The democrats in the House passed another doomed-to-fail in the Senate gun control bill on Thursday that would make the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) much less instant and into a a 10-day affair. It’s unclear what this bill has to do with domestic violence, but Michigan Rep. Debbie Dingell was pushing the bill by talking about how her parents owned guns and never did anything illegal with them. Trust me, if you have a twisted liberal mind, this all makes perfect sense.
As the House was debating a bill that gives the FBI 10 days instead of 3 days to complete a background check on a firearms purchase, Dingell took to the floor with this irrelevant story to help push the legislation:
“I have spent more time thinking about how you keep guns out of the hands of abusers, more probably than anybody in this chamber. I know better than most the dangers they pose. It’s not easy for me to talk about it this week. But … I will be honest on this floor, my father was mentally ill. I had to hide in that closet, with my siblings, wondering if we would live or die. One night I kept my father from killing my mother. He shouldn’t have had a gun,” said Dingell.
Seriously, her story has nothing to do with the bill that was being debated, but I’m still going to call shenanigans. If she was hiding in the closet, fearing that she would be killed by her father, how did she stop him from killing her mom? This sounds like a complete load of shit. Also, doesn’t her story prove that guns are not that dangerous if an unarmed girl can’t stop an armed mentally ill adult man from committing murder?
Somehow her story gets even harder to believe:
“My mother went out and bought a gun and then all of us were scared to death about her gun and my father’s gun. We had two guns to worry about. No child, no woman, no man should ever have to go through that,” Dingell screamed.
Let’s see if I have this straight: her dad was a mentally ill abusive domestic abuser and her mom’s reaction was to go out and buy gun, but stayed in the home with this maniac? That’s makes no sense and neither does Dingell’s statement that she was now scared of her mother too. Was her mom also crazy person?
This story is almost certainly BS, but it does prove that guns aren’t quite the threat Dingell would have us believe they are. The bottom line to her tale is that her dad never killed her or her mother and her mother never killed anyone either. Dingell says her parents shouldn’t have been allowed to have guns, but they never committed any actual crimes with them.
There is also no indication that her parents were convicted felons, had been institutionalized for mental illness, or anything else that would ban them from owning a gun. Yet, she insists that some law should exist to make sure that people who haven’t broken the law should be stripped of their gun ownership rights.
The fact that Dingell spewed this nonsense in regards to a bill that expands the length of time to conduct a background check makes it even dumber. At least make up a bullshit story that is relevant to the gun control law being debated.
