<http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/author/doctorbulldog/> House Speaker Boehner Rejects Gun Control Legislation<http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/2011/01/12/house-speaker-boehner-rejects-gun-control-legislation/> *doctorbulldog <http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/author/doctorbulldog/>* | 12 January, 2011 at 10:44 am | Categories: politics<http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/?category_name=politics>, Right to Bear Arms<http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/?category_name=right-to-bear-arms>| URL: http://wp.me/p1NPg-6PX
*Thank God Nancy Pelosi has been knocked off her pedestal by We the People, else this gun control crap would be shoved down our throats like everything thing else:* *Boehner opposes new gun-control bill* *By Mike Lillis - 01/11/11 - The Hill<http://thehill.com/homenews/house/137393-speaker-boehner-says-no-to-new-gun-controls> * 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. King, who has previously called for the removal of illegal guns from the streets, made the announcement alongside New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, one of the nation’s loudest voices for stricter gun laws. King said the legislation is not intended only for the safety of government officials but also to protect the public. He said elected officials are not necessarily more important than constituents, but by protecting them in this way, they would feel safer in meeting federal officials at public events. “The fact is they do represent the people who elect them, and it’s essential, if we’re going to continue to have contact, that the public who are at these meetings are ensured of their own safety,” King said. King’s legislation got the cold shoulder from Boehner and other Republicans after it was announced. Boehner spokesman Michael Steel said the Speaker would not support King’s legislation. The office of Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said the majority leader is reserving judgment until the King bill is finalized. “Mr. Cantor believes it’s appropriate to adequately review and actually read legislation before forming an opinion about it,” Cantor spokesman Brad Dayspring stated in an e-mail. The immediate rejection of King’s legislation by Boehner illustrates the difficulty gun-control advocates will face in moving forward with any legislation. *Amen to that, brother! * Even Capitol Hill’s most ardent gun reformers don’t anticipate any changes to the nation’s gun laws will be forthcoming in the 112th Congress. They say the combination of a GOP-led House and the powerful gun lobby is simply too formidable to take on over an issue that’s become a proverbial third rail of Washington politics. *Hey, elections DO have consequences and the People have spoken: Take your stinking paws off our guns, you damned dirty apes<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRG6ahCs_t0> !* “Anything you can get through the gun lobby is going to have little consequence,” Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.), a longtime supporter of tightening Second Amendment restrictions, said in a phone interview. “I don’t see the likelihood of much progress — I don’t see much hope.” *Note the communist flag words, "progress" and "hope." Yup, he's yet another freakin' commie!* Aside from King’s proposal, longtime gun-control advocates Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) are working on legislation to prohibit high-capacity ammunition magazines like those allegedly used by Jared Lee Loughner, the 22-year-old college dropout who’s been charged in the Arizona rampage. *Nothing like freakin' commie morons trying to write legislation banning high-cap clips and guns with barrel shrouds, yet they don't even know what a barrel shroud is. CLICK HERE<http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/2011/01/10/in-wake-of-tucson-shooting-lefturd-congresswoman-to-introduce-legislation-banning-high-capacity-ammo-clips/>in case you missed that lovely interview with Carolyn McCarthy. * [...] King’s proposal perplexed some members of Congress, who wondered how it would be implemented because members are so mobile and often encounter individuals without knowledge that a congressional event is taking place. “I think my concern would be, how do you put a 1,000-foot bubble around a member of Congress and what are you going to do about judges and Cabinet secretaries?” asked Rep. 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