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flamin lib

(14,559 posts)
Thu Jan 15, 2015, 12:51 PM Jan 2015

Gun-control lobby uses Boehner threat to push for background checks

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/229490-boehner-poison-plot-used-by-gun-control-lobby

“Hopefully, the Republican Congress will heed this indictment of the Speaker’s would-be assassin as a wake-up call to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people, including felons, fugitives, domestic abusers, and the severely mentally ill,” Dan Gross, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, said in an statement emailed Wednesday.

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Police found a loaded automatic handgun at Hoyt's house, along with various ammunition boxes. Hoyt’s mother previously took his assault rifle to her home because she thought her son had been acting strangely."

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Maybe this will get some attention in the House. Most people are unaware that in 1954 there was a gun attack on the House from the gallery. After that scrutiny of visitors got a lot tighter.

http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/01/march-1-1954-puerto-rican-nationalists-open-fire-on-house-of-representatives/

In other news Gun control group launches drive for universal background checks in Vermont

http://www.reformer.com/state/ci_27320525/gun-control-group-launches-drive-universal-background-checks

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Gun-control lobby uses Boehner threat to push for background checks (Original Post) flamin lib Jan 2015 OP
I hadn't caught that detail before, of the guys last name. I can think of a certain DUer who Electric Monk Jan 2015 #1
The coincidence was not lost on me either. nt flamin lib Jan 2015 #2
 

Electric Monk

(13,869 posts)
1. I hadn't caught that detail before, of the guys last name. I can think of a certain DUer who
Thu Jan 15, 2015, 03:30 PM
Jan 2015

is either gonna be pissed at the coincidence or hopefully find it funny.

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