Sunday, January 13, 2013

Center for American "Progress" uses George "Dr. Evil" Soros' money to pimp for citizen disarmament.

The CAP (where Bill Clinton first denounced the Three Percent movement in 2010) is heavily funded by George "Dr. Evil" Soros. Now they're using Georgie's money to once again pimp for citizen disarmament: Sweeping new gun laws proposed by influential liberal think tank.
With President Obama readying an overhaul of the nation’s gun laws, a liberal think tank with singular influence throughout his administration is pushing for a sweeping agenda of strict new restrictions on and federal oversight of gun and ammunition sales.
The Center for American Progress is recommending 13 new gun policies to the White House — some of them executive actions that would not require the approval of Congress — in what amounts to the progressive community’s wish list.
CAP’s proposals — which include requiring universal background checks, banning military-grade assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines, and modernizing data systems to track gun sales and enforce existing laws — are all but certain to face stiff opposition from the National Rifle Association and its many allies in Congress. . .
One of CAP’s suggestions to toughen federal regulation of gun sales is to make the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which is currently an agency within the Department of Justice, a unit of the FBI. CAP says absorbing the ATF into the FBI would better empower the ATF to combat gun crime and illegal trafficking.
“It is a beleaguered agency lacking leadership and resources,” said Winnie Stachelberg, senior vice president of CAP. “It needs to be a well-functioning federal law enforcement agency, and we need to figure out ways to ensure that happens.”
CAP’s top recommendation is to require criminal background checks for all gun sales, closing loopholes that currently enable an estimated 40 percent of sales to occur without any questions asked. The organization also wants to add convicted stalkers and suspected terrorists to the list of those barred from purchasing firearms.
CAP is urging the Obama administration to back Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s proposal to ban assault weapons. The California Democrat wants to prohibit the sale, transfer, importation and manufacture of military-style assault weapons and ammunition magazines that carry more than 10 bullets.
The group also suggests requiring firearms dealers to report to the federal government individuals who purchase multiple semiautomatic assault rifles within a five-day period. Current law requires reporting multiple purchases of handguns, but not semiautomatic assault rifles.
CAP also wants the administration to free public health research agencies, including the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to study the impact of gun violence on injuries and deaths. For years, lawmakers, urged by the NRA, have placed riders on spending bills that restrict these and other agencies from conducting such research.

6 comments:

Frederick H Watkins said...

In generations past we, "The Americans," have sent young men and women to regain the lost liberties and right to self government of more than just a few nations swallowed whole by aggressive neighbors. The Philippines, China, much of the surrounding nations in that part of the world by Japan. England, the entire continent of Europe and much of North Africa by Germany and Italy. And let's not forget that we also helped our future Cold War adversary, the Soviet Union in there time of need as well. In all of those campaigns one phrase can be cited to have been said by numerous of those we assisted and that is "The Americans Are Coming."

Since then, South Korea, Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, Kuwait, Iraq and Afghanistan. The Americans Are Coming! The whole world of would be dictators then and now really don't want to here that particular phrase because it means the end of their dictatorship and the general bullying of their immediate neighbors is at hand.

And now, it comes full circle to us. We are now on the precipice of losing all of our liberties in addition to those we have already been stripped of by a very zealous and truly believing cadre of would be oligarchs. Except for us, The Americans Are NOT Coming!

We are already here and we best be getting serious about saving ourselves because there isn't anyone in the world left to do it for us.

Anonymous said...

Neera Tanden bio at http://www.americanprogress.org/about/staff/tanden-neera/bio/

"Tanden was the director of domestic policy for the Obama-Biden presidential campaign, where she managed all domestic policy proposals. Tanden had also served as policy director for the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign where she directed all policy work, ranging from domestic policy to the economy to foreign affairs, and managed day-to-day policy announcements. In that role, she also oversaw the debate preparation process for then-Sen. Clinton (D-NY)."

Anonymous said...

"suspected terrorists" -Now that's a subjective term.

Anonymous said...

do I smell an oxymoron.

quote: "The California Democrat wants to prohibit the sale, transfer, importation and manufacture of military-style assault weapons and ammunition magazines that carry more than 10 bullets. The group also suggests requiring firearms dealers to report to the federal government individuals who purchase multiple semiautomatic assault rifles within a five-day period." unquote

ummm..let me see if I can understand this...
They want to ban the manufacture/sale of "assault" weapons..but also want the firearms dealers to report someone who buys multiple "assault" weapons. Right. Got ya. sheeeeezusHfuckingcrist.

If I hadn't seen that with my own eyes I would have thought it was a joke.
Mass lobotomy notwithstanding, I submit this group is one fry short of a Happy Meal.

Anonymous said...

One fry short of a Happy Meal? I think they're short the whole order. Good thing Pravda-on-the-Potomac doesn't allow comments to their articles or I'd be very publicly paraphrasing James Yeager's unedited response to this kind of (oxymoronic) brain-dead thinking from a few days ago - F**k. That.[B**ch]!

Anonymous said...

Serious question:

Where do they get this "40%" figure from that I keep seeing in "authorized journalist" stories? How can you know what percentage of "sales" exist in private?