Gun Control & RKBA
Related: About this forumPoliticians will pay for siding with NRA
It was last April mere months after the senseless slaughter of 20 children at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. that a minority of senators blocked legislation that would have made it harder for criminals and people with dangerous mental illnesses to get their hands on deadly firearms.
Given the opportunity to stand up to the gun lobby by supporting legislation favored by two-thirds of Americans, these senators did what all politicians do when they fear upsetting powerful interests: They voted for the status quo.
These were some of the same senators who had sat across the table from the grieving parents of children massacred at Sandy Hook or who looked me in the eye as I told them what it is like to learn to walk and talk again after a bullet from a madmans gun nearly took my life.
http://www.indystar.com/story/opinion/2014/04/18/gabby-giffords-politicians-will-pay-siding-nra/7888477/
Jenoch
(7,720 posts)ManiacJoe
(10,136 posts)blueridge3210
(1,401 posts)ManiacJoe
(10,136 posts)Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)Shocking, care to comment on the piece?
SQUEE
(1,315 posts)Believed you had the only view point, didn't care how your beliefs were received, were not interested in dialog, and blamed everyone else when your bridge to far remained standing.
UBC would have passed, but there was, and is, no consensus on an AWB, Feinstein and her followers knew there was no chance of passage, and chose to still pursue it. I was behind a discussion of moving to a true, and accessible UBC system, I had my reservations, and registration was one, but no one on your side cared to discuss it, to work or compromise, you thought you had your perfect storm and paraded grieving families before the world, and lost... YOUR fault, and if , IF every thing you say you want is truly to help stop the violence, if background checks are effective, and will stop or even slow the violence, then you are letting people die, and they continue, not one of those deaths is the result of a gun in my safe.
hack89
(39,171 posts)he is the Democratic Speaker of the House, Nicholas Mattiello. He supports unions, gay marriage, the ACA, medical marijuana, strong environmental laws - and is endorsed by the NRA with an A+ rating.
I don't think he will be punished at all.
Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)beevul
(12,194 posts)Jenoch
(7,720 posts)Harry Reid was one of those senators to block that bill.
hack89
(39,171 posts)DonP
(6,185 posts)No sweeping changes when it's all said and done, an NRA supported candidate here or there may lose. (Lately it seems to be Dems that Bloomberg doesn't like, like Debbie Halvorsen in my district or three in Colorado) But it seems more local people supported seem to win than lose.