Pete King: We Need to Stop the Fear

Pete King: We Need to Stop the Fear
Rep. Pete King thinks cops need the power to stop people carrying guns within 1,000 feet of federal officials because Americans are becoming afraid of listening to lawmakers in public. The powerful Long Island Republican who chairs the Homeland Security Committee thinks the Arizona shootings that killed six and left Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) with a bullet hole in her head have deeply chilled regular Americans. "I’ve gotten people saying, 'Hey, you’re a good guy -- do...

Pete King Wants Geithner to Target WikiLeaks
Rep. Pete King, the chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, is asking Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to go after Wikileaks. In a letter to the secretary today, the Long Island Republican says Geithner can help Crack Down on the site that has revealed thousands of embarrassing U.S. documents and secrets by adding it and its founder, Jullian Assange, to the Specially Designated National and Blocked Persons List....

Lawmakers And The Crazy Laws They Want To Pass In The Wake Of Tucson Tragedy
When House Majority Leader John Boehner suspended legislative activity in the House of Representatives following the mass Murder in Tucson, Ariz., it was a laudable and thoughtful move. He had previously offered that, "An attack on one who serves is an attack on all who serve," and by calling for a legislative pause, he reinforced a moment that called for comity. Potentially tendentious legislative debates could wait a week, as legislators took some time to soothe their frayed psyches and show...

Mrs. Obama talks tolerance in open letter to parents
First Lady Michelle Obama on Thursday urged parents to teach their Children tolerance in response to the deadly Tucson Shooting Spree that touched off debate about political Rhetoric. Mrs. Obama, who joined her husband at a memorial service for the Victims Wednesday, issued an Open Letter to parents. Children are struggling, she said, to make sense of Saturday's shooting that killed six and left 14 injured, including Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. "We can teach them the value of tolerance -...

Mrs. Obama talks tolerance in open letter to parents (AFP)
WASHINGTON (AFP) – First Lady Michelle Obama on Thursday urged parents to teach their Children tolerance in response to the deadly Tucson Shooting Spree that touched off debate about political Rhetoric. Mrs. Obama, who joined her husband at a memorial service for the Victims Wednesday, issued an Open Letter to parents. Children are struggling, she said, to make sense of Saturday's shooting that killed six and left 14 injured, including Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. "We can t...

Gabrielle Giffords wrote of her passion for Judaism and Israel
My grandfather, Akiba Hornstein, was the son of a Lithuanian rabbi. My grandfather changed his name to Giff Giffords for reasons of Anti-Semitism and moved to Southern Arizona from New York more than a half century ago. In the 1940s, he founded my family’s tire and automotive business, El Campo Tire, which grew into a successful and thriving business for 50 years, which I ran for several years before serving in the Arizona Legislature. Growing up, my family’s Jewish roots and tradit...

A Number Of Lawmakers Continue Meet And Greets With Constituents
The Hill: Saturday’s tragic shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) at a meet-and-greet with constituents has done little to discourage other members from staging similar events. Instead, a number of lawmakers in both chambers are pushing ahead defiantly with public gatherings designed to demonstrate that the attempted Assassination of a colleague will be no deterrent from public interaction with voters. “It would be very human for anyone to be a little bit shy about coming t...

Michelle Obama sees lessons after Arizona shooting (Reuters)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – First Lady Michelle Obama urged parents across the United States on Thursday to talk to their Children about the Arizona shootings and use the event to teach them a lesson about American values. Mrs. Obama joined her husband, President Barack Obama, at a memorial service in Tucson on Wednesday for the Victims of Saturday's attack outside a Supermarket, where a gunman killed six people and critically wounded Representative Gabrielle Giffords. Obama said children...

Michelle Obama sees lessons after Arizona shooting
Mrs. Obama joined her husband, President Barack Obama, at a memorial service in Tucson on Wednesday for the Victims of Saturday's attack outside a Supermarket, where a gunman killed six people and critically wounded Representative Gabrielle Giffords. Obama said Children would struggle with questions about what such an event says about the world. "The questions my daughters have asked are the same ones that many of your Children will have - and they don't lend themselves to easy answers," the fi...

Michelle Obama's Advice to Parents in Wake of Tucson Shooting
First Lady Michelle Obama is offering advice to parents who are struggling to help their Children understand the horrific Tucson massacre that killed six and wounded 14, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) Mrs. Obama accompanied President Obama to the Tucson memorial service for the Victims Wednesday at the University of Arizona, sitting next to Mark Kelly, the NASA Astronaut who is Giffords' husband. Her main advice: use the tragedy to teach kids about faith, compassion, hope and commun...

Arizona shooting survivors may face emotional trauma
TUCSON — Bill Badger, a retired Army colonel, had a flashback of dead and injured people on the ground a day after he was shot along with Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 17 others Saturday. Giffords aide Pam Simon, who was shot twice while lining up people to meet her boss, is afraid to close her eyes because she sees scenes of carnage. Susan Hileman, wounded while Holding Hands with her now-dead 9-year-old neighbor, can't help blaming herself for bringing the child there. Doctors say the physi...

Hundreds come out for Ariz. girl's funeral (AP)
TUCSON, Ariz. – The family of the youngest Victim of the mass shooting in Arizona held hands and paused in a moment of silence Thursday under the large American Flag recovered from Ground Zero after the 9/11 attacks, and later escorted the 9-year-old's small brown casket into the church as little girls about her age cried. Several hundred other mourners, many in white T-shirts, lined a road near the church to show support. Christina Taylor Green was born on Sept. 11, 2001, and featured i...

Tucson says farewell to youngest shooting victim
By Brad Poole and Tim Gaynor TUCSON, Arizona | Thu Jan 13, 2011 8:38pm EST TUCSON, Arizona (Reuters) - Hundreds of people gathered to say farewell on Thursday to a bright 9-year-old who loved to dance and play Baseball, but was gunned down when she went to learn about politics from her congresswoman. Christina Green was the youngest Victim of a Shooting Spree last Saturday that claimed six lives and left Rep. Gabrielle Giffords battling for her life. Her Funeral was the first to be held. Hund...

Tucson says farewell to youngest shooting victim
By Brad Poole and Tim Gaynor TUCSON, Arizona | Thu Jan 13, 2011 8:38pm EST TUCSON, Arizona (Reuters) - Hundreds of people gathered to say farewell on Thursday to a bright 9-year-old who loved to dance and play Baseball, but was gunned down when she went to learn about politics from her congresswoman. Christina Green was the youngest Victim of a Shooting Spree last Saturday that claimed six lives and left Rep. Gabrielle Giffords battling for her life. Her Funeral was the first to be held. Hund...

Politifact Calls Out Michelle Malkin for Dishonest Anti-Obama Smear
Wingnut queen bee Michelle Malkin gets a nice big FALSE rating from PolitiFact.com for doing what she’s done many times before — concocting an outrageous outrage out of thin air. And this might be the cheapest and ugliest one yet. Malkin tried to claim that the White House orchestrated a “branded” political event out of the Arizona mass Murder: Did the White House ‘brand’ the Arizona memorial service with a logo and slogan? The University of Arizona memorial s...

Peter Kings Silly Gun Ban Idea
Filed under Blog. Tagged Arizona, Gabrielle Giffords, Gun Rights, Peter King, Second Amendment, Security. Yesterday I argued that Congress should respond to the shooting in Arizona by encouraging staff members to exercise their Second Amendment rights, going through a professional training program on self-defense and obtaining their concealed carry permits. But if you want to see the opposite suggestion, it comes from anti-gun New York Republican Congressman Peter King, who intends to introduce...

Congress Ready To Vote On Health Care Repeal
(Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives will resume action next week on repealing President Barack Obama’s landmark healthcare overhaul, a House Republican spokesman said on Thursday. The House had been expected to act this week on the Repeal bill, but the vote was postponed after a Shooting Spree in Arizona killed six people and critically wounded U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords. “As the White House noted, it is important for Congress to get back to work, and to...

Everyone coming up with bad new Congressional security ideas
The most darkly comic thing about Peter King's proposed Gun Control bill was that it was designed solely to protect members of Congress from guns, in response to a massacre in which multiple civilians were killed. The events of this last weekend aside, violence against members of Congress is exceedingly rare. Violence against everyone else in America, depressingly less so. But even if there is no awful Legislation that emerges from this tragedy, I'm sure that there will still be an increase in s...

Not all NY politicians ready to support McCarthy's proposed ammo ban
Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY) won't be met with unanimous support for her proposal to ban high-capacity Firearms magazines. As we reported on Jan. 10, McCarthy, who represents New York's 4th District, plans to introduce Legislation this week that will ban assault weapon magazines like the ones used to kill six people and critically wound thirteen others, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) on Saturday in Tucson. Rep. Michael Grimm, a freshman Republican representing New York's 13th...

Rep. Peter King Attempts to Exploit Tucson Shootings With Nonsensical Gun Restrictions
Not all threats to our liberty come from Democrats. Rep. Peter King (R-NY) has distinguished himself for his strong stand against Islamic Terrorism and his open contempt for the New York Times. Yet he lines up behind leftist congresscritters like Carolyn McCarthy and Robert Brady to exploit the Tucson Massacre as yet another opportunity to chip away at what remains of our constitutional liberties. The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee wants to ban people from carrying weapons wit...

Steve Chapman: Gun control still won't work
It has been a dismal decade for Gun Control advocates. They lost the federal so-called assault weapons ban when it expired in 2004. The Supreme Court made history by proclaiming an individual right to own Firearms for self-defense. A Democratic president came into office vowing not to take away anyone's guns. So it's no surprise that anti-gun forces would take the Mass Shooting in Tucson as a rare opportunity to reverse their fortunes. It's also no surprise that their proposals are models of f...

Magazine bans and unintended consequences
Missouri has no laws limiting magazine capacity.  The same is true in Illinois, although not for lack of effort on the part of the gun prohibitionists in the State Legislature (the Senate passed the bill, but it died in the House).  St. Louis area gun owners who think that they're safe from such an abomination as a magazine capacity limit law, though, need to pay attention to the volume of Rhetoric pushing for a federal ban.  We are told that perennial gun haters Rep. Carolyn "Wha...

Republican prepares bill to let lawmakers carry guns on House floor
Stumble This! In response to Gun Control bills put forth by members of both parties in the aftermath of the Arizona shootings, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) is planning to introduce Legislation that permits lawmakers to carry Firearms on the floor of the House and in Washington, DC. "There is a rash of Legislation further infringing on Second Amendment rights that has been unwisely proffered in the wake of events in Tucson," Gohmert told The Hill. "If members of Congress wishes to carry a weapon in...

WikiLeaks Slams Congressmans Embargo Call
House Homeland Security Committee chiarman Rep. Peter King (R - NY) is seeking to impose an embargo on Whistleblower organization Wikileaks, forbidding the non-profit from doing business in the United States and banning all American companies from doing business with them. The call would put WikiLeaks on the SDN list, which is a nearly 500 page-long list of individuals and groups which the US Treasury Department is sanctioning at any given time. The list chiefly targets Terrorists. WikiL...

Mike's Blog Roundup
Comments are restricted to Registered Users only. Has Rep. Peter King actually come up with a decent idea on Gun Control? Beck claims 'I don't use [violent Rhetoric] on or off the air': Oh really? How on-target was Homeland Security's right-wing Extremism bulletin? Very Beck claims 'I don't use [violent Rhetoric] on or off the air': Oh really? Anderson Cooper Brings on 'Left Behind' Actor Cameron to Discuss Bird and Fish Deaths in Arkansas -- Seriously? Anderson Cooper Brings on ...