Posted on 05/25/2022 2:05:10 AM PDT by RandFan
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) on Tuesday lamented the lack of Senate support for tougher gun laws following a mass shooting in Texas hours earlier but rejected the notion of eliminating the filibuster for the purpose of passing such a bill.
Manchin noted that he has three grandchildren similar in age to the victims at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, where at least 14 kids and one teacher were shot and killed.
“It’s just absolutely horrific,” Manchin said. “You all know where I stand; I’ll do anything I can.”
Pressed on whether he would consider scrapping the filibuster to tighten the nation’s gun laws, he warned that it would lead to chaos in the Senate.
“The filibuster is the only thing that prevents us from total insanity. Total insanity,” he said.
The response is consistent coming from the West Virginia centrist, who along with Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) has resisted pressure from fellow Democrats to get rid of the filibuster in order to pass various pieces of President Biden’s legislative agenda.
Manchin and Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) had championed legislation in 2013 to expand background checks prior to gun sales, a proposal that came in direct response to the shooting massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., several months earlier.
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There will be nothing but political grandstanding in the weeks/months ahead. The Rats know they’ll lose seats if they attempt to act.
More gun laws would not have stopped this.
Emotion doesnt trash the constitution. Nor is it a valid excuse to trash it.
This country has more than 20,000 gun laws on the books. WTF would a 20,001st law done to prevent this?
They don’t really want ‘gun control’... They want to control ALL the guns.
Commonsense says transvestites are mentally ill.
That is kind of what my feeling is right now. They’ll make speeches about it and how we must do something, but they will be happy if it fails and they can’t get anything through because they know the moderate ones will be in trouble which will lead to them losing seats but they cannot afford now. Basically, they will have to have a very careful balancing act to make it seem like they are doing something to appease the base While ensuring it is just enough for it to not pass for political reasons.
Give them talking points that they did something that wouldn’t have prevented this from occurring in the first place to appease the radical base will trampling on the constitution in the process.
We need commonsense restrictions on the First Amendment and just make it illegal for Progressives to promote their ideas.
Common sense from the party that can’t define “woman”?
Manchin is part of the democrat party and by default is an enemy of freedom.
“...shall not be infringed.”
Pretty damn plain English.
Sit down and shut up.
Enforcing laws on the books would have helped. There’s no way to stop a mentally I’ll person determined to destroy.
“0” security at the school??????? The kid walked right in??
The letter after the name means jack anymore.
The only reason political parties still exist is to give voters the illusion of choice.
A pol is either loyal to our former republic or to Deep State.
Manchin is Deep State’s.
More people died in Democrat Senator Ted Kennedy’s Oldsmobile than from any of my guns.
How about we use the involuntary commitment laws already on the books, Manchin?
Note that none of the reporting talks about how the known wolf perp managed to access the school...
Wonder if LE and/or social services had ever been to grandma's house...
And why no report on the alleged car chase...?
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