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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTony Dale (R-TX-gun-nut) Is afraid of Syrian refugees purchasing guns.
If Tony had the courage of his convictions, his speech would be "If your family is killed by terrorists, fuck you for not packing heat and defending yourself."
Unless, of course, his actual conviction is that only white christians should have the guns...
A Texas state legislator wants the U.S. to stop allowing Syrian refugees into the country. His reasoning: They might be able to buy guns in his state.
Rep. Tony Dale (R) made this argument in a television interview on Monday and in letters to Texas U.S. Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz (R) and U.S. Reps. Michael McCaul and John Carter (R).
While the Paris attackers used suicide vests and grenades, Dale wrote, it is clear that firearms also killed a large number of innocent victims. Can you imagine a scenario were [sic] a refugees [sic] is admitted to the United States, is provided with federal cash payments and other assistance, obtains a drivers license and purchases a weapon and executes an attack? He urged the lawmakers to do whatever you can to stop the [Syrian refugee] program.
But Dale is one of the Texas legislatures most fervent gun-rights advocates. Two weeks ago, he tweeted his National Rifle Association membership renewal. In accepting an A rating from the group and the Texas State Rifle Associations PAC in 2012, he observed: Perhaps no right is more fundamental than the right to keep and bear arms. And his campaign website vows his fealty to the Second Amendment, saying it isnt just an archaic document, a guarantor of all of our other freedoms. And he and his colleagues in the state legislature have blocked mandatory background checks for all gun purchases.
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/11/17/3722968/nra-texas-rep-no-syrians-gun-access/
randys1
(16,286 posts)the absurdity of our gun situation.
The rightwing have found themselves in a conundrum, havent they.
phantom power
(25,966 posts)20 children are gunned down by a white guy? That's the price of fucking freedom, you gun-grabbing fascist hippies.
But Syrian refugees? "Game over man!"
AuntPatsy
(9,904 posts)phantom power
(25,966 posts)Yeah, like you need a fucking drivers license to get a gun
Also, bonus points for working in "federal assistance" as a bit of red meat for his base.
Chitown Kev
(2,197 posts)is enough to get as many Syrian refugees over here as possible... real gun control laws
Kinda snark...but not really
denverbill
(11,489 posts)I mean Texans are armed to the teeth. What the hell do they have to fear from a gun-toting Muslim? He might get one or two of'em but there will doubtless be hundreds of good guys with guns doing their duty.
In fact, that's a good reason to send most of the Syrian refugees to states like Texas and Florida where guns are easy to get.
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)Ban gun purchases for everyone on a terrorist "watch list," as has been advocated by some in GD. Some of these posts feature a guy in common Mid-East clothing.
Do you favor this measure?
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Go for it, Tony!
restorefreedom
(12,655 posts)CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)so we've been fueling the problem.
We've seen the results of that in Europe, were they go back and forth between Europe and Syria.
Of course, Europe has strict gun control, so the weapons are being smuggled in from Syria and the Middle East.
It would be less hard for them to get hold of weapons in America.