Posted on 03/06/2018 5:28:36 AM PST by Flick Lives
Alabamians are ready for more gun control.
At least that’s what their Democratic Sen. Doug Jones said.
Jones wants tighter background checks for gun sales and to raise the age requirement to purchase a gun from 18 to 21, and he thinks Alabamians are on the same page.
“People in Alabama love their guns, but they also love their children,” Jones told CNN Friday at an event at Birmingham’s Civil Rights Institute sponsored by the Faith and Politics Institute, NOLA.com reported. “And they like to be safe in theaters, and they like to be safe in churches, and I think there is common ground.”
Lawmakers are considering a host of proposals in the latest round of talks surrounding mass shootings after a 19-year-old gunman killed 17 people at a high school in Parkland, Florida, in February.
A Democrat from a deeply red state, Jones has his eye fixed on the middle of the political spectrum and hopes the gun debate can be a harbinger of greater bipartisan efforts on other issues.
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Bullshit
Republicans immediately should put up a bill that raises the age to 21 to buy a weapon and 21 to vote in the United States. I would be very interested to see where this would go.
HA! Good luck!
“Jeff Sessions was Pres. Trump’s biggest mistake.”
I tend to agree with you. And I started out thinking that Sessions was his greatest cabinet pick! I soon changed my mind on that.
Hey, PA 18:
Elect Conor Lamb and THIS is what you’re gonna get!
I personally think that Sessions was Trump’s third choice.
#1 was likely Rudy. He has battled health problems in recent years, and there are nagging, persistent rumors of a sex scandal skeleton in his closet which the media would no doubt dig-up and parade around like it was the top story of all time.
#2 was probably Chris Christie, who shot himself in both feet and his substantial arse by dragging lobbyists into the transition and forcing Trump to fire him.
Yup.. Absolutely nothing can save him.
He chose...poorly.
Trump should have selected Larry Klayman but he needed to pay Sessions off for the loyal campaign support. Now he’s stuck with Jeff til at least after the midterms. If we pick up enough senate seats he might have enough political capital to dump him. Otherwise IMO Trump is stuck with Sessions for the first term.
Jones will only be there’s for two years then another Republican will run against him and win.
He is completely out of touch with his State.
I am beginning to agree.
Realize what a clown you elected yet Alabama?
This SCUM deserves everything that will happen to him in the upcoming civil war. He is a domestic enemy of the Constitution of the US and of Alabama. We Alabamians WILL NOT COMPLY with gun banning and confiscation.
We can prevent all school shootings by murdering all children in America before birth (we're nearly there!) also, but that is also an evil option.
People that think this kind of infringement is going to be simply obeyed this time are WRONG. They want gun violence? they're going to see it when they go for bans and confiscation.
I WAS ONE OF THE FEW NON-DEMONRATS THAT WENT TO THE POLLS.
Jeff Sessions has nothing to do with this. Ex-Gov. Robert Bentley had a whole slew of respectable Conservatives to choose from and he picked the unethical AG Strange who covered Bentley’s ass. All Bentley had to do was pick someone without baggage, and they’d still be in that seat today. Thank Bentley for Doug Jones.
That could very well be true.
No, thank Richard Shelby. He is the one most responsible. Hope Alabama voters will remember.
Keep dreaming. Now that the democrats see how easy it was to defeat a republican in a deep red state simply by paying a few women to make some accusations, the GOP is toast. The republicans in Alabama basically got beat by Gloria Allred's daughter. Like taking candy from a baby. Alabama republicans can pound sand and turn in their guns.
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