Senate Dems plot new gun control legislation
“I think most untrained people are either going to freeze up, or just whip out their gun and start firing in that circumstance”.
Consider, for example, the federal law requiring licensed gun dealers to notify the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives when a single purchaser buys two or more handguns within five days.
“In chaotic situations, the first thing you know is that the sh*t has hit the fan and you don’t know where the fan is”, said Benson, who served three combat tours in Vietnam later trained elite troops.
Why should the NRA get more of a say in what our gun legislation looks like than Harwell’s own constituents?
Reid called the reality of gun violence in the USA “pathetic”.
I tell you what we need to do. Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton stated Monday that she would expand background checks at gun shows and ban domestic abusers from purchasing guns. There are three “no” votes on background checks with tough re-election races in swing states next year: Kelly Ayotte in New Hampshire, Ron Johnson in Wisconsin and Rob Portman in Ohio.
But the growing gulf between what liberals appear to believe drives the country’s problem with gun violence and the measures they are openly proposing to solve it suggests they realize that there is more to it than the gun lobby’s intransigence.
So Obama was either imprecise in his language – it can happen, even to a lawyer – or he was revealing his subconscious desire.
There has always been a culture war element to the American gun control debate. “Why the Gun Debate Won’t Change After the Oregon Shooting”, read the headline at The Fix, The Washington Post’s political blog.
But the invincibility of the gun lobby is being overstated. Not only should they not be sold, but their possession should also be illegal. While citizens who favor reasonable gun control legislation stay home from the polls.
Gun buybacks are unlikely to work.
But experts say that’s just not enough to teach gun owners when to shoot and when to hold their fire, how to overcome tunnel vision, and how to determine which combatants are “good guys”. Then law enforcement officials can begin the laborious process of tracing each gun from the manufacturer or importer to various middlemen, the retail seller, the original retail purchaser and one or more subsequent buyers. The seeming frequency of mass shootings makes a desire for easy fixes understandable, as is the anger and frustration that makes polemicists on behalf of gun control tire of hearing pro-gun counterarguments.