Biden warns Congress on gun reform: ‘You will pay a price’

Yahoo! News ^ | June 18, 2013 | Rachel Rose Hartman

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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 price—a 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 isn’t 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 progress—Biden 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.....

[Still Thinking]

attempting to nullify any part of the original Constitution by a ANY POLITICIAN should result in their immediate removal and barring them from public office for life. Oh, they also lose all of their perks, etc.

Exactly -- where's the punishment for any that were involved on the pro side for even having made the attempt?

[jmaroneps37]

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?

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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.

But, but... Joe Biden told us Americans werren't on our side....

[Titan Magroyne]

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.