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GOP Compromise on Gun Rights Aren't Winning Votes or Solving Problems | Opinion
Newsweek ^ | 22 june 2022 | Jonathan Tobin

Posted on 06/22/2022 8:00:45 PM PDT by rellimpank

Senate Republicans seem to think they are defusing a potential problem by playing along with anti-gun activists and agreeing to a legislative "compromise" on guns. They assume reaching a deal would dampen criticism of their support for gun rights and do them some good at the polls. They are mistaken. A new gun control bill would be just another instance of GOP moderates being enticed by their liberal opponents into doing something that will undermine support from the conservative base they need if they're going to take back control of Congress this fall.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: assistantdemocrats; banglist; banglost; guns; rinos; rkba
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1 posted on 06/22/2022 8:00:45 PM PDT by rellimpank
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To: rellimpank

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How many times does one need to see the GOP run to sell out their base?

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2 posted on 06/22/2022 8:10:56 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano (Lindsey Graham: How can anyone be Mad at Joe Biden)
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To: rellimpank

I’ve been saying it...they are dead wrong on this one. There’s no compromise!


3 posted on 06/22/2022 8:11:38 PM PDT by Tommy Revolts
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To: Tommy Revolts

Will Fox News quit giving Lindsey Graham a forum to spew his lies ?

John Cornyn, Mitch McConnell ? This is what you get with no term limits.

Permanent Beltway slobs.


4 posted on 06/22/2022 8:15:49 PM PDT by BrexitBen
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To: rellimpank

John Cornholio list my vote forever - and that of anyone he endorses. He is dead to me. Great job, you traitorous POS!!!


5 posted on 06/22/2022 8:22:02 PM PDT by Ancesthntr (“The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.” ― A.E. Van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: rellimpank

Todd Young RINO from Indiana stabbed Hoosier Voters in the back - he is up for re-election in November


6 posted on 06/22/2022 8:31:10 PM PDT by EC Washington
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To: rellimpank

The problem is that both Democrat and republican elites,

I mean the GOP Senators who voted for it are all Trump hating anti populists, they could care less about the children or safety, or whether Americans can defend themselves against the Mobs created by the Dem party.

They want to disarm the American population any way they can whenever an opportunity arises. When the peasants show up to fight them, the elites want them to have only pitch forks instead of semi automatic rifles.


7 posted on 06/22/2022 8:31:12 PM PDT by Candor7 (ObamaFascism:https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: AnthonySoprano

The elections the next couple years are going to be rough. They are not a easy walk for Republicans. They don’t know how to win. Trump tried to show them how to win but they didn’t want to.


8 posted on 06/22/2022 8:35:03 PM PDT by JoJo354 (Freedom first. MAGA forever!)
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To: rellimpank

Why would the GOP care about the Bill or Rights or the Constitution?

They have a suburban Karen and her gelding husband to pander to.

Just ask Karl Rove, The Lincoln Project, and Biden Republicans.


9 posted on 06/22/2022 8:53:05 PM PDT by unclebankster (Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel)
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To: rellimpank

A compromise assumes both sides get something in return for a consession given. Exactly what did the strong 2A types get for all of the concessions. Answer: nothing because it wasn’t a compromise. It was a surrender. A surrender of Liberties.


10 posted on 06/22/2022 8:54:19 PM PDT by fuente (Liberty resides in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box and the cartridge box--Fredrick Douglas)
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To: unclebankster

The Convention of States needs to take place as soon as possible, before these Quisling RINOs can give away our constitutional republic.


11 posted on 06/22/2022 8:59:59 PM PDT by BrexitBen
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To: fuente
A compromise assumes both sides get something in return for a consession given. Exactly what did the strong 2A types get for all of the concessions. Answer: nothing because it wasn’t a compromise. It was a surrender. A surrender of Liberties.

Yep.

At bare minimum, I'd have asked for the DV lifetime prohibition to also be reduced to a 5 year prohibition.

But there is specific language denying that, in this bill.

12 posted on 06/22/2022 9:04:45 PM PDT by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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To: rellimpank

If you don’t vote rino, the democrats will pass gun control...oh...wait...


13 posted on 06/22/2022 9:24:57 PM PDT by Yogafist (Voting rino is voting for the managed decline of America.)
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To: rellimpank

They will be loved in DC and by the media.


14 posted on 06/22/2022 9:29:37 PM PDT by bray (The Vax is fake and deadly)
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To: BrexitBen

You aren’t wrong.

Don’t blame McConnell and Graham on McConnell and Graham. Blame the voters.

Graham had primary opponents, not this last election, but the election before that. He was no different then, than he is now. SC chose him.


15 posted on 06/22/2022 9:31:39 PM PDT by qaz123
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To: EC Washington

and I’m betting that between him and the Democrat, Young will get the votes. Because we can’t have the Democrats win so they’ve learned to scare the voters into voting for them.


16 posted on 06/22/2022 9:36:28 PM PDT by qaz123
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To: Yogafist

Vote out the RINOs in the primaries, or just hold your nose in Nov.

Anything less is moronic.


17 posted on 06/22/2022 9:42:47 PM PDT by Beagle8U ("Per DNC instructions...Joy Reid is busy packing marbles up her @$$.")
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To: rellimpank

Can The U.S. Supreme Court overturn this?


18 posted on 06/22/2022 10:04:06 PM PDT by johnthebaptistmoore (The world continues to be stuck in a "all leftist, all of the time" funk. BUNK THE FUNK!)
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To: rellimpank
GOP Compromise on Gun Rights...

Compromising with bad policy is like adding sewage to your drinking water.

19 posted on 06/22/2022 10:36:28 PM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: rellimpank

How do we get the guns out of the hands of the drug gangs?

I know the answer, but I am wondering what my FRiends have to say.


20 posted on 06/23/2022 12:49:18 AM PDT by jonrick46 (Leftnicks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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