American hypocrites

Gun grabbers don't want no one to have guns, they just don't want you to have guns. They'll ram through all kinds of laws to keep guns out of your hands, but when it comes to them... Well, that's different now, isn't it?

Dianne Feinstein

Wants to ban private ownership of firearms but feels fine getting a concealed carry permit to protect her own sorry hide.

Because her life is much more important than yours.

Video is from testimony she gave to Congress in 1995 (less than a year after she helped push through the first assault weapons ban).

Joseph Morrissey

Virginia lawmaker who gained notoriety in January 2013 when he brandished a borrowed AK-47 during an anti-gun speech in the Virginia state legislature. Was found guilty in 2002 of committing a vicious 1999 assault, was sanctioned for legal misconduct while prosecuting a rape case, spent six months in jail for contempt of a federal court, and saw his law license revoked in 2003.

Morrissey paid a man $500,000 in 2007 to settle a 2002 court judgment against him, related to a 1999 physical assault. According to legal brief filed by the victim’s attorneys, Morrissey shouted, “I’m going to kill you. I’m going to beat your head in,” before beating the victim and “smash[ing] his head into the corner of a brick wall.”

The 2003 revocation of Morrissey’s law license followed that courtroom reckoning, but by then his disciplinary record in the legal profession was already a lengthy one.

After he applied for the reinstatement of his law license, the Virginia State Bar listed a litany of Morrissey’s misdeeds when it published his petition.

That list included the December 1993 suspension of Morrissey’s law license for six months following a complaint from a rape victim in a case he prosecuted. Morrissey, she said, allowed her rapist to plea-bargain his case down to a misdemeanor after his father paid $50,000 — half to the victim and the other half to charities Morrissey chose. She also testified that Morrissey hid the details of the plea-bargain from her.

	Virginia Delegate Joseph Morrissey, who became infamous online last week when he brandished an AK-47 during his anti-gun speech before the state legislature, once told a judge he “lost or misplaced” two semiautomatic assault-style weapons, including two that he borrowed from a state police forensic lab. “I don’t think you should be able to possess an assault rifle,” Morrissey told ABC News on Friday. But the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported in April 1994 that the arrest of a heroin dealer led police to discover an Uzi submachine gun that was supposed to be under Morrissey’s control. That gun, along with two other semiautomatic weapons — a TEC-9 capable of firing 72 rounds without reloading, and another unspecified rifle — were among four weapons Morrissey used as props when he discussed drugs and violence at schools, and during civic meetings. The suspected drug dealer “was arrested in Richmond … and the gentleman had a storage locker rented to himself in Chesterfield County,” State Police Special Agent Anita Derby told the Times-Dispatch then. “A search warrant was conducted on the storage locker and that’s where the gun was found.” The Uzi and the TEC-9 disappeared after police loaned them to Morrissey in May 1991. He said in 1994 that the firearms had been missing since at least December 1992, when Virginia Department of Forensic Science director Paul Ferrara asked for their safe return. Although Morrissey said he believed the Uzi and the TEC-9 were stolen from his office, sources inside the former prosecutor’s office told the Times-Dispatch in August 1993 that he never reported them missing. At the time, Morrissey’s office told the newspaper that the third rifle was accounted for.
— The Daily Caller

Harry Reid

Democratic senator Harry Reid actually opposed the extension of the first assault weapons ban (although it would have never passed the completely Republican controlled Congress then either) and has been somewhat quiet on the issue this time around, but as a major player in the Democratic party you have to believe he is involved in the current conversation to control guns.

In this video from 2010 Reid says he carried a gun with him everywhere he went when he worked for the Nevada Gaming Commission.

(Wayne LaPierre must be kicking himself now...)