Guns confiscated recently in crime-torn Chicago. (AP Photo)
A group of 23 Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee Friday sent letters to President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder demanding existing gun laws be enforced before additional limitations are passed.
The committee, which has held hearings in recent weeks on ways to prevent gun violence, again called into focus statistics that show a dramatic drop in federal weapons prosecutions over the past decade.
The letters cite a Syracuse University study that show firearms prosecutions under President George W. Bush peaked at 11,015 in 2004 while the Obama administration has prosecuted about 7,774 firearms cases in 2012.
“A prosecution rate this low is not indicative of a Department of Justice that takes the act of illegally attempting to acquire a firearm seriously,” Committee Chairman Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., said in a statement accompanying the letters.
“We must all be looking for ways to prevent senseless acts of violence and the taking of innocent life but the best place to start would be enforcing the laws that Congress has already enacted.”
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This has been my premise since this whole assinine gun ban drive started.
ReplyDeleteHilariously, it has been argued to me that there are not enough law enforcement personnel so we need more and stricter laws.
Apparently the irony of this statement slips by the thought process.
Apparently the irony of this statement slips by the thought process.
DeleteThey are liberals, you know!:)
Where are these punk`s getting their hardware ? . Hmmmm ? , Home town ' fast and furious ' project ? . Surely Not ! . Not in Amerika ! .
ReplyDeleteNot in Amerika !
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Remember, it is not about Guns, it is about Control. The existing laws would be more than adequate for Guns, and "gun violence" but they are in no way adequate to place another layer of control on the populace. Since it is all about their boot on our necks, the entire Marxist Democrat party, state and Feral, are lining up more and more "laws" with which to control us....
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