curls, creating a loud and noisy distraction over to the side so no one pays attention to what’s happening on the other side of the stage, where the really interesting story is happening. You know, like the reality that Sheriff Dupnik knew for at least the past year that Jared ...

The heroesof Arizona
It's an ancient warfare tactic, and one Terrorists of every stripe employ to wreak violence on the innocent: The element of surprise. Once the attacker ambushes presumably unarmed civilians, in a peaceful setting, the Victims are usually paralyzed through shock and cannot defend themselves. It takes remarkable presence of mind to survive – much less mount a unified offensive against the attacker and save other innocents. In the Arizona attack Saturday that killed six and injured 14, the...

A Gnawing Worry
The papers have mentioned it mainly in passing. Had this happened a decade ago, I would not have fixed on this detail. But Gabrielle Giffords is Jewish. And her alleged assassin, Jared Lee Loughner, is reported to have admired Mein Kampf and claimed ties to the anti-Semitic Hate Group called American Renaissance. Was this an anti-Semitic attack? There is no significant evidence to conclude as much, since we know hardly anything about the suspected killer. And yet, I’m confident that I&rsq...;

Insanity defense difficult for shooting suspect
(01-10) 16:03 PST WASHINGTON, CA (AP) -- In an earlier time, the emerging portrait of a deeply troubled young man might have given Jared Loughner's lawyers the basis of an insanity defense. But John Hinckley's successful insanity claim after shooting President Ronald Reagan led Congress to raise the bar, making the task harder. The Justice Department has not said whether it will seek the death penalty against Loughner, the suspect in the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and the Deaths of a ...

JTA: Is Loughner's mother Jewish?
Is Jared Loughner's mother Jewish, JTA's Ron Kampeas wonders, based on the statement that she is by Loughner's friend Bryce Tierney in an interview with Mother Jones Monday. Ron writes: "Now we get this from Mother Jones. Nick Baumann interviews Bryce Tierney a friend of Jared's who recalls the alleged shooter's first encounter with Giffords, in 2007 -- and then explains why Jared might have listed Mein Kampf as a 'favorite book': Tierney ...