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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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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This is a tragic capitulation to the special interest gun lobby.
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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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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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The fight for sanity in our gun safety laws is not by any means over. In many ways it's just beginning.
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There should be a background check every time a firearm is transferred. You shouldn't be able to go to a gun show and buy guns without a background check. There are Internet gun sales, classified ads in the newspapers - and you can buy guns without background checks.
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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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Should we have background checks, waiting periods? To drive a car you have to pass a test that shows you know how to drive your car safely, you should have to do the same thing with guns.
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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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If you are a gun manufacturer, the product you make is not subject to safety regulation by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Toy guns are subject to safety regulation; water pistols are, but not real guns.
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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.