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Manchin, Toomey both interested in reviving gun control push
Washington Post ^ | June 23, 2015 | By Colby Itkowitz

Posted on 06/23/2015 6:36:44 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee

In the wake of the Charleston shooting, Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) are considering ways to renew their failed push to pass meaningful gun control legislation.

In separate interviews Tuesday night at a reception before a ceremony hosted by Sandy Hook families to honor Toomey, they discussed their desire to find a new way forward.

“We want to make sure we have the votes. Pat’s going to have to, and I’ll work with him, to get some of our colleagues on the Republican side,” Manchin said, adding he hasn’t talked directly to Toomey about a revival.

Manchin specifically mentioned an effort aimed at keeping guns out of the hands of people diagnosed with mental illness.

Though the effort is in the early stages, Toomey also said he’s looking for opportunities to reintroduce something related to combating gun violence.

“What I’m trying to figure out is there something that could get the support of the 60 votes that we would need in the Senate,” Toomey said. “Joe Manchin was and is a great partner and someone I will continue to work with and I’m open to exploring what is possible.”

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KEYWORDS: backgroundchecks; banglist; congress; democrats; guncontrol; gungrabbers; secondamendment
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To: Clump

Conservatives have no issues today. If Democrats were smart they’d push every extreme left wing measure they can. Because they could get away with it.


41 posted on 06/23/2015 7:40:02 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: ansel12

God you are absolutely in love with Toomey. You don’t see him destroying the country. You are blinded by your love. I hope you snap out of it.


42 posted on 06/23/2015 7:41:13 PM PDT by napscoordinator (Walker for President 2016. The only candidate with actual real RESULTS!!!!! The rest...talkers!)
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To: nickcarraway

Oh wow. You obviously don’t know how he was the author of the gays in the military and cheerleader for it. Now he want to get rid of the 2nd Amendment. Specter could only wish he did those two things.


43 posted on 06/23/2015 7:42:26 PM PDT by napscoordinator (Walker for President 2016. The only candidate with actual real RESULTS!!!!! The rest...talkers!)
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To: EvilCapitalist

I have no doubt now that the GOPE is controlled by the same power structure and are subservient to the same ideology as the DemocRats.

PA now has Wolfe, a commie-rat bastard who is just waiting for a DemocRat legislature so that he can impose NY- and NJ-style gun control.

Toomey is being told by the GOPE to do this.

He will be crushed next year and as part of the revolt, many other Republicans will lose their seats to the DemocRats.

This is exactly the way the statist, fascist bastard Wolfe wants it.

Who in their right mind (and alleging to represent Republicans in their district) would do something like this?


44 posted on 06/23/2015 7:57:40 PM PDT by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Carter...Reagan...Bush...Clinton....Bush....Carter....BUSH? / CLINTON? STOP THE INSANITY!)
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To: napscoordinator

I don’t like Toomey at all, and am eager to replace him, I am glad that we knocked off that monster Arlen Specter.

What I can’t get over is your absolute devotion to Arlen specter, and his sidekick, rick Santorum.

You wanted Arlen specter to keep that seat permanently, and Specter literally became a democrat in 2010, the last election year for which you and Santorum supported him.

You have some crazy liberal politics, but that was insanity.


45 posted on 06/23/2015 8:00:38 PM PDT by ansel12 (Trump- I identify as Democrat-- favorite president?-Clinton-- your veep? "Oprah my first choice".)
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To: napscoordinator
Well Toomey is turning out WORSE then Specter (except his last two years).

Yet you and Santorum supported Specter for reelection in 2010.

46 posted on 06/23/2015 8:02:21 PM PDT by ansel12 (Trump- I identify as Democrat-- favorite president?-Clinton-- your veep? "Oprah my first choice".)
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To: Brad from Tennessee; Sasparilla; headstamp 2

What Good Can a Handgun Do Against an Army.....?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2312894/posts


47 posted on 06/23/2015 8:06:57 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: ansel12

Ouch!


48 posted on 06/23/2015 8:07:41 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: headstamp 2

Spider Baby. (1968)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider_Baby


49 posted on 06/23/2015 8:14:05 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Brad from Tennessee
Oh, they'll pass new laws ALL DAY LONG in Washington DC - but when it comes to arresting their own for felonies (think Hillary "Felony" Clinton and Lois Lerner), these jerks are nowhere to be found.
50 posted on 06/23/2015 8:23:11 PM PDT by kiryandil (Egging the battleship USS Sarah Palin from their little Progressive rowboats...)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Pretty wild. LOL


51 posted on 06/23/2015 8:23:29 PM PDT by headstamp 2
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To: kiryandil

There are two sets of laws: One for the peasant class. One for the ruling class. the only time a member of the ruling class gets in trouble with the law is when they piss off a member of the ruling class that is in a higher caste than they are.


52 posted on 06/23/2015 8:27:46 PM PDT by sport
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To: sport
the only time a member of the ruling class gets in trouble with the law is when they piss off a member of the ruling class that is in a higher caste than they are.

Right. Prosecutors and law enforcement are terminally allergic to enforcing "the law" against someone in the ruling class who is capable of totally effing up their careers and pensions.

Peasants can't do that, so we're fair game...

53 posted on 06/23/2015 8:31:50 PM PDT by kiryandil (Egging the battleship USS Sarah Palin from their little Progressive rowboats...)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
LaPierre: 'Next 700 days are the most dangerous' for 2nd Amendment

While the NRA is one of the nation’s most powerful lobbying groups, LaPierre warned that the administration could get away with the ban.

“I think he’s going to proceed,” he said. Referring to the rest of the president’s term, he added, “The next 700 days are the most dangerous days in the history of the Second Amendment.”
54 posted on 06/23/2015 8:40:31 PM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: Cheerio

If Obamacare survives, they’ll do it through medical insurance. They’ll require doctors to ask questions about gun ownership and whether the patient has ever had an unkind thought about a minority, Globull Warming, etc.

One wrong answer and Presto! you’re not mentally competent to possess a firearm. The supreme court will aprove it.


55 posted on 06/23/2015 8:54:00 PM PDT by FirstFlaBn
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To: napscoordinator

Still though Santorum thought Toomey was a conservative when Santorum stuck with Arlen. But Toomey is another of the worthless RINO’s, just like that silly governor of SC showed herself to be.


56 posted on 06/23/2015 9:28:10 PM PDT by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

I know a liberal who shot himself back in the 70s and he’s even more nuts today. And he owns a gun and has a CCL. I think I’ll report him. If there’s anyone who shouldn’t own a gun, it’s this guy.


57 posted on 06/23/2015 9:46:41 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (I'm very sad for my country. Personally, I've never been happier.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
Toomey gets a D and Manchin an F at Conservative Review. Figures. .

Full Blown Tyranny = Socialize Medicine + Gun Control

Here we go!

Pray for America and prepare. . i.e., buy more ammo.

58 posted on 06/23/2015 10:11:43 PM PDT by Art in Idaho (Conservatism is the only Hope for Western Civilization.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Sestack is running again against Toomey the traitor.Now what do we do?


59 posted on 06/24/2015 2:48:01 AM PDT by Renegade
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Well, what’s wrong with keeping guns out of the hands of crazy people? It’s a noble idea isn’t it?

Answer: HELL NO!

Why: Who makes the determination that YOU are mentally incompetent and how? How would you protect yourself against something like that? What could you possibly do to correct the diagnosis? Would failure to “toe” the political correctness line be a symptom of mental illness?

Answer: YOU WOULD BE TOTALLY SCREWED WITH NO RECOURSE!

How soon do we forget about the communists dealing with resistance by using mental hospitals to contain those who did not agree with their policies.


60 posted on 06/24/2015 3:45:09 AM PDT by DH (Once the tainted finger of government touches anything the rot begins)
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