Washington Post Column: Why the assault weapons ban is (probably) going nowhere

Washington Post ^ | 01/29/2013 | Aaron Blake

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FROM HOTAIR:

http://hotair.com/archives/2013/01/29/wapo-assault-weapons-ban-is-probably-doa/

NBC read the writing on the wall, too:

Getting an outright ban through a divided Congress in the face of opposition from the National Rifle Association and other groups is unlikely, and the fight is likely to focus on other measures, like the background checks and limits on magazine size.

Biden’s comments came hours after Senate Democrats, led by California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, displayed various assault weapons at a Capitol Hill press conference. Feinstein introduced legislation Thursday to ban 158 specific types of those guns.

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SEE ALSO HERE:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-25/assault-weapons-ban-lacks-democratic-votes-to-pass-senate.html

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Assault Weapons Ban Lacks Democratic Votes to Pass Senate

[Sacajaweau]

These so-called assault rifles that everyone is screaming about is just of a different design of past weapons but are still...one pull=one bullet.

People (mostly women) think they're friggin' machine guns...'cuz they saw 3 minutes of Rambo!!

[chris37]

Never underestimate the cowardice of the GOP.

[muawiyah]

It's unlikely the Democrats would buy into a prohibition on illegal aliens owning, possessing or using firearms ~ particularly if that were dressed out as a FELONY.

To get a head start on the Democrats I'd be introducing such a bill in the House of Representatives right now ~ get them to VOTE DOWN THE FIRST GUN CONTROL LEGISLATION BROUGHT TO A VOTE AFTER NEWTOWN.

NOTE: Peeps who are here without the specific consent of the United States are here unlawfully, so it's like they really aren't here ~ no visa, no visita ~ so they wouldn't be covered under the Second.

[technically right]

I hate to spoil their fun but my bet is that Di Fi goes 0 for 3 on this one.

[MrB]

Folks, the DiFi bill wasn’t intended to “go anywhere”.

It was intended to be the most egregious piece of infringement possible in order to get you to accept the “compromise bill” that’s coming.

[muawiyah]

maybe, but DiFi obsesses day and night about firearms. She wouldn’t pass a mental fitness test these days ~ no dealer would sell that nutcase a firearm.

[DJ MacWoW]

In 1941, U.S. Attorney General Robert Jackson called on Congress to enact national registration of all firearms. Given events in Europe, Congress recoiled, and legislation was introduced to protect the Second Amendment. Rep. Edwin Arthur Hall explained: "Before the advent of Hitler or Stalin, who took power from the German and Russian people, measures were thrust upon the free legislatures of those countries to deprive the people of the possession and use of firearms, so that they could not resist the encroachments of such diabolical and vitriolic state police organizations as the Gestapo, the Ogpu, and the Cheka."

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Rep. John W. Patman added: "The people have a right to keep arms; therefore, if we should have some Executive who attempted to set himself up as dictator or king, the people can organize themselves together and, with the arms and ammunition they have, they can properly protect themselves. . . ."

[mrsmel]

This only means that we need to be carefully waching what the other hand is doing. It’s a common tactic for the left to throw something outrageous out there so that while people are focussing on that, they can quietly get on with the business of passing other, less “controversial” legislation, such as a national database, or other “bureaucratic” sounding legislation. Later on, when the frog (the American people) have become used to the temperature turned up one more degree, out they come again with the other stuff. They never stop, they never give in, they only stall for time and take one step backwards in order to to take 3 steps forward later after all the attention has gone elsewhere. Just look how they’ve managed things exactly that way with amnesty and the sodomite agenda.

[mrsmel]

Bingo!

[jjm2111]

“While there was arguably more impetus for gun control after Newtown than there has been in years,...”

Yeah, by the media. Talk about astroturf.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Universal background checks are unacceptable, too. It is noting more than a way for the government to fill in the gaps of their illegal database.

[Little Ray]

Or their ability to yank a defeat out of victory!

[T-Bird45]

It was intended to be the most egregious piece of infringement possible in order to get you to accept the “compromise bill” that’s coming.

This is the perspective we all need to start from and clearly state to any and all who will listen (Senators, Reps, NRA, etc.) that NO COMPROMISE is acceptable because it only encourages them to come back later. Everything about DiFi's bill is egregious and needs to go down in flames.

[chris37]

Victory, or any form thereof, musr be avoided at all costs.

[MrB]

It’s time to not accept any of the left’s “reasonable gun control” rhetoric.

We don’t care if you think this is “reasonable”. We know your goal is a total ban on privately owned firearms, and we’re not going to let you “incremental” us into it.

GTH.

[Tzimisce]

Don’t worry, it’ll never pass the House. - Oct 09
Don’t worry, it’ll never pass the Senate. - Dec 09
Don’t worry, it’ll never pass the Congress. - Mar 10
Don’t worry, the Courts will never uphold it. - June 12

- The smartest people in the room discussing Obamacare.....

[Ancesthntr]

This is a good argument for why there should be no more compromises AT ALL - EVER: http://thelawdogfiles.blogspot.com/2013/01/a-repost.html