Senate rejects all four gun control measures

Posted by | June 20, 2016 19:40 | Filed under: News Behaving Badly Politics

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The Republican Senate continues to exhibit cowardice on guns.

Spurred by the worst mass shooting in U.S. history, senators from each party introduced the measures they said would have strengthened background checks and prevented suspected terrorists from obtaining weapons.

But tough election year politics, paired with disputes over the effectiveness of each party’s ideas, proved too powerful to break the longstanding partisan gridlock that’s surrounded gun issues for years.

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51 responses to Senate rejects all four gun control measures

  1. nola878 June 20th, 2016 at 19:43

    No surprise here…

  2. Gina Bousquet June 20th, 2016 at 19:44

    As could be expected, unfortunately.

  3. Suzanne McFly June 20th, 2016 at 19:48

    We need to go onto the mountain tops and scream thru blow horns how the weak republicans haven’t had enough deaths caused by these weapons even though over 70% of Americans support some form of gun control.

    • anothertoothpick June 20th, 2016 at 21:42

      Viet Nam made it perfectly clear that the ordinary citizens have no way to reach its government.

      Not even by civil disobedience or mass demonstration.

      • Mensa Member June 20th, 2016 at 21:51

        That was the lesson you took from the (successful!) anti-Vietnam war movement?

      • Gina Bousquet June 20th, 2016 at 22:30

        I had always thought of the movement as a successful influence in ending the war…

        • Budda June 21st, 2016 at 06:13

          It took a while but it produced several outcomes; elimination of the draft for one.

          • Gina Bousquet June 21st, 2016 at 08:12

            That’s right! I had forgotten that important outcome.

      • Suzanne McFly June 21st, 2016 at 09:38

        It took time but eventually I believe our voices were heard. With all the bureaucracy, time is the enemy and patience is a virtue.

        • anothertoothpick June 21st, 2016 at 10:21

          Hi Suzanne.

          You see this is exactly my point about “ordinary citizens have no way to reach its government.”

          It was Nixon who withdrew from Viet Nam, right?

          It was Nixon that invented the war on drugs because he hated the “hippies” (liberal left).

          Nixon was so full of hate he had an “enemies list” chock full of lefties.

          No body will ever convince me that Nixon would ever listen to the anti war left.

          So let me ask you this;

          Did the protestors stop LBJ from carpet bombing? Napalm dropping?

          The protestors did not stop one bullet from being fired in Nam.

          Did the protestors force (Kent State happened ten days after Nixon announced his Cambodia campaign) stop Nixon escalating the war?

          I am not “anti protesting”. But the government has learned how to make protesting ineffective ever since the “Earth Day” demonstrations.

          Alright, that is my take on this. There is too much to argue here and if I go further I am afraid I will get DELETED again.

          • Suzanne McFly June 21st, 2016 at 15:09

            I know it seems as if the protesters were not listened to, but Nixon was impeached. Do you believe it was just because he was listening in on the democrats? No, the republicans got tired of defending him and without Kennedy, LBJ would of never been President. Our voices are heard, you can’t expect immediate change. That would be more dangerous and lead to much more instability than the government we have right now.

            • anothertoothpick June 21st, 2016 at 15:52

              Hi again Suzanne.

              I guess I am too cynical.

              But you have a very good argument.

              I will say this though, The repubs hated Nixon as much or more than today’s repubs hate trump.

              And both Nixon and trump where buddies with Roy Cohn.

              MMMmmmmmmm???

  4. amersham46 June 20th, 2016 at 19:58

    The American people on one side , special interest groups on the other side
    again the GOP Congress did not side with the people

    • CHOCOL8MILK June 20th, 2016 at 20:18

      Too much money in it for them to restrict their cash cow.

  5. whatthe46 June 20th, 2016 at 20:13

    i have a question for anyone and everyone, who is a family member or friend to any of the 99 victims of Pulse, if any of them are repukes and if they agree with this b.s. because clearly, the repukes don’t give a damn. they didn’t give a damn about the victims of Sandy Hook, and now this. it will take, taking out repukes at the RNC convention for them to think about and even then maybe, agreeing to any form of gun control measures. Dear Americans, we are bought and paid for by the NRA, so screw you, i don’t know the victims.

  6. Budda June 20th, 2016 at 20:20

    At the next mass killing ( unfortunately, I believe there will be one) all those that voted against these measures should be held accountable…on TV and news media everywhere.

    • granpa.usthai June 20th, 2016 at 20:22

      why not call ’em out now?

      at the next mass shooting, people will be more apt to remember their names if they come up again
      and again
      and again.

    • Jimmy Fleck June 21st, 2016 at 16:14

      Does that include all of the Democrats that voted against two of the measures? They can’t get exactly what they want so instead they vote for nothing? How does that help?

  7. granpa.usthai June 20th, 2016 at 20:23

    BE SAFE

    GO NUCLEAR

    it’s clearly your 2nd Amendment Right
    that cannot be infringed upon.

  8. Foundryman June 20th, 2016 at 20:49

    The one and only way to see any type of gun control bills get through is to get rid of the murder supporting republicans.

    • crc3 June 20th, 2016 at 21:20

      Ratify the 2nd Amendment…

      • Mensa Member June 20th, 2016 at 21:26

        “Ratify” might not mean what you think it does.

  9. Mensa Member June 20th, 2016 at 21:10

    Do you think they would have passed a gun safety law if the dead had been 49 Republican Congressmen rather than 49 gay Latinos?

    • CHOCOL8MILK June 20th, 2016 at 21:25

      Or their family members? We’ve seen that unless these politicians are impacted personally, they don’t care.

      • Mensa Member June 20th, 2016 at 21:28

        >> unless these politicians are impacted personally, they don’t care.

        That’s a signature personality trait of conservatives.

  10. crc3 June 20th, 2016 at 21:19

    The NRA sure is shoveling a lot of money into the pockets of our fine and upstanding gun loving Congressmen (dripping with sarcasm). Shameful is a nice word for their inaction. Treason would be more accurate…

  11. Mensa Member June 20th, 2016 at 21:30

    Why do Republicans love the terrorists?

    • Ed VanDyke June 20th, 2016 at 21:37

      Because TorRies’ voters are motivated, controlled through FEAR. And we’re rapidly running out of things to be legitimately afraid of. It’s not like the good ol’ days when industrialized superpowers had nuclear missiles pointed at us. Warlords living in caves on the other side of the planet are tough to keep portraying as a threat. So let’s let everyone believe they could be among us with assault rifles… ;)

      • Mensa Member June 20th, 2016 at 21:50

        I think you had some good points in your post but I’m not sure.

        Are you saying the GOP _wants_ domestic terrorists armed so that their voting base will be afraid.

        • Ed VanDyke June 20th, 2016 at 21:58

          The alternatives being either that they’re hopelessly under the thumb of arms dealers, or they’re hopelessly idiotic to the point that they’re legally “brain dead”… I was trying to give them some benefit of doubt… :)

          • Mensa Member June 20th, 2016 at 22:05

            GOP leaders are disgustingly self-serving and cowardly.

            They are terrified that the NRA might primary them. Does it matter that America’s children are being slaughtered? Not as much as their fat government paychecks, obviously.

            • Ed VanDyke June 20th, 2016 at 22:16

              They’re running out of time to find something of which to be afraid, keep their offices, and those checks coming. Remember when friggin’ EBOLA won the mid-terms??? Zika isn’t scary enough, and even mass-shootings are officially “humdrum”…. It’s going to take a transgender Muslim in a hijab , in a women’s bathroom, with an assault rifle to get the base fired-up… :)

    • Jimmy Fleck June 21st, 2016 at 16:07

      If there are known terrorists in the country then one- why were they admitted into the country and two – why have they not been arrested for their crimes?

      However, if all we have are people legally here that have broken no laws then why should a government agency have the ability to limit their constitutional rights with no due process for the person? The fact that our government can simply put people on a list that restricts their freedoms without convicting them of a crime in a court of law is simply ridiculous. It flies in the face of the freedoms and laws our country was founded upon.

  12. Ed VanDyke June 20th, 2016 at 21:31

    Sooo……Did Senate votes depend on how much money they’ve received from [gun lobby]? Or were were such bills advanced merely to inspire more [gun lobby] contributions, going into the election ‘High Season’??? If the FEC could facilitate a little more transparency, revealing timelines, sources for “contributions”, maybe we could infer exactly who was turning the screws on whom….

  13. jybarz June 20th, 2016 at 21:50

    Not surprised at all that repukes voted against, but would be so pissed off of any Dems voted with them.

    • Mensa Member June 20th, 2016 at 21:52

      If even one Dem voted with them, they’d blame the “bi-partisan” vote to arm the terrorists after the next terrorist attack.

      You know, they way they blame Hillary for the Iraq War debacle.

  14. Mensa Member June 20th, 2016 at 21:55

    Message to CHOCOL8MILK:

    Have you ever had “drinking chocolate”? I had my first for Father’s Day, yesterday. I didn’t even know it existed. It’s like chocolate espresso, served in a dinky little cup.

  15. robert June 20th, 2016 at 22:13

    none of their family members have been victims yet

  16. Warman1138 June 20th, 2016 at 23:11

    Figures, same old, same old.

  17. alpacadaddy June 20th, 2016 at 23:48

    F’ing cowards! each one! A living embodiment of political corruption at it worst!

  18. oldfart June 21st, 2016 at 00:53

    Term limits, the sooner the better.
    If we cant stop the money flow,
    limit how long it goes on.

    • amongoose June 21st, 2016 at 14:28

      Problem is every time a state passes term limits they are struck down.

      Professional politicians vote for their interests not ours.
      They also defeated a bill (Bi-Partisan) to eliminate the indefinite detention in the NDAA.

      The amendment was defeated.

      http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/244847-cruz-paul-push-for-indefinite-detention-ban

      Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Rand Paul (R-Ky.), both of whom are running for president, have joined up with other senators to introduce an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), currently before the Senate, that would ban indefinite detention of U.S. citizens or legal permanent residents, without being charged or given a trial, unless authorized by Congress.
      Sens. Mike Lee (R-Utah), Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) also put their names on the provision.

  19. StoneyCurtisll June 21st, 2016 at 03:18

    Once again Samantha Bee nails it…
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M4qHzd3xfM

  20. William June 21st, 2016 at 07:44

    Spread their shame. http://www.nracongress.com/all-nra-recipients.html

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