Fake Gun-Nuts Collude on Senate Gun Vote

Chuck Schumer and the Democrats orchestrate a careful charade of pro-gun votes, defeating the NRA while allowing vulnerable senators to vote Yes, but their Ayes really mean No.

Mayors v. Thune: Mayors defeat the NRA.

(HuffPo)

"As the vote neared an end, the door swung open and in bounded Pryor. 'Mr. President! Mr. President!' he shouted, getting the attention of the desk.

"Comfortable that Byrd wouldn't be making the trip, and with Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) voting no, Pryor switched his vote to a yes and the amendment failed by two, 58-39. Pryor (D-Arkansas) could now say at home that he stuck with the National Rifle Association."

— Ryan Grim (Huffington Post)

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It took me a long time to figure out that I'm not against guns as much as I'm against the people who really, really like them. These trigger-happy birth certificate conspiracy nuts running the GOP through the NRA are dangerously crazy.

As it is for certain church-sponsored marriage licenses, Senator Thune's NRA-sponsored ammendment would force states to respect the gun laws of other states when out-of-state pistol-packin' visitors come a-calling.

"Toward the end of the tally, Colorado Democrats Michael Bennet and Mark Udall walked in together and headed straight for Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), the third ranking Democrat in the Senate. Schumer gave Bennet a signal. Bennet looked back at Udall, who nodded."

In Thune's ideal world, a state that forbids felons from owning guns would have to allow some felon from a felon-with-a-gun state to carry his weapon.

A state that does NOT allow guns in school, church, or a bar would HAVE to allow the felon to cary his gun in their schools, churches, and bars... care of the NRA.

"With the dual green light, Bennet, a native of gun-hostile Washington, D.C., cast a yea vote for a radical weakening of gun laws. Udall followed him with another yes. The pair, secure that their yes votes wouldn't be enough to see the measure pass, walked together back up the aisle and sat side by side to take in the rest of the affair.

The occasional need for the people to rise up against their government is the reason the founding fathers left guns in the people's hands. The nostalgic paeans and political pabulum about the proud tradition of hunting... something fewer than 8% of Americans engage in any more... is nothing but rhetoric not even mentioned in the Constitution.

After eight years of Cheney and more to come from Lynn...



...you don't really want the government to be the only armed presence in America.

"In Wisconsin, Democrat Russ Feingold voted with the NRA while fellow Dem Herb Kohl knocked it down."

Russ Feingold, the real MOST liberal leftist in the senate, pretending to be a gun nut for the NRA crazies?

Now THAT's how crazy it gets.

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