Posted on 03/24/2021 7:43:12 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Democrats are using the mass shooting in Colorado on Monday to renew their push to eliminate the filibuster and pass new gun control legislation.
Prominent Democrats said the Senate must eliminate the filibuster in order to push through new gun control laws in response to the killings. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.), Rep. Jason Crow (Colo.), Rep. David Cicilline (R.I.), Pennsylvania lieutenant governor candidate John Fetterman, and Pennsylvania Senate candidate Malcolm Kenyatta all called for the filibuster to end in the wake of Monday's attack.
"Things won't get better until Democrats get rid of the filibuster and finally pass gun safety legislation that a huge majority of Americans support," Warren wrote on Twitter. "What are we waiting for – another tragedy?"
On Monday, a man who has been identified by police as 21-year-old Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa began shooting people at a grocery store in Boulder, Colorado. He murdered nine customers and Boulder police officer Eric Talley before surrendering to authorities. He was charged with 10 counts of first-degree murder on Tuesday.
Warren and the other Democrats argued that Alissa's attack justifies getting rid of the filibuster. They said it is impossible to get the 10 Republican votes needed to pass new gun restrictions under the current rules. Instead, they want the rules thrown out so that they can pass such measures as background check expansion and gun bans without the need for any Republican support at all.
President Biden also pressured Congress to pass new gun control legislation on Tuesday during a public address in reaction to the Boulder killings. He called on the Senate to pass the two gun control bills that cleared the House in early March and to implement one of his key campaign promises, a ban on popular firearms like the AR-15.
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Fake gov controls nothing.
I’m cool with Democrats killing the filibuster so long as we don’t reinstall it when we have the majority again. It has by far been more advantageous to Democrats than Republicans over the years.
...assuming after HR1 passes thanks to this Republicans are ever elected to any any office again.
Don’t sell guns to incels, isis supporters and anti-Trumpers.
Probkem solved!
They seem to have toned down the defunding rhetoric. Maybe a deal was made that they backoff of defunding in exchange for Police Departments backing any and all gun control legislation.
Little more fuel to the fire in the thread here.
Boulder Shooter Ranted Online About ‘Racist Islamophobic People’
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3944982/posts
If he came here when he was three, as reported, he came here under W.
It's really at the 11:59PM hour.
However, DC should not be the target. It is expected. Not only will they reinforce DC, and not only does it have massive defenses in place already (ones you and I do not know about), but they will chokepoint all entry points.
It's time to think asymmetrically and out-of-the-box. What places can patriots strike besides DC?
Same thing, no?
Not to be a wise-azz but how do you see them withdrawing from, or demanding change in, this type of governance?
Seems to be damned bitterly hard to be among the early group of change-agents.
It may start with secession by Texas.
You are correct, Mr. Laz. DC should not be the target.
there are plenty of bad people spread around the country that should be of concern.
Secession.
We are the fattest, most passively entertained and least used to sustained physical labor of any people in human history. I think we probably aren’t too close to surpassing our tolerance for this type of governance as long as these conditions prevail.
Freegards
Don’t know about the Texas Govenor. We’re learning all those “conservative” govenors i.e. South Dakota are not what we seem
Yes, and they are trying to purge the military.
You can imagine how that will work out. Most of the pansies will not do well at that.
We knew this was coming.
Just adding clarity.
Boulder, Colorado....muzzie shooter.
Garland Texas....Muhammed cartoon drawing competition, muzzies planned mass shooting, but deputies stopped it.
Boston Marathon...muzzie terrorists from Chechyna kill and maim people with pressure cooker, kill police office at MIT.
Fort Hood, Texas....muzzie major murders soldiers.
Orlando, Florida.....muzzie shooter attacks LBGTQ Pulse nightclub, killing many.
San Bernardino, California....muzzie madman and his wife kill fellow office works at government building.
Then there’s the Las Vegas, Nevada mass shooting on October 1, 2017. The Saudis stayed on the upper floors of Mandalay Bay, known as Four Seasons, when they were in town. Some people believe that the Saudi prince was in Las Vegas and was the real target of moslem gunmen. Rumor has it that the heir to the Saudi throne was in Las Vegas that night, and there is a video taken by a tourist at the Tropicana Hotel, showing heavily armed Las Vegas Metro cops storming the casino, making everyone put their hands up, and grabbing a chubby guy in a polo shirt and whisking him off the property.
The Saudi prince was known to dress like an American and blend into the crowd when visiting Las Vegas.
This theory....I have no idea if it’s true...claims that moslem shooters turned their guns on the crowd below when they couldn’t find the prince. Paddock was the source of the weapons.
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