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elleng

(130,126 posts)
Sun Apr 14, 2013, 10:09 PM Apr 2013

Party Rifts Complicate Chances for Gun Bill Passage.

Deep divisions within both parties over a bipartisan measure to extend background checks for gun buyers are threatening its chances as the Senate this week begins debating the first broad gun control legislation in nearly 20 years.

In spite of a vote last Thursday in favor of debating new gun measures, some Democrats who are facing re-election next year in conservative states have already said they will not vote for the background check measure offered by Senators Patrick J. Toomey, Republican of Pennsylvania, and Joe Manchin III, Democrat of West Virginia, forcing Democrats to look desperately across the aisle to fill the gaps.

Republicans, in the meantime, are bitterly torn between moderates who feel pressure to respond to polls showing a majority of Americans in support of some new gun regulations and conservatives who are deeply opposed to them. That debate exploded during a private lunch for Senate Republicans last week.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/15/us/politics/party-rifts-complicate-chances-for-gun-bill-passage.html?hp

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Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
1. WTH are they thinking, this is a 90/10 issue. we find very few things with as many people
Sun Apr 14, 2013, 11:23 PM
Apr 2013

Wanting to get background checks it would appear a safe vote.

elleng

(130,126 posts)
2. They're 'thinking' they'll be pilloried by NRA and primaried,
Sun Apr 14, 2013, 11:29 PM
Apr 2013

and are unwilling to stand up and lead on this 90/10 issue.

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
3. And if they dont vote for background checks it will happen also but 90/10 they jyst might get beat.
Sun Apr 14, 2013, 11:35 PM
Apr 2013

NRA is not the only group grading them and if checked the election in Illinois recently the high rated candidate was beat so there you are.

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