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House Judiciary to end their vacation to work on gun control while McConnell does nothing
True Blue Media ^ | 13/8/19 | Dan Desal Martin

Posted on 08/14/2019 3:10:43 AM PDT by Eleutheria5

House Judiciary Committee members will cut their August break short to get to work on gun violence, in an effort to increase pressure on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to act, the Washington Post reported Tuesday.

Some members want to reinstate the assault weapons ban that expired 15 years ago, while others want to focus on legislation that is more likely to attract bipartisan support. But all House Democrats agree that something needs to be done.

They already passed two major pieces of gun safety legislation in February: the Bipartisan Background Checks Act and the Enhanced Background Checks Act. However, McConnell has refused to allow the Senate to vote on either bill.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; guncontrol; housejudiciary; mcconnell; vacation
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How about the Pathway to Serenity Act, and the Celestial Harmony Act? I'd be for background checks and even enhanced background checks, and red flagging psychos, even, if it weren't for the fact that the titles of these acts are always deceptive.
1 posted on 08/14/2019 3:10:43 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
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To: Eleutheria5

FAKE NEWS: THE SENATE IS IN RECESS. DOH!


2 posted on 08/14/2019 3:13:45 AM PDT by CptnObvious (Question her now.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Alternate headline: While House Prepares to Strip Liberty, Senate Stays Out of Session to Protect It


3 posted on 08/14/2019 3:14:42 AM PDT by cotton1706
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To: Eleutheria5

House Judiciary Committee members will cut their August break short to get to work on gun violence
ONLY IF IT CAN BE TIED TO TRUMP, who are the fooling, these bastards have done nothing in 2 years, nothing!


4 posted on 08/14/2019 3:23:48 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (nicdip.com)
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To: ronnie raygun

They have worked very hard to destroy the unity of the United States. It a communist thing.


5 posted on 08/14/2019 3:41:50 AM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: CptnObvious
FAKE NEWS: THE SENATE IS IN RECESS. DOH!

Uh they're talking about the House committee. Are you saying that they really aren't going back to Washington?

6 posted on 08/14/2019 3:47:08 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Eleutheria5
If the Democrats have done so much to stop violence, why is it in the Democrat run cities that the vast majority of violence occurs?

They pass laws, but then they ignore them.

7 posted on 08/14/2019 3:48:38 AM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (Prayers for our country and President Trump)
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To: PROCON

Ping.


8 posted on 08/14/2019 4:05:07 AM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: Eleutheria5
"I'd be for background checks and even enhanced background checks, and red flagging psychos, even, if it weren't for the fact that the titles of these acts are always deceptive."

That would be policy fitting Soviet Russia or World War 2 Germany. The titles aren't important in comparison to the effects of such laws.

As you know, we already have laws for disarming people properly adjudicated as being severely mentally incompetent. We don't need more rubber stamping by courts following false accusations. And we don't need a system ready for a universal firearms registration regime imposed by fascists/communists. There's no sense in disarming everyone but criminals, commies and fascists.

We've had more than enough influence here from corrupt foreign cultures (examples, parts of northeastern and southernmost Europe).

9 posted on 08/14/2019 4:31:54 AM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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I fear that the situation is more volatile than realized by some and would rather avoid hostilities being fomented by many.

A scenario for the second civil war
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3464618/posts


10 posted on 08/14/2019 4:59:16 AM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: Eleutheria5

Contact the Repub members of the committee and ask to pursue constitutional carry instead of things that can’t work.


11 posted on 08/14/2019 5:16:37 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: cotton1706
Yeah, there's always another side to every story coming out of DC nowadays. Everything is so split along partisan, party lines that when you read a story, you have to check to see where and who it's coming from to know which side of the divide they are.

Every time we have a mass shooting event, the democRATS want to "do something" to solve the gun violence problem. Each time, picking around the edges of our freedoms and constitutional rights, but never solving the problem. Their fixes never would have prevented the most recent incident.

Their goal? To eventually ban guns completely. That will only impact the lawful citizens who have a 2nd Amendment right to own and bear arms. Their "fixits" do nothing to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and mental wack jobs.

But they keep chipping away at our rights until, eventually, they could complete their coup de gras of the 2nd Amendment and take our guns forcibly.

Their latest ploy? To threaten the Supreme Court that if they don't start ruling against guns rights at the democRATS' behest, then they will "pack" the court with Leftists who will do their bidding. Not sure how they will do this if they are not in power in the White House or Senate.

This "red flag" law talk is venturing over into communist dictator territory, where you can call the authorities on a neighbor or family member to exact revenge and get their guns taken away. Or get them killed like the red flag law screwup did to a gun owner in his own house in a cluster f*ck in Maryland. That should be a good lesson as any, not to pass these red flag laws.

12 posted on 08/14/2019 6:04:09 AM PDT by HotHunt (Been there. Done that.)
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To: DoodleDawg

Trump gave them an open door by endorsing red flag rules. That legislation was written, just like obamacare, before the crisis.
He just gave them their dream legislation, heck yeah, they would come back.
Wont take them but a couple of days of kabuki legislation and phony protests from, well maybe no one this time.
Heck people are supporting his gun grab here. It’s genious strategy, right.


13 posted on 08/14/2019 6:22:23 AM PDT by momincombatboots (Do you know anyone who isnÂ’t a socialist after 65? Freedom exchanged cash, a medicare card control.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Sometimes inaction is the most positive action.


14 posted on 08/14/2019 6:25:35 AM PDT by jimfree (My19 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quality exec experience than an 8 year Obama.)
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To: Eleutheria5
National Buy an AR Lower Day

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3771512/posts

15 posted on 08/14/2019 6:50:05 AM PDT by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting)
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To: momincombatboots
Trump gave them an open door by endorsing red flag rules.

Trump was all in on stronger controls after the Parkland shooting, too. Lasted about a day. McConnell isn't going to allow any gun control legislation of any type to make it to the floor of the Senate and Trump isn't going to push him on it.

16 posted on 08/14/2019 7:04:56 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg

What about the bumpstock ban?


17 posted on 08/14/2019 7:10:14 AM PDT by momincombatboots (Do you know anyone who isnÂ’t a socialist after 65? Freedom exchanged cash, a medicare card control.)
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To: CptnObvious

In three weeks the football season will kick off and America will largely have forgotten about these shootings.

Mitch is crazy like a fox.


18 posted on 08/14/2019 7:47:26 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: Eleutheria5

The Dem House is separate from the GOP Senate. All political, nothing new here.


19 posted on 08/14/2019 7:49:47 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: momincombatboots
What about the bumpstock ban?

What about it? How many people have turned their bumpstocks in? How many have been prosecuted for owning one?

20 posted on 08/14/2019 7:58:58 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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