I think the big losers were America's schoolchildren, not the WH, you fucking insane pig.

[kpete]

White House loses big on Manchin-Toomey
Posted by Jennifer Rubin on April 17, 2013
http://lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=731645

I think the big losers were America's schoolchildren, not the WH, you fucking insane pig.

[TwilightGardener]

1. Yeah, weird that they're painting it as an Obama loss/Republican win.

What did they win? No one was taking their precious guns. The blood will be on their hands.

[Arugula Latte]

13. There will be blood on their hands, and they won't care,

because more importantly to them, there are also wads of NRA money in their hands.

[TwilightGardener]

3. Nope, the blood is on the hands of elected officials who refuse to take steps for public safety.

There will always be sick, violent people. Our leaders are supposed to find measures to mitigate their actions. Sorry, pal.

[sinkingfeeling]

4. I think it was all freedom loving Americans who lost big. We don't have

the freedom to do the things we like nor go to the places we wish free of the threat of somebody gunning us down.

[Daemonaquila]

5. Oh, please. The kids haven't lost anything.

I'm sick of the excess rhetoric from both sides. The risk to schoolkids has always been, and still is, nearly zero. It's horrible when a nutjob targets kids, but the level of hysteria about the horrible risk to them due to either failure to pass this bill or the existence of certain weapons is ridiculous. It's all smoke and mirrors that distracts people from talking about the real issues - no wonder nothing good comes out of congress when the media spinbots and Internet hyperbole machine constantly distort issues for the sake of quick blame/shame/anger/attention value.

[Hekate]

6. What? What? What?

Okay, I am that point of despair where I think the only way certain people will see the light is when it happens to their own kids.

Like the anti-gay-marriage politicians who suddenly come all over compassionate when it's their own son or daughter who comes out to them. Or the frothing at the mouth anti-choicers who get an understanding of the issue only when their own wife or daughter has a life-threatening pregnancy in the second trimester.

Gods help us all. Yes, "the kids" have lost.

[Jakes Progress]

9. You have to understand

that too the gun fetishers, having a couple of dozen children killed is a small price to pay for their desires. Ignore them. God does.

[HangOnKids]

7. This Isn't A REAL ISSUE?

REALLY? BTW I love your dig at "both sides." If you have not noticed we have a side here and it is a Democratic one. Just thought I would point that out.

[geek tragedy]

8. Talk to the people of Chicago about how no children face danger from guns. nt

[alcibiades_mystery]

12. Even federal anti-trafficking failed to pass

Tells us everything we need to know about the bloodthirsty gunners and their gun maker/seller Masters.

Stupid fucking murderous assholes.

[geek tragedy]

15. It's a cult, they worship the idol of a death god. nt

[Hekate]

17. Yes they do: the idol of a death god.

Well spotted and well named.

[marions ghost]

11. Even if you negate the physical danger

you grossly underestimate the psychological impact.

And you ignore completely-- the children being killed EVERY DAY from gun violence, suicides and accidents in this country.

[One_Life_To_Give]

10. Low income, urban are the big loosers

Universal background checks are about making it more difficult for those legally restricted from owning a firearm.

[alcibiades_mystery]

16. Senate also killed federal anti-trafficking in the bill

Precisely the statutes we need to save lives of the urban poor.

There's only one reason to kill federal anti-trafficking statutes: the gun makers and dealers know damn well that some large portion of their income comes from the flow of their products on to the illicit market. They know it. They get rich off the money of the drug gangs, then funnel it to Congress. These people are murderers, just as surely as if they were pulling the trigger on the South Side of Chicago. Anti-trafficking! They killed fucking anti-trafficking!

And our stupid asshole gunners - "liberal" and "conservative" (they're all the same) - gloat and dance and continue to do the bidding of murderers. Disgusting pigs, all of them.