Repubs may be playing with fire?

[kentuck]

[kentuck]

4. Here's the one they are talking about.

http://www.demandaction.org/polls

[CincyDem]

2. Com'on gang - a guy's gotta remember who he works for, dontcha think ? n/t

[liberal N proud]

3. All elections are local

It makes it easy for these people to convince enough people to vote for them regardless. And they now this!

[silverweb]

5. Here's some of the background data:

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]http://www.demandaction.org/resources

[Llewlladdwr]

7. Does no one think this about the Democrats on this issue?

Doesn't anyone remember the beating the party took after the 1994 AWB was passed?

[Brigid]

8. This isn't 1994.

A few things have happened since then.

[X_Digger]

12. Yes.. 20M+ more AR-15's have been sold.

They're now the best-selling rifle in the US, even before Aurora or Newtown.

They're in use by hunters, weekend plinkers, and competition shooters.

[Brigid]

14. And they're perfect for mass murder too.

We've had more than a few of those lately.

[X_Digger]

17. As would many other guns. VT was with 10 and 15 round handguns.

Banning the gun used by X shooter would be like banning pressure cookers because of Boston.

[Brigid]

19. All I know or care about is . . .

Every time I turn around, there has been another senseless mass shooting, or a suicide, or accident involving guns. I can't step outside my front door without taking my life in my hands. And I am sick unto death of being told that is just the price of doing business -- that nothing can be done. I don't know what it will take, but we have got to get this issue dealt with.

[X_Digger]

20. Thing is, you're twice as safe as you were in 1994.

Perception notwithstanding.

[Brigid]

21. Be that as it may,

There have been over 3,500 gun deaths in this country since Sandy Hook. We still have a lot of work to do on this issue.

[Llewlladdwr]

15. You mean like a complete and utter failure to move any new gun legislation through Congress?

If Senators were receiving calls from their constituents running 9 to 1 in favor of new gun legislation then it would have passed, NRA be damned. That level of support for the legislation obviously wasn't happening.

Oh, and according to Gallup's latest polling only 4% of Americans consider guns/gun control to be the top issue facing the country:

http://www.gallup.com/poll/161813/few-guns-immigration-nation-top-problems.aspx

Yep, 1994 it isn't...

[Brigid]

16. This is about as good an opportunity as we're going to get,

given the spate of mass murders lately.But until we get the NRA labeled as the terrorist organization they are, and find a way to keep them from constantly lobbying for the gun manufacturers, we are never going to get effective gun control legislation in this country. I normally avoid gun control arguments because they are a waste of time, but today's events leave me feeling really frustrated about this country and its stupid gun fetish.

[EC]

9. I like that picture

it makes his lips look really small and pissy looking, the whole pic makes him look like a prig. Condescending asshole.

[flamingdem]

10. Let's hope so nt

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

11. They should make a list of the people who died at the hands of individuals

in Kentucky who weren't subjected to a background check, showing their photos. Asshole Rand Paul would squawk about being wrongly accused of being complicit in their murder, but who gives a fuck what this asswipe thinks.

[Thinkingabout]

13. It is amazing, this is an issue in which is supported by a large majority of Americans, our Congress

has just shown they are on the side of criminals.

[alcibiades_mystery]

18. Triumphalist gun nut shitheads will tell you "only 4% think it's impooooortant, nyuck nyuck nyuck"

Douchebags.