Democrats end sit-in on gun control

thehill.com ^ | June 23, 2016 | Cristina Marcos and Mike Lillis

[PROCON]

Democrats ended their sit-in on the House floor shortly after 1 p.m. on Thursday afternoon, after more than 24 hours of stalling proceedings to call for action on gun-control legislation.

Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) spoke while surrounded by his Democratic colleagues to close the protest, which lasted through the night after beginning shortly after 11:30 a.m. Wednesday.

"We must come back on July 5 more determined than ever before," Lewis declared in anticipation of the House's return date after the Independence Day recess.

Democrats planned to hold a rally on the Capitol steps after ending the sit-in, but what their next move is remains unclear.

Dozens of leaders and senior party members spilled out of a whip meeting on Thursday afternoon saying they intend to press for gun reform votes, but there did not seem to be a definitive plan for doing so.

[Billthedrill]

I’ve forgotten who first said it, but it’s true - Lewis, you used to sit in to protect people’s rights and now you’re sitting in to take them away. And that about sums up the entire story of the Democrat party.

[TigersEye]

The DemoRats have been pushing for gun control for decades.
This is how it has been working out for them.

• The percentage of Americans who own guns has increased.
• The percentage of Americans who believe we have a right to own guns has increased.
• The number of guns owned per gun owner has increased.
• The amount of ammunition possessed per gun owner has increased.
• Concealed carry laws have spread from state to state like wildfire.
• Castle Doctrine laws have been passed in numerous states.
• Stand Your Ground laws have been passed in many states.
• Gun rights lobbying groups have become a cottage industry unto themselves.
• In the worst economy since the Great Depression the firearms industry can't keep up with orders or expand fast enough.
• 65.4 Million Guns Bought Since Obama Took Office, 91% More Than Bush's First-Term Total 2/12/2013
• 46,455 Background Checks For Gun Purchases Each Day Under Obama 5/3/2013

And in the last two months... (Nov. 2012 and Dec. 2012)

• Americans Buy Enough Guns in Last Two Months to Outfit the Entire Chinese and Indian Armies 1/14/2013
• NRA membership has increased by 250,000. (Jan. 2013)

And it continues...

• NRA Surges to Record 5 Million Members (May 4, 2013)

And there is more...

• FBI Report: Early 2013 Crime Decrease Coincides with Gun Sales Boom

And more...

• FBI: March 2014 Was Biggest March in Gun Background Check History
  ...the raw data shows "2,488,842 total background checks
  were performed in March 2014."

And yet more...

• Gun sales spike in June (highest June sales since 1999) July 7, 2015
  Background checks for gun sales spiked 11% in June compared to last year, making it the busiest June ever,...

And more and more and...

• FBI data shows record number of September gun sales October 10, 2015
  FBI's National Instant Background Check System shows gun sales hit a record high for the fifth month in a row with 1,795,102 prospective gun owners processed in September.

We just keep buyin' more...

• Gun Sales Set Record for Sixth Month in a Row Sales for October 2015

And we bought more more more...

• Record for U.S. Gun Background Checks Set on Black Friday 12/3/2015

And more and more and more...

• 2015: The Year of the Gun (All time record number of background checks processed) 1/4/2016
  More than 23 million checks were processed through the National Instant Background Check System in 2015, an all-time record.

KEEP FLAPPIN' YOUR LIPS, DEMOCRATS! WE'LL BUY MILLIONS MORE. ;-)

[Celerity]

Of course they wouldn’t miss out on their vacation. It’s like protesting by staying “late at work one night” to the exhausting time of 5:01 pm

These people have no backbone. Sitting must have been hard on them.

[Biggirl]

This sit-in is now the old news and buried in the sands of time.

[PROCON]

Bump, good info, thanks!

[McGruff]

[Uncle Miltie]

Did they get their wittle feewing hurt?

Better go home and cry to mommy.

[NEMDF]

They no doubt had planes to catch. It was Thursday afternoon, after all.

[TigersEye]

My pleasure. Let them run on gun control. Ask Big Algore how that works.

[PROCON]

"We Must Ban Guns to Stop Global Warming."

[VRWC For Truth]

[Piranha]

I hope you are right.

[Red in Blue PA]

They want to take away our guns as we are being attacked by muslims.

Let em run with it in the general election.

Its a winning message!

Fixed it.

[TigersEye]

No, Al, we must improve our care of the mentally ill.

[showme_the_Glory]

Tired of sitting on their azz. We pay these people. Sickening.

[reg45]

Without guns there would be no Independence Day (4th of July).
We would still be governed from London, England.

[ozzymandus]

Children throwing a tantrum.

[School of Rational Thought]

There was also face painting at some of the drum circles.

[skimbell]

Yep.

A 16 hour circle-jerk.

What happened to the no bill-no vote horsechit? This whole thing was over the democrats getting to vote on a bill that the Senate had already defeated.

And then today, after swearing on a stack of Korans that they were staying until they got to vote, they pack up and go home saying that "by god when they get back it's going to be different."

B.S.

Ryan better get his act together though and slam these scumbags when they show up again or he's going to get a steady diet of this.

That kind of rep doesn't do much for political aspirations or his legacy as SotH.