Gun Registration

[Guest jackdog]

Tell me this is not so, tell me that the co-founder of the Black panther party is not the same congressman that is trying to infringe on our second amendment rights. How does someone like this even get a seat in the peoples house. How will this legislation promote fewer gun violence in the first district of Illinois. So whats next American Nazi party representatives or Members of the KKK. Our federal government is so far away from what the founders gave us that unless States right can force them to capitulate we are in deep dodo.

[Reservoir Dog]

Yep, same one. Actually, he formed the Illinois BP Party, not the original one. Rush is also a went AWOL from the Army back in 1968, and he has served time for illegal possession of a firearm. He is a real winner.

So whats next American Nazi party representatives or Members of the KKK.

We already have a former KKK member in Congress right now. Been there for decades.

[tbuford]

Saw Bobby Rush (D) Ill on Lou Dobbs this evening...any efforts to infringe on rights is ....well....wrong...but they sure could have picked a better spokesman for the agenda...he reminded me of Richard Pryor back in the day when he imitated the drunkard in his act....kept asking myself, is this guy for real?

From the House website...

Biography

Congressman Rush was born on November 23, 1946 in Albany, Georgia. His family later moved to Chicago and lived on the near north and west sides. Rush attended Marshall High School and at the age of 17, enlisted in the United States Army. He served in the military from 1963 until 1968, receiving an honorable discharge.

Following his military service, Rush attended Roosevelt University, where he received a bachelor's degree in general studies in 1973, with honors. In 1994, he received a master's degree in political science from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Congressman Rush received his second master's degree, in 1998, in theological studies from McCormick Seminary, and, soon thereafter, became an ordained Baptist minister.

During the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's, Congressman Rush worked to secure basic civil and human rights for African-Americans, women and other minorities. He was a member of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) from 1966 to 1968.

Congressman Rush was a co-founder of the Illinois Black Panther Party in 1968.

While a Black Panther, he operated the Panther Party's

Free Breakfast for Children

program. He also coordinated the

Free Medical Clinic

, which developed the nation's first mass sickle cell anemia testing program. This

visionary Panther

initiative forced America's health care providers to recognize the impact of sickle cell anemia on the Black community and to develop national research into its causes, effects and solutions, a practice which endures to this day.

Prior to his election to Congress, Congressman Rush was an Alderman in the Chicago City Council. He represented the 2nd Ward on Chicago's South Side for 8 years. As an Alderman, Rush helped pass significant environmental protection,

gun control

and neighborhood development legislation.

Edited February 25, 2009 by tbuford

[Falcon1]

Yep, same one. Actually, he formed the Illinois BP Party, not the original one. Rush is also a went AWOL from the Army back in 1968, and he has served time for illegal possession of a firearm. He is a real winner.

We already have a former KKK member in Congress right now. Been there for decades.

Yes, Senator Robert Byrd (D, WV).

[Guest VolMickey]

We already have a former KKK member in Congress right now. Been there for decades.

... and he's a DEMOCRAT --- Senator Robert "KKK" Byrd (W.VA).