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OmahaBlueDog

(10,000 posts) Wed Apr 17, 2013, 10:10 PM Apr 2013

They Decided Their Re-Elections Trump Our Safety

From the Facebook page "I love it when I wake up in the morning and Barack Obama is President."

The Senate voted 54-46 on Wednesday afternoon to reject bipartisan legislation to expand background checks to gun shows and Internet sales, falling short of the 60-vote threshold to overcome a filibuster. Please contact your Senators. Let them know what you think of this vote. No more distorting Senate rules. 202-224-3121. -Debra — with Heidi Heitkamp, Mark Begich, Max Baucus and Mark Pryor.

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They Decided Their Re-Elections Trump Our Safety (Original Post) OmahaBlueDog Apr 2013 OP

Primary challenges BainsBane Apr 2013 #1

Gun safety advocates need to create a voice as loud and as strong as that of the NRA OmahaBlueDog Apr 2013 #2

Gun safety organizations don't make anything. MrSlayer Apr 2013 #3

BainsBane

(53,012 posts)

1. Primary challenges

Reply to OmahaBlueDog (Original post)

Wed Apr 17, 2013, 10:11 PM

Apr 2013

Show them they made the wrong bet.

OmahaBlueDog

(10,000 posts)

2. Gun safety advocates need to create a voice as loud and as strong as that of the NRA

Reply to BainsBane (Reply #1)

Wed Apr 17, 2013, 10:18 PM

Apr 2013

There is no lobby for those dead, maimed, wounded, and victimized from gun violence that politicians fear.

MrSlayer

(22,143 posts)

3. Gun safety organizations don't make anything.

Reply to OmahaBlueDog (Reply #2)

Wed Apr 17, 2013, 10:23 PM

Apr 2013

They do not have a multibillion dollar manufacturing industry. The NRA does, that's who they represent and that's why they'll always win. Unless we get money out of politics, fat chance, we're at the mercy of the wealthy.

It's the way it is.

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