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GOP Agrees to Vote on Gun Control After 15-Hour Filibuster
time.com ^ | June 16, 2016 | Justin Worland

Posted on 06/16/2016 10:26:03 AM PDT by PROCON

A nearly 15-hour filibuster led by Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut ended early Thursday morning after Republicans agreed to hold votes on gun control measures.

The Senate will vote on a measure banning gun sales to people on the terrorist watch list and a provision requiring background checks at shows and over the internet. Republicans may also offer their own gun control measures.

The filibuster comes just days after a shooting in Orlando that killed 49 people and wounded dozens others. Murphy, joined by most of his Democratic colleagues, recalled his own state’s loss of 27 people during the 2012 Newtown shootings and demanded a serious response.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; boycott; collapse; default; gope; guncontrol; revenues
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To: Windflier

The only other option to voting them out is rebellion...

Let me ask you...Honestly, do you think the patriotic, conservative Americans would be willing to revolt as our founders did???
I think that there are too many that would just sit back and say, “Well, that’s the way it is...I’ll just make the best of it...”

I would hope people would stand up for their country and for their rights, but no one has yet...


41 posted on 06/16/2016 10:47:40 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: pfflier
It’s perfectly OK to reject a GOPe type but having Trump win while losing the house and/or senate will guarantee gridlock.

Wish we had gridlock with the GOPe now with BHO in the White House, but they've surrendered at every opportunity.
42 posted on 06/16/2016 10:49:51 AM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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To: PROCON

It was voted down just six months ago. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2015/12/03/ryan-urges-caution-on-gun-legislation/76714608/

But the `rats know their RAT friends across the aisle are such pusses that all they have to is not let a `crisis go to waste’ and keep up the ‘C’mon, c’mon, c’mon!’ and the GOP folds like lawn chairs.


43 posted on 06/16/2016 10:50:18 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: apillar

I live in CT. Calling Comrade Murphy is a lost cause.


44 posted on 06/16/2016 10:50:20 AM PDT by matt04
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To: IamConservative
What they want is legislation to track transactions such as inheritance.

I would bet just about anything that these vile creatures will word their legislation in such a way as to make it illegal for you to transfer ownership of your firearms to your offspring without a “background check” — (ie: REGISTRATION).

Your children will be in violation of federal law if caught with firearms which the children were not of legal age to own at the time this crap gets passed into law.

45 posted on 06/16/2016 10:51:08 AM PDT by InfraRed
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To: pfflier

Have you been living with your head firmly inserted in your anal cavity for the last 20 years or are you just that naïve? These treasonous republican bastards are worse than the damn democrats. Go pull your head out of your ass, take a good shower and educate yourself. Vote for republicans based on merits? What merits would those be? Bending over for democrats 100% of the time? Using us fools to be elected and then instantly putting on their democrat fellatio knee pads? Just how many more times do you need to be betrayed before you wake the hell up? What a loser!


46 posted on 06/16/2016 10:51:57 AM PDT by DonPaulJonesII (The only thing worse than a democrat is a lousy, dishonest, disloyal scumbag republican.)
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To: JBW1949

I honestly don’t see how Trump is going to become President.

So many people in the NWO are against him. He could get every vote and somehow it would be stolen from him. Or they will kill him.

No vest is going to protect him from a shot to the head. I pray for his safety from the NWO. He needs taste testers like the Kings in the old days.

We need President Trump. God Willing.


47 posted on 06/16/2016 10:51:58 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: PROCON

What we needed was a cooling off period, but here we are rushing headlong into badly thought out measures designed to placate the masses and the special interest groups that lull people into a false sense of security.

We are truly on a very bad slippery slope passing these kind of measures. We are on out way to murky Stalinist/Fascist state where we have secret lists, secret courts and neighbors spying on neighbors.


48 posted on 06/16/2016 10:53:54 AM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: Uncle Miltie

Mitch McTurdle is a traitor. Most of the Senate is worthless. If they were worth a damn, they wouldn’t have made Yertle majority leader.


49 posted on 06/16/2016 10:55:23 AM PDT by NorthMountain (A plague o' both your houses.)
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To: JBW1949

They don’t care about us and any kind of list. This thing is going to pass with 80 or more votes with McCain and his girlfriend leading the RINOs.


50 posted on 06/16/2016 10:55:29 AM PDT by Dahoser (Separation of church and state? No, we need separation of media and state.)
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To: pfflier

Hmmm.

What if one judges the GOP on its merits?

Judging a politician on their individual merits seems like an interesting idea, but what do individual politicians accomplish?

Let’s judge the demonrat party on its merits. What does the demonrat party accomplish? Anything it wants.

What does the GOP accomplish? Whatever the demonrat party wants.


51 posted on 06/16/2016 10:57:05 AM PDT by chris37 (heartless)
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To: RummyChick

I’m afraid this election will have massive voter fraud to get Clinton in office...

This country is going down....


52 posted on 06/16/2016 10:57:33 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: RummyChick

Because you have no idea who and what backs Trump.


53 posted on 06/16/2016 10:58:38 AM PDT by DarthVader (Politicians govern out of self interest, Statesmen govern for a Vision greater than themselves)
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To: JBW1949

“The only other option to voting them out is rebellion...”

Rebellion is the last resort, and far from the only option we have, to fight back against this elitist oligarchy.

Mass demonstrations and widespread acts of civil disobedience are logical and effective interim steps. If we choose not to take them, then yes, a day will come when rebellion is the only option remaining.


54 posted on 06/16/2016 10:59:08 AM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: PROCON; Pelham

I’m a southerner

We’ve always known the GOP was overrated

We lived under their do gooder yoke once

Enjoy y’all


55 posted on 06/16/2016 10:59:57 AM PDT by wardaddy (No wobbly Donald....full steam ahead)
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To: PROCON

CAVED YET AGAIN, PARTY OF THE SPINELESS!


56 posted on 06/16/2016 11:00:10 AM PDT by tina07 (In loving memory of my father,WWII Vet. CBI 10/16/42-12/17/45, d. 11/1/85)
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To: DarthVader

True.

But it better be some heavy hitters in the NWO backing Trump that can stand up to The Cabal.


57 posted on 06/16/2016 11:01:04 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: wardaddy

Clyde Wilson warned us many times.


58 posted on 06/16/2016 11:03:53 AM PDT by Pelham (Islam vs the Free World in a death match)
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To: JBW1949
Let me ask you...Honestly, do you think the patriotic, conservative Americans would be willing to revolt as our founders did??? I think that there are too many that would just sit back and say, “Well, that’s the way it is...I’ll just make the best of it...”

Do you REALLY expect anyone to tell you anything on an interwebs chat board regarding possible revolution?

Sheesh.

59 posted on 06/16/2016 11:04:09 AM PDT by JOAT
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To: Windflier

When leftists have mass demonstrations and acts of civil disobedience, the law enforcement stands back and watches to ensure their safety and do nothing to interfere...

If conservatives have mass demonstrations and acts of civil disobedience, the law enforcement will break things up with mace, batons, rubber bullets and if they feel the need, actual gunfire....


60 posted on 06/16/2016 11:04:22 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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