[StBernard] Quote of The Day by Dianne Feinstein

[Westley Annis]

Not quite:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/guns/feinstein.asp


Origins:   A subject of discussion during a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee
meeting
<http://www.c-span.org/Events/Senate-Judiciary-to-Work-on-Assault-Weapons-Ba
n/10737438612-2/>  on 7 March 2013 was an amendment offered by Texas senator
John Cornyn which sought to modify the Assault Weapons Ban of 2013
<http://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/assault-weapons-ban-summar
y>  legislation proposed by California senator Dianne Feinstein by allowing
an exemption for former military personnel (in addition to an exemption for
retired law enforcement personnel which was already part of the bill).
Senator Cornyn objected to the notion that the original bill should provide
an exemption for retired law enforcement but not for retired military,
saying (in part): 
Members and veterans of the Armed Forces are the most highly-trained and
qualified individuals to own these weapons for self-defense purposes. We
should think long and hard before disarming these heroes, preventing them
from protecting their families and communities. 

Is it because we believe [retired police] have some special competency and
training to use these weapons to defend themselves and others, or do we
think their families are worthy of special protection? 

If you don't believe these weapons can be used lawfully for self-defense,
then you should be offering an amendment to strike the pass for law
enforcement. But of course, I don't expect that. 
In response, Senator Feinstein stated neither that "all vets are mentally
ill" nor that "the government should prevent [veterans] from owning
firearms"; that claim is a highly exaggerated paraphrase of her remarks.
What Feinstein did do was express her opinion that creating an exemption in
an assault weapons ban (not a general firearms ban) for retired military
personnel might was inadvisable due to both the prevalence of post-traumatic
stress disorder (PTSD) among that group and the difficulty of verifying that
a potential gun purchaser was in fact a veteran, and that the proposed
amendment should therefore include a provision for screening out "mentally
incapacitated" veterans: 
Read more at
http://www.snopes.com/politics/guns/feinstein.asp#Z6FQt0IWiDwDaR3u.99





	Quote of the day by Dianne Feinstein..........
	
	Dianne Feinstein: "All vets are mentally ill in some way and
government should prevent them from owning firearms."
	
	Yep, - she really said it on Thursday in a meeting in front of the
Senate Judiciary Committee...
	
	and the quote below from the LA Times is priceless. Sometimes even
the L.A. Times gets it right.