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I'll go with history. Time and time again the Democrats would rather score punitive points on Republicans than actually control guns (whatever that means). The same old crap will fail to pass into law, and the Democrats will be able to point fingers and raise money. The histrionics on this thread and in the world all work in the Democrats favor and they will milk it for as long as they can. In the end, like usual, nothing will change.

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Don't forget the eight years when Obama was in office.

He didnt forget.

I covered that. See bold print above. ^^^

I was in the Wholesale Firearms Industry during both of those POS’s “Administrations”.

You wouldn’t believe the numbers of guns I sold and train car loads of ammo.

I see now.

THIS ...

I'm not gonna give up everything I've worked for over a dam gun, ain't gonna lose my driving license, insorence, health care. Freeze bank account, debit cord, turn off my power and cable god only knows what they'll do if we don't give up the guns.

I stand with law enforcement and I'm a lifelong republican USA USA USA

Thats right , its part of their agenda , they have to take the guns .

Good, it might be the spark we finally need to set off this powder keg. This party should’ve been started a long time ago.

Hope you gentlemen have bought all the ammo you needed. It’s fixing to disappear worse then before!

That is sooooo 2021. We’ve moved on to saving the kids from gun violence now. Gotta have that platform to run on in November doncha know.

I've been thinking about buying a gun....hmmmm....lol

Biggest piece of the known future spoken was shiet show .
Outside of that it’s hard to say .
Have braced for the worst many times to see it pass by .
But we now have a resident that hates us back , passionately .
Plus it creates so many digs for election schemes which I don’t understand why the play .
They could and probably will steal it like always .
It’s a shame we can’t get the right people to look into these killers social life and see who it is that gets inside their head .
I am convinced that timing is to dam close to often to be coincidence.
Kenneth

Here it comes: FedGov is going to stick it to The People - both parties:

https://www.kten.com/story/46582686...on-a-bipartisan-solution-on-gun-violence

Exclusive: McConnell says he has directed Cornyn to engage with Democrats on a 'bipartisan solution' on gun violence

By Lauren Fox, Morgan Rimmer, Ted Barrett and Clare Foran, CNN

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell told CNN on Thursday he met earlier in the day with Texas Sen. John Cornyn and encouraged the senior Republican senator to begin discussions with Democrats, including Sens. Chris Murphy of Connecticut and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, to see if they can find a middle ground on legislation to respond to the tragic Texas elementary school shooting.

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are facing enormous pressure to take action in the wake of the horrific shooting, but members on both sides acknowledge the uphill battle to find common ground given the highly polarized political climate around gun legislation and widespread GOP opposition to stricter gun control.

It is significant, though, that McConnell has decided to weigh in and is giving a greenlight to a bipartisan effort on a potential legislative response to the shooting. But it still remains to be seen what, if anything, talks will amount to given that countless mass shootings in recent years have failed to break the partisan stalemate over the issue of gun policy in Congress.

McConnell would not say specifically what the contours of that legislation should be, instead signaling he wants Cornyn to be the one to negotiate.

"I met with Senator Cornyn this morning. As you know he went home yesterday to see the family members and begin the fact finding of this awful massacre and I have encouraged him to talk with Sen. Murphy and Sen. Sinema and others who are interested in trying to get an outcome that is directly related to the problem. I am hopeful that we could come up with a bipartisan solution," McConnell told CNN.

Legislation to respond to mass shootings and counter gun violence has long been one of the most divisive and intractable policy issues facing lawmakers.

Cornyn said earlier on Thursday that he is going to meet today with Murphy, one of the most prominent Democrats on the issue of gun policy, to see what can be worked on. He and Murphy have actually met on and off for the last year on this issue and are going to try and resume some of their talks.

He said he doesn't know if they can get there on background checks or other bills, but he did say "this hopefully will provide a new, greater sense of urgency."

Cornyn has also said that he does not want to see the shooting used as a way to infringe on gun rights.

"There's a whole list of things that we can consider, but I think particularly mental health, access to mental health treatment is high on that list," he said, adding, "I think we need to be open to whatever, wherever the evidence leads us. I would say that this is not an excuse to infringe the Second Amendment rights of law abiding citizens doing that will do nothing to fix tragedies like this."

Talks 'just getting started'

Later on Thursday Cornyn said he had "touched gloves 'with Murphy and that their talks are "just getting started."

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has indicated that Democrats are willing to give some time and space for efforts to reach some kind of bipartisan compromise on gun legislation, though he has noted the odds are long. He has also made clear that these efforts will not be given an unlimited amount of time to play out.

"We have to try everything. We must not leave a single stone unturned," Schumer said earlier on Thursday.

He added, however, "this is not an invite to negotiate indefinitely. Make no mistake about it, if these negotiations do not bear fruit in a short period of time, the Senate will vote on gun safety legislation."

Senate Democrats took steps on Tuesday night to place two House-passed background checks bills onto the legislative calendar so they can be voted on. It's unclear, however, when the Senate might vote on the measures and they would not be expected to overcome a GOP filibuster.

Murphy described the effort he is engaged in, saying, "we'll have a series of meetings today to set the table for next week and then we will work really hard to try to find a bipartisan product."

He sounded a note of caution similar to Schumer however, adding, "I'm not going to negotiate forever."

"I've been through this before," he said. "I know sometimes Republicans are more interested in talking than doing, so if we can't get some progress by the end of next week, then I'll say to Sen. Schumer it's time to take votes. And Sen. Schumer has committed that we're gonna have votes one way or the other on the floor of the Senate on issues like background checks."

A number of Democrats are expressing optimism about the prospects, despite the extremely long odds of any kind of agreement.

Sen. Joe Manchin, a moderate West Virginia Democrat, called the bipartisan meeting on gun reform "very encouraging."

He said that members involved were looking at "a little bit of everything" -- such as background check expansion and red flag laws -- to see what could get bipartisan support.

Asked if he believed Democrats could get 10 Republicans on board, he said that he "always" believes they will. "You quit thinking about the politics and can you get elected on these votes. This is about basically protecting children. If they can't rise to that, they ought to deep, deep dig inside and find out why in the heck we're here."

Most legislation requires at least 10 Republican votes to overcome a filibuster in the Senate given the current 50-50 partisan split.

Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, who has been engaged in gun reform talks with colleagues on both sides of the aisle for years, said Thursday when asked about red flag laws and other gun-related measures that "for the first time," he and Cornyn and other Republican colleagues are "talking seriously," after the shooting in Texas.

"That's a major cause of encouragement to me," he said. "I'm hoping now we can reach that critical mass that will get us to 60 votes. I'm hopeful for the first time in a long time."

I personally think it’s these hardcore video games kids have grown up playing since they was 5 years old. This kind of crap didn’t start until all of the call of duty and games like that came out. Kids minds at an early age can get anything embedded no matter what it is!

Think farm country would shut off the food to the liberal cities?

17+million ARs out there...

Les sanglots longs des violons de l'automne

blessent mon coeur d'une langueur monotone.

Sorry. I do agree that parents are letting their kids do all kinds of stuff they shouldn't, but whenever I see someone talk about the video games, this is what I see in my head...

And right here is the perfect summation of how it is going to happen. And it is much closer than you think,