Michael D. Barnes
Michael D. Barnes
Michael Darr Barnesrepresented the eighth district of Maryland in the United States House of Representatives from 1979 to 1987...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth3 September 1943
CountryUnited States of America
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We've got activists all across the country like the members of the Million Mom March organization, some of their leaders are here tonight. We're phone banking congressional offices and pursuing editorial boards.
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Every place in the country you should get a license that shows you know how to safely store it, keep it away from your children or grandchildren. You should have to license it so the police can trace it if it's used in a crime. [On keeping guns]
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Let me share some facts with you about the law in most of our country. California is in many ways a little different from the rest of the world, and California has better gun laws than many states, although California's need to be improved.
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They have some pretty tough gun laws in Japan, as they do in any other civilized country in the world, and they're not killing each other off with firearms. You have very violent films in Europe, yet it's not causing the mayhem we see in our streets routinely here.
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The gun dealer is not only paying these two police officers, but more importantly, the gun dealer has said he will never again sell more than one gun to a customer. This is exactly what we're trying to get the gun industry across the country to do.
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Most droughts, you go 200 miles and people are in a flood situation. It's a shame. When we're dry, somebody else is wet. When we're wet, somebody's dry. I don't know, maybe it's God's way.
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We support seven different contact channels because we know these are somewhat generational -- some people are phone-centric and others are PC-centric. We allow you to support all of those on a single network-hosted platform.
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But there are 90 million gun owners in the United States. Only 3.5 million want the insurance and magazines and the various things you get for joining the NRA.
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Who's paying the million bucks? The insurance company. We've been trying for years to get the insurance industry to say to the gun industry, We won't insure you unless you have policies that will reduce the likelihood of guns falling into the wrong hands easily.
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We're trying to publicize this one and make people realize that the gun industry can clean up its act and can operate in a way that can reduce the likelihood of guns killing police officers and other innocent people.
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It is yet another example of how much power a small group could wield behind closed doors.
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(According to those who drove the slave ship), if we lose 25 to 50 percent of 'cargo,' we could make money.
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We stayed open later this year than last year because of it. So business has been doing a little bit better. It's not as drastic as you might think maybe but you had to stay open late and put in much more hours.
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This is a tragic capitulation to the special interest gun lobby.