Looks like Reid doesn't have the votes...

[Sportcamper]

I still have no problem with a good background check law. If it helps I think it is a great idea.

I have a problem with corrupt, far left politicians & celebrities from California trying to dictate their agenda in other states…

[BobaFett1]

I have a problem with corrupt, far left politicians & celebrities from California trying to dictate their agenda in other states…

Sportcamper I agree with you on that. I have no issue with folks owning a AR 15 but what is wrong with a background check?

[Sportcamper]

Sportcamper I agree with you on that. I have no issue with folks owning a AR 15 but what is wrong with a background check?

I am for states rights…Cali has a BG check & 15 day waiting period on all firearms…You cannot buy a handgun without a pre gun safety certificate…You can’t even get a firearm in Chicago…Two states with the deadliest gun violence…Now the corrupt politicians from Cali, Illinois & New York want to tell people from Texas, Montana or Alaska how they should run things…Gun laws only effect people who play by the rules…The bad guys will always get around BG checks…

Cali used to be the 5th largest economy in the world…Corrupt politicians have voted themselves fat pensions, pay raises & have driven business to other states… Cali, Illinois & New York are broke yet we should listen to these politicians who have run their states into the ground?

For the record Dianne Feinstein purchased an UZI in the 1980’s…She is guarded by an entourage armed with fully automatic weapons…It is all a farce…

[Th'Pusher]

Cali used to be the 5th largest economy in the world…Corrupt politicians have voted themselves fat pensions, pay raises & have driven business to other states… Cali, Illinois & New York are broke yet we should listen to these politicians who have run their states into the ground…

You don't think prop 13 has anything to do with the financial shape California is in? The blame does not solely rest on politicians and big bad government. That was a direct ballot measure voted on by the citizens of California.

[Sportcamper]

You don't think prop 13 has anything to do with the financial shape California is in? The blame does not solely rest on politicians and big bad government. That was a direct ballot measure voted on by the citizens of California.

Perhaps you do not understand Prop 13…Corrupt politicians were throwing widows out of their homes and then offering them welfare…

[Th'Pusher]

Perhaps you do not understand Prop 13…Corrupt politicians were throwing widows out of their homes and then offering them welfare…

Ah yes. More government boogie man rhetoric. No responsibly or accountably for the people who voted to approve the measure.

[Sportcamper]

A person who purchased a home in 1960 & had a payment of $200.00 dollars per month was being taxed in 1977 @ $400.00 per month to pay for Politicians pay raises & Non Funded State & City Pensions…U have bad understanding…

[Th'Pusher]

A person who purchased a home in 1960 & had a payment of $200.00 dollars per month was being taxed in 1977 @ $400.00 per month to pay for Politicians pay raises & Non Funded State & City Pensions…U have bad understanding…

I have bad understanding? This is such a ridiculous oversimplification of the drivers of California's financial issues it's not really worth discussing.

[DUNCANownsKOBE]

ppl thinking the USA will give up any gun rights

USA will give up and is giving up pretty much every other right before giving up right to own guns. Free speech? gone. Free internet? soon to be gone. Free to make bank transactions? partly gone and going soon. Free to travel without patdown? gone.

How good is a gun when you pretty much gave up everything else?

truth bombs. There's no reason why Obama would try to take guns away when he's been able to strip people of other fundamental cons utional rights that people think they still have because their gun protects it! Gun control is a debate that's been settled in this country way before Obama became president. Having a gun debate is nothing but dancing in circles distracting Americans from issues that actually matter (like 1st amendment rights and 4th amendment rights for example).

[leemajors]

truth bombs. There's no reason why Obama would try to take guns away when he's been able to strip people of other fundamental cons utional rights that people think they still have because their gun protects it! Gun control is a debate that's been settled in this country way before Obama became president. Having a gun debate is nothing but dancing in circles distracting Americans from issues that actually matter (like 1st amendment rights and 4th amendment rights for example).

[boutons_deux]

Courageous Senators Stand Up to American People


In the halls of the United States Senate, dozens of Senators congratulated themselves today for having what one of them called “the courage and grit to stand up to the overwhelming wishes of the American people.”

“We kept hearing, again and again, that ninety per cent of the American people wanted us to vote a certain way,” said Senate Minority Leader Mitch
McConnell (R-Kentucky). “Well, at the end of the day, we decided that we weren’t going to cave in to that kind of special-interest group.”

“It was a gut check, for sure, but we had to draw a line in the sand,” agreed Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S. Carolina).

“If we had voted the way the American people wanted us to, it would have sent the message that we’re here in Washington to be nothing more than their elected representatives.”

Calling yesterday’s Senate action “a bipartisan effort,” Senator Mark Pryor (D-Arkansas) said, “This proves that on a matter that affects the safety of every man, woman, and child in the nation, we can reach across the aisle to defy the interests of all of them.”

Senator McConnell agreed that yesterday’s vote “sent a powerful message,” adding, “If the American people think that just because they voted us into office and pay our salaries, benefits, and pensions, we are somehow obliged to listen to them, they are sorely mistaken.”


http://www.newyorker.com/online/blog...tz%20%28109%29


The plutocrat s in govt are owned by corps/finance/1% whose vote$$ are the only ones counted.

[CosmicCowboy]

90%



Obama got his pushed yesterday.

Get over it, Boutons....

[Th'Pusher]

90%



Obama got his pushed yesterday.

Get over it, Boutons....

I get that you don't support background checks, but why would you cheer that the will of the American people can be so easily thwarted by special interests? Do you think federal background checks are uncons utional?

[CosmicCowboy]

Saying it doesn't make it true.

[TSA]

I get that you don't support background checks, but why would you cheer that the will of the American people can be so easily thwarted by special interests? Do you think federal background checks are uncons utional?

Although I am for stricter background checks, that 90% in favor of background checks figure Obama was throwing around was complete bull , just like his 40% of gun sales done without background check.

[Th'Pusher]

Although I am for stricter background checks, that 90% in favor of background checks figure Obama was throwing around was complete bull , just like his 40% of gun sales done without background check.

Can you explain whats wrong with the polls that show support is at 90% instead of just saying the number is bull ?

[CosmicCowboy]

Can you explain whats wrong with the polls that show support is at 90% instead of just saying the number is bull ?

Can you tell us what the EXACT poll question was?

[Th'Pusher]

Can you tell us what the EXACT poll question was?

Do you support or oppose requiring background checks for all gun buyers?

http://www.quinnipiac.edu/ins utes...ReleaseID=1847

92% support.

[CosmicCowboy]

read question 40

[CosmicCowboy]

Whose position on guns do you support? Obama's or the NRA?

Obama 43%
NRA 46%

[Th'Pusher]

read question 40

That has nothing to do with background checks. Why is it bull to say 90% of Americans want universal background checks?

[BobaFett1]

That has nothing to do with background checks. Why is it bull to say 90% of Americans want universal background checks?

CosmicCowboy is having selective reading.

[BobaFett1]

Courageous Senators Stand Up to American People


In the halls of the United States Senate, dozens of Senators congratulated themselves today for having what one of them called “the courage and grit to stand up to the overwhelming wishes of the American people.”

“We kept hearing, again and again, that ninety per cent of the American people wanted us to vote a certain way,” said Senate Minority Leader Mitch
McConnell (R-Kentucky). “Well, at the end of the day, we decided that we weren’t going to cave in to that kind of special-interest group.”

“It was a gut check, for sure, but we had to draw a line in the sand,” agreed Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S. Carolina).

“If we had voted the way the American people wanted us to, it would have sent the message that we’re here in Washington to be nothing more than their elected representatives.”

Calling yesterday’s Senate action “a bipartisan effort,” Senator Mark Pryor (D-Arkansas) said, “This proves that on a matter that affects the safety of every man, woman, and child in the nation, we can reach across the aisle to defy the interests of all of them.”

Senator McConnell agreed that yesterday’s vote “sent a powerful message,” adding, “If the American people think that just because they voted us into office and pay our salaries, benefits, and pensions, we are somehow obliged to listen to them, they are sorely mistaken.”


http://www.newyorker.com/online/blog...tz%20%28109%29


The plutocrat s in govt are owned by corps/finance/1% whose vote$$ are the only ones counted.

Senator McConnell is out of touch. Old ing fart.

[CosmicCowboy]

That has nothing to do with background checks. Why is it bull to say 90% of Americans want universal background checks?

of course it does. Does the NRA support background checks?

[Th'Pusher]

of course it does. Does the NRA support background checks?

Not in the form of the bill that failed yesterday, but what is your point? The poll I posted showed 92% of Americans support background checks for ALL gun buyers. The bill that failed yesterday, which both you an the NRA are celebrating, would have expanded background checks. You are celebrating special intersts thwarting the will of the people because you agree with those special interests. Just call a spade a spade dude.