Posted on 04/28/2013 2:30:54 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Vice President Joe Biden joined Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) at a forum hosted by the McCain Institute in Arizona Friday, where the pair discussed the recently defeated gun-control measure.
Biden told the crowd that last year’s massacre at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., has changed American attitudes about guns, even though the Senate rejected legislation to expand background checks on gun purchases.
“Newtown was, to sort of use that old cliche, the straw that that broke the camel’s back,” Biden said, according to the Arizona Republic. “There was a fundamental change, in my opinion, in public attitudes about guns. It wasn’t marginal — it was real.”
Biden joined the Arizona senator for the McCain Institute’s Sedona Forum, the second annual gathering the think tank has hosted in Sedona, Ariz., since its creation last year.
McCain and Biden are friends from the Senate, and Biden's lobbying has been partially credited with convincing McCain to cross party lines and back the Senate’s bill.
Speaking alongside McCain, Biden said that the public is looking for some way to respond to last year’s mass shooting....
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The way I heard that was they don’t have sense enough to pour piss out of a boot with a hole in the toe and directions on the heel./ LOL
I know, we have discussed McFruitcake here, in this forum, at length.
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