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| Petraeus, Mark Kelly form new gun control group |
| 2016-06-11 |
| [The Hill] Gen. David Petraeus and retired astronaut Mark Kelly announced Friday they are forming a new gun control group for veterans. The Veterans Coalition for Common Sense will push to strengthen gun background check laws and help prevent veterans from committing suicide. It pointed to several alarming statistics about the military and gun violence. According to the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA), about 22 veterans kill themselves each day. Since September 11, 2001, more Americans have been killed by gun violence than combat in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "As service members, each of us swore an oath to protect our Constitution and the homeland," said Kelly, who formed another gun control group with his wife, former Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-Ariz.), after she was shot and seriously wounded during a mass shooting in 2011. "Now we're asking our leaders to do more to protect our rights and save lives," Kelly added in the statement. "Gabby and I are grateful to all of these incredible veterans and leaders who are using their voice to call for commonsense change that makes our communities safer." In addition to Petraeus, the former CIA director, and Kelly, a number of other generals and admirals will join the group, including another former CIA director, Michael Hayden, and retired Adm. Thad Allen. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #12 aaaAAAwww No Master Bateman? poo wittle gi. All that time and money on PR and ereter milking for not. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2016-06-11 13:49 |
| #11 All RINOS including Mattis when the time comes. No one can be trusted without the pearl shine. RINO until you have the paper. Newt had the original, but he's slipping on the Martian CIA question and the guns for dawg's bill, looking and smelling kinda RINO. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2016-06-11 12:51 |
| #10 2 Takes financing to form organizations such as this. Is he planning on hosting a bake sale, or are other, more private funding venues surfacing? Probably Soros. Remember when some people were touting Pet as a GOP candidate? I never really bought that, and I see that I was right not to. BTW, anyone think that l'affaire Broadwell is being held over his head and he's just "following orders" here? Kinda like with Eff these pukes. |
| Posted by: charger 2016-06-11 11:13 |
| #9 Suicide? How many DWI traffic fatalities are just another suicide covered up by liquoring oneself up to 'pull the trigger'? Out here, it's motorcycles and "unexplained" high-speed-and-leaving-the-road. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2016-06-11 11:01 |
| #8 You think a lot of this crap would go on if we made it that if you can vote, you can own a gun, if you can't own a gun, you can't vote. There's no color, race, creed, or gender involved there, so no 14th Amendment violation there. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-06-11 10:54 |
| #7 What newc and OCCD said. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2016-06-11 10:24 |
| #6 I suggest they start in Chicago. Let us know how it works out. |
| Posted by: OCCD 2016-06-11 09:18 |
| #5 Suicide? How many DWI traffic fatalities are just another suicide covered up by liquoring oneself up to 'pull the trigger'? So much easier for the paper pushers to chalk it up as simply DWI. Number of deaths by guns vs the number of deaths by vehicles. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-06-11 09:07 |
| #4 Easy on the bugger Tennessee. He's simply positioning himself for a future Clinton Administration job. Failing that, the extra cash will come in handy should 'lawyering up' become necessary. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2016-06-11 02:19 |
| #3 First - Most Vet suicides are due to over prescription of psych meds...that is a fact. Second - no one cares what dumb azz Dave Betrayus pontificates about anymore. He betrayed his wife, the Army and its soldiers, and shamed himself. He needs to go away. The sight of that perfumed prince sickens me. |
| Posted by: Tennessee 2016-06-11 02:09 |
| #2 Takes financing to form organizations such as this. Is he planning on hosting a bake sale, or are other, more private funding venues surfacing? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2016-06-11 02:01 |
| #1 Go F yourselves. |
| Posted by: newc 2016-06-11 01:24 |