Former Astronaut Mark Kelly and NRA VP & CEO Wayne LaPierre
Battle at U.S. Senate Hearing over Gun Control
Legitimate gun owners and supporters of the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment have good reason to be outraged by Mark Kelly’s publicity trick to further gun control efforts in America. According to published Fox News reports, the former astronaut and husband of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, a shooting victim 2 years ago in Tucson, Arizona purchased an AR-15-style rifle and a 45.-caliber handgun.
This comes on the heels of his highly publicized efforts in both Congress as well as in Colorado to assault the U.S. Constitutional rights of legal gun owners to own weapons. In fact, his comments which he posted on Facebook, according to published reports seem disingenuous, when he states that people could easily buy similar guns at gun shows or over the internet without background checks.
The fact is, Kelly did actually do exactly what other law-abiding citizens in Arizona or any other state in the union have done beforehand. The Diamondback Police Supply gun shop where he reportedly purchased the weapons from, followed state law and had him undergo the mandatory background check.
Well, surprise, surprise he passed without any hiccups. So what was his point?
Many supporters of gun rights have weighed in on his open display of reactionary theater, by correctly pointing out that his entire stunt accomplished was to bring attention to his and his wife’s newly formed gun control organization named, Americans for Responsible Solutions.
It appears that the organization’s leader, Kelly, was actually seeking to create irresponsible reactions from fellow gun control sympathizers who would somehow rise up in hysteria and join up or gin up more donations to his national gun control cause.
What Kelly does not seem to want to accept, is that as tragic and woefully unfortunate the mass shooting of his wife and others on that horrendous day in the Tucson area shopping center, it was not performed by law abiding citizens going on a rampage.
Her attempted assassination was due to largely in part to relaxed mental health laws dealing with mentally unbalanced and severely disturbed individuals that the mental health system in Arizona and other states have not be responsible for.
Kelly, instead resorted to the quick, the easy, and the attention-headline grabbing techniques which are assured to raise the ire of mainstream media liberal heads. The goal of course is to place greater pressure on states like Colorado, which was recently caught up in a monumental gun control pitched battle in their democrat controlled state legislature. That highly restrictive gun control legislation has now been signed into law. What states are next to fall victim?
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The only thing standing betweeen free people and a dictatorial government is an armed citizenry.
that's absolute roger pecsok,it's like the kettle calling the tea pot black.What i wan't to know is are all thier mental health recordes going to be open to the public and all their papers,and how about all the federal agents , us marshells, all the D.H.S., sheriffs ,depuidies sheriffs,chief of police's, all the cops,areall their privet health, personal jackets,going to be opened for civialin review they sure as hell should be they carrie powerful side armes ,machine guns,hi powered riffels,m-79 granade launchers, and shot guns,NOW that would make some intresting READING!!!!,my 18 years in a city ems system i came to know a lot of them and let me tell you i wouldn't trust a hole lot of them with a cap gun muchless a real one
I have no idea what his motives but the point he might have been trying to make was lost on me. The man who shot his wife and others was not a law-abiding citizen of the United States. Neither were all the others who have shot people needlessly. His point was completely lost and useless. He was an American Hero (astronaut) and had a completely clean background record which allowed him to purchase the weapon of his choice just as many other citizens of this country with like records and character. The people who have committed these crimes are not such people. That is the target. Be diligent in background checks and find and render aid to those who need it and refuse sale to those who cannot pass a background check. That will not keep the criminals from getting weapons but a strict background check program that is enforced by all sellers of firearms will certainly eliminate a lot of those who don't qualify and that includes gun retailers, gun shows and even individuals who advertise guns for sale. The other most important issue that needs enforcement is stopping our government from providing weapons to foreign countries who turn around and use them on us.
I agree John Thomas Dunlap. We have to be careful of falling into that trap of keeping guns out of the hands of those ruled mentally unfit. Who determines who is unfit? People like Chuck Schumer or Barbara Boxer?
I guess your right. How come no details for purchase? Still has not picked it up? Sooo you had a back ground and a waiting period. Seems to be working to me.
Liberals are allowed to break laws. They are Satan's' chosen people.
He makes no scence? Hand over the evil AR but keep a 45!? Because the AR is so much more powerful and deadly??? What does concerns me is how many people are falling for the smoke screen.
To Benson Gates: It's not simply what Kelly did; it's the intent with which he did it. He said he intended to give the AR-15 to local law enforcement after buying it. That makes his purchase a straw purchase, which is a felony. Question 11 on the ATF form clearly requires the buyer to state that the buyer intends the weapon being purchased for his/her OWN use.
Kelly is Unamerican.
Total Fake....
Sold out!!!!!!!!
Go to England Kelly...............................
I don't know what his motives were and, frankly, I don't care. As the author stated, "...Kelly did actually do exactly what other law-abiding citizens in Arizona or any other state in the union have done beforehand."
Kelly, a law abiding US citizen, with no criminal record, was actually allowed to exercise his rights as a free man and buy a couple of firearms; WOW! You'd either have to be so far left, and spinning out of control, or a super conspiracy theorist to weave his lawful activity into a Machiavellian plot.
Come on, we will never change the true "gun grabbers" from acting out anymore than they will change our defense of our 2nd amendment protections of our GOD given right to self defense. The real culprits are the dishonest media that give voice to a minority of activists in hopes of generating a public opinion shift of the low information voters.
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