sorry i've been a little erratic with my postings but i've been sick past week please and thank you for hanging in there my friends, God Bless.
Four months and three days after the Newtown massacre, the bipartisan Toomey-Manchin bill that would have expanded background checks online and at gun shows was rejected in the Senate by a vote of 54-46.
And bans on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines were defeated easily just an hour later, making Wednesday a devastating day for gun-control advocates, who are just beginning to exert influence after decades of trying and failing to mobilize voters around any significant reform. But leaders of major gun-control groups say they have made headway in competing with the previously unquestioned influence of the NRA in a way that might have been unimaginable even a few months ago.
“It’s been a zero-sum game for the last 20 or 30 years,” says Mark Glaze, director of Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG), Bloomberg’s well-funded gun control super PAC. “Most politicians have made the easy decision to care about something else.”
The National Rifle Association had opposed the Toomey-Manchin bill since its creation andlauded the bill’s defeat on Wednesday. The organization had encouraged its members to sign petitions against the bill and call their senators to express their thoughts on the bill. The NRA also spent $500,000 on an online ad claiming that law enforcement disagrees that stricter background checks will have a significant impact on violence.
washington is not broken it is vitually non existent, special interest tell the faux politicians when to poop and when to get off the pot.
our/ their politicians no longer fear the voter they are now punked by same side primary efforts to get them out before a gen election, but people we need to show them how big a mistake they made, fear is in the eye of the beholder let's let them go blind with fear 2014.
Despite Wednesday’s defeat, Mayors Against Illegal Guns is undaunted, pushing ahead with an effort to copy the NRA’s trademark: grading politicians based on their receptivity to “commonsense gun” laws rather than adherence to the Second Amendment.
While an A rating from the NRA has long been a point of pride for politicians, MAIG is hoping its grades soon will carry the same weight to ensure votes and donations.
great idea i saw it this morning on morning joe very effective and damning, constant osting of those who sold you out for the NRA should now no longer get money from "we the people" to do the NRA bidding let those who oppose get it where they lie down fleas and all.
