Coalitions Against Trafficking Handguns: Congress Shows It Hasn't Learned

[Omaha Steve]

http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=72050

Coalitions Against Trafficking Handguns: Congress Shows It Hasn't Learned Lessons of 9/11

Federal Bills Handcuff Law Enforcement, Restrict Police from Sharing Information

9/8/2006 3:06:00 PM

To: State Desk

Contact: Nancy Robinson of the Massachusetts Against Trafficking Handguns Coalition, 617-233-5363 or Lori O'Neill of the Ohio Against Trafficking Handguns Coalition, 216-470-3086

BOSTON, Sept. 8 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The following release was issued today by the Coalitions Against Trafficking Handguns:

Five years after the catastrophic intelligence failure that resulted in the worst terrorist attacks on American soil, the House of Representatives is pushing legislation that will weaken law enforcement's ability to keep Americans safe. Yesterday, the House Judiciary Committee took up legislation that will make it harder for local, state and federal law enforcement agencies to share information to prevent violent crime and terrorist attacks.

President Bush and Republicans in Congress have made homeland security their focus leading up to the mid-term elections. But if they had truly learned the lessons of 9/11, members of Congress wouldn't be erecting barriers to prevent local, state and federal law enforcement from working together.

The independent 9/11 commission cited a failure to share information among law enforcement agencies as one of the reasons our enemies were able to succeed on 9/11. Yet the sponsors of HR 5005, the "Firearms Corrections and Improvement Act," are trying to make it more difficult for police to access federal crime- fighting data and communicate with other law enforcement agencies.

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[Retired AF Dem]

1. But there wasn't any hanguns used

during 9/11, just saying.