Republicans Sat In For Oil. Democrats Are Sitting In For Gun Control.

[OKTexas]

Which is more important? Big oil or trying to prevent more massacres?

WASHINGTON — Advocates praised a group of House Democrats for staging a sit-in to demand a vote on gun control Thursday. Some representatives gave moving accounts of how they nearly died because of gun violence. Yet House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) dismissed their desperate attempt to prevent more deaths from gun violence as a “publicity stunt.”

Several news articles have pointed out that Republicans staged their own sit-in in 2008. But there’s a key difference between the 2016 sit-in and the 2008 edition: Republicans were demanding a vote on offshore oil drilling. Democrats are protesting what they see as a lack of action in the wake of the Orlando nightclub shootings, which left 49 people dead.

The 2008 sit-in came as gas prices hit historic highs and a long-standing congressional moratorium on drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf was about to expire. Republicans were turning up the pressure to open up new areas to drilling. Former Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) declared he was “not leaving until we call this Congress back into session and vote for energy independence.” Others compared the sit-in to the Boston Tea Party. They concluded their protest by singing “God Bless America.”

In some of ways, the two sit-ins are similar. The party in power cut the lights and microphones and adjourned. They dismissed it as political theater. Both protests are timed just months before a contentious presidential election. Each sought to capitalize on public sentiment.

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I suspect many Republicans have conveniently forgotten about the oil sit-in in 2008.

Try running your car on gunpowder and get back to me on that.

 

[Lakhota]

You make it sound like someone is trying to disarm citizens. That's not the case.

You might as well stop repeating this lie. Nobody with better than a room-temperature IQ believes it, any more, and you just make yourself look very stupid by repeating it, as if you're fooling anyone. The Democrats have done a very, very poor job of hiding their true intentions regarding this matter.

I was raised on a farm. Been hunting and shooting since I was about 6 years old. I'm now 69 and remain an avid gun owner and hunter. I own many guns and I cherish them all. There are many others like me who disagree with the NRA mentality. Most responsible gun owners want responsible gun laws. I am just as opposed to the so-called "gun grabbers" as I am to the rigid NRA mentality. I was a proud NRA member for many years - until it was hijacked by radicals in 1977.

How NRA’s true believers converted a marksmanship group into a mighty gun lobby

Your post history suggests something very different.

Really? Please explain - with "credible" proof.

 

[Grizz]

Which is more important? Big oil or trying to prevent more massacres?

Did the Chicago and DC ban on guns prevent more massacres?

Indeed.

How gullible and ignorant does anyone have to be, any more, to believe that the effect of any gun control law, or the intention behind any gun control law, is to “prevent more massacres”. It's not about massacres; it's not about public safety. It's about corrupt public servants, seeking to become our masters.

Gun control measures like the wee tiny ones being proposed currently will not prevent massacres, that's true. It is about public safety, however. I do not like to see so many Americans bamboozled into believing that our government is our enemy. Who sits in congress? They live in our neighborhoods, our state, and we send them to Washington to do our bidding. They are not sinister, friend, and they are not allowed to become our masters.

Gun control measures in general will not accomplish anything other than increasing the crime rate, because criminals do not follow laws. We've seen the results of gun control, they ALWAYS increase crime rates.

When they're trying to take away our ability to protect ourselves, yes, they're our enemies. The government is taking away our rights, that makes them our enemies. We do not want to be rules by tyrants, and people like you, that are assuming they'll fulfill their role as they're supposed to, as opposed to how they want to, that being the way that nets them the most power and control, are delusional. Even if the current administration was trustworthy, and they aren't, there's no guarantee that the next will be.

No matter what you call me and no matter how badly you misrepresent the people in our government, you will never convince me that we cannot try to keep guns out of the hands of those who would hurt us. Yes, criminals do not follow laws. According to that logic, we should have no laws at all, since we know criminals will not follow them.

According to your logic we should pass Laws not because they work, but because it makes you feel better about yourself.