Obama's Arizona Speech: 'I Want America To Be As Good As She Imagined It'

The weapon used was purchased legally. The extended magazine had been banned during the 1990s, but that law expired in 2004 (Gabrielle Giffords supported ending the ban, by the way, supports gun rights in general, opposed the Washington DC gun ban, and signed an amicus brief with the US SupremeCou rt in support of overturning the ban).

Up until then, 10 bvllets per clip was the limit.

We know exactly which members of Congress, both sides of the aisle, voted against keeping the ban in place. The roll call vote in the Senate on the (Dianne) Feinstein amendment to extend the ban, March 2, 2004. Russ Feingold lovers who want Feingold to primary Obama, note his "nay" vote, as well as other Democrats still serving, like HarryReid, MaryLandrieu, TimJohnson (not voting), BenNelson, MaxBaucus.

In 2007, Representative Carolyn Maloney's bill to reinstate the ban with 67 co-sponsors (Giffords was not among them), went nowhere.

HR 6257 (a bill to reinstate the ban on assault weapons, as well as to expand the list of banned weapons, for ten years) was introduced in June 2008, and then got buried in a House subcommittee one month later, where it d!ed at the end of that Congress (2008).

After Obama and Democrats won the 2008 elections and took control of the White House and Congress, Dianne Feinstein said in April 2009 about introducing legislation in the Senate to reinstate the Assault Weapons Ban, "I wouldn't bring it up now."

Obama has stated that he wouldn't push for the reinstatement of the Assault Weapons Ban.

Neither Republicans nor Democrats are willing to take on the gvn lobby (or any corporate industry), nor spend the money on the prevention side (funding for mental health treatment, public education and social safety nets, etc.).

In Obama's speech last night, he perpetuated the "overheated political rhetoric made Loughner do it" l!e when it's.

When the investigation of Saturday's sh00ting is complete, we're going to know exactly which victims were the recipients of bvllets 11-33. We're going to know if the 9-year-old would still be alive had the ban been kept in place.

We can now say that donations from the NRA to politicians are literally bl00d money, and any politician who isn't actively calling for gun control and the flood of monies for mental health treatment (and using every t00L in their arsenals, including the unique persuasive speechifying we saw last night) has bl00d on their hands.