In Nevada, State Assemblyman Steven Brooks was arrested and put in jail yesterday for threatening to kill State Speaker Marilyn Kirkpatrick, also a Democrat. When he was arrested, according to Las Vegas police, he was carrying a loaded pistol. Brooks was apparently driving around Kirkpatrick’s neighborhood looking for her. When she called the police, they apprehended Brooks at a traffic stop.
Booking photo of Brooks From Las Vegas Sun
On Tuesday, Joe Biden will turn in his gun violence task force report to Barack Obama concerning new gun control laws and other measures to the wake of the Sandy Hook School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. But as it turns out, the proposed 13-part plan comes from none other than the Center for American Progress, the Far-Left group funded largely by George Soros. This is not the first time that the Obama White House is getting its marching orders from Soros and his C.A.P. Organization. Meanwhile, sales for guns and high-capacity magazines are reaching record levels as law-abiding citizens fear a new series of gun bans. A patriotic group of citizens who believe firmly in the U.S. Constitution are planning on creating their own community in western Idaho called ′The Citadel′. Upwards of 7,000 families of like mind may relocate there to find shelter in our evermore disturbing world.
National Rifle Association CEO Wayne Lapierre issued the first NRA statement one week following the Sandy Hook school Newtown shooting on Friday. Many in the Media and Liberal-Progressive politics, like NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg, reacted with NRA outrage over the idea of having an armed policeman in every elementary school. The National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers rejected the concept as ″astounding and disturbing.″ While we still do not know what drove Adam Lanza to carry out his act of violence, the fact that he killed himself as soon as police arrived and entered the building does seem to lend credence to Lapierre′s basic point. That the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is with a good guy with a gun.
Sunday evening, Barack Obama attended and spoke at the memorial service for the 26 victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Obama proclaimed that ″we″ are not doing enough to protect our children and vowed to use his powers to push new gun control laws because ″we must change.″ Already a growing chorus of politicians are lining up, like Senators Joe Manchin, Mark Warner, and Diane Feinstein, as well as NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former Congressman Joe Scarborough. Many on Capitol Hill seem ready to take on the National Rifle Association and the Second Amendment to ban so-called ′assault weapons′ as well as high-capacity ammunition magazines. In recent weeks, we have heard that America is suffering from a ′Culture of Guns′, but I say it is a Culture of Death which plagues us. How Obama can shed his crocodile tears for the dead from Sandy Hook while supporting late term abortions is the height of hypocrisy!
Fox News host Mike Huckabee says the Newtown shooting blame should not be on soft gun control laws, but on a lack of God. That the Secular-Progressives have ′systematically removed God′ from our schools. Concepts such as what responsibility means have been lost in our society thanks to Liberals and their political objectives. So is Mike Huckabee correct in his hypothesis that the reason Adam Lanza shot up the Sandy Hook school, killing 6 adult women and 20 First Graders is a lack of God? The issue of gun control laws have already been raised, but could there be a different reason?
Obviously it is not the president’s fault per se but for some casual observers there is a lesson to be learned about the unintended consequences of liberalism when pet government programs try to pick life’s winners and losers. Obama’s own health department gave a huge recent federal education grant to James Holmes, money that came out of the hard earned income of taxpayers including the wallets of the victims he allegedly shot.
