Dems vow passage of background check bill

[ericinmn1970]

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing- ... check-bill

"Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said the combination of public outrage at mass shootings and an animated advocacy front has created conditions like those that catalyzed the enactment of stricter gun laws roughly 20 years ago.

"We have the same conditions now that we had back then, which we didn't really have even five years ago," Schumer said during a press conference in the Capitol commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act. "So we're going to pass this law," he added. "We are going to finish the job and pass background checks and then move on and do other things we have to do to get guns off the streets and stop gun violence."

I read Schumer's statement as, "We want to pass the background checks bill so that when there's still gun violence, we can make the case for that law not doing enough to end gun violence, then we can push for even more gun control laws."

[photogpat]

At least we have it all out in the open.

Get on the emails and phone calls now. Set it up so you're doing it once a day.

This won't solve the DECLINING violence problem in the US as the supply will ALWAYS meet the demand regardless of the laws they pass, or the bans they initiate.

Cite the "War on Drugs" inability to stomp out illegal drugs in the US!

Its here, and its time!

[MaryB]

With elections coming up snowballs chance in hell.

[ex-LT]

With elections coming up snowballs chance in hell.

^^^^ This. I'm thinking NO ONE in a contested district wants to go on record as opposing 2A rights in 2014. As I recall, the passage of the AWB was a large contributing factor to the Repbulicans gaining control of both the house and the senate in 1994.

If Chucky Schumer's buddies were paying attention, they learned 20 years ago that supporting restrictions on the Second Amendment is a quick way to earning the title FORMER Representative/Senator (insert name here) - ESPECIALLY IN AN ELECTION YEAR.

[Sietch]

"...the combination of public outrage at mass shootings and an animated advocacy front has created conditions like those that catalyzed the enactment of stricter gun laws roughly 20 years ago"

You mean a wildly popular Democrat president and Democrat majorities in both chambers?

"We have the same conditions now that we had back then, which we didn't really have even five years ago," Schumer said.

Or one year ago, a month after Sandy Hook.

This is what Elvira meant when she told Tony, "Don't get high on your own supply [of bullschit]." Schumer obviously hasn't seen Scarface.

One thing that I believe is also markedly different today than in 1993/1994 is the tremendous grass roots advocacy and middle finger raising by regular day job folks like Brian, Rob, Andrew, the late great Joel, others, all of us who show up at the Capitol and send thousands of letters to politicians and melt their email servers and call their offices so much that they can barely think.

I think that the NRA and the 2A community were a bit shocked when it got away from them, that those scars still hurt, and that we relearned our fear of fire. But for the sunset provision, that would have been game over, thanks for playing; we'd never be able to undo it. We've seen that it really can happen, and that we can't just send in our dues and count on our tutelaries like the NRA to always win the war for us.

[Rip Van Winkle]

Schumer's not stupid, he knows this bill would be political suicide for his parties majority in the Senate, that's why they haven't brought it up for a vote. He's just trying to goad House Republicans into voting for it hoping they'll lose their majority in the house because of it.