I've been channel surfing all day. There isn't a thing on and the Army-Navy game bores me.
Well I happened across MSNBC and heard a discussion on the "Disrupt" news show and they were lamenting the fact that a background check bill couldn't be passed.
They emphasized the background check bill over and over and how it was favored by a majority of the American people.
But they're forgetting something important.
When the President and his Congressional allies rolled out gun control it was with a view of reinstating the assault weapons ban, limits on the size of weapon magazines and a ATF database (I refuse to refer to them as BATFE...thats a re-branding to separate the "new" agency from its bad history...gun guys need to stop calling them BATFE too, it just helps their agenda).
It was another case of the Democrats over reaching.
If they had started and stopped with a background check bill then they would have carried the day. But they didn't. Feinstein and her crew got greedy and then got bit.
Long story short? The gun control freaks are either lying or they're spinning like a fat lady at the gym.
This will (not) prevent some wacko from going berserk in a theater, banning:
ReplyDelete* All semiautomatic rifles that can accept a detachable magazine and have at leat one military feature: pistol grip; folding, telescoping, or detachable stock; grenade launcher or rocket launcher; barrel shroud; or threaded barrel. --Somebody's definition of an "assault weapon."
Original passage of the assault weapons ban in 1994 was blamed for costing Democrats control of the House and Senate after they supported it. There's also considerable debate about its effectiveness during the years it was in effect, in part because of loopholes that allowed gun manufacturers to work around it.
Any weapon that was lawfully possessed at the date of the bill's enactment was exempted, for one thing. That's several million right there.
And the best thing of all is there are 10s of thousands if not more out there because of their threats. The more they talk the more people arm themselves. I believe that is called voting with their pocketbooks, and I don't care what party someone votes for their real views and beliefs are where their money goes.
ReplyDeleteIt's political placebo.
ReplyDeletethe great lot of them are bullshitting each other and the people about right v. left, jockeying for power.
Along comes a tragedy and suddenly these assholes need to look like they give a shit beyond fundraising for their next campaign and they wheel out some ad hoc horseshit bill that some staffers cobbled together the night before,then try to rush it thru to get it passed. Then they can turn around and declare, "see, we actually did something beyond getting re-elected and debating each other. Now you'll be safer"
Just like having National Guard soldiers at airports, et.al, after 9/11. It didn't do shit, wasn't effective, it was simply symbolic to make the sheeple feel more secure after their worst fears were laid out before them by the feedback look that is corporate news media.
It's fucking eyewash.
the economy is shit, there is a massive gap between the rich and average Americans and these dicks are trying to pull one over on the sheeple.
Sheeple? "Original passage of the assault weapons ban in 1994 was blamed for costing Democrats control of the House and Senate after they supported it."
Deletethe sheeple are those who would buy into the idea that an AWB or renewal actually works.in reducing mass shootings or gun violence.
Deletethat law was passed by a margin of one vote in the House. and the dems paid for it for ten years.
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