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seems we have a mr gommert dribbler in here ...oh yay
A Republican Congressman suggested that had the teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary been armed with assault rifles, they could have prevented Friday’s massacre and saved lives.
Appearing on a special Fox News Sunday dedicated to the tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) said that an armed teacher or principal could have taken the killer’s “head off before he can kill those precious kids”:
GOHMERT: Having been a judge and reviewed photographs of these horrific scenes and knowing that children have these defensive wounds, gun shots through their arms and hands as they try to protect themselves, and, hearing the heroic stories of the principal, lunging, trying to protect, Chris, I wish to God she had had an M-4 in her office, locked up so when she heard gunfire, she pulls it out and she didn’t have to lunge heroically with nothing in her hands and takes him out and takes his head off before he can kill those precious kids. [...]
Pressed by host Chris Wallace on why ordinary citizens need semi automatic weapons that shoot 5 bullets per second, Gohmert said that any restrictions on fire arms could lead to the slippery slope of full prohibition and said that American amass weapons to protect themselves from the government.
“For the reason George Washington said a free people should be an armed people,” Gohmert explained. “It ensures against the tyranny of the government, if they know the biggest army is the American people, then you don’t have the tyranny that came from king george. that is why it was put in there and that’s why once you start drawing the line, where do you stop?”
It appears Gohmert understands his personal responsibility towards the defense of our constitutional sovereignty as defined by the framers of our constitution. I'm not sure what all this nonsense about the teacher having an assault rifle at school is about but I haven't seen the piece. My only issue in this thread is that you cannot legislate safety or intellect. If you could we wouldn't be discussing this subject now.
By the way, I do like this Av....
IS funny tho Bull, I think I have a different definition of tyranny than Gohmert,and of many who believe the government should NOT do anything about the levels of gun induced murder.
No body else will, the populace certainly wont, the NRA wont, the Lobbyists and manufacturers wont.
Many of the gun owners who have opined about the massacre are wont to ignore the weapons issue completely and blame it on anything but.
Many people in the world are mentally "unstable" many have been given the same access to video games, violent movies, poverty socialism, medication, rap, you name it, yet without ease of access to guns, the gun deaths are so much reduced, to ignore that fact is simply to ignore a truth.
Americans murdering Americans.... every country has mad murderous violent bastards.
few have the availability of guns for a reason, something so many in the US are not conscious of in their poor claims to avert government "tyranny".
What a freedom you enjoy!
Actually I take the responsibility of my weapons very seriously. When I first returned home from the service to begin my civilian career a small boy was shot and killed by his own brother not a block from my home, by a gun cleaning accident. I'll never forget the picture of this young boy, which by the way was named after a very dear friend of mine that we lost due to cancer, as they loaded him aboard the Life Flight Chopper. He was nearly blown in half, the blood dripping from the gurney wasn't red but nearly clear, a light pink.
No parents were home and I assure you that there father is a very responsible and caring man, but he, in my opinion left to much responsibility in the hands of those not yet ready to assume it. Hind sight being twenty-twenty I don’t know if I would have done any different with my own weapons at that time. My boys were small and didn’t even know their dad had a gun. But, I do now take a very conscience effort to manage my weapon responsibilities. In fact I even before this latest tragedy have been renovating and am installing a very adequate gun safe, not just a locked case, but rather a safe.
To add to that, I have been considering a permanent room type safe hid completely away from view in order to secure my more constitutionally obligated weapons and munitions.
I know that I am but only one man, an imperfect one at that and that more of us should take their responsibilities to such extremes, so I agree that we should discuss this very issue in much greater detail. I do know that many of my friends feel and conduct themselves much the same as I do at this point. Hell when I was a kid we’d have rifles and shotguns in the back windows of our pick-ups and never even troubled ourselves with locking the doors. I’m not even sure they sell gun racks for rear windows anymore.
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