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Big_Rob | 11-25-2008 11:43 AM
LOL! We're so screwed! [David Kopel, November 20, 2008 at 7:41pm] Trackbacks Eric Holder on firearms policy: Earlier this year, Eric Holder--along with Janet Reno and several other former officials from the Clinton Department of Justice--co-signed an amicus brief in District of Columbia v. Heller. The brief was filed in support of DC's ban on all handguns, and ban on the use of any firearm for self-defense in the home. The brief argued that the Second Amendment is a "collective" right, not an individual one, and asserted that belief in the collective right had been the consistent policy of the U.S. Department of Justice since the FDR administration. A brief filed by some other former DOJ officials (including several Attorneys General, and Stuart Gerson, who was Acting Attorney General until Janet Reno was confirmed)took issue with the Reno-Holder brief's characterization of DOJ's viewpoint. But at the least, the Reno-Holder brief accurately expressed the position of the Department of Justice when Janet Reno was Attorney General and Eric Holder was Deputy Attorney General. At the oral argument before the Fifth Circuit in United States v. Emerson, the Assistant U.S. Attorney told the panel that the Second Amendment was no barrier to gun confiscation, not even of the confiscation of guns from on-duty National Guardsmen. As Deputy Attorney General, Holder was a strong supporter of restrictive gun control. He advocated federal licensing of handgun owners, a three day waiting period on handgun sales, rationing handgun sales to no more than one per month, banning possession of handguns and so-called "assault weapons" (cosmetically incorrect guns) by anyone under age of 21, a gun show restriction bill that would have given the federal government the power to shut down all gun shows, national gun registration, and mandatory prison sentences for trivial offenses (e.g., giving your son an heirloom handgun for Christmas, if he were two weeks shy of his 21st birthday). He also promoted the factoid that "Every day that goes by, about 12, 13 more children in this country die from gun violence"--a statistic is true only if one counts 18-year-old gangsters who shoot each other as "children."(Sources: Holder testimony before House Judiciary Committee, Subcommitee on Crime, May 27,1999; Holder Weekly Briefing, May 20, 2000. One of the bills that Holder endorsed is detailed in my 1999 Issue Paper "Unfair and Unconstitutional.") After 9/11, he penned a Washington Post op-ed, "Keeping Guns Away From Terrorists" arguing that a new law should give "the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms a record of every firearm sale." He also stated that prospective gun buyers should be checked against the secret "watch lists" compiled by various government entities. (In an Issue Paper on the watch list proposal, I quote a FBI spokesman stating that there is no cause to deny gun ownership to someone simply because she is on the FBI list.) After the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the D.C. handgun ban and self-defense ban were unconstitutional in 2007, Holder complained that the decision "opens the door to more people having more access to guns and putting guns on the streets." Holder played a key role in the gunpoint, night-time kidnapping of Elian Gonzalez. The pretext for the paramilitary invasion of the six-year-old's home was that someone in his family might have been licensed to carry a handgun under Florida law. Although a Pulitzer Prize-winning photo showed a federal agent dressed like a soldier and pointing a machine gun at the man who was holding the terrified child, Holder claimed that Gonzalez "was not taken at the point of a gun" and that the federal agents whom Holder had sent to capture Gonzalez had acted "very sensitively." If Mr. Holder believes that breaking down a door with a battering ram, pointing guns at children (not just Elian), and yelling "Get down, get down, we'll shoot" is example of acting "very sensitively," his judgment about the responsible use of firearms is not as acute as would be desirable for a cabinet officer who would be in charge of thousands and thousands of armed federal agents, many of them paramilitary agents with machine guns.

SLV>GLD | 11-25-2008 11:45 AM
Re: LOL! We're so screwed! That block-o-text hurted my eyes.

AlterEgo | 11-25-2008 11:48 AM
Re: LOL! We're so screwed! Yeah me to. Take the time to do a little formatting before ya hit 'Post'.

Big_Rob | 11-25-2008 11:50 AM
Re: LOL! We're so screwed! Sorry about that, it was correct when I CC&P'ed it but it auto-formated to that block o text.

AlterEgo | 11-25-2008 11:52 AM
Re: LOL! We're so screwed! Thanks Rob, your are a gentleman. Ego

The Argent Dragon | 11-25-2008 11:55 AM
Re: LOL! We're so screwed! President-Elect Obama To Name Eric Holder Attorney General, Reports Say 11/19/2008 11:42 AM ET (RTTNews) - President-elect Barack Obama is expected to appoint Eric Holder as attorney general, reports said Tuesday, while former president Bill Clinton made concessions for a possible appointment of Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) as Secretary of State. According to Newsweek magazine, Holder accepted Obama's nomination, though the Obama transition team did not immediately have any comments on the report. Holder had previously served as deputy attorney general in the Clinton administration. "Obama offered Holder the job and he accepted," Newsweek reported. "The announcement is not likely until after Obama announces his choices to lead the Treasury and State departments." If Congress approves his appointment, Holden would become the first African-American attorney general. http://www.rttnews.com/ArticleView.a...=780234&SMap=1 We're fvcked...........Royally :puke:

The Argent Dragon | 11-25-2008 11:59 AM
Re: LOL! We're so screwed! Quote:
Originally Posted by Big_Rob (Post 1434393) [David Kopel, November 20, 2008 at 7:41pm] As Deputy Attorney General, Holder was a strong supporter of restrictive gun control. He advocated federal licensing of handgun owners, a three day waiting period on handgun sales, rationing handgun sales to no more than one per month, banning possession of handguns and so-called "assault weapons" (cosmetically incorrect guns) by anyone under age of 21, a gun show restriction bill that would have given the federal government the power to shut down all gun shows, national gun registration, and mandatory prison sentences for trivial offenses (e.g., giving your son an heirloom handgun for Christmas, if he were two weeks shy of his 21st birthday).
This guy is a fvckin' 'tard and possibly worse than Biden the Father of the AWB of 1994. :s10: :puke::banghead: :favorites21: :favorites21: :favorites21: :rant: :puke:

SLV>GLD | 11-25-2008 12:05 PM
Re: LOL! We're so screwed! Yeah, I'm actually impressed that Obama found an even bigger gun control nut than Biden. I suppose Holder would have made a bad VP runner for the campaigns and can also get more damage done as AG vs VP. This news will certainly insure the current gun price/buying craze remains fueled into January.

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