Posted on 06/18/2013 2:17:36 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday, seeking to revive efforts to pass gun-reform legislation in Congress, warned lawmakers opposed to reform that Americans aren't on their side.
"The country has changed" since the deadly shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., Biden said during remarks delivered on Tuesday afternoon in the White House's South Court auditorium. Lawmakers "will pay a pricea political price ... for not getting engaged and dealing with gun safety."
Two months after the Senate failed to support the expansion of background checks for gun purchasers despite intense pressure from the administration, victims rights groups and others, the White House announced on Tuesday that the issue remains a top priority for the administration and its supporters in Congress and elsewhere.
"This fight isnt over. Far from it," Biden said.
Before Biden's remarks, the White House, in an attempt to demonstrate commitment to the issue of reducing gun violence, announced on Tuesday that the administration has completed or made progressBiden later described it as "major progress"on 21 out of 23 executive actions. The actions were produced by a gun violence task force the vice president led after the Newtown shooting and were issued by President Barack Obama in January.....
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Exactly -- where's the punishment for any that were involved on the pro side for even having made the attempt?
Do you mean like the Democrats “paid” in the special election in the 53 Assembly district in Connecticut won by a pro Second Amendment Republican last week, Plugs?
But, but... Joe Biden told us Americans werren't on our side....
Those links are really great for enlightening those who innocently claim, “I got nuthin to hide,” especially the Paul Revere one. Thanks for posting.
I work with a lovely young man who just doesn’t get it that government can be and ours is actively evil at this point.
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