The real Ted Kennedy record on gun control
It’s safe to say that there is not a single outrageous anti-gun position Ted Kennedy has failed to support in his long career. He has voted to ban semi-automatic rifles, pistols and shotguns. He has attempted to make it a federal crime to purchase more than two handguns in a year.
Kennedy proposed his “Personal Safety Firearms Act of 1973.”
Taking to the Senate floor, Kennedy claimed: “Gun control laws in the United States are woefully inadequate. In our vast society guns should have no reasonable role.” (Emphasis added.) This was Kennedy’s voice “30, 40 years ago.”
That same voice contemptuously dismissed the right that the Founding Fathers recognized and sought to protect for future generations of Americans”the right to own and possess arms for self-defense, for hunting, for simple personal enjoyment.
“For the American family in 1973, fear, apprehension, mistrust, anguish and pain are the dreaded products of our firearms history,” Kennedy claimed.
Summarizing his bill for his col-leagues, Kennedy said it would require:
“First, the registration of every civilian-owned gun in this country. Second, it will require all gun owners to pass stringent qualifying procedures to legally possess a gun and, third, it bans the domestic output of all hand-held firearms that are not designed for sporting purposes.”
Kennedy’s fellow senators understood differently, however, and soundly rejected his legislation on a 78-11 vote.
Undaunted, Kennedy continued to charge full steam ahead. In 1979, his constant efforts to abolish our Right to Keep and Bear Arms brought him to the attention of the Senate Ethics Committee.
The committee unanimously rebuked Kennedy for improperly using Senate stationery to write fund-raising letters for gun-ban groups that included the National Coalition to Ban Handguns.
It’s safe to say that there is not a single outrageous anti-gun position Ted Kennedy has failed to support in his long career. He has voted to ban semi-automatic rifles, pistols and shotguns. He has attempted to make it a federal crime to purchase more than two handguns in a year. He has proposed 21-day waiting periods on all gun purchases. He has made several attempts to ban centerfire hunting ammunition.
He was also a staunch opponent of the Civilian Marksmanship Program. Why? Because, in his words, “It seems to validate the role of firearms as an acceptable and attractive part of our daily life.”
When his gun and ammunition bans failed, Sen. Kennedy fought tooth and nail to protect the gun control lobby’s schemes to bankrupt the American firearm industry. And don”t think that the gun confiscations from law-abiding citizens in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina troubled Kennedy in the least. He was one of only 16 senators to vote against the NRA-backed “Disaster Recovery Personal Protection Act” that became federal law on Oct. 9, 2006. The “Not Sweet 16,” as we have labeled them, also included Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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Ted Kennedy was globalist elitist cancer, he spread before he died as well.
We need chemotherapy.
The Second Amendment refers to a ‘well- regulated milita’ and only in this context the right to keep and bear arms- not lawless(unregulated) gun ownership.
R.I.P. Senator Kennedy
Ted kennedy was the worst trader this country has ever seen. I am glad he is out of office.
Also you are misquoting the 2nd amendment it does not talk about a well regulated militia.
“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed”
It says that because we need one the Rights of the people shall not be infringed. And the court has upheld this right.
Translated because we have a “A well regulated Militia” the right of the people to keep our guns to protect ourselves from the governments well regulated Militia shal not be infringed.
The militia was a problem because the Militia Act of 1662 had permitted its officers wide latitude to disarm law-abiding citizens. see history here.
Just like in Rusha the only way to get rid of some of these socialist is for them to die thats the way it turned out with Ted.
GLAD to see him out of office. It should be a holiday.