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After Colorado Shooting Ed Rendell Slams NRA Fearing Congressional Cowards
Ed Rendell used the Colorado shootings to speak out about the real problem plaguing America, cowardly politicians who are afraid to stand up to the NRA.
Here is the video from NBC News:
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The former Pennsylvania governor said,
It’s ridiculous because the NRA’s power is over inflated. I was for gun control from the day that I ran for office in Pennsylvania. We have the the second highest number of NRA members of any state in the union behind only Texas, and I won three statewide elections by ten percent, twelve percent, and twenty one percent margins, so the NRA….
We’re petrified of the NRA. We Democrats are as bad as the Republicans. Everyone is scared of the NRA, and number one there are some things worth losing for in politics, and to be able to prevent carnage like this is worth losing for. What the Congress ought to do, and again I apologize for talking about this in the wake of all this, but it is important. The Congress should reinstate the assault weapons ban.
Number one, no citizen should be allowed to have an assault rifle. That’s clear. No hunter needs it. No citizen needs it to protect their home. Citizens are allowed to have firearms, shotguns, no assault weapons. Number two, we ought the limit the number of bullets that are allowed to be sold in a clip that goes into an automatic or semiautomatic weapon. Had we done that in Loughner’s case and he had to reload two times, people’s lives would have been saved, and people would have been saved from serious bodily injury. And we need leadership, and we need someone to say enough is enough.
And I agree with Dan Gross, we don’t know where the guns came from, but it doesn’t matter where the assault rifle came from. Citizens should not have assault weapons.
Alex Wagner pointed out that Congress let the assault weapons ban expire, and Rendell erupted and called it, “An act of cowardice, an act of cowardice.” Rendell pointed out that not every NRA member believes in what the NRA stands for.
We can debate forever the merits of gun control laws, but it all irrelevant until the nation addresses the real problem that Rendell brought up. We have a Congress that is terrified of the NRA. Look no further than the cowardly Democrats who voted to find Eric Holder in contempt for proof of just how terrified Congress is of the NRA.
What members of Congress don’t comprehend is that the NRA’s power is vastly overstated. Since the organization became nothing more than a mouthpiece for the Republican Party, they have lost a great deal of their influence.
How hypocritical has the NRA become?
They welcomed Mitt Romney and his record of limiting gun ownership to their convention with open arms. The NRA supported John McCain in 2008, even though McCain has never been shy about his anti-gun positions.
Democrats need to realize that the NRA is nothing to be afraid of. Every time a Democrat caves to the NRA, they empower and advance the organization’s agenda. Some NRA members need to realize that the organization long ago stopped putting the interest of gun owners ahead of the goals of the Republican Party.
If we are ever going to have a serious debate about any of the difficult issues facing our country, we need leadership that has the courage to stand up to the special interests.
The gun control debate is pointless until our country has leaders that are willing to put the desires of the people ahead of the agenda of special interest groups.
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7 Responses to After Colorado Shooting Ed Rendell Slams NRA Fearing Congressional Cowards
Shiva (Moderator)
Jul. 20th, 2012 at 7:03 pm
He is right. No one needs an automatic weapon. No one.
I think its time we get past the 2nd penis syndrome that these nut cases live with. No weapon you can buy is going to protect you against the government. You dont need automatic weapons
He is right. No one needs an automatic weapon. No one.
I think its time we get past the 2nd penis syndrome that these nut cases live with. No weapon you can buy is going to protect you against the government. You dont need automatic weapons
Screw the NRA. They are the ones keeping the gun houses open on the mexico border and are responsible for the death occurring there. And they wont accept the responsibility.
Joseph Segal
Jul. 21st, 2012 at 1:44 am
Yes he is right of course almost every Congressperson is a coward corrupted by Wall Street and their own greed to stay in power. We need to reform the way we select and elect people to the Peoples House. We have to support grass roots candidates that take no PAC money and stand for and with the people on issues like sensible gun control to insider trading to getting big money out of politics!
What former Governor Rendell doesn’t mention and maybe doesn’t recognize is that a good portion of this country have been indoctrinated into fearing the Federal Government and believe that is why they need assault weapons. This of course is nothing more than a lie concocted to sell more expensive firearms to people. Shameful! The NRA and right wing radio lies and people die.
Ramon Baptist
Jul. 23rd, 2012 at 6:00 pm
I really dont have much to say other than the blood of all the victims in Colorado, and also the Border control agent is on the filthy hands of the NRA. It would be one thing if there wasnt assault weapons present but you see in both cases they were present and there were the first weapon of choice….. Shame on Congress for continuing to bow its knee for BIG MONEY FROM BIG BUSINESS.. I WONDER IF CHARLSTON HESTON WAS PACKING WHEN HE WAS TALKING TO GOD IN THE MOVIE MOSES……. PITTIFUL…..GUN TOTTERS……VOTE TO TAKE CONGRESS BACK,,, IF THEY ARE DIRTY POLITITIANS, SEND THEM HOME, WE NEED PEOPLE WITH INTEGRITY, WHO CANT BE BOUGHT. LONG LIVE THE LIBRAL MOVEMENT… OBAMA FOR 2012……IF ROMNEY WINS ILL TAKE THE PLACE OF ALL THOSE WHO MOVED TO CANADA FOUR YEARS AGO…I GUESS THEY WILL BE COMING BACK……LOL
J.T.
Jul. 23rd, 2012 at 11:20 pm
Boy I can see this way left of where I usualy do my reading.
There is no trying to change what the previous to posters remarked to, you believe what you believe. So I’m not going to try convince you otherwise.
However, I’m going to make what I feel is a small point.
If there had been just one movie goer that night, that had attended a conceal carry permit and was carrying a conceald weapon, the outcome may have been much different. Had the one that did the shooting that night, known in the back of his mind that there was a great possiblity that someone or mutliple persos, would be shooting back at him risking his life, would have changed his mind? I don’t know. But what I believe is that it is my right as it others to protect myself from derranged persons that feel shooting inconcent and helpless people is fun or the right thing to do in their mind, is my right.
There is NO easy answer. Bashing the NRA certainly isn’t going to solve anything either. Someone’s always finger pointing…. solves nothing.
There are facts that support where gun ownership has increased in homes, and the entire community understands that a person has right to protect themselves from an inturder, crime rates DROP. Why?? Because it’s not worth getting shot for trying to steal from someones house. Do yourself a favor and check out how things turned out in Great Brittian after they collected all guns. It’s not a nice picture.
And please, do some more research before you go blasting off remarks about who to screw. We mostly only know what “they’ want us to beleive. IT’s never what you really think it is. I suppose you trust government more than the NRA? Question, why would you trust either one more than the other?
PS There is a huge difference between an assult rifle / automatic weapon, versus what an ordinary citizen can buy a permit for the right to purchase.
Please read the real story on the “Fast and Furious” gun transaction that ATF was involved with. EVen those from the inside knew it was wrong.
Regards,
j.t.
Shiva (Moderator)
Jul. 23rd, 2012 at 11:25 pm
Really? The room was clouded with tear gas, the person you speak of eyes probably would have been all teared up and he probably would have shot innocent people in the darkened room.
Let go of your gun fantasy. Its not your dick.
You read the Fast and furious story. It was GOP prosecutors that would not prosecute the people the FBI was stopping.
People can buy assault rifles. The NRA has seen to it. Please show us your stats for the drop in crime due to gun ownership
Sarah Jones
Jul. 23rd, 2012 at 11:30 pm
FYI, he used an AR-15, which is a lightweight, 5.56 mm, magazine-fed, semi-automatic rifle — a military-style assault rifle, capable of firing 50-60 rounds a minute. After it jammed, he switched to his 12-gauge shotgun.
Guns walked because they couldn’t prosecute those selling the guns due to lax gun laws in Arizona. Unless you’re saying that you know more than the actual ATF agents who worked the case.
JB
Jul. 24th, 2012 at 12:19 pm
Pennsylvania has a very pro-gun set of gun laws: “shall issue” right to carry, state pre-emption, no registration, no firearms owner ID card, no assault weapons or magazine capacity restrictions…it is just about the same as Texas. Rendell talks the talk but PA’s gun owners and their representatives in the state house have cut him off at the knees; no walking the walk for Mr. Ed.