FBI Head Wary Of High Court's Gun Ruling

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FBI Director Robert Mueller on Monday criticized the U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling that Americans have a right to own guns for self-defense and hunting, saying it may harm efforts to deter violent crime.

Speaking at a convention of the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators in Hartford, Mueller said the ruling "does throw a lot of things up in the air."

By a 5-4 vote last week, the nation's highest court struck down the District of Columbia's 32-year-old ban on handguns, the first major pronouncement on gun rights in history. It upheld the right for communities to license guns.

Mueller said communities will have to determine their own license programs. As a former Marine who served in Vietnam, he said "I tend to believe weapons harm people and more often than not they harm the people carrying them."

With his grandchildren going to college, Mueller said he hopes "those campuses will be weapons free."

Mueller said the FBI's top priority remains counterterrorism, counter-intelligence and protecting the secrets of the United States.

He said college campuses and small communities could be "potential incubators of terrorism" even while major cities such as New York and Los Angeles remain primary targets for terrorists.

"The fact is we can't rule out any community in the United States as a potential incubator of terrorism," Mueller said.

[mentor47]

AMERICA, WAKE UP!!! WE HAVE PEOPLE RUNNING OUR COUNTRY, AT ALL LEVELS OF GOVERMENT, THAT CAN NOT BE TRUSTED ANY MORE THEN THE KID WORKING AT WALMART, AND IN MANY CASES NOT MUCH SMARTER.

[hhroams]

Mr. Mueller is halfway correct----there are many people who own/carry guns that dangerous to themselves. Many of those people are FBI agents and police officers/agents.

I know of several instances where the so-called trained professions have either killed soneone or did something very stupid. Mr. Mueller is one of the eliteists that think the "great unwashed mass" are not trustworthy to have weapons----the same thoughts as Adolph Hitler, George Bush, etc.

[generey]

Mueller said communities will have to determine their own license programs. As a former Marine who served in Vietnam, he said "I tend to believe weapons harm people and more often than not they harm the people carrying them."


Huh???

[generey]

I came across this saying recently, which explains why government people like Meuller and Mayor Daley in Chicago would become concerned with private gun ownership:

The 2nd Amendment is there in case the Government forgets about the other Nine.



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Posted by nandrelli at 02:39 PM : Jul 02, 2008


PRICELESS !

[jlwesley]

I dont understand how allowing the people of this country their right to own and carry weapons will in anyway cause small communities to become incubators for terrorism, or in any way promote terrorism, this guy is a real goofball. Gun control doesnt work, Washington has it, Chicago has it, criminals dont care about one more stinking little law, only the law abiding citizens suffer at the hands of unrestrained criminals.

[joekaputa2]

I thought Mueller took and oath to protect and defend the constitution against all ememies foriegn and domestic. What a twist, he has come to be an enemy of the people by advocating to strip me and my fellow citizens of our right to protect our own person and property. He should resign because his view of the citizens of this nation is dangerous, full of the draconian notions of tyrants. He is a fearful bureaucrat and would love to strip us of our rights in order to protect us. Those who to give up their rights for a little safety deserve niether, Ben Franklin once said. Mueller deserves no respect as a man or a citizen. Another gutless wonder.

[nandrelli]

I came across this saying recently, which explains why government people like Meuller and Mayor Daley in Chicago would become concerned with private gun ownership:

The 2nd Amendment is there in case the Government forgets about the other Nine.

[cptn747]

These comments come from an organization whose headquarters is named after an infamous former director who was a transvestite homosexual, and an admirer of Adolph Hitler. Both Hoover and Hitler believed government should not allow civilians access to guns. This is the so called law enforcement agency responsible for the murder of innocent people at Ruby Ridge and Waco. So consider the grim history of this corrupt organization in view of the recent statement by this government stooge, now in charge of the FBI.

[tjlovato]

How and why did this liberal, get appointed to be the director of the FBI ??

[tjlovato]

How and why did this liberal, get appointed to be the director of the FBI ??