The Webb "gun scandal" is a plus for us

[NNN0LHI]

I don't care how you cut it when we have Dems talking about carrying around loaded weapons that appeals to the most basic wingnut instinct. Thats why you haven't heard any Republicans out raising hell about this.

This story ain't going anywhere because it will only help us.

Don

[jmg257]

1. The gun owners love it!

On the gun sites its a popular story! Of course they want the same rights and privileges Webb has - who can blame 'em? So they are pointing out hypocrisy, the draconian law, etc.

[originalpckelly]

2. I know, it also shows how nutty that dumb DC gun ban really is...

DC is just a city and it's surrounded on all sides by gun owning states. (If I remember correctly.)

I'm sorry, but it just doesn't seem like it would be that hard for even a crook to go into VA and buy a gun there under the table. I don't think it's a very common sense thing to say someone about to commit a crime using a gun will be hindered by a registration law/gun ban.

[Squatch]

10. Why would a DC crook go all the way to VA to buy a gun

"under the table" when he can just do it in DC?

(Point: crooks care not for laws...gun laws or otherwise)

[Richard Steele]

3. Yes, the Repubs probably won't make a stink about this one.

They can't spin it to paint Webb as weak and effeminate,
so they'll try to ignore it.

Plus, it points out a Dem who doesn't fit their lie
that we all want to ban guns- twice as much reason
for them to hope no one notices.

[Swamp Rat]

21. I didn't hear it once mentioned on the TV news today.

Mind you, I only watched for 30 minutes, which is a lot for me. :D

[NNN0LHI]

29. I seen it mentioned a couple of times on cable and Webb even came out for a presser

The cable news channels wouldn't even show the whole thing.

Don

[AnneD]

28. My thoughts exactly...

can't tell you how many of my GOP acquaintance are shocked to know my liberal friends and I tote guns (one guy even built his own). Hey, while they were avoiding the draft-we volunteered or got drafted. I would expect no less from Webb's staff. He has grown in my eyes and Bush better watch who he mouths off too.:spray:

[Kagemusha]

4. Hey, it's a tragedy for the Webb friend too.

I can't see how they'd go easy on "the friend of a Senator" at all. Maybe it's good politics for the party but, this individual is going to get run over.

[NNN0LHI]

5. Webbs guns. That case won't go anywhere. NRA will hire lawyers if needed n/t

[Kagemusha]

7. What, there's a history of getting off because it's not your gun?

Call me ignorant of gun rights if you will but, I had not heard of that. The fact it wasn't his own gun means that he shouldn't have had it in his possession whatsoever for any circumstances , let alone without a valid license where he was in possession of it, right?

But I welcome the NRA hiring lawyers. Sounds like he'll need all the help he can get... and it's not like he had criminal intent at all, so I hope for the best (even if I expect less than the best).

[NNN0LHI]

8. I don't know the history of getting off because it's not your gun

And I was joking about the NRA lawyers. I don't think he will need them.

Don

[Kagemusha]

13. It seems this story is no longer operative

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=515762&mesg_id=515762

Ouch.

[NNN0LHI]

14. Whats no longer operative. Webb doesn't say it wasn't his gun

I still say this is a plus for us.

Don

[Solo_in_MD]

17. It reads like weasel wording to me

I expected better from Webb

[Solo_in_MD]

16. There is a reasonable case to be made if.......

he really had no way of knowing about the contraband and it clearly wasn't his. FedEx is not charged if they deliver contraband either. If he was carrying one of his bosses bags and did not know what was in it, he could well walk, and it would be the right thing.

I am still waiting for Webb to make a CLEAR statement about this.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

9. And wouldn't that be a thing of beauty?

The NRA defending an aide to a Democrat for carrying a gun around Capitol Hill. Bizzarro world, here we come!

[OHdem10]

6. Republicans are using this to do what

they can to smear Webb. You know their basic strategy
Kill any "rising star" Democrats. It is given 24 - 7
coverage on Cable News Channels.

Barr was just on CNN trying to cast it in the worst
light possible and the CNN Host was wallowing all
over Barr trying to expand and ends with''This story
is not over"

Hostetler , Republican, Indianna was stopped in Airport
last winter for carrying gun. He had to have had the
gun in Washington. One story on Cnn and I missed
any other such as MSNBC or Fox. Oh that "librul"
Media.(Sarcasm)

[karlrschneider]

11. Bob Barr? Didn't he shoot out the window at a gun show a few years ago?

:eyes:

[FyurFly]

12. Not really, not at all

H.R. 1022 introduced by Carolyn McCarthy is the most sweeping gun ban in American History and now has 33 co-sponsors, all Democrats. This one makes the Clinton gun ban seem tame. Call your reps and tell them to oppose this bill. It can and will cost us dearly in 2008.

Sponsor:
Rep. Carolyn McCarthy

Cosponsors
Rep. Gary Ackerman
Rep. Howard Berman
Rep. Lois Capps
Rep. William Clay
Rep. Joseph Crowley
Rep. Diana DeGette
Rep. William Delahunt
Rep. Anna Eshoo
Rep. Chaka Fattah
Rep. Bob Filner
Rep. Barney Frank
Rep. Raul Grijalva
Rep. Mazie Hirono
Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee
Rep. Patrick Kennedy
Rep. Zoe Lofgren
Rep. Nita Lowey
Rep. Carolyn Maloney
Rep. Edward Markey
Rep. James McGovern
Rep. Martin Meehan
Rep. Bradley Miller
Rep. James Moran
Rep. William Pascrell
Rep. Edward Pastor
Rep. Janice Schakowsky
Rep. Adam Schiff
Rep. Brad Sherman
Rep. Louise Slaughter
Rep. Ellen Tauscher
Rep. Christopher Van Hollen
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Rep. Robert Wexler

[Solo_in_MD]

15. That depends if Webb steps up or lets his aide swing in the wind

voters do not like weasels.

[Kagemusha]

18. I'm not going to assume the worst either

but you're supposed to account for your own guns.

[Solo_in_MD]

19. Nor am I, but he needs to get forthright soon

[ContraBass Black]

20. What gun scandal?

[alarimer]

22. He should not have had the gun at the Capitol. At all.

And he should be punished for it. Pay a fine, whatever. There are reasons guns do not belong there. And this guy should not get special treatment because he is an aide to Webb. Throw the fucking book at him.

[Richard Steele]

23. Crime requires INTENT.

And there's been NO ONE who's actually
established any intent here yet. So far,
the story seems to be that the aide did
not realize he had the weapon in his briefcase
when he entered the building.

Hardly a situation that warrants "throwing
the book" at him.

[NNN0LHI]

24. Who needs intent? Forget the investigation too. Send him to Supermax

I am sure this terrorist was planing on shooting up the place.

Don

[Solo_in_MD]

27. Lets see whos pistol it is and how it got there and see if Webb is a standup guy first

[Dr Fate]

25. I agree 100%- yours is the first Webb/Gun thread I've even bothered to open.

The story will go nowhere- he may as well have had a Bible and a slice of apple pie in his pocket too.

[Cha]

26. And a

baseball.