Menino heads for DC to push for tougher gun laws UPDATE 11/15

[News Shooter]

By Donovan Slack, Globe Staff

WASHINGTON -- Boston Mayor Thomas Menino is headed to the nation’s capital next week to try and persuade a bitterly divided Congress to overhaul the background-check system for gun purchases.

Menino will join New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and more than 50 survivors of gun violence on Capitol Hill Tuesday at a series of events organized by Mayors Against Illegal Guns, which Menino and Bloomberg co-chair, and by the Campaign to Fix Gun Checks.

Among expected participants are Pat Maisch, who survived the Tucson shooting rampage that severely injured Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords, and Omar Samaha, whose sister was killed in the 2007 mass shooting at Virginia Tech.

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[Rick1987]

Jesus....

 

[BigMike]

Good.

Menino speaking to them will only leave them confused and asking themselves, "WTF did he just say?.....Just vote the opposite"

 

[richc]

Menino attended the Gabby Johnson school or pubic speaking:

 

[News Shooter]

Good.

Menino speaking to them will only leave them confused and asking themselves, "WTF did he just say?.....Just vote the opposite"

Excellent point

 

[william_munny]

Menino attended the Gabby Johnson school or pubic speaking:

Too funny.

 

[cekim]

"Survivors of gun violence..."



We are all survivors of MA violent gun laws attempting to forcibly take our rights...

 

[Mustad]

Someone should really suggest that Menino take a liesurely stroll un accompanied through DC at night, so that he may enjoy the Utopia that a 3 decade complete ban on handguns created.

 

[GunGrey]

Yea well #$%* him

 

[Reptile]

Isn't Massachusetts one of the states that does not share mental health records?

 

[jefftk]

"and more than 50 survivors of gun violence"

Why do these people automatically have a valid or insightful viewpoint on the subject?

Its almost like prop comedy - when you can't come up with any real jokes (or arguments/facts in this case), bust out the props. Why does anyone take this seriously?

 

[jamesvt]

"and more than 50 survivors of gun violence"

Why do these people automatically have a valid or insightful viewpoint on the subject?

Because gun control is about peoples emotions not logic or facts. It's like people with botched plastic surgery telling others what qualifications a plastic surgeon should have.

 

[Boris]

Good.

Menino speaking to them will only leave them confused and asking themselves, "WTF did he just say?.....Just vote the opposite"

that's exactly what I was thinking! They should rent him when they need to filibuster a bill.

 

[MichaelJR]

I REALLY hope he goes for a walk in DC weaing some nice clothes and a real nice timepiece. Win Win, regardless on how it goes.

 

[JuergenG]

Mumbles speaking in DC doesn't carry any risk - no one is going to understand his blabber

 

[Knob Creek]

He'll never get the microphone away from Bloomberg anyway

 

[wildwest]

I don't understand these elected morons and the laws they propose.. laws only apply to those that follow the laws.. more restrictive laws only will make it harder for the lawful to protect themselves from the criminals.
I know...preaching to the choir.

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[firecontrol123]

Menino's out to save the world again ? You mean it didn't work the first time ? Maybe this time while he's in D.C. Mayor Menino should stop off at the local A.T.F. office, who knows he may even get to see Eric (fast and furious) Holder. I guess the N.R.A. is right, guns don't kill people, the A.T.F. does.

 

[Palladin]

and this guy keeps getting elected.....why?

 

[FreeWillie]

All the while his armed body guards stand only feet away from him......

 

[richc]

"and more than 50 survivors of gun violence"

Why do these people automatically have a valid or insightful viewpoint on the subject?

Its almost like prop comedy - when you can't come up with any real jokes (or arguments/facts in this case), bust out the props. Why does anyone take this seriously?

I'm a survivor of gun violence, but I'd much rather be armed to the teeth and here on NES with this crowd than anywhere near Menino.

 

[Finalygotabeltfed]

and this guy keeps getting elected.....why?

Lots of reasons, one being that the stupidity of the general public in Boston is boundless. Another being that he panders endlessly to the thieving welfare scumbags above all else to gain their vote.

Its not about gun control, its about control.

Massachusetts is an experimental petri dish for legislation. If it passes here without riots and bloodshed, it is expanded to other places nationwide.

Sooner or later, you are going to have to protect your rights with outright force, you can count on it so you'd better be prepared.

 

[Twigg]

Massachusetts is an experimental petri dish for legislation. If it passes here without riots and bloodshed, it is expanded to other places nationwide.

...and this is exactly what it'll take to make any effective change in Massachusetts.

 

[Finalygotabeltfed]

...and this is exactly what it'll take to make any effective change in Massachusetts.

Don't hold your breath waiting for anything less prohibitive, its a one way street. The only thing that will stop them is to end the street by whatever means necessary.

 

[OB1Kenobi]

yawn....

 

[center442]

The problem is not Mumbles going to D. C.; the problem is that he'll eventually return here.

 

[Polibious]

It would be nice to gather all the people over say- the past five years, that are alive because they had a gun . I'd like to see our elected officials explain how stricter gun laws, that may have deprived them of their constitutional right, would make them safer.

 

[houdini]

A couple of weeks ago he was on about the gun violents that there was a 38mm used in the case, he does not no whats the heck on whats going on.

 

[surfcc]

Mumbles is a jackass!

 

[Parker Duofold]

and this guy keeps getting elected.....why?

I lived in Boston for 55 years and now live in a green town. Menino is hardly a Rhodes scholar but he has an incredibly powerful political machine and knows how to use it. Everything in the city goes through his office.