coming to visit.
Which probably gives Obama & Co. fond thoughts(also from Tam):
What do they have to gain? Hell, I don't know, their people would be
better off festooning lampposts with their bodies and surrendering. The
trouble with that theory is that the north Korean people have been so
isolated for so long; Kim Il Sung (and Kim Jong Il and Kim Jang Un) is their religion and their reason for being.
Yeah, this sounds good to me; from Insty:
A reader emails: “Your post about Missouri secretly sharing CCW info
highlights a core problem with restrictions on what government can and
can’t do. As the background check proposals in Congress would at least
theoretically make it possible to create gun registration, we don’t
simply need a law prohibiting doing so; Republicans should propose an
amendment that makes creation or assistance in the creation of such a
registry a felony under federal law, with mandatory prison time and loss
of sovereign immunity. If all the Democrats want is background checks,
surely they wouldn’t object.”
Yes, there should be criminal liability, and also civil liability,
with each affected person entitled to recover minimum damages of, say,
$10,000 plus attorney’s fees and with sovereign immunity waived.
Damn straight.
That there might be downsides to a DoD more worried about being PC than about warfighting, well, why the hell would that be a surprise to anyone?
Sixteen Republicans voted in favor of the motion, while two Democrats
— both from states President Obama lost in the 2012 election, voted
against it. The two Democrats were Sens. Mark Begich (Alaska) and Mark
Pryor (Ark.), both of whom face reelection next year.
The sixteen
Republicans who voted to proceed were Sens. Lamar Alexander (Tenn.),
Kelly Ayotte (N.H.), Richard Burr (N.C.), Saxby Chambliss (Ga.), Tom
Coburn (Okla.), Susan Collins (Maine). Bob Corker (Tenn.), Jeff Flake
(Ariz.), Lindsey Graham (S.C.), Dean Heller (Nev.), John Hoeven (N.D.),
Johnny Isakson (Ga.), Mark Kirk (Ill.), John McCain (Ariz.), Pat Toomey
(Pa.) and Roger Wicker (Miss.).
Ok, Coburn, we're holding you to your words:
I will not vote for any bill that limits the
gun rights of law abiding citizens. While I support a debate in the
Senate on gun related issues—including reaffirming these rights and
forcing gun-control advocates to have their votes on record and be held
accountable for their votes—I will not only support, but lead a
filibuster to prevent the passage of any bill that limits the Second
Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens.
So let's see you do it.
How bad is the Manchin-Toomey piece of shit?
Toomey and Manchin will claim that their bill only covers “gun show
sales” and Internet sales. But if you’ve ever talked about your gun and
/or let it be known you’d like to sell or buy a gun on the Internet,
this language covers you. If you advertise your gun in the church
bulletin and the bulletin is put on the Internet, you’re covered.
The only exemption is for sales that are sold exclusively by word of
mouth. The increased number of background checks would likely exacerbate
the system breakdowns (inherent to NICS) which have shut down gun shows
over and over again. It would mean that Americans who were illegally
denied firearms because their names were similar to other people's would
effectively be barred from owning a gun. (We would never tolerate such
delays for voting rights or other freedoms that we are guaranteed.)
And for those Republicans who think they’re going to be able to offer
their useless amendments, guess what? Reid is reportedly going to use a
procedure to block out all amendments (called an “amendment tree”). And
there are plenty of Senators standing in line to make sure that the
Senate doesn’t give “unanimous consent” to let those Republicans offer
their amendments.
So if you live in a rural area, you’re effectively barred from selling
or buying a gun - or it at least becomes very, very difficult.
Incidentally, the Toomey-Manchin-Schumer “national registry” language is
full of holes. There will be a national gun registry as a result of
this sell-out.
But that’s not the worst part. Under an amendment in the bill to HIPAA
(Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act), you could have
your guns taken away because your private shrink thinks you’re
“dangerous” and could send your name directly to the FBI Instant Check
system.
Did you think it was terrible that 150,000 military veterans had been
added into the NICS system because they’d seen a VA shrink about their
PTSD? Well guess what? Now it’s going to happen to the rest of the
population ... by the millions!
And the next step, of course, will be to begin to sue psychiatrists that
don’t send every single patient’s name to the Instant Check system, and
to make sure that their lives are ruined if they don’t send a patient
to NICS and anything goes wrong.
The bottom line: “See a shrink; lose your guns.”
All of this will reportedly be on an amendment tree with the Feinstein gun ban and magazine bans.
And we're supposed to see this as a 'reasonable compromise'...
And just a little more on "Manchin is an asshole."
A fine pair of backstabbing, miserable little bastards, aren't they?
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