Gohmert Warns Of Reverting To Era Of Congressional Duels While Pushing Bill To Arm Congressmen

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) To Propose Bill Allowing Guns On Floor Of U.S. House
Teabagger Rep. Louie Gohmert says he will introduce a bill authorizing members of Congress to bring guns to work. “It’d be a good thing for members of Congress who want to carry a weapon in the District,” he said. “I know friends that walk home from the Capitol. There’s no security for us,” he said, adding that the measure would deter people from attacking members. “There is some protection in having protection.” He said there were times during the Health Ca

Rep. Louie Gohmert Drafting Bill To Let Congress Carry Guns In U.S. Capitol & D.C.
Rep. Louis Gohmert (R-Texas) recently signaled his intention to submit a piece of Legislation that would make exceptions to a number of Firearms laws by allowing members of Congress to carry guns in D.C. and even into the Capitol building, including the chamber floors. "There is a rash of Legislation further infringing on Second Amendment rights that has been unwisely proffered in the wake of events in Tucson," Gohmert told The Hill in a statement. "If members of Congress wishes to carry a wea...

Gohmert drafts bill to allow guns on House floor
Texas Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert says his office is drafting a measure to allow members of Congress to carry guns in the District of Columbia, including in the Capitol and on the House floor. Gohmert says he and his colleagues need to be able to protect themselves, in light of the Mass Shooting in Arizona. “It’d be a good thing for members of Congress who want to carry a weapon in the District,” he said. “I know friends that walk home from the Capitol. There’s ...

Police: Loughner Had 3 Pistol Clips to Spare
Like this Story? Share it: Despite allegations that the suspected Tucson shooter Jared Loughner was mentally ill, it is still unclear the role it played in the deadly rampage. Katie Couric reports on the latest of Mental Health laws in the U.S. Erica Hill speaks with Jared Lee Loughner's ex-girlfriend Kelsey Hawkes about her shock upon learning he opened fire on a group of people in Tucson, Ariz. New revelations have been made in the Jared Lee Loughner investigation including his brush with the ...

Tucson shooting timeline: Pima Sheriff's Office
Source: Washington Post The Pima County, Ariz.,Sheriff's Office on Friday released this timeline for the actions it says led up to the Mass Shooting of 19 people on Saturday outside a Tucson grocery story. Jared Lee Loughner, the man identified by police as the gunman, is facing federal Murder charges in connection with the incident. The sheriff's office says the times are approximate. "11/30/2010: Jared Lee Loughner purchased a Glock Model 19, 9mm Handgun with extended magazine and one box of a...

King Pushing Ahead with Gun Bill
The Hill reports: Rep. Pete King (R-N.Y.) said he expects to move forward with new Gun Control Legislation, despite the opposition of his party’s leaders. King, the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said that most Republicans agree with his proposed legislation to outlaw bringing a firearm within 1,000 feet of a member of Congress. “Yes, I expect to go forward, and it’s not a disagreement I have with many people in the Republican Party,” King said on ...

WA congressmen play it cool as polls reject gun control following shooting
   Seatttleites are showing that the Tucson shooting has had a major impact locally, holding a memorial Thursday evening at Westlake Park that did not become a launch pad for some symbolic call for more Gun Control.    By no small coincidence, results from two national polls released yesterday say most Americans doubt tougher Gun Laws would prevent incidents like the Tucson, AZ shooting, and visits to their home districts Wednesday by Evergreen State Congressmen Rick Larsen ...

Bill would ban 'open carry' of unloaded firearms in public
New Legislation would ban the Controversial practice of carrying unloaded Firearms in public places after a similar proposal was shelved in the final hours of last year's Assembly session. The issue has sparked headlines nationwide in recent years because of a Protest movement that encourages participants to show up at public places en masse with Handguns strapped to their side. Dozens of people carrying guns, including one with a Military-style rifle, stood outside an Arizona convention cente...

In Arizona, even a TV station is called KGUN
TUCSON, Ariz. — At the Frontier Gun Shop toward the east side of this city, Jim Sharrah figures he can outfit you with a quality Handgun or rifle, ammunition and pretty much whatever else you need in 15 to 20 minutes. As long as you're a resident of Arizona and at least 21 without an adjudicated history of violence or mental issues, that's about how long the entire process takes, including the Background Check. You can walk out with the weapon loaded and tucked inside a coat, if ...

Texas Republican Louie Gohmert Drafting Legislation To Let Guns on House Floor
To Louie Gohmert, the answer to violence is more guns, and allowing members of Congress to carry them on the House floor. “It’d be a good thing for members of Congress who want to carry a weapon in the District,” he said. “I know friends that walk home from the Capitol. There’s no security for us,” he said, adding that the measure would deter people from attacking members. “There is some protection in having protection.” He said there were times du...

Rachel Maddow: More Guns Does Not Equal Less Crime
Rachel Maddow points out for us that despite Representatives Louie Gohmert and Trent Franks' fantasies about more guns equaling there being any less crime, in the states where we have more lenient Gun Laws, the opposite is true. These idiots want to take us back to some version of the Wild Wild West and pretend that if everyone has the ability to shoot each other, somehow fewer people would end up being shot. Rep. Gohmert apparently thinks that having guns on the House floor is a good idea as we...

Message to Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson
The City of Cleveland lost the war against the State on December 29, 2010. The Ohio Supreme Court issued a Slip Opinion, holding that R.C. 9.68 “displaces  all local gun-control ordinances previously adopted by Ohio municipalities.” The decision of the court leaves many Clevelanders divided in their opinions. While some feel that Mayor Frank Jackson’s actions were invasive and hypocritical, others feel that the legal campaign was designed to increase city revenue. Before t...

The Bias Against Guns
The certainties we can expect are life, death, weather patterns, Michael Moore eating 37 times per day, and the old media always exploiting a tragedy involving a firearm into a call for Gun Control. To wit, two days after the Tucson tragedy, The Washington Post ran an editorial with this headline: “Gun control: It's not a political impossibility.” Yet the Left’s gofers in the press never highlight the many times over that guns have saved lives. Like the life of Gary Wroblewsk...

Argument recap: Choosing the rule for warrantless searches when police create exigent circumstances
On Wednesday, the Court heard oral argument in Kentucky v. King. During oral argument in Kentucky v. King on Wednesday, the Court struggled to find the proper test for determining when police are prohibited from justifying a warrantless search with exigent circumstances that they create.  Because neither side supported the Kentucky Supreme Court’s two-prong test, a straightforward affirmance seems very unlikely; instead, the Court focused on whether the state’s proposed “l...

The Wit and Wisdom of Anthony M. Kennedy
Some radical Trotskyites on the Kentucky Supreme Court decided to ignore the new, annotated Federalist Society version of the Constitution, which includes the crucial provision “please disregard all previous clauses if the War (on Some Classes of People Who Use Some) Drugs is involved,” resulting in oral arguments at the Supreme Court earlier this week. The case involves a warrantless search undertaken because police serching for another offender believed they smelled drugs being con...

Hitch in California's new prison plan? Money.
As in many parts of California, nearly a third of Santa Clara County's jail beds sit empty, thanks to plunging Crime Rates and get-tough laws that have sent more offenders than ever to Prison. Meanwhile, those prisons are so overcrowded that the U.S. Supreme Court is weighing whether the state should be forced to release tens of thousands of inmates. Against that backdrop, and with the Budget in crisis, Gov. Jerry Brown's new plan to send thousands of low-risk convicts, and all youth offenders, ...

Grimm Proposes Arming Members of Congress, Staffers
A sharp-eyed reader passed along the following article in Roll Call about how members with experience in Law Enforcement are responding to the Giffords shooting. Staten Island congressman Michael Grimm, who, as we have noted has extensive experience in the FBI, floated a novel approach to keeping elected officials safe. States Roll Call: "Grimm wants Congress to go a step further. He's proposing allowing Members of Congress or their Staffers to be trained and deputized to carry a weapon and ac...

Congressmen and Concealed Carry
Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R., Utah) is well-known for packing heat when he is in his home district. But he’s far from the only congressman who carries a gun. “There are members out there who carry, who don’t talk about it publicly,” he tells us. “It’s for personal-security purposes or their own personal choice.” When it comes to concealed carry, Chaffetz says, the House is a “reflection of what goes on in America — some people do, some people don&...

Tea Party Patriots head to D.C. for health care vote
Tea Party Patriots co-founder Jenny Beth Martin is coming to Washington Tuesday to celebrate the House vote on Repeal of Health Care reform law -- and perhaps also to remind House Republican leadership of how they got their majority. Martin will be at a Press Conference Tuesday afternoon, the day before the Repeal vote, along with Reps. Steve King (R-Iowa), Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) and Louie Gohmert (R-Texas). Tea Party Leaders have been watching House GOP moves closely, and calling them o...

Grimm Proposes Arming Members of Congress, Staffers
A sharp-eyed reader passed along the following article in Roll Call about how members with experience in Law Enforcement are responding to the Giffords shooting. Staten Island congressman Michael Grimm, (Read more...) ...

Louie Gohmert hits the trifecta: violent rhetoric, conspiracy theories, and guns
While it would be impossible to top the self-centered offensiveness of today's Sarah Palin video -- where she used the attempted Assassination of Gabrielle Giffords to peddle her message of victimhood -- Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) gave it his best shot, but could only manage a trifecta of stupidity. First, his thoughts on the public comments by Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik on today's political climate: I hope the sheriff tones his Rhetoric down. Well, sure. Sheriff Dupnik needs to tone d...

Congressman wants guns allowed on House floor (The Ticket)
What if members of Congress packed heat on the House floor? Well, if Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) gets his way, we may find out. Gohmert told reporters Wednesday that in the wake of the Arizona shooting, he's crafting Legislation to permit members to carry guns on the floor of the House. ...

High Noon On The House Floor
GOP Rep. Louie Gohmert wants Firearms on the floor of Congress and is proposing Legislation that would allow members of Congress to carry. Texas Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert says his office is drafting a measure to allow members of Congress to carry guns in the District of Columbia, including in the Capitol and on the House floor. Gohmert says he and his colleagues need to be able to protect themselves, in light of the Mass Shooting in Arizona. “It’d be a good thing for members of C...

Rep. Louie Gohmert, a Former Judge, Tells Sheriff Dupnick to Shut Up
Representative Louis Gohmert (R-TX) is a former judge, and he’s telling Tucson County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik to shut up before he does any more damage to the prosecution’s case against Jared Loughner. Partial transcript via CNS News: “As far as advice for the sheriff, you know, he’s an elected official. He’s an American. He’s not prohibited by law from making the ridiculous statements that he has that do more to help the defendant than they do anyone else, including th

GOP Congressman to Introduce Bill That Would Allow Guns on The House Floor
House Representive “Bubble Boy” Burton last seen shaking in his boots. (The Hill) - A spokesperson for Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) told The Hill on Wednesday afternoon that the congressman plans to introduce Legislation that will allow members of Congress to carry weapons both in the District of Columbia and on the House floor. “There is a rash of Legislation further infringing on Second Amendment rights that has been unwisely proffered in the wake of events in Tucs...