{"id":66442,"date":"2016-06-21T10:54:11","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T14:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=66442"},"modified":"2016-06-21T11:00:26","modified_gmt":"2016-06-21T15:00:26","slug":"senate-rejects-gun-control-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=66442","title":{"rendered":"Senate rejects gun control bills"},"content":{"rendered":"

Democrats and Republicans proposed four dueling gun control bills in the Senate yesterday, a week after the worst terrorist attack in this country since 9-11-2001, you know, because they have to act like they’re doing something – anything. Politico<\/a> says that the Democrats didn’t want to pass anything anyway – they need issues for November; <\/p>\n

Democrats made it clear they want to make it as painful for Republicans to oppose their gun amendments, whether through a flood of advocacy calls to their Senate offices or at the ballot box in November.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome of this is going to turn into an electoral operation,\u201d Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), who led the Senate Democrats\u2019 nearly 15-hour gun filibuster last week, said an interview Monday. \u201cI\u2019m going to be turning my attention to the November election. I\u2019m going to take some of my energy and help make sure that people who cast the wrong vote don\u2019t come\u201d back to the Senate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s what Democrats do best – create issues without any real solutions. <\/p>\n

One of the bills was just a rehash of the Feinstein bill that failed in 2013 after the last tragedy, according to Gabe Malor at The Federalist<\/a>;<\/p>\n

The Democratic proposals included Sen. Dianne Feinstein\u2019s bill linking a terrorism watch list to a gun sales ban. On the Republican side, Sen. John Cornyn also offered legislation that would link a terrorism watch list to a gun sales ban, but his version added due process protections for Americans who are put on the list. The other two proposals expanded the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, although the Republican version did not go as far as the Democratic version.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, who needs due process? Just add the plebs to the list willy-nilly and let the chips fall where they may. Gabriel echoes Politico;<\/p>\n

Rather than agree to the incremental gun control measures Republicans proposed, the Democrats chose to pass no gun control legislation at all. At some point after loudly demanding legislation for more than a week, Senate Democrats decided it would be better for their reelection prospects that no gun control bills pass the Senate during the election season. Their decision was hypocritical, unprincipled, and pure politics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When it was all said and done, Chris Murphy, a Connecticut Democrat who has been crying crocodile tears since Sandy Hook, told the Washington Post that “We’ve got to make this clear, constant case that Republicans have decided to sell weapons to ISIS.” You know, as opposed to Democrats who give free weapons to ISIS and Mexican drug cartels. It seems to me that someone who calls themselves “liberals” would be in favor of due process restraints on the government. Maybe that’s just me, though. I expect words to mean things. Stupid, I know.<\/p>\n

Chuck Grassley proposed a bill to expand resources to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System – the most broken part of the background checks, the reason that most of the mass shooters of the last few years were able to legally buy guns – but according to Politico; “It also was blocked in the Senate, 53-47, rejected by nearly all Democrats”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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