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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGraham: Americans Will Need Guns Due to Budget Cuts Leading to Fewer Cops
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/graham-americans-will-need-guns-due-budgetBetter get used to the idea of the coming anarchy people. According to Sen. Lindsey Graham, all of us need to arm ourselves to the hilt, because if he has his way with the upcoming budget cuts, we won't be able to count on the police for help: Graham: We Need Guns Because Of Budget Cuts, Fewer Cops:
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) argued on Wednesday that Congress should think twice about passing new gun control regulations because future budget cuts in cities will constrain the size and quality of police forces across the country, thwarting effective response to violence.
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who has been among the Senates most vocal backers of draconian budget cuts and has opposed increasing funds to put more police officers on the streets, said Wednesday that he will oppose gun violence prevention legislation because budget cuts will mean inadequate police forces to protect the public.
Graham told Baltimore Chief of Police James Johnson and former naval Captain Mark Kelly (husband of former Rep. Gabby Giffords) that he planned to oppose the gun violence measures because people will need high-capacity magazines to compensate for the police response times these austerity measures will force:GRAHAM: The point is, we have different perspectives on this. The reason I will oppose the legislation, Chief Johnston, is because i respect what your do as a lot what you do as a law-enforcement officer. Has your budget been cut?]
JOHNSON: Yes.
GRAHAM: Do you think it be cut in the future?
JOHNSON: I am optimistic that it is not.
GRAHAM: Well I hope your right, but I can tell people throughout this land, because of the fiscal state of affairs we have, there will be less [SIC] police officers, not more, over the next decade. Response time are gonna be less, not more. So, Captain Kelly, I really do want to get guns out of the hands of the wrong people. I honest to god believe that if we arbitrarily say nobody in this country can own a 10-round magazine in the future, the people who own them are the kind of people were trying to combat to begin with. There can be a situation where a mother runs out of bullets because of something we do here.
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Graham: Americans Will Need Guns Due to Budget Cuts Leading to Fewer Cops (Original Post)
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Jan 2013
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Laurian
(2,593 posts)1. Lindsey Graham gets on my last nerve.
A sniveling little whiner on every subject.
frylock
(34,825 posts)3. yeh, this guy's sucking up to teabaggers has grown wearisome.
Tutonic
(2,522 posts)2. Wasn't Lindsey's party that took money from states and local governments to hire more police office
So how then does he not acknowledge that his party has made you less safe. Same for mental health--beginning with Saint Ronnie, lock the doors and throw them out on the street. Now they scream about the mental health problem. I think the REthugs need serious time out.
Mopar151
(9,982 posts)4. Just what we need - more Zimmermans
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