Democratic Rep. Diana DeGette is being ridiculed by gun-rights advocates after the ardent supporter of a high-capacity magazine ban appeared to flub the facts on what a magazine actually is.

Her widely noticed comments were made at a Denver Post forum earlier this week on the gun debate.

Questioned on what's to be done with the millions of high-capacity magazines already in circulation, DeGette asserted that they'd be discarded once they're used.

"I will tell you these are ammunition -- bullets -- so the people who have those now they are going to shoot them, and so if you ban -- if you ban them in the future, the number of these high capacity magazines is going to decrease dramatically over time because the bullets will have been shot and there won't be any more available," she said.

Magazines, however, are reusable as they can be filled with more bullets.

A spokeswoman issued a statement to the Denver Post, which had flagged the comment as inaccurate, explaining that the congresswoman who has worked on a high-capacity magazine ban for years "simply misspoke" -- "she should have referred to 'clips,' which cannot be reused because they don't have a feeding mechanism."

Yet, clips can also be reused -- and the questioner in this case asked specifically about high-capacity magazines, not clips.

The comment fueled long-running complaints by gun-rights groups that those lawmakers trying to regulate firearms do not fully understand the issue.

"Rep. Diana DeGette appears not to understand how guns work," the National Rifle Association tweeted.

Colorado just passed a sweeping gun law, joined most recently by Connecticut which approved its package of regulations Wednesday.

DeGette is among the vocal advocates for gun control legislation at the national level, as Senate Democrats push for a vote on a bill later this month.


Film at 11.... 🤦

I wonder how she feels about Gay Marriage? I wonder how she'd vote on that too? Think she understands the issue there too?

All of a sudden I get how screwed up Washington DC is.

Her premise may very well apply to gay marriage. In the end it may be an issue that takes care of itself.

Don't know what's scarier... the fact that she's an idiot, or that there where enough of them to get her elected to office?

there were prolly a bunch of hand-jobs along the way.... 😟

yea. your arm must be tired.

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Trenton councilwoman falls prey to 'blue waffle disease' internet hoax


It's more contagious than HIV/AIDS, a sweeping epidemic with the power to turn women's genitals blue.

“Blue waffle disease” deserves the city's attention, Councilwoman Kathy McBride said at a City Council meeting last night.

During the councilmember comment period of the meeting, McBride said she received a concerned call from a city man asking what Trenton was doing to combat “blue waffle disease,” and said she hoped health and human services director James Brownlee could provide her with more information on the mysterious disease she had never heard of.

"It's already claimed 85 lives and there's a case here in Trenton," McBride said. "It is a virus that is 10 times greater at this point than the AIDS virus."

In fact, it appears that McBride fell victim to an internet hoax and April Fool's Day prank.

“Blue waffle disease” is considered an internet urban legend, a fake sexually transmitted disease said to tint women's genitals blue. A graphic image of a woman supposedly infected with the disease has circulated on several websites.

The nonprofit Women's Health Foundation, seeking to clear up confusion around the hoax, published an online post in 2011 debunking stories about “blue waffle” after a middle school health teacher said his students kept asking about it.

“There is no disease known as 'blue waffle disease' in the medical world," Dr. Amy Whitaker, an assistant professor of obstetrics/gynecology at the University of Chicago Hospital, told the foundation. "There is no disease that causes a blue appearance on the external genitalia. I had never heard of this until you wrote to our section…and asked about it.”

“The common belief among medical professionals with whom I have spoken or e-mailed about this is that it is a hoax; the picture and 'fake' disease used to lure people into some web site,” she said.

McBride did not return a call for comment today. At last night's council meeting, business administrator Sam Hutchinson said he did not know anything about the disease but would ask Brownlee to look into McBride's concerns.

http://www.nj.com/mercer/index.ssf/2013/04/trenton_councilwoman_falls_pre.html 




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