It almost feels like a major victory, but it isn’t It took a major effort to shame just a few Republicans to merely allow debate to begin on a very watered down version of gun regulation. While it closes the gun show loophole, all it would take for someone who could not pass a background check to purchase an assault weapon with a 100 round drum is to have an acquaintance, who could, make the purchase for them. The NRA have done to sensible firearms legislation exactly what their Republican cohorts did to health care reform and financial reform. That said, it is doubtful that even this will survive, but if it can, we should take it and start over.
The U.S. Senate voted on Thursday to overcome a Republican-led filibuster against tougher gun laws, clearing the way for a major congressional debate on a package of proposals sought by President Barack Obama in the aftermath of the Connecticut school massacre.
The procedural vote followed a breakthrough by Sens. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, and Pat Toomey, R-Pennsylvania, who reached a compromise on broadening background checks to include private purchases at gun shows and on the Internet.
Because of the bipartisan deal, Senate Democrats backing the legislation received support from enough Republicans to approve the cloture motion, 68-31, setting up debate on the proposals and amendments expected to last for two weeks.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, pledged after the key vote to let both sides offer amendments. But he insisted they include an updated ban on semiautomatic firearms modeled after military assault weapons and a limit on ammunition magazines to 10 rounds… [emphasis added]
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If you remember the health care and financial reform processes, you will remember that Republicans pretended to negotiate in good faith, watered down the compromises, and then opposed them anyway. That is exactly what the NRA did here,
Chris Hayes discussed the NRA’s duplicitous role of weakening the legislation with Jack Abramoff, David Sirota, and Leah Gunn Barrett.
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The following Senators voted to not to even discuss allowing fewer criminals to buy guns to murder Americans:
Barrasso (R-WY)
Begich (D-AK)
Blunt (R-MO)
Boozman (R-AR)
Coats (R-IN)
Cochran (R-MS)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Crapo (R-ID)
Cruz (R-TX)
Enzi (R-WY)
Fischer (R-NE)
Grassley (R-IA)
Hatch (R-UT)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Johanns (R-NE)
Johnson (R-WI)
Lee (R-UT)
McConnell (R-KY)
Moran (R-KS)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Paul (R-KY)
Portman (R-OH)
Pryor (D-AR)
Risch (R-ID)
Roberts (R-KS)
Rubio (R-FL)
Scott (R-SC)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Thune (R-SD)
If the elephant dumped any of these turds, including the two DINOs, in your state, you know what to do.
6 Responses to “Debate to Begin on Weakened Gun Control”
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What else is new? Thank God I don't have any of these ignoramouses as my Senator.
Unbelievable. Thanks TC.
Until the money and related corruption is taken out behind the woodshed and whoopped into submission, the corporations and elite will continue to get their way to the detriment of the vast majority. As I said in the last article: Make Republican/Teabaggers an endangered species but don't give them the protections of the Endangered Species Act, or any other act for that matter!
I don't know about anyone else but I for one am getting so darn sick and tired of these asine games- This list of so called "honorable" Lawmakers are nothnig but offal needing to be flushed down the toilet!! I('ve seen cleaner hands on pig farmers-
My response on a previous thread: "Pig shit has less stink than the Republican/Teabagger minority outreach programme." Just rewrite it and stop after 'Teabagger'.
I want to know exactly what is in this legislation. I cannot support what I do not know is actually the law they propose.