WASHINGTON – Two days after the shooting deaths of 26 people at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school, Sen. Dianne Feinstein pledged Sunday that she would introduce new gun-control legislation at the beginning of next year’s congressional session.
“It [the bill] will ban the sale, the transfer, the transportation and the possession,” the California senator said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “Not retroactively, but prospectively. And it will ban the same for big clips, drums or strips of more than 10 bullets.”
Feinstein said the purpose of her proposal, a version of the assault-weapons ban that expired in 2004, is to get “weapons of war off the streets of our cities.”
Officials have said that most of those killed in Friday’s massacre — a toll that included 20 children — were shot with a semiautomatic assault-style rifle.
Feinstein has been at the forefront of gun-control efforts nationally. The assault weapons ban that she pushed followed mass killings in a Stockton schoolyard and in a San Francisco office tower.
Feinstein was also at San Francisco City Hall in 1978 when Supervisor Dan White killed Mayor George Moscone and fellow Supervisor Harvey Milk.
Feinstein saw White flee their offices and found Milk, memorably saying afterward that when she felt for a pulse, her finger slipped into a bullet hole.
Feinstein, then the head of the Board of Supervisors, became mayor upon Moscone’s death.
She declined to comment when asked whether President Obama has failed to lead on the issue of gun control but did add that her bill would give him a vehicle to oppose assault weapons.
Although Obama has spoken generally in the past about the need to lessen gun violence, his administration has not said how he will proceed.
The president was due to speak at a memorial service in Newtown on Sunday night.
“As a country, we have been through this too many times. Whether it’s an elementary school in Newtown, or a shopping mall in Oregon, or a temple in Wisconsin, or a movie theater in Aurora, or a street corner in Chicago — these neighborhoods are our neighborhoods, and these children are our children,” Obama said in an address Friday. “And we’re going to have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this, regardless of the politics.”
-Los Angeles Times
BobF
People need to read this article: http://bit.ly/ConscienceNotGuns
S M
Two words Liberal / California
Sandy
Two words fearful / Redneck
honestly
This is another discussion very closely related. A good read for gun ownership rights: https://ktla.com/2012/12/15/newtown-shooting-spark…
john
Feinstein obtained a concealed carry permit in California when she felt her life was threatened. When she wants to defend her life then guns are good.
pat
What a great plan. Lets ban guns. I mean why enforce laws we already have. And while were at it lets ban drugs because they kill school kids as well. Also any car that goes more than 85 because thats the fastest you can drive. and high speed wrecks kill 32,000 people per yearso they need to go. Its just like the democrates to blaim a tool and not the person that used it. How about you worry less about gun laws and more about the fiscal cliff.
Tom A
Here is the problem with what people like Feinstein and Obama will do, start us down the slippery slope of control and then where do we go as a country. Obama will already go down in history as one of the worst Presidents EVER. Hey, disarming the citizenry worked for Hitler. A disarmed populace is easier to control and conquer. The sheeple in this country won't get it until Obama, Feinstein, Schumer and Bloomberg regulate every facet of their lives, even down to what they eat every day. Get to their fat Wal-Mart stomachs and maybe then they will wake up.
BobF
Hey, didn't they talk about a new law in China today – where senior citizens will be able to sue their offspring if they feel they are not getting enough visits? I see a new lifestyle suggestion for the Democrats to force down our throats!
Rambo
guns does not keep weapons out of the reach of criminals. What part of criminals the senator does not understand. If they are criminals or mentally disturbed they do bad things anyway.if they can't get a gun, they'll use a knife or dynamite or a baseball bat. Remember 9/11? They took down the planes with box cutters. Another thing they'll do is just buy a weapon guns from Mexico or maybe even Erik holder will give them one. Criminals always will have accesses to guns legal or illegal . The difference is that normal people always do it lawfully . Banning guns will only send a message to criminals that they have a clean field now, because nobody else have anymore. The senator is being des respectful tho the American people and to the constitution she is there to uphold.shame on her and who support her.
Rambo
I say, somebody should ask the senator if criminals will be required to register theirs guns as well….
Rambo
I should say banning gun will not …… ( correction first comment , forgot to type these word in the big ending of sentence )
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