Posted on 03/11/2013 9:05:13 PM PDT by GrootheWanderer
Amnesty is the one issue that, based on simple voting demographics, there will be no GOP/conservative majority to win on anything else thereafter.
Remember how just a year or so ago the GOPe was hiding behind, “Secure the border first, before we talk about anything else (wink, wink)?”
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“They can’t really be this dumb. Can they? “
I think we’re being played, not by them, but by our side. Coburn gave them (the grabbers) a chance to structure background checks in a way that looks at the background of the person wishing to obtain the gun, rather than background of the gun itself (which most gun supporters are ok with) - the grabbers would have NOTHING to do with it, because they wanted the gun database. So Coburn walked - sorry, but I don’t see anything sinister in him.
I think someone is pulling some strings to pit the NRA against other groups...with the hope that they can slip something through while we’re fighting each other. Based on articles like this, that strategy just may work.
capitOl also.
If the NRA pulls a dirty one on this, I fully expect Larry Pratt and his group(GOA) to expose it pronto. GOA was founded by ex-NRA types who felt they were too comprimising and have never gotten along.
Wow, it never ceases to amaze me how few people can actually discern “loose” from “lose”...
No they aren't dumb. The GOPe WANT gun control just as much as their Democrat pals. The dummies are the people that keep reelecting these jerks.
Senate panel ready to OK gun background checks
By ALAN FRAM | Associated Press – 5 hrs ago
http://news.yahoo.com/senate-panel-ready-ok-gun-background-checks-073956773—politics.html
Yes.
Never, ever, imagine the GOP (Gutless Old Poltroons) aren't capable of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory - or showing their feet of clay are just that: feet of clay!
2nd Amendment bump for later...
See, it doesn’t matter who we elect. It’s one party rule.
They only care about their own interests. Plain and simple.
A centralized system is less costly to fight and far more lucrative for the NRA to appear to be “fixing“.
Like all establishment political lobbies the key to their job security is assisting in making problems they end up being called upon to “fix“
Shades of the NRA's Brady Bill "deal."
GOP Ready To Cave On Gun Control
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If true, this will be the utter end of the GOP.
GOP Ready To Cave On Gun Control
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If true, this will be the utter end of the GOP.
Thanks for posting the whole thing.
“The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.”-Ayn Rand
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/aynrand125008.html#IHeq6sTBQjTQbyLU.99
An Opposing viewpoint:
From the Virginia Sports Shooting Association:
http://virginiashootingsportsassociation.blogspot.com/2013/02/cantor-and-background-checks.html
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Cantor and Background Checks
Earlier today, a group billing itself as a “National” gun rights organization put out an email that said they were “exposing” Eric Cantor working with Representative Carolyn McCarthy to criminalize private sales and “strip law-abiding people of the their gun rights FOR LIFE.” The email also mentioned Rep. Scott Rigell. While it is true that Rigell has co-sponsored legislation with Carolyn McCarthy, Cantor has not.
This is what Cantor told CNN on February 5th:
“I think that we can take a lot of lessons from what Virginia did and put it in place at the federal level, because there are a lot of states that aren’t doing what Virginia is doing to try and beef up the database for the background checks to make sure that we actually can do something that does have a chance at reducing the likelihood and hopefully eliminating it from happening again,” Cantor said.
Cantor was talking about improving the mental health information that is reported into the NICS, information that Virginia currently leads the nation in reporting.
No where has Cantor said that he supports criminalizing private sales by supporting so-called “universal” background checks.
This is just one more in a long line of misstatements by this group to draw attention to itself. Cantor is solid on this issue. VSSA’s sources on The Hill tell us that Cantor and Representative Bob Goodlatte, who today said he does not support “universal” background checks, are on the same page.
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