April 27, 2013
The battle over gun control continues in both Washingtons.
Gun control advocates have been very loud expressing their disappointment and even anger over failure in the US Senate to pass gun control amendments to S.649. As a result, S.649 was pulled from the floor by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. But numerous sources say it will likely be brought forward again before this year is out. There are already senators working on new versions of the amendments.
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/04/25/mccain-schumer-say-gun-control-is-coming-back
In Washington state I was pleased earlier this year at the failure of gun control proposals similar to those in other states more publicized. I was pleased until I read this article.
http://theolympiareport.com/inslee-still-hopes-dui-gun-control-abortion-bills-can-be-passed/
Remember when they gun control advocating politicians said they wanted to have a vote? That the victims of Newtown deserved a vote? There was a vote. They lost. And they still won't give it up and move on to more important business. Apparently, what they really meant was they want a vote in their favor. What they really want is that simply because they've been repeating from their script at every opportunity that their proposals are "common sense" and "reasonable", even though they've been anything but, we should simply accept the moral superiority of their long standing agenda and hand over our constitutional rights. Just the ones they find offensive or inconvenient, of course.
Only 4% of Americans think gun control is among our country's leading problems. That's right - 4%. You don't hear the gun control advocates repeating that number in front of the cameras. Instead you keep hearing that 90% of Americans want what they want, except they use every manipulative trick there is to mask the real implications of their proposals. The average American has not read the legislative proposals. All they have are sound bites. And the people with the overwhelming majority of media support are the gun control crowd. A January 2013 study of gun control in the media showed and 8:1 advantage on the pro-gun control side.
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May 1, 2013
Senator Manchin stands by the Manchin-Toomey background check bill that failed to pass in the Senate last month and plans to reintroduce it this year. The fight will NOT be over anytime soon.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/04/28/manchin-says-working-to-get-another-senate-vote-on-gun-background-check/
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May 30, 2013
According to this recent poll, 62% of Americans think the Senate should move on from gun control. That's a pretty convincing majority, isn't it? Of course, majorities of Democrats (51%) and liberals (62%) polled think it should be pursued to another vote. Note that neither number approaches 90% any longer. So while those outspoken gun control advocates tried to shame their gun rights supporting opponents for not listening to their constituents, who are these people listening to? Is it the majority 62% that say "move on" or just the Democrats and liberals who support their positions?
Let's not forget that a poll from earlier this year showed that only 4% of Americans thought gun control was the most important thing for Congress to work on. But will the gun control advocates move on? No. There are still plenty of current indications from Vice President Biden, Senator Manchin, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and others telling us that gun control is not going away and that we will see another vote this year - probably in September after Congress returns from a break in August. I've spared posting about each of the articles that have shown this but you should believe they were plentiful.
http://reason.com/poll/2013/05/29/poll-two-thirds-of-americans-want-senate
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June 8, 2013
Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his group, Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG), won't give up on forcing their view of gun control on as many people as they can. When you're powerful and influential, why restrict yourself to just the city you manage (or live in)? Money is power and Bloomberg's billions make him not just powerful but dangerous too.
This article says MAIG is conducting a 100-day bus campaign to 25 states to push gun control legislation. We already know they're not giving up on Congress either.
Don't you love the marketing involved in this? "Mayors Against Illegal Guns" sounds so "common sense" and "reasonable" and righteous, doesn't it? It implies leadership fighting criminals. Who could disagree with that? But they're a little light on some other parts of their group, like:
* MAIG has a higher percentage of criminals among its associates than does the general public, including convicted felons who are ineligible to possess firearms.
* They're much less enthusiastic about pushing to use and enforce the more than 2000 gun related laws already on the books than they are about creating new restrictions.
* They prefer to demonize guns instead of the criminals who use them.
* Their campaign against "illegal guns" is really about making more guns and types of guns "illegal" and then criminalizing otherwise law abiding people than it is about going after criminals in illegal possession of guns.
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/bloomberg-gun-group-bus-tour-92350.html
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June 11, 2013
Here's more recent evidence that the gun control mafia has not given up its fight to infringe on the 2nd Amendment rights of 300 million Americans. Several of the cover-people for gun control are mentioned in this article, including Vice President Joe Biden, Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG), Sandy Hook Elementary family members and a group I haven't mentioned before, "The Center for American Progress, a Washington think tank with close ties to the White House".
Newtown victims' family members are headed back to Congress to make more emotional appeals. The gun control groups want President Obama to enact a dozen more executive orders on top of the 23 he signed months ago and push harder for firearms background checks to close the so-called "gun shows loophole" (I don't think that term is used in this article but it does talk about gun show purchases.) It makes no mention of the 2004 survey results, cited in a 2013 US Justice Department Special Report on Firearms Violence, 1993-2011, that shows only 0.8% of criminals got their firearms from a gun show. Another 0.6% got them from flea markets. If corporations made emotional decisions and wasted millions of dollars chasing 1.4% of their problems their leaders would be fired or they'd go out of business. That's not the case when its the American taxpayers' dollars at stake. We have a seemingly endless supply of that funding stream to support pursuit of the ideological agenda of gun control advocates. We must, because they keep spending it.
http://washington.cbslocal.com/2013/06/10/biden-gun-control-fight-is-far-from-over/
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Here's a different article that makes some of the same points made in the CBS News article above and made in my previous posts - we're wasting resources and not focusing on what's truly important. We presently have an ocean of government scandals to wade through, all of which are more important the infringing on Americans' constitutional 2nd Amendment rights.
http://girlsjustwannahaveguns.com/2013/06/gun-control-legislation-again-bring-it-on/
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June 12, 2013
Here's Senator Dianne Feinstein's own April 17, 2013 statement about the failure of her 'assault weapons ban' in the US Senate and continuing her agenda to ban so-called "military-style assault weapons" ("assault weapon" is a politically invented term that has no standard definition or purpose except to group firearms to be restricted or banned), so called "weapons of war" (they're not used by our military or by modern standing armies) and so-called "high-capacity ammunition magazines" (that are actually "standard capacity" magazines).
Feinstein needs to go!
http://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=8cd2a1c3-576f-40e8-a797-80cdcfcaa8b4
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