Thread: Harry Reid Tells the Democrats Crying for More Gun Control ‘We Don’t Have the Votes’

Harry Reid Tells the Democrats Crying for More Gun Control ‘We Don’t Have the Votes’ on Gun Control Legislation

Posted on 17 September, 2013 by Amy

via newsmax
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said on Tuesday that he lacked the votes to bring gun-control legislation to the Senate floor for a vote.
“We’re going to move this up as quickly as we can, but we’ve got to have the votes first,” the Nevada Democrat told The Hill. “We don’t have the votes. I hope we get them, but we don’t have them now.”
Reid’s comments came in the wake of the slaying of 12 people in a shooting at the Washington Navy Yard.
The gunman, Aaron Alexis, 34, a former Navy reservist who was an information technology employee with a defense contractor, was killed at the scene. The FBI said on Tuesday that he entered the Navy Yard armed with a shotgun.

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Reid: Senate Doesn’t Have The Votes For More Gun Control

September 17, 2013 by Personal Liberty News Desk

Following the shooting tragedy that occurred at the Washington Navy Yard on Monday, some top Democrats wasted no time in calling for a renewed Congressional fight for tougher gun control laws. But on Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said that gun control legislation doesn’t have the votes to be approved by the Senate.

Therefore, Reid said, he has no intention of bringing new gun control legislation to the Senate floor very soon.

“We’re going to move this up as quickly as we can, but we’ve got to have the votes first,” Reid told reporters. “We don’t have the votes. I hope we get them, but we don’t have them now.”

Reid said that when the gun control debate does make it back to the floor, background checks are at the top of his legislative list.

“Background checks. We want to stop people who have mental illness from buying a gun. We want to stop people who are felons from being able to purchase a gun,” he said.

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"A well regulated Militia
being necessary to the security of a free State,
the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

The precedent for the language used in the Second Amendment comes from a Continental Congress resolution of March 23, 1775 that was introduced by Patrick Henry:

"A well regulated militia, composed of gentlemen and yeomen, is the natural strength and only security of a free government; that such a militia in this colony would forever render it unnecessary for the mother country to keep among us, for the purpose of our defence, any standing army of mercenary forces, always subversive of the quiet, and dangerous to the liberties, of the people, and would obviate the pretext of taxing us for their support."

What George Washington Said About a Well Regulated Militia General Washington said: "The distinction between a well regulated Army, and a Mob, is the good order and discipline of the first, and the licentious and disorderly behaviour of the latter." (August 25, 1776) "The irregular and disjointed State of the Militia of this Province, makes it necessary for me to inform you... your first object should be a well regulated Militia Law." (January 24, 1777) "For want of proper Laws in the Southern Governments, their Militia were never well regulated; and since the late Troubles, in which the Old Governments have been unhinged, and new ones not yet firmly established, the people have adopted a mode of thinking and Acting for themselves." (March 6, 1777) "The Citizens of America (with a few legal and official exceptions) from 18 to 50 Years of Age should be borne on the Militia Rolls, provided with uniform Arms, and so far accustomed to the use of them, that the Total strength of the Country might be called forth at a Short Notice on any very interesting Emergency, for these purposes they ought to be duly organized into Commands of the same formation... By keeping up in Peace 'a well regulated, and disciplined Militia,' we shall take the fairest and best method to preserve, for a long time to come, the happiness, dignity and Independence of our Country." (May 1, 1783) President Washington said: "The devising and establishing of a well regulated militia, would be a genuine source of legislative honor... carrying to its full energy the power of organizing, arming, and disciplining the militia; and thus providing, in the language of the constitution, for calling them forth to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions." (Address to Congress, November 19, 1794)

According to George Washington, a "well regulated Militia" was an organized military unit provided with uniform arms by the legislature – not individual citizens with guns acting for themselves.
"Well regulated" means ordered and disciplined – not "disorderly, irregular, or disjointed": terms Washington used that now describe the weakly regulated situation in America that has led to the proliferation of firearms that threatens the security of Americans.
NOTE: "to bear arms" not only meant to carry firearms,
it also meant to participate in a militia.
Therefore, "to keep and bear arms" seems to mean:
to possess arms for use when participating in a well regulated militia.
The Second Amendment is essentially about security.

http://greatseal.com/constitution/wellregulated.html



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comprande' Harry!! What part will not be infringed upon don't you understand Harry!!!