Registration - Feinstein Picks a Hill to Die on

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Friday January 25, 2013 · 5:29 AM PST

2013/01/25 · 05:29

Not mentioned in the launch of Feinstein's new and improved AWB is a registration provision for grandfathered firearms. This is how it reads on the summary published on her website.

Requires that grandfathered weapons be registered under the National Firearms
Act, to include:
o Background check of owner and any transferee;
o Type and serial number of the firearm;
o Positive identification, including photograph and fingerprint;
o Certification from local law enforcement of identity and that
possession would not violate State or local law; and
o Dedicated funding for ATF to implement registration

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Sunday January 20, 2013 · 2:09 PM PST

2013/01/20 · 14:09

So how do the American people respond to mass shootings of innocents? How do they want their elected representatives to respond?

There are those that would argue that the tragic, and they were heartrendingly tragic, events in Newtown last month would be the last straw for the American people. They would finally lay down their arms, "and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. "

The American people do one thing that is incontrovertible as a result of mass shootings. They arm themselves.

annecros

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Tuesday December 18, 2012 · 10:13 AM PST

2012/12/18 · 10:13

The old adage - "When seconds count, the police take minutes." - is proving true once again.

First responders arrived at Sandy Hooks Elementary 20 minutes after the first calls came in. That monster had time to get bored before the cops got there. The cops never fired a shot.

If you don't think this figures into the gun control "discussion" we are having and need to have - well then you are just naive.

No wonder the sheriff's department declined to provide a timeline to the press.

I'm keeping my pistol and my pit bull.

annecros

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Saturday December 15, 2012 · 3:51 AM PST

2012/12/15 · 03:51

Let's talk sanely, seriously and with an eye towards preventing let's say, this tragedy. Let's talk about where we drawn the line between our freedoms and our security and our safety. Let's talk about mental illness and healthcare. Let's talk about privilege.

I've cried hard. Maybe even harder than Columbine when my own kids were in High School. Maybe harder than 9/11, when I had just returned from a visit to New York on 9/9.

Senseless. I pray for acceptance and God's will, because that's how I roll, but I don't begin to understand it. I have come to a place in my life where I believe that evil exists, and there may be nothing I can do about it.

For now, I am hanging on to my pistol and my pit bull.

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It took the cops 20 minutes to get there

OK, let's talk