Friday - January 18, 2013

Legislative Gun Stunt Backfires

A Richmond-area lawmaker brandished an AK-47 on the floor of the Virginia House of Delegates on Thursday in a wild stunt aimed at rallying support for tougher gun laws.

Del. Joe Morrissey, D-Highland Springs, pulled the weapon out shortly after the day’s session got underway, a time when legislators typically welcome school groups and other visitors in the chamber’s gallery.

Morrissey assured his colleagues the gun was not loaded and pointed it toward the ceiling as he pleaded for Republican House Speaker Bill Howell to help push through a subcommittee the assault weapons ban that Morrissey is proposing.

Republicans in the chamber were not amused by Morrissey’s stunt.

Del. Todd Gilbert, R-Woodstock, interrupted Morrissey’s speech to ask him to take his finger off the trigger lock and later said that taking guns from citizens is what led to the Holocaust and mass killings under the Soviet Gulag.

“Those who put the Second Amendment into the fabric of our nation understood that a government that is formed and instituted by free people trust its citizens with the right to defend themselves with arms,” Gilbert said.

“A lot of people don’t know that in many locations in the commonwealth, you can take this gun, you can walk in the middle of Main Street loaded and not be in violation of the law,” Morrissey said. “Even though the law right now says you can’t bring this gun into a high school or elementary or middle school, there is nothing from keeping you from walking in front of [an elementary school with a gun].”

So what? It’s what we call freedom, a concept pretty much unknown to you bed wetting nanny state sissys. freedom goes hand in hand with another concept foreign to you, called personal responsibility.

It is actually not illegal to bring a gun, loaded or otherwise, into the Virginia statehouse. If you have a CCW, if you’re a cop, or if you’re a member that is. But this is a real dumb-ass stunt, even if it is a post-ban weapon (no pistol grip but a thumbhole stock instead, ie a work-around).

A House subcommittee late Thursday effectively killed Morrissey’s bill, which mirrored President Obama’s call for a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity ammo magazines following the mass killing of 20 children and six adults at a Connecticut elementary school. The same panel also rejected universal background checks for gun buyers and sent a proposal to arm school staff to Gov. Bob McDonnell’s school safety task force.

Damn right they did. This is Virginia after all.

A recent Quinnipiac University poll showed nearly two-thirds of Virginians support banning military-style assault rifles and high-capacity magazines. More than 90 percent favor universal background checks.

Morrissey told lawmakers: “The people want us, by an overwhelming margin, to ban these weapons.”

Bull + Shiite. To the Nth power. If QU ran such a poll, then it was intensely skewed, polling only hippies, college students, and attendees at the Joe Biden Is Our God convention. No doubt the questions were weaselly worded, running two or more issues together. “Are you in favor of universal background checks and banning abortions performed by chainsaws?” kind of thing.

Joe Morrissey. Sleazeball drama queen. Go back to chasing ambulances Joe, and this time try harder to bite the tires when they’re going 40mph. Idiot.

Oh, and let me ask some of my Virginian readers, since I’ve never been to your statehouse: isn’t the gallery where the school kids go when they come visit up above the floor where the delegates are? So this jerkwad was essentially pointing a gun in their direction?? A gun that you can’t tell by looking whether it’s loaded or not? A gun he was holding by the friggin’ trigger??? Wow. Whadda maroon. I think Eddie the Eagle needs to do an emergency intervention.

Posted by Drew458     on 01/18/2013 at 04:22 PM   
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