We've had high powered, semi auto weapons around for years. Most of my friends hunted with Browning semi auto shotguns. The AR15 has been available for decades. Now, what has changed over that time? Our immigration policy. We are letting people in this country that don't share our values. I really blame liberals like Ted Kennedy for this. Just as a reminder, let's make a short list of the immigration policies that Kennedy and his extremely talented staff put into effect: The 1965 revamp of the entire immigration system. It ended 40 years of low immigration, got rid of solid numerical caps and opened up chain migration into every overpopulated country in the world, exploding annual immigration numbers. Massive expansion of the refugee programs in the late 1970s, opening up massive loopholes and encouraging a domestic resettlement industry that became a major lobby for more and more overall immigration. The 1986 blanket amnesty. Kennedy's skills may have been best seen here where he got legislators on our side to agree to the amnesty in exchange for enforcement rules that he made sure were written in a way that would not work. Within a decade, he would be using the inability to enforce the 1986 rules as an excuse for why we needed more green cards and more amnesties. An example of Kennedy's great skill was that he persuaded Ronald Reagan to enthusiastically support this bill. The 1990 immigration act, which increased overall immigration by another 35%. The first Pres. Bush was Kennedy's co-partner, just as the second Pres. Bush was Kennedy's eager co-partner in trying to force through another blanket amnesty 2001-2008. The 1990 act also established the lottery whereby we randomly give away 50,000 green cards a year to people in countries picked because they have the least ties and cultural association with the United States, and which disproportionately are terrorist-sponsoring countries. This was something of a compromise for Kennedy who was able to ensure that during the first few years, much of the lottery winners would be illegal aliens from Ireland -- his own ethnic group. The H-1B visas which have enabled corporations to keep hundreds of thousands of American kids from getting a foothold in the high tech industry. The total defeat of liberal civil rights champion Barbara Jordan's blue-ribbon commissionrecommendations to reduce overall immigration and eliminate chain migration and the lottery in 1996. Six mini-amnesties that passed in the 1990s, primarily aimed at specific nationalities.
So, at least based on what we know now, the FBI never substantiated any of the claims — at least enough to warrant further investigation. Thus, Mateen, is an American-born citizen convicted on no crimes, entitled to all the rights of any of law abiding American citizen. In addition, he had a concealed weapon permit in Florida. Unfortunately, there was nothing stopping him from purchasing a weapon. The ATF reported he did just that about a week before the attack at the nightclub. ...During the gun debate in the aftermath the San Bernardino terror attacks, the Washington Post legal blog The Volokh Conspiracy addressed some of these proposals and concluded proponents like Sen. Diane Feinstein were essentially asking for the power to strip Americans Constitutional Rights“Not based on a past criminal conviction or even a restraining order issued in court under a ‘preponderance of the evidence’ standard, but based just on the government’s suspicion,” Professor Eugene Volokh wrote. Prof. Volokh ultimately concluded such a bill would almost certainly be unconstitutional, especially because the Second Amendment is an “explicitly guaranteed constitutional right.” The government should be required to do more than simply reply upon mere “suspicion and speculation as a basis for denying” one’s Second Amendment right, he concludes. http://lawnewz.com/opinion/how-orla...o-buy-guns-despite-being-on-fbi-threat-radar/ No, Cap'n. That's the law as it now stands. Law enforcement is not able to properly enforce the law despite best efforts because of Second Amendment "purists."
hunting with semi auto shortguns? Sounds like you and your boys need to toughen up a little. Are you able to defend what you believe in with bare hands? (I do not condone hooligan fights but I have to give it to them, they still go against each other with bare hands and beer bottles not shoot each other like some pussies who are afraid to get closer than 10 yards). What is it with some of you wanting to shoot everything and everyone? If you wanna fight have a decent fight. And I think one of the biggest lies is that one needs an AR15 to defend a home. Ridiculous. Most would not even be able to hold such rifle under stress, much less shoot accurately. Re your other comments, there is so much confusion mixed in it is hard to unclutter. For one, H1B visa holders do not keep American kids out of high tech jobs. First of all true high tech is not staffed by H1B holders. H1B visa holders are generally either fresh out of US college or else from countries like Pakistan or India of below to average skill level and used for relatively mediocre and undesirable jobs.
Perhaps the funds are already there, and just need to be re-directed. Just getting rid of the fraud and waste could cover a lot of cost (I mean a lot!). Ending some aspects of the war on drugs might provide more funds to be redirected while at the same time removing some criminal incentive. It could be done, but the gov needs to be more serious about gun crime in it's entirety, not just the mass or multiple murders. Disarm the criminals first (won't get them all, of course), and my belief is there would be a lot more open minds about gun control.
Why couldn't it be homphobia? It was racism in Charleston. You simply want to pour all your fear into a single cause, with the expectation that eliminating that cause will eliminate your fear.
The answer lies in your first sentence. "So, at least based on what we know now, the FBI never substantiated any of the claims— at least enough to warrant further investigation." How in the hell does a guy of ME decent make all the racket this guy did, associate with known terrorists, and that's not enough to warrant further investigation? I'll bet if I said the very same thing this guy said, and associated with the same types of known terrorists, there would be plenty of "further investigation" and I'm an American citizen too. A white male American citizen and I'll bet every dollar I have my white ass would be on some kind of watch list, if not in a cell. Hmmm, wonder what the difference is between me and the ME guy who is an American citizen? Could't be PC now could it?
They are noncitizen immigrants supporting radical islam. They're also perfect examples of the idiocy of our immigration policy.
Which takes your list to what, 400 now? I remember when it was a big deal around here when a guy's ignore list was long, it made him seem weak. Lmao.