The lamestream media told you:
“On Feb. 26, 2009, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said he will join House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) in opposing any effort to revive the 1994 assault-weapons ban, putting them on the opposite side of the Obama administration,” according to The Hill, a leading federal news source. “Reid spokesman Jim Manley said the Nevada Democrat will preserve his traditional pro-gun rights voting record.” News outlets everywhere ran the story. http://tinyurl.com/chfvff
Less than six weeks later, on April 7, speaking on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” Pelosi continued, “The ball is in Congress’ court to craft a compromise in reinstating regulations on assault weapons. We have to find some level of compromise,” she said, using 53 murders by suicidal psychopaths in less than a month as a reason. “And we have to rid the debate of the misconceptions people have about what gun safety means.” ABC failed to ask her to reconcile this with her previous statements, or what misconceptions she might be referring to.
The only conditions she mentioned, adding to huge lists of recommendations already made by Democrats, were gun registration and bans on transporting “some” guns across state lines. She also expressed displeasure at the idea that under a bill now in Congress, D.C. residents might regain the civil right to keep and bear arms, at the same time they regain the civil right to vote, calling the right to vote “a civil-rights issue” and dismissing gun rights as an unfair “price to pay.” Both rights are included in the pending law.
The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:
“Everyone who took Pelosi and Reid at their word several weeks ago, when AG Eric Holder called for new federal gun infringements, were suckers,” according to the Uninvited Ombudsman. “Cockeyed optimists and dreamers thought they lucked up. What they really got only rhymes with that.”
In Mexico, according to the Wall Street Journal, Holder was asked if the administration might encounter constitutional issues as it tries to crack down on alleged gun trafficking. His response: “I don’t think our Second Amendment will stand in the way of efforts we have begun and will expand upon.”The nation is now enduring a waiting period to see what sorts of violations of the Bill of Rights the unethical lying scoundrels running Congress concoct. Helatious draft legislation has been in place since before Obama’s inauguration. http://www.gunlaws.com/newstuff.htm
For perspective, during the month when 53 unarmed people without police protection were horrifically slaughtered by deranged law breakers before police arrived, 3,100 people died brutally without warning in their automobiles before police arrived.
Critics say that’s comparing apples and oranges, and the 3,100 dead people deserve no news attention and no federal action, but the 53 other dead people really do. The dead people, uniformly surprised at their untimely deaths, could not be reached for comment.
