Posted on 06/16/2016 5:17:17 AM PDT by Carriage Hill
Senate Democrats ended a nearly 15-hour filibuster early Thursday after Republican Party leaders reportedly agreed to allow votes on two proposed gun control measures.
Sen. Chris Murphy, a Democrat from Connecticut, said that a compromise had been reached. Votes would be held on whether to ban people on the government's terrorist watch list from obtaining gun licenses and whether to expand background checks to gun shows and internet sales, he added.
"We did not have that commitment when we started today," Murphy said.
The nonstop series of speeches stretched 14 hours and 50 minutes. It followed the shooting massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando.
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Time to call your elected sinator. TODAY!
I thought everything was suppose to come from the House?
obama will step up the frequency of terrorist attacks to get it in before he leaves
The camel’s nose is under the tent. Obama and Sorors are clinking their glasses together somewhere out there. Obama will get his bonus commission after all.
The lying effers say that isn’t their intention but we know better. No touchdown for them. Hold the line.
Hillary’s numbers started going south so the RINOs caved. They shoulda let the Rats filibuster right up to November. In fact they should have dared them to.
Yep. The staged shooting unit is going on standby. They just have to coerce terrorists to act up for a few more months.
Everything regarding expenditure of funds has to originate in the house. This is stripping away rights so either body can originate it.
I thought gun shows and internet sales already utilize background checks?
The Democrats are thinking that 50 dead people was now justified. They would have been happier with 100 but they will take what they can get
“No freeman shall ever be debarred the use of arms
[within his own lands or tenements].” (The Papers of
Thomas Jefferson 344 (J. Boyd ed. 1950)).
“When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.”
Thomas Jefferson (attributed without source)
“A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercise, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball and others of that nature are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks.”
Thomas Jefferson’s advice to his 15 year-old nephew
“Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to life, secondly to liberty, thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.”
Samuel Adams
“The said Constitution [shall] be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms.”
Samuel Adams of Massachusetts — U.S. Constitution ratification convention, 1788
“(The Constitution preserves) the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation...(where) the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.”
James Madison, The Federalist Number 46
Arms in the hands of individual citizens [may] be used at individual discretion...in private self-defense...”
John Adams, A Defense of the Constitution of Government of the United States of America, 1788
“Arms in the hands of the citizens may be used at individual discretion for the defense of the country, the overthrow of tyranny or private self-defense.”
John Adams (1735-1826) Founding Father, 2nd US President
“The best we can hope for concerning the people at large, is that they be properly armed.”
Alexander Hamilton
“The right of self-defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals.”
President James Monroe (November 16, 1818)
“A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government.”
George Washington
“I ask sir, what is the militia? It is the whole body of the people except for a few public officials. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them...”
George Mason
“Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! - I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”
Patrick Henry
“Are we at least brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in our possession and under our own direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?”
Patrick Henry, 3 Elliot Debates 168-169.
“Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom in Europe.”
Noah Webster – Author of America’s first dictionary. It is interesting to note, to this day, most of the Citizens of Europe are not allowed firearms except for hunting, and those are limited greatly.
“The balance of power is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world not destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside ... Horrid mischief would ensue were one half the world deprived of the use of them ... the weak will become prey to the strong.”
Thomas Paine
[I thought everything was suppose to come from the House? ]
Budget and spending bills are supposed to originate in House.
Anyone know if this is DOA if it gets past Senate?
The Republicans control the Senate and the House and are unable to fight Obama on such deals as ObamaCare and passing a Budget as mandated by the Consitution. But after 14 hours they fold like a cheap suit!
Aaaarrrgghhh!!! Every time I hear this crap it just grates my nerves. The damned background checks already apply to those situations.
Confiscation depends on compliance. Good luck with that, azzoles. d:^|
Nice graphics, another addition. Waco 76 killed, add a picture of Clinton next to it.
They do. This just left-speak to create the impression that they haven't. You know "lying" because that's what they do.
When democrats filibuster it’s showing tremendous courage. When Crus filibusters (no other republicans do) he’s obstructionist and a crack-pot. And that’s only what McConnell says.
Perhaps it is time for another of FR’s famous ‘what kind of gun should I buy?’ threads...
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