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Feinstein Blames NRA for Weakening Gun Control

By Associated Press April 4, 2013 12:25 pm

SAN FRANCISCO - The National Rifle Association and gun manufacturers are to blame for the "disconnect" between the broad public support for gun control and the reluctance in Congress to ban assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines, U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein said Wednesday.

Speaking to a hometown audience of about 500 people in San Francisco, the California Democrat said the NRA has intimidated senators with threats that the gun lobby would spend heavily to unseat them if they support the restrictions Feinstein championed in response to the December massacre at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn.

"A fear has set in that if they vote for the bill they won't be re-elected. It's that plain, it's that simple," Feinstein said during an appearance before the Commonwealth Club. "My view is they shouldn't go up to the Senate if they are unwilling to stand up and vote."

She did not mention any senators by name, but ticked off a long list of southern and western states, from Montana and Wyoming to Tennessee and Florida, where the threats would be most successful.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid last month stripped the assault weapons and ammunition bans from the gun-control legislation that Democrats plan to bring to the Senate floor in coming weeks. Reid said he was worried those provisions would doom any reforms, such as expanded background checks for gun sales, but assured Feinstein he would allow them to be voted on as amendments.

Feinstein said she would press for a chance to speak on the Senate floor, where she plans to once more make the case that while military-style weapons are involved in a small percentage of gun deaths, the massacres and damage to individual bodies they can inflict "are antithetical to our values."

NRA spokesman Andrew Arulanandam rejected Feinstein's account of why her colleagues are not embracing her proposals.

"In spite of what Senator Feinstein is trying to spin, to try and put the blame on the NRA, the real reason that there is lack of support for these bans is because we had a 10-year period where these bans were the law of the land, and during that 10-year period numerous studies were conducted that found these bans were ineffective at reducing crime," Arulanandam said.

During her remarks earlier in the day, Feinstein had disputed the contention that the assault weapons ban she sponsored in 1994 did not reduce gun violence during the decade before it was allowed to expire.

"It had begun to do what we wanted it to do, which is to drive down the number of these guns over time," she said. "The NRA has their statistics, I have mine."

Feinstein also encouraged the entertainment and video game industries to take voluntary steps to produce products that do not glorify big, powerful guns before Congress feels compelled to step in. She mentioned that Adam Lanza, the 20-year-old man responsible for the Sandy Hook Elementary School slayings, practiced shooting both at a range with his mother and on a video screen.

Video games play "a very negative role for young people, and the industry ought to take note of that," she said. "If Sandy Hook doesn't do it, if the knowledge of these video games this young man played doesn't, then maybe we have to proceed, but that is in the future."

Feinstein, who chairs the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, briefly addressed rising concerns about how the United States is using aerial drones abroad and the potential for the technology to be used - and abused - domestically.

She said she was satisfied, based on classified information she had seen but was not free to discuss, that drones "have taken out well over half of the Al Qaida leadership" and "remain our most successfully counter-terrorism tool" at a time when the U.S. is a potential target of emerging terrorism organizations and networks.

"I believe they will come after us, if they can," she said. "This is not over, and no one can predict how long it will go on."

Feinstein expressed greater reservations about law enforcement agencies and commercial companies that want to employ drones at home, saying they carry significant potential to intrude on the lives of Americans.

"I know they can peer through windows. I know they can peer at people in the privacy of their own backyards," she said. "It's one thing to use them to patrol our borders. It's another thing to fly them over our cities and towns."
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Sen. Dianne Feinstein is now talking about video game control.

In the wake of an “assault weapons” ban that has so far been blocked by other legislators, Sen. Dianne Feinstein is now talking about video game control.

Speaking to an audience of about 500 at a San Francisco event, Feinstein said “If Sandy Hook doesn’t do it … then maybe we have to proceed, but that is in the future,” and “a very negative role for young people, and the industry ought to take note of that.”

She said this in light of evidence that Adam Lanza, the shooter, was a fan of “Call of Duty” and “Starcraft,” two of the most popular — that is to say common, mainstream — video games series ever made.

Feinstein is not the first person to come to this conclusion. Sen. Joe Lieberman said “The violence in the entertainment culture — particularly, with the extraordinary realism to video games, movies now, et cetera — does cause vulnerable young men to be more violent,” after the Newtown shooting spree.

“Very often, these young men have had an almost hypnotic involvement in some form of violence in our entertainment culture, particularly violent video games, and then they obtain guns and become not just troubled young men but mass murderers,” Lieberman added.

Colorado Governer John Hickenlooper is on the same page. “There might well be some direct connection between people who have some mental instability and when they go over the edge – they transport themselves, they become part of one of those video games. Perhaps that’s why all these assault weapons are used.”

The NRA’s own Wayne LaPierre has also pointed the finger at video games. “There exists in this country a callous, corrupt and corrupting shadow industry that sells, and sows, violence against its own people. Through vicious, violent video games with names like Bulletstorm, Grand Theft Auto, Mortal Kombat and Splatterhouse.”

Even Donald Trump has chimed in. “Video game violence and glorification must be stopped — it is creating monsters!”

But there’s a problem with this. Just as the number of guns and gun owners has increased as violence and mass killings become less common, so has the popularity of video games, including violent video games.

“Grant Duwe, a criminologist with the Minnesota Department of Corrections who has written a history of mass murders in America, said that while mass shootings rose between the 1960s and the 1990s, they actually dropped in the 2000s. And mass killings actually reached their peak in 1929, according to his data. He estimates that there were 32 in the 1980s, 42 in the 1990s and 26 in the first decade of the century.

“Chances of being killed in a mass shooting, he says, are probably no greater than being struck by lightning.”

However the chances of owning a copy from the “Call of Duty” series is considerably higher, with estimates putting the number of copies sold at well over 100 million, and that’s just one franchise.

And the industry has taken note of that. With legislators talking about establishing some type of video game control, it’s important to recognize that the industry already has a voluntary ratings system in place, on that’s considered to be more effective than the film industry’s.

According to the FTC, “Only 13 percent of underage shoppers were able to purchase M-rated video games, while … 24 percent were able to purchase tickets to R-rated movies.”

If Feinstein does attempt some type of video game control, it will be an uphill battle, as not only do video gamers make up a sizable percentage of the nation, but the Supreme Court has also held that video games constitute protected First Amendment speech.

“‘As a means of assisting concerned parents it (the law) is seriously overinclusive because it abridges the First Amendment rights of young people whose parents (and aunts and uncles) think violent video games are a harmless pastime,’ wrote Justice Antonin Scalia for the majority.”

After Feinstein finishes with video games, which amendment do you think she’ll go after next?

http://www.guns.com/2013/04/05/feins...-game-control/

Cruz vs. Feinstein from Admin C's point of view.

Feinstein was last heard mumbling something about not being a sixth grader and that people don't need bazookas, right after a Constitutional right jab, left hook combo.

and to beat it all a majority of those killed by guns are done by Gang land Killing or Crooks killing Citizens

it appears that the Democrats want to better the chances of the Criminals in KNOCKING OFF AMERICAN CITIZENS

The Jews Behind Homeland Security

By Brother Nathanael Kapner Copyright 2013

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