Posted: 2/1/2013 2:41:44 PM EDT
| I see our great Mi. sen. Levin is one of only 20 other senators to support Fineswine's AWB. Please remember him in the next election. He really has to go. |
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I see our great Mi. sen. Levin is one of only 20 other senators to support Fineswine's AWB. Please remember him in the next election. He really has to go. Hopefully he is planning to retire before the next election because his views on this may finally rid us of him. |
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Email from Levin
Thank you for contacting me about gun safety issues. I appreciate you sharing your views with me. I support sensible gun safety laws and strict enforcement of those laws to help prevent crimes, suicides and violence committed with firearms. I support the steps President Obama outlined recently to curb the gun violence that plagues our nation, and I believe Congress can and should work to enact legislation to prevent gun violence without infringing on the rights of law-abiding citizens. I was an original cosponsor of the Brady Law (P.L.103-159). This law requires prospective handgun purchasers to undergo criminal background checks before purchasing a firearm from a licensed dealer. The background check system is able to make 92 percent of background check determinations on the spot, and since 1994, has prevented more than 1.5 million firearm purchases. Additionally, according to Centers for Disease Control statistics, since the Brady Law went into effect, the number of gun deaths in the United States dropped 22 percent, from 39,595 in 1993 to 30,769 in 2007. The number of gun homicides dropped by more than 29 percent, from 17,024 in 1993 to 12,129 in 2007. While the Brady Law has been successful in reducing gun violence, I believe more has to be done. For example, only 60 percent of all gun sales in the United States take place at licensed federal dealers, where background checks are mandatory. The remaining 40 percent of gun sales are conducted by unlicensed individual sellers, often at gun shows, and a background check is not required. This means that across our nation, any dangerous individual can go to a gun show and purchase a deadly weapon without any form of background check. To close this ‘gun show loophole,’ I am a cosponsor of the Gun Show Background Check Act. This bill would enact the common sense principle that anyone who wants to purchase a firearm at a gun show should be able to pass a simple background check. Ten national police organizations support closing this loophole. Additionally, I am a cosponsor of the Denying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous Terrorists Act, a bill that seeks to reduce gun violence by keeping firearms out of the hands of terrorists and criminals. Although hard to believe, nothing in current law prohibits individuals on terrorist watch lists from purchasing firearms, unless they fall into another disqualifying category. This “terror gap” in federal law must be closed, and this bill would do just that. This legislation would deny the transfer of a firearm when a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) background check reveals that the prospective purchaser is a known or suspected terrorist and the Attorney General has a reasonable belief that the purchaser may use the firearm in connection with terrorism. Keeping guns out of the hands of terrorists is just common sense. I also have always supported the rights of sportsmen and hunters. Hunting is a way of life for millions of Americans and plays an integral role in modern wildlife management. But military style assault weapons have no sporting purpose. Because of these weapons, our nation’s citizens are in greater danger and police officers across the country are encountering criminals armed with highly lethal military style weapons. To support our law enforcement community and to save lives, I am a cosponsor of the Assault Weapons Ban of 2013. This legislation would prevent the future possession, manufacture, sale and importation of assault-type weapons while grandfathering weapons lawfully possessed at the date of the bill’s enactment. It would ban firearms with detachable magazines and military style features, such as grenade launchers, protruding pistol grips, and barrel shrouds. It would support law enforcement officers across our nation, who should not be forced to confront lawbreakers toting military arms. And it would protect the rights of hunters by specifically naming thousands of firearms with legitimate sporting, sentimental or other value that would remain legal to possess. This bill also would ban high capacity ammunition magazines. Studies have shown that high capacity ammunition magazines are used in 31 to 41 percent of fatal police shootings in cities across our nation. They also have been used by the perpetrators of numerous mass shootings, including at Columbine High School, Virginia Tech, the Tucson shooting of Representative Gabrielle Giffords and 19 others, the attack on a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, and the horrifying shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. The Newtown shooting alone left twenty six people dead, twenty of them children. We must not wait until more places are added to this heartbreaking list. We can and should act swiftly to protect our families and loved ones from mass shootings. These measures have the overwhelming support of law enforcement communities around our nation, who have implored us to make changes to stop the flood of these types of weapons into the hands of those who would use them for harm. I will continue to work for common-sense gun safety measures. Thank you again for contacting me. Sincerely, Carl Levin levin.senate.gov |
| We need to find a viable candidate for the 2014 election as all indications are that Levin will run again.So far the list of people is not great. http://atr.rollcall.com/inside-the-2014-senate-races/ . Once we have a contender that is a 2nd amendment supporter it is our job to let the gun community know where Levin stands. I plan to pay close attention. |
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After I received my boilerplated letter, I found out I was put on his newsletter email list. I un-subscribed immediately. I respond to his newsletters on a regular basis...about 4 months ago I received a response basically he was sorry for my opinion and views but he believes he's dong what's in our interest. He's a fucktard. |
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That's true but there's never been a concerted effort to vote his ass out. How would we go about kickstarting such an effort? An attempt would at least be better than nothing at all. Contact your local tea party here using the Find a Local Group box on the right hand side of the page. Attend a meeting and help ID that candidate. |
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That's true but there's never been a concerted effort to vote his ass out. How would we go about kickstarting such an effort? An attempt would at least be better than nothing at all. Contact your local tea party here using the Find a Local Group box on the right hand side of the page. Attend a meeting and help ID that candidate. 10-4 to that. |
| I received the same form letter. I plan on paying close attention to the election. If a suitable Pro-2A candidate is out there I plan to support in anyway possible. I cannot afford to donate alot of money but what I hopefully will be able to donate is my time. We need to vote out as many of these anti-gun people as possible, hopefully making a statement like was made after the '94 AWB passed. |
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I received the same form letter. I plan on paying close attention to the election. If a suitable Pro-2A candidate is out there I plan to support in anyway possible. I cannot afford to donate alot of money but what I hopefully will be able to donate is my time. We need to vote out as many of these anti-gun people as possible, hopefully making a statement like was made after the '94 AWB passed. Unfortunately Levin's in a District that would vote him in if he was caught in the shower with Jerry Sandusky and a ten year old. 
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I received the same form letter. I plan on paying close attention to the election. If a suitable Pro-2A candidate is out there I plan to support in anyway possible. I cannot afford to donate alot of money but what I hopefully will be able to donate is my time. We need to vote out as many of these anti-gun people as possible, hopefully making a statement like was made after the '94 AWB passed. Unfortunately Levin's in a District that would vote him in if he was caught in the shower with Jerry Sandusky and a ten year old. You mean the whole state? Unfortunately, you're right. |
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It's gotta start somewhere:
http://www.mlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/02/tim_skubick_sen_roger_kahn_sho.html#incart_most-comments |
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It's gotta start somewhere: http://www.mlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/02/tim_skubick_sen_roger_kahn_sho.html#incart_most-comments I agree We have to to at least try. Put our money where our mouths are. $$$ |
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More on the douche bag: First he pressures the IRS to target conservatives. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/05/15/democratic-sen-levin-pressured-irs-to-investigate-conservative-nonprofits/ Today he was criticizing the IRS for targeting conservatives. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/05/17/outgoing-irs-chief-faces-hearing-after-stunning-revelation-on-another-scandal/ These are the first two links of you search for "levin irs" at Foxnews.com. What's odd (but not surprising) is that nobody at Fox seems to have realized this hypocrisy. |