Ban insider trading, not guns

[JimmyAGR 54]

I was just reading the news, and find it ironic that there are so many politicos that want to ban our rights to keep and bear arms, but don't want to ban themselves for insider trading. They want to be able to cheat the system that they create laws for and don't want to enforce the laws of the Constitution. What has happened to this country?

 

http://nbcpolitics.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/24/9005626-gun-issue-represents-tough-politics-for-obama

 

They are fuzzy about some issues but the Republican presidential candidates leave little doubt about where they stand on gun rights.

 

Rick Perry and Rick Santorum go pheasant hunting and give interviews before heading out. Newt Gingrich and Herman Cain speak to the National Rifle Association convention. Michele Bachmann tells People magazine she wants to teach her daughters how to shoot because women need to be able to protect themselves. Mitt Romney, after backing some gun control measures in Massachusetts, now presents himself as a strong Second Amendment supporter.

 

President Barack Obama, on the other hand, is virtually silent on the issue.

 

He has hardly addressed it since a couple months after the January assassination attempt on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson, Ariz., when he promised to develop new steps on gun safety in response. He still has failed to do so, even as Tucson survivors came to Capitol Hill last week to push for action to close loopholes in the background check system. (continued....)

 

 

http://nbcpolitics.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/23/8976218-move-to-ban-alleged-insider-trading-faces-pitfalls

 

Move to ban alleged insider trading faces pitfalls

By Tom Curry, msnbc.com National Affairs Writer

 

Spurred by a CBS “60 Minutes” report and a new book by Peter Schweizer, a fellow at the conservative Hoover Institution, on alleged insider trading by members of Congress, there’s growing momentum for an effort to ban members and congressional staff from trading stocks or commodities based on confidential information they have on pending bills.

 

Yet despite the attention given to the “60 Minutes” report, such a ban is a long way from becoming law, partly because it would be difficult to enforce and might create significant unintended consequences.

 

“Many constituents saw the report and will be asking their lawmakers, ‘So what are you doing to fix that problem?’ Politically, they need some kind of an answer,” said congressional scholar John Pitney, who teaches political science at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, Calif. (continued...)

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Obama being silent should be load and clear to all of us

[Luke_WO 11]

Anyone read the most recent American Rifleman from the NRA? A huge portion of it is dedicated to telling us that we should be worried about Obama BECAUSE he's remaining silent. Saying that he wants to win reelection and then once he's free of public opinion, he can go after the 2nd Amendment with everything he's got. Apparently he's put gun laws on the back burner because it's a sensitive topic and he doesn't want to lose whatever popularity he has left. But if he gets reelected, he doesn't have to care about public opinion anymore and he can go after 2A with all his might.

[JimmyAGR 54]

Anyone read the most recent American Rifleman from the NRA? A huge portion of it is dedicated to telling us that we should be worried about Obama BECAUSE he's remaining silent. Saying that he wants to win reelection and then once he's free of public opinion, he can go after the 2nd Amendment with everything he's got. Apparently he's put gun laws on the back burner because it's a sensitive topic and he doesn't want to lose whatever popularity he has left. But if he gets reelected, he doesn't have to care about public opinion anymore and he can go after 2A with all his might.

 

This is what worries me most. It's nothing left to loose, cornered animal type situation.

[JackDaWack 2,895]

Obama's probably gonna start the next civil war.... at least our side will have guns.