The Bill is already dead. The Bill will get to the floor, then killed with amendments.
Even if it does pass is some form, it will be watered down in the House and essentially neutered by conference.
The end result will either a total defeat by libs or a piece of legislation that no one really likes.
Redstate dems will have to explain to their ‘moderate’ base why they voted for GC and to their ‘left’ base why they did not do enough. The Dems have blown this.
Geez, I hope you're right.
If there is a silver lining to this anti-liberty leftwing crusade, it is that the Red State Democrats will PAY for this when they're up for re-election.
But I'm not an optimist anymore...
“The Bill is already dead.”
Nobody would waste time on a bill that is already dead. Conservatives need to fight against this bill every step of the way.
There’s a lot of support for gun control out there and the filibuster is probably the last line of defense. FYI, Boehner already folded and wants to take ‘action’.
I tend to agree. I can’t see how this garbage has any chance of passing in the GOP controlled House of Representatives. Even many Democrats in the House would have trouble explaining a vote for this gun grabbing in the next election.
While I’d prefer it gets fillibustered and doesn’t even have a chance to go any further, I think it might actually be better to force a lot of Red state and pro-gun leaning swing state Democrat Senators to vote for this political poison and then pay the price in 2014 and 2016.
As unpopular as new gun control is now, by 2014, the memory of Newton will have faded and the gun grabbers will no longer be able to stand on the corpses of the dead children and exploit their tragic deaths to push their anti-American agenda.