Why do you feel that americans should have those if your belief is they just have to defend themselves . Well, before i go any further, piers, first, thanks for having me back. We did have a heated discussion last time and i much appreciate this more calm discussion. Second, on behalf of im sure i speak for the entire board of Michigan Coalition of responsible gun owners we offer our Sincere Condolence and sympathies for the victims and their families. We are all about safety. We all want to be safe and we certainly want children to be safe. Like i said last week, we just disagree on how to get there from here. To answer your question, i would point out that the shooter in the mall in oregon was confronted by a legally armed citizen who pointed his gun at the shooter and then decided not to squeeze the trigger because he was afraid of missing and hitting bystanders. He was acting very responsibly. And the next shot that that shooter fired, that the killer fired, was on himself after he
We have so much ability to go on line. We have just seen the newest thing that facebook came out with yesterday, and check back and find things about everybody. Im also struck with somebody will tell me, come up with some outlandish thing. I know its true, i read it on the internet. Its an advantage to be able to have yourself, one of the advantages of being able to pick it up and call up any information you want, but not to the extent you give up your own privacy. I worry that people can track who you called and how. That what sites youre reading and why. These are ill give you an example. Nobody questions the fact that if a Police Agency wants to go into your home, open your files, papers, read through them, they are going to have to have a search warrant. I question the willingness to have a different view when they can do it from 100 miles away with a key stroke. It is going to be a fight, but i think people are realizing they dont have to give up their ability to use the internet
You may now sign all your Vice President ial ballots, after given to the tellers. Collected . I would ask tellers proceed to counted the ballots, first for president , and then for Vice President. Upon the collection and accounting of the ballots, tellers will inform Connie Pillich and she will make the announcement. Votes had been cast for barack obama for president and 18 votes have been cast for joe biden for Vice President. Results of the tally are 18 votes for barack obama for president and 18 votes for joe biden for Vice President. The procedure electors are to proceed with. United states code requires electors shall sign six by them. Votes for you to sign on the table at the front of the chamber. These are the official forwarded to the president of the United States senate, the archivist of the United States, and United States district court, certifying that you have fulfilled your duties in electing the president and Vice President at this Electoral College. Be sure to sign all
Will the Vice President ial teller please collect the ballots from the electors hammon . The electoral votes of North Carolina have been passed on this, the 17th day of december, 2012, through the republican electors, and the result is as follows. Votes cast in the name of paul ryan. Thank you. With secretary marshall please bring forth the certificates to vote. Each elector or will have to sign six copies. I believe we are going to sign one copy, and if at the end the electors will remain seated, we will sign the other five copies. The electors having signed a certificate of the vote, at this point i would like to thank the staff of the state capital, the secretary of States Office, and the North Carolina republicans staff as well as the North Carolina Republican Party as well as the voters of North Carolina for helping make this meeting of the Electoral College of success. If there is no further business to come before us, i wish to recognize dodi allen for the purpose of making a mo
And its less than an hours drive from my Congressional District. We mourn all the people who lost their lives on friday, including 20 Elementary School children and six educators. Over the past few years, we have seen innocent lives lost to gun violence in a supermarket parking lot in arizona, a Movie Theater in colorado, an army base in texas, a College Campus in virginia and now an Elementary School in connecticut. The weapons have spawned these tragedies and long past time that we control them. The Second Amendment guarantees the right to bear arms but does not guarantee an absolute right to militarystyle, high caliber, semiautomatic, combatassault rifles with high capacity magazines to anybody who wants them. It just does not and must not let Interest Groups persuade us otherwise. We need restrictions and sensible gun control legislation. We need them here and we need them now. Our children are counting on us and we really need to not let them down. I yield back. Mr. Murphy i yield