On the floor of the House of Representatives today, Michele Bachmann brought forward a motion to recommit the Housing and Urban Development Bill because it allows Public Housing Authorities to restrict guns on the premises of federally owned public housing.
In response, Maxine Waters (D) of California gave Michele Bachmann a verbal thrashing for this stunt which really only serves to delay the passage of the bill. Does anyone truly believe that Michele Bachmann cares one iota whether the gun rights of public housing tenants are protected?
This is what comes of living in an all or nothing/black or white world. Being from a rural area and having numerous relatives who enjoy hunting, I have no problem with the right of people to keep and bear arms. However, that is an entirely different issue and for people such as Michele Bachmann to continually make the situations equal show little ability to understand unique circumstances.
If there is anywhere that we can try to solve the gun violence problem in this country, it is within our nation's impoverished public housing units. To believe that allowing more guns into an already volatile situation will create anything short of increased gun deaths and gun violence is to have ones head buried in the sand or is someone who doesn't really care in the first place.
A study from the Department of Housing and Urban Development found that public housing tenants are twice as likely to be victims of gun violence.
In response, Maxine Waters (D) of California gave Michele Bachmann a verbal thrashing for this stunt which really only serves to delay the passage of the bill. Does anyone truly believe that Michele Bachmann cares one iota whether the gun rights of public housing tenants are protected?
This is what comes of living in an all or nothing/black or white world. Being from a rural area and having numerous relatives who enjoy hunting, I have no problem with the right of people to keep and bear arms. However, that is an entirely different issue and for people such as Michele Bachmann to continually make the situations equal show little ability to understand unique circumstances.
If there is anywhere that we can try to solve the gun violence problem in this country, it is within our nation's impoverished public housing units. To believe that allowing more guns into an already volatile situation will create anything short of increased gun deaths and gun violence is to have ones head buried in the sand or is someone who doesn't really care in the first place.
A study from the Department of Housing and Urban Development found that public housing tenants are twice as likely to be victims of gun violence.
- 70% of children age 7-18 had witnessed some sort of shooting.
- 43% of children age 7-18 had witnessed a murder.
- Children are showing signs of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Perhaps if Michele Bachmann and the Republican leadership in Congress wanted to help the people living in public housing, they would support programs that lift people out of poverty rather than worrying about whether or not their guns are being taken from them. This is yet another example of the wedge issues used by Republicans to divert the attention of people away from their pocketbooks and the many ways that Republicans consistently vote against their economic interests.
Cross Posted on Dump Bachmann
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2 responses to "Michele Bachmann Advocates For More Guns In Public Housing"
This fruitcake needs to come to Philly where guns took out a 15 year old boy on his birthday because he threw a snowball at the wrong person. This woman has probably never even been to a public housing development to see what she is talking about. Dumb.
Hey, guess what. Criminals don't obey the law!! Why do you think they will obey this law? It only serves to prevent the law-abiding the means to protect themselves. Ironically, tragically, it's these people in public housing projects that often need a means of self defense.
Bachman is right on. Waters is a nutcase.