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Stung by defeats, Democrats shift strategy on gun control
StarTribune.com ^ | 6/27/16 | By Maya Rao Star Tribune

Posted on 06/27/2016 7:57:10 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo

Congressional Democrats increasingly frustrated by a string of defeats on gun issues in Washington are scrambling to harness a public outpouring after last week’s sit-in protest on the House floor.

Party leaders are urging members to conduct similar sit-ins around the country as they try to sustain the flash of hard-core activism on the gun issue.

“We don’t have the numbers to get things done, so we have to turn to more dramatic displays to galvanize the public so they can help us pressure the Republicans to do what’s right,” said U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2a; banglist; gungrabbers
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Liberals out here lurking...Look at what you’ve elected to represent you!!!!! just look....


21 posted on 06/27/2016 8:10:39 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Gun control is one of those ideas in which all the facts are on one side so the other uses emotionalism and lies. The two go together very well while facts are sort of boring.


22 posted on 06/27/2016 8:11:15 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
We don’t have the numbers to get things done

Because the voters think you and your leftist wingnut policies suck.

This mob of window licking paste eaters is not what the Founders had in mind when they fought the British to a standstill.


23 posted on 06/27/2016 8:11:18 PM PDT by Iron Munro (If Illegals Were Rebublicans 50 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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To: JohnBrowdie
democratic system of government, if you “don’t have the numbers to get things done”, you lose. that’s the whole idea.

That's never been good enough for the Democrats.

When they're in the majority, they are all about how important it is to do what the sacred majority wants.

When they're in the minority, they're all about the need to do "what's right," even if they're idea of "what's right" is rejected by the majority.

24 posted on 06/27/2016 8:12:55 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: Iron Munro

I would be utterly ashamed to know I had voted for any one of these imbeciles...That bunch in the picture puts the emphasis on the word “UGLY”....


25 posted on 06/27/2016 8:13:32 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
...are scrambling to harness a public outpouring after last week’s sit-in protest on the House floor.

LOL, what is this, journalism or comedy?

26 posted on 06/27/2016 8:14:26 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Hunger strikes are the answer. Get lots of pity with them.


27 posted on 06/27/2016 8:14:50 PM PDT by Captain Compassion
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo; All

Thanks for the link. Thread BUMP!


28 posted on 06/27/2016 8:15:20 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: austinaero; All

That tactic worked when they were 40 years younger, had the entire media on their side, and were supposedly fighting to restore rights to a minority segment of the population that had been deprived of those rights.

Now they are 40 years older. They have been in the corridors of power for 20 of those years.

They no longer have the entire media on their side.

They are working to take away Constitutional rights from everyone.

The same tactics will not work. They look like idiots, and they are acting like spoiled children.


29 posted on 06/27/2016 8:16:41 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

There’s a reason Lincoln is buried in a steel cage under three tons of concrete.

It’s so nobody can dig him up and shoot him again.


30 posted on 06/27/2016 8:16:49 PM PDT by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES)
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"...so we have to turn to more dramatic displays to galvanize the public so they can help us pressure the Republicans to do what’s right..." - some dipshiite

Pleeze don throw me innat brier patch!

31 posted on 06/27/2016 8:17:31 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: austinaero

They got their unconstitutional butts kicked on TV. They were humiliated. It was LOL time. Not withstanding the complete cowardice of paul rYno they FAILED!!


32 posted on 06/27/2016 8:17:56 PM PDT by WENDLE (Remove the traitor as Chairman of the Convention!! We don't want RYNO!)
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To: Rome2000

Stupid comment.


33 posted on 06/27/2016 8:18:08 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
...pressure the Republicans to do what’s right...

That would be maintaining the citizens' Constitutional Rights, blockheads.

34 posted on 06/27/2016 8:20:30 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: Rome2000

I listened to Glenn Beck describe the dirty tricks Lincoln used to get elected, and how no one thought he would do what he did.

Consider the utter disaster of the Lincoln presidency. A statesman would have worked to find a peaceful solution. The South knew that slavery was not sustainable. A way could have been found.

The Silly Thing was, Beck thought Lincoln was so beyong reproach, that everything was justified by what he did in the war!


35 posted on 06/27/2016 8:20:49 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

I think that the word “asses” is probably OK, as it is
simply the name of an animal. A$$holes is sort of iffy as
it describes Dhimmicrats to a “T” and is, as are they,
NASTY. - Just write “asses”. It is the name of an animal
& is also the mascot for the Dhimmicrat Party. In my
mind, that is OK.


36 posted on 06/27/2016 8:21:36 PM PDT by Twinkie (Cowards die a thousand deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Sometimes I just have to marvel at how much easier it would be for me if I were a democrat instead of a God fearing Christian conservative. Then I could just stay ignorant about logical facts and believe in a fantasy world that doesn’t exist.


37 posted on 06/27/2016 8:23:25 PM PDT by Bullish (Blame others for your failures? Take credits where none are do? Who made you Pharoh?)
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To: Iron Munro

And to think there are areas in this country that are stupid and ignorant enough to elect these corrupted cretins.


38 posted on 06/27/2016 8:31:59 PM PDT by Bullish (Blame others for your failures? Take credits where none are do? Who made you Pharoh?)
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To: Bullish

That’s the way I feel too..evil always wins...after awhile you become numb because we know we live in a fallen world where evil always wins. The only time evil was defeated was the day Jesus was crucified on the cross..other then that evil has a boat load of victories!!!


39 posted on 06/27/2016 8:34:01 PM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

“What assholes! Can I write Assholes here?”

Well, there are a few here so I guess you can write them, but you should really write the ones in DC.


40 posted on 06/27/2016 8:34:32 PM PDT by KrisKrinkle (Blessed be those who know the depth and breadth of their ignorance. Cursed be those who don't.)
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