Posted on 04/11/2013 8:54:43 AM PDT by EXCH54FE
The Senate cleared the way on Thursday for an emotional, weeks-long debate on proposals to curb gun violence, rejecting an effort by conservative Republicans to block consideration of gun-control legislation prompted by December's Connecticut elementary school massacre.
The Senate voted 68-31 to open debate on President Barack Obama's proposals to expand background checks for gun buyers, tighten restrictions on gun trafficking and increase funding for school security.
The legislation still faces many hurdles, including a weeks-long debate in the Senate featuring many amendments that could make the bill unacceptable to senators who now support it.
No major gun legislation has passed the Congress since 1994.
"It is a really important start," Democratic Senator Christopher Murphy of Connecticut said before the vote, displaying photos of some of the victims of the December 14 massacre of 20 children and six adults at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut.
That agreement to expand criminal background checks of gun buyers to include commercial sales made at gun shows and online was expected to boost bipartisan Senate support for the measure.
The expanded background checks, a provision that polls show has the support of up to 90 percent of Americans, will be the first amendment offered in debate and appears to be Obama's best hope for achieving meaningful gun-control legislation.
But Obama is unlikely to get some elements of gun control that he has advocated, including a ban on rapid-firing "assault" weapons like the one used in Connecticut and limits on the capacity of ammunition magazines. Amendments to add those provisions to the bill being considered by the Senate appear to have a slim chance of winning on the Senate floor.
Many Republicans and some Democrats have objected to the gun-control proposals as an infringement on their constitutional right to own guns.
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Hammer. Nail. Bang.
I’m sure you have a source for that claim...
Doesn’t matter. A correct vote “is what it is”.
I’m sure Harry Reid gave permission to the few Republicans who voted against as well?
Are we really so small and petty that we can’t acknowledge a good decision on the part of an adversary? I’m not a cheerleader for the Republican team, I’m only interested in who is, or isn’t actively destroying my liberty. Today, Mark Pryor wasn’t, and I’m pleased by that.
Now we have a list of people to defeat in the primaries the next time around. Coburn is the real disappointment here, along with Ayotte. She, BTW, can kiss any Presidential or Vice Presidential ambitions goodbye.
These people have all LIED, they have massively and traitorously violated their oath of office and shirked their responsibility to protect our inalienable rights against infringement by the government...so screw them! I guarantee that I will be contributing to ANY candidate who is likely to defeat them in the primaries, and I may even contribute to their 'Rat opponents if they survive the primary - that will send a message to the rest of the hypocritical, statist bastards that treason will not be rewarded in any way.
Right now I have NO respect for any of these scumbags, and if they were on fire I wouldn't piss on them to put out the flames.
“Seriously.
Make criminals of us all, and we no longer have anything to lose. They don’t want to pull the cork out of that bottle unless they want to destroy America.”
Ummmm,,, exactly.
I gather you’re not from Arkansas and don’t really know much about the history of Mark Pryor or his daddy, David Pryor and the way they operate politically.
You gather correctly.
You are correct!! If Dirty Harry had needed his vote he would have been right there with the Dems. Vote his A$$ out next election.
can’t tak humidity or extreme heat (I live in the north) though- Woudll ove to move down there but worried abotu the heat and humidity- health condition makes thsoe thigns very difficult to bear
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