I would not put it past the GOP-E to cave. Their track record for courage is nil. Ditto principle.
BS. People need to be PISSED and to FRET and to get MAD, and to protest vigorously AND HOLD THEM ALL ACCOUNTABLE. Stamp Act circa 1772 MAD.
I went to a gun shop yesterday. Madhouse. This shop is perhaps the highest rated in the state. Reminded me of the Fenway T station after a Sox game. It was, literally, impossible to move, with a line out the door. They had advertised a Ruger rifle online and I managed to get the last one of the basic model. The staff couldn’t move for the jam and had to wait in corners behind the counter until someone else moved, like those little puzzles in which you move small plastic squares until you get one square from one point to another after moving all the others out of the way. It took 50 minutes to buy anything. Ammo was mostly sold-out. Used firearms were three times the price of a year ago. Obama is the best gun salesman in US history. It was an hour of getting your feet stepped on and being jostled about. The parking lot was overflowing into an adjacent one of a printing company. Will be interesting to see the public response if Obama gets his gun-grab through Congress.
p.s. And we can all put to rest the fantasy of the pro-gun, conservative Democrat, thanks to Manchin.
Never another dime to the Gutless Ornamental Pussies
All I needed to know about Pat Toomey I learned the night of the Rand Paul filibuster. While other R Senators took their turn at microphone giving long, drawn out, anecdotal questions that went on and on (giving Sen. Paul a breather) my “conservative” Senator, Pat Toomey, hurried thru what seemed to less than a one minute query—so quick was his question that when the camera went back on Rand Paul he looked stunned (like, “come on...that’s all you got?).
I pointed that out on the live FR thread (gee, he seems awfully hurried!) when it was revealed that Turncoat Toomey was one of the Senators “dining w/Soetaro” that night...and that he was rushing for his “date” a few of PA FReepers were slammed for challenging Toomey’s trustworthiness BECAUSE Toomey has the highest conservative rating in the Senate, blah blah blah.
So Toomey’s “high conservative rating” means about as much as Manchin’s “NRA A rating.” NOTHING!!! As they both are writing legislation supporting exactly what they both have been endorsed to support.
Maybe after another “romantic dinner with Dear Leader these two heavily “endorsed” Senators can get together and finish off the coal industry
Well I just watched their little presser and the bill they want to pass basically is nothing more than what we already have in place. Unless there is a little paragraph in there they are not telling us about.
Internet sales already require a background check as do gun show sales so maybe they are doing this just to shut the left up. If so I will also shut up. I’m still waiting to hear what Rand Paul and Ted Cruz say about it.
I don’t want crazies or criminals owning guns but I don’t want the government having a registry of all gun owners which is what background checks amount to. Moreover, since criminals and crazies will find a way to get a gun regardless of the background checks — i.e., they’ll just steal one from somebody — the expansion of background checks upon more law-abiding Americans is just another creeping step of Big Brother into our lives.
Internet sales? I don’t believe you can buy a gun on the internet without going through a dealer. Have I been missing something or is some legislator or perhaps a reporter ignorant?
What I am afraid of more than Background checks is expensive permits, licenses, taxes on firearms. What they will do is make firearms so expensive, half of the people could’nt afford to keep firearms. That to me is a direct violation of 2nd Amendment.
The 1st Amendment does not have any restrictions, taxes, permits. Why should the 2nd Amendment have restrictions.
it’s hard for me to see why background checks are so bad to be honest.
But, simply for the potential of abuse I oppose expanded checks.
That said, any bill would be significantly changed in the House. No need to freak out about the Senate.
Manchin is a low-life POS. But then we all knew he is a democrat. Toomey is a lower form of life. One can only hope that neither of them ever again holds public office.
The House should pass legislation requiring grade schools to practice security protocols twice monthly.
