Posted on 06/25/2022 3:46:06 AM PDT by gattaca
The Senate late Thursday passed the bill
le Dig In The Democrat-controlled House on Friday passed a bipartisan gun safety bill, sending the measure to President Biden so he can sign the measure into law.
The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act cleared the chamber in a 234 to 193 vote. The Senate late Thursday passed the bill in a 65-33 vote.
The bill follows a string of mass shootings, among them the May 24 attack at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, during which 19 children and two teachers were killed.
A bipartisan group of senators, lead by Texas GOP Sen. John Cornyn negotiated the compromise measure which avoids an assault weapons ban or magazine capacity limit but closes the "boyfriend" loophole and allocates funding for the prevention of mass shootings.
Cornyn's state bore witness to the Uvalde attack and his approval ratings have held steady amid his push for gun reform, despite the Republican stronghold traditionally supporting expansive gun rights.
To end the boyfriend loophole, the legislation prohibits a misdemeanor domestic violence offender with a "current or recent former dating relationship with the victim" from owning or purchasing a gun. The definition of a "dating relationship" will be left to the court's discretion.
Also included in the bill is an enhancement of background checks for gun buyers aged 18-21.
Republican House leadership stood squarely against the measure though 14 Republicans joined the Democrats in voting for the bill, according to CBS News.
Vast amount of this ‘effort’ is built for prosecutors to effect fewer/lesser charges. ‘Red Flag’ episode? It’ll be dragged into the Supreme Court within 2 years and be thrown out.
Gun bill, passed by people surrounded by armed men.
Please let a meteor strike DC...
The enhanced background checks for 18-20 year olds that gives ghe FBI NICS system 10 days to research juvenile criminal records has a 10 year sunset, and the expansion of the misdemeanor domestic violence convictions against dating partners isn’t retroactive to include prior incidents.
But the entire bill sucks.
The 17th Amendment is one of the stupidest in the US Constitution.
No deliberation. No pushback. A House and a House-on-Steroids ram through restrictions on all Americans before that stupid town of “Uvalde” even figures out that it maybe doesn’t want these fake “cops” it has, anymore.
Our response should be the same as that loud mouth ugly dried up old black hag in California who said something like, “We will not obey”.
If the Left can disregard a Court Ruling we can tell BiDung to shove this bill up his freshly wiped ass!
What happened to the must be 21 to buy a gun? This bill does nothing except waste more paper.
19th by miles...
They even admit it’s a “first step”
All about red flag and the governments illegal right to confiscate without reason. Your neighbors will be their eyes and the rats who will rat you out
(Note that I said, “one of”…)
Many Amendments to the US Constitution make me think of nothing so much as a tribe of Pygmies attempting to fix a jet airplane engine that has fallen from the sky.
The 17th Amendment is just one such. It destroys the Senate as a functioning body. What was supposed to balance a reactive and populist House, is now a hyper-reactive copy of the same with massively diluted representation.
The 19th Amendment attempts to universally re-write the Constitution without changing a word. Now, women are men in the same structure of government. Hint everyone - the debt will NEVER be gone, now.
That was the House bill. This was the Senate bill.
About the time our original 13 states adopted their new
constitution, in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history
professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say
about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years
prior.
“A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply
cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A
democracy will continue to exist up until the time that
voters discover that they can vote themselves generous
gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the
majority always votes for the candidates who promise the
most benefits from the public treasury, with the result
that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose
fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.”
“The average age of the worlds greatest civilizations from
the beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During
those 200 years, these nations always progressed through
the following sequence
1. From bondage to spiritual faith;
2. From spiritual faith to great courage;
3. From courage to liberty;
4. From liberty to abundance;
5. From abundance to complacency;
6. From complacency to apathy;
7. From apathy to dependence;
8. From dependence back into bondage”
Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law,
St. Paul, Minnesota believes the United States is now
somewhere between the “complacency and apathy” phase of
Professor Tyler’s definition of democracy, with some
40 percent of the nation’s population already having reached
the “governmental dependency” phase.
And no reconciliation (between house and senate)?
Better get this sucker overturned before the SC goes more left with the new justice.
That's the way it will be in most flyover states, especially in rural areas. We'll pay about as much attention to this as we did Fauxi. That is to say, not at all.
There is no such thing as a bipartisan gun safety bill. You are either a communist or you are not.
Well, statutes restricting rights that are vague have been struck down by courts including the US SC as being unenforceable. I am guessing that suits will be filed the second Biden signs.
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