Expanded background checks fails in Senate

[Remodeling Maidiac]

this is something 90+ americans wanted.


who exactly does the republican party represent?

do they actually think they can cheat enough in elections to thwart 90% of the peoples votes?

Count backwards from potato for me.

Potato...pota........

 

[Politico]

Where is Obama's political capital?

I imagine it's in the 90% of Americans who support universal background checks on firearms, which is common sense and does not infringe on my rights to own as many weapons as I'd like.

Pretty shameful day. I no longer recognize the Republican party.

That 90% is a BS number. But say it over and over ya know. I'll tall ya what's shameful. That the President just prioritized this as his number one focus while another 9/11 is going on.

 

[Oddball]

Can you tell which side CNN is on?

NOOOOOOO!...Not at all!

 

[TakeAStepBack]

https://www.senate.gov/legislative/...ote_cfm.cfm?congress=113&session=1&vote=00097

Alphabetical by Senator Name
Alexander (R-TN), Nay
Ayotte (R-NH), Nay
Baldwin (D-WI), Yea
Barrasso (R-WY), Nay
Baucus (D-MT), Nay
Begich (D-AK), Nay
Bennet (D-CO), Yea
Blumenthal (D-CT), Yea
Blunt (R-MO), Nay
Boozman (R-AR), Nay
Boxer (D-CA), Yea
Brown (D-OH), Yea
Burr (R-NC), Nay
Cantwell (D-WA), Yea
Cardin (D-MD), Yea
Carper (D-DE), Yea
Casey (D-PA), Yea
Chambliss (R-GA), Nay
Coats (R-IN), Nay
Coburn (R-OK), Nay
Cochran (R-MS), Nay
Collins (R-ME), Yea
Coons (D-DE), Yea
Corker (R-TN), Nay
Cornyn (R-TX), Nay
Cowan (D-MA), Yea
Crapo (R-ID), Nay
Cruz (R-TX), Nay
Donnelly (D-IN), Yea
Durbin (D-IL), Yea
Enzi (R-WY), Nay
Feinstein (D-CA), Yea
Fischer (R-NE), Nay
Flake (R-AZ), Nay
Franken (D-MN), Yea
Gillibrand (D-NY), Yea
Graham (R-SC), Nay
Grassley (R-IA), Nay
Hagan (D-NC), Yea
Harkin (D-IA), Yea
Hatch (R-UT), Nay
Heinrich (D-NM), Yea
Heitkamp (D-ND), Nay
Heller (R-NV), Nay
Hirono (D-HI), Yea
Hoeven (R-ND), Nay
Inhofe (R-OK), Nay
Isakson (R-GA), Nay
Johanns (R-NE), Nay
Johnson (D-SD), Yea
Johnson (R-WI), Nay
Kaine (D-VA), Yea
King (I-ME), Yea
Kirk (R-IL), Yea
Klobuchar (D-MN), Yea
Landrieu (D-LA), Yea
Lautenberg (D-NJ), Yea
Leahy (D-VT), Yea
Lee (R-UT), Nay
Levin (D-MI), Yea
Manchin (D-WV), Yea
McCain (R-AZ), Yea
McCaskill (D-MO), Yea
McConnell (R-KY), Nay
Menendez (D-NJ), Yea
Merkley (D-OR), Yea
Mikulski (D-MD), Yea
Moran (R-KS), Nay
Murkowski (R-AK), Nay
Murphy (D-CT), Yea
Murray (D-WA), Yea
Nelson (D-FL), Yea
Paul (R-KY), Nay
Portman (R-OH), Nay
Pryor (D-AR), Nay
Reed (D-RI), Yea
Reid (D-NV), Nay
Risch (R-ID), Nay
Roberts (R-KS), Nay
Rockefeller (D-WV), Yea
Rubio (R-FL), Nay
Sanders (I-VT), Yea
Schatz (D-HI), Yea
Schumer (D-NY), Yea
Scott (R-SC), Nay
Sessions (R-AL), Nay
Shaheen (D-NH), Yea
Shelby (R-AL), Nay
Stabenow (D-MI), Yea
Tester (D-MT), Yea
Thune (R-SD), Nay
Toomey (R-PA), Yea
Udall (D-CO), Yea
Udall (D-NM), Yea
Vitter (R-LA), Nay
Warner (D-VA), Yea
Warren (D-MA), Yea
Whitehouse (D-RI), Yea
Wicker (R-MS), Nay
Wyden (D-OR), Yea

 

[Interpol]

I don't understand what the problem with this bill is.

Someone will have to explain why it didn't pass even though it won 54-46 in the Senate.

How are universal background checks an infringement on the 2nd Amendment?

Aren't the Constitutionalists here not aware of the part of the 2nd Amendment that clearly says, "well-regulated"?

The problem is that background checks wouldn't have changed anything in Newtown, or Aurora, or for Gabby Giffords.

The Bam loses, and big.

So you're saying you're for just anyone buying a gun from a trade show and it's okay not to do a background check on that person because of 3 incidents where background checks weren't the problem?

 

[OKTexas]

this also proves the clowns on the right we talk to here do no represent more than 10% of the American people

Here in FL, when I purchase a firearm, the seller runs a NCIC check for felonies and domestic violence charges.
What other personal information would you like?

No they run NICS check, you might want to get your acronyms straight.

 

[earlycuyler]

Just caught the tail end of Obama's comments before the microphone.
Hugging weeping family members.
Damn those Conservatives to hell!

Bama and plugs are nothing but filthy pimps. They could give a fuck less about the Newtown families, and there dead children are nothing more to them then political talking points. This is one of many fails to come for Bamer. Im very sad I did not get to see Hissy Matthews cry. Maybe tommrow.

 

[Oddball]

I don't understand what the problem with this bill is.

Someone will have to explain why it didn't pass even though it won 54-46 in the Senate.

How are universal background checks an infringement on the 2nd Amendment?

Aren't the Constitutionalists here not aware of the part of the 2nd Amendment that clearly says, "well-regulated"?

The problem is that background checks wouldn't have changed anything in Newtown, or Aurora, or for Gabby Giffords.

The Bam loses, and big.

So you're saying you're for just anyone buying a gun from a trade show and it's okay not to do a background check on that person because of 3 incidents where background checks weren't problem?

I'm saying all background checks are totally ineffective....Period.

 

[squeeze berry]

The final vote was 54 in favor to 46 opposed with two Republicans joining most Democrats in supporting the compromise.

That is just as well for an inept attempt - to say the least.

No need to waist any more political capital, the NRA will be sinking in the mud by its own weight soon enough.

really?

the NRA had to hire temp help to process membership applications

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

Question for Obama...

U mad bro?

 

[Interpol]

Where is Obama's political capital?

I imagine it's in the 90% of Americans who support universal background checks on firearms, which is common sense and does not infringe on my rights to own as many weapons as I'd like.

Pretty shameful day. I no longer recognize the Republican party.

That 90% is a BS number. But say it over and over ya know. I'll tall ya what's shameful. That the President just prioritized this as his number one focus while another 9/11 is going on.

It's a real number from a real poll.

Live in the bubble if you want, where you can just make up your own information, but 90% of us want universal background checks.

Makes sense.

 

[Interpol]

The problem is that background checks wouldn't have changed anything in Newtown, or Aurora, or for Gabby Giffords.

The Bam loses, and big.

So you're saying you're for just anyone buying a gun from a trade show and it's okay not to do a background check on that person because of 3 incidents where background checks weren't problem?

I'm saying all background checks are totally ineffective....Period.

Because you say so?

 

[Politico]

Exactly. A poll. Case closed.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Expanded background checks fails in Senate

Evidence again of the idiocy of the right, with their nonsense about ‘gun bans’ and ‘confiscation.’

 

[boedicca]

And only 4% say gun control is a priority. The majority would rather have Congress focus on the economy, jobs, and the deficit & debt problems.

 

[Crackerjaxon]

Senate rejects expanded gun background checks - CNN.com

More innocent Americans will die because of right wing stupidity, many of them innocent children.

Perhaps you should learn to protect your children.

They'll be the better for it.

 

[Oddball]

So you're saying you're for just anyone buying a gun from a trade show and it's okay not to do a background check on that person because of 3 incidents where background checks weren't problem?

I'm saying all background checks are totally ineffective....Period.

Because you say so?

Because criminals -by definition- don't follow the law, fool.

 

[Caroljo]

May the NRA be with you.

Because reason is gone.

Look at that douchebag Boiking throwing his little temper tantrum in the Rose Garden....Look at that nitwit Biden, doing his best Walter...

Lol! My husband and i were watching that and said the same thing!!! Biden IS Walter!!!!

 

[Yurt]

1# We all know that expanding them will do little to stop the slaughter.
2# What right does the congress have to do this in the first place?

1. most likely true. as most massacres and murders occur when the person becomes unstable far after the purchase of a gun

2. according to scotus, not sure, they have left this open

 

[Oddball]

It's a real number from a real poll.

Live in the bubble if you want, where you can just make up your own information, but 90% of us want universal background checks.

Makes sense.

Here's another real number from a real poll...The bill 100% failed.