Posted on 01/25/2013 8:29:28 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Creating gun laws is one thing, but convincing people to support them is something else. That was the job of Vice President Joe Biden on Friday, when he held a roundtable discussion on gun control in Virginia.
CBS 2’s Mike Puccinelli reports new laws could be tough to sell at gun shows, like one held in suburban Rosemont on Friday. Organizers said it was the first gun show in Cook County in as many as 50 years.
Gun shows have come under increased scrutiny since the school shooting massacre in Newtown, Conn., because in the vast majority of states, gun sales at such shows are largely unregulated.
“What will it take to move this nation when it comes to sensible gun laws? What will it take to move Congress when it comes to sensible gun laws? It took Newtown, Connecticut,” U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) said.
(VIDEO AT LINK)
Durbin reintroduced legislation designed to prohibit the sale of 157 military-style assault weapons.
“People don’t use assault weapons with 30- or 100-round magazines to go hunting, and they sure don’t use them for self-defense,” Durbin said...
(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.cbslocal.com ...
My point exactly.
Which Republican should run against Sen. Durbin? The other three times that Chad ran for the U.S. Senate, he ran as a third-party candidate. In 2014, he’ll run as a Republican, so he has a better chance of winning.
Roskam, Hultgtren, Schock, Kinsinger ... just about any of the "young guard", as opposed to a calcified fossil.
I think that Rep. Roskam would be the best candidate, against Sen. Durbin, but Roskam said that he won’t run, in that race.
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