This one deserves its own thread.
Journeyman posted a link to this in my "Fuck CNN" thread
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http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a393009843f7b.htm
The story U.S. Senator Feinstein was promoting at the anti-gun news conference made all the big papers and TV networks. But you had to be there to see the incident that stole the show.
Senator Dianne Feinstein
Forth Worth Star-Telegram columnist Jill Labbe wrote, “Guns (are) nowhere as dangerous as liberals who can’t handle them. There stood Dianne Feinstein, the anti-gun senator from California, posing for all the nation’s media to capture on Kodachrome, holding an AK-47 with her finger firmly planted on the trigger. Here’s a woman so concerned about the supposed recklessness of gun manufacturers…who wouldn’t know firearm safety if it bit her in the end of her upturned San Franciscan nose.”
The reporters, dignitaries and innocent bystanders packed into the room were too ignorant to be terrified as Feinstein swept the crowd with the muzzle of the automatic rife, bold closed, finger on the trigger, high-capacity magazine locked in place.
San Francisco resident William A. Levinson wrote a certified letter to Mayor Willie Brown, Jr., demanding legal action against the blatant gun safety violations of the illustrious “Ms. Gun Control,” who holds a rare California concealed weapons permit.
When asked earlier why she carried that .38 Smith & Wesson concealed in her purse while promoting gun control for the rest of us, Feinstein answered, “I know the urge to arm yourself because that’s what I did. I was trained in firearms. I’d walk to the hospital when my husband was sick. I carried a concealed weapon. I made the determination that if somebody was going to try to take me out, I was going to take them with me.”
Only a couple of months earlier, however, Feinstein has gone on 60 Minutes to announce, “If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an out-right ban…I would have done it.”
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It's sadly ironic that the vast majority of anti-gun legislators (and celebrities) carry concealed weapons and are surrounded by armed guards.
It's bad enough that she would get an AK-47 to promote a law that does not cover that weapon, but to sweep it across the crowd is inexcusible. Reckless endangerment is the least of what she did there. If I walked in at that moment and saw an AK-47 pointed directly at me by someone with her finger on the trigger, my instantaneous assessment of the situation would be that my life (not to mention the lives of dozens of others in the room) is in immediate danger.