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The Democrats sought to exploit the horrific Newtown tragedy as their opportunity to ‘never let a crisis go to waste’ and to make an emotion-based appeal to enact their long-proclaimed gun control measures. But when Obama’s gun control package went down in defeat, many of them went through the seven stages of grief for political reasons.
It truly has been a pathetic and disgusting display......
"I want everyone to understand this is just the beginning, not the end... Today, the brand of the Republican Party has become more out of step, more extreme. And that's saying something." - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid
The background-check amendment offered by Sens. Pat Toomey and Joe Manchin was too vague for law-abiding citizens to understand with certainty, and too easy for criminals to avoid. The plan created more questions than it answered about which types of transfers are lawful without a background check and might ensnare law-abiding gun owners simply exercising their constitutional rights. It also left in place a number of gaps that could easily be exploited by criminals intent on obtaining guns.
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The amendment also took an incremental step toward universal background checks, which, as a Justice Department memo written earlier this year suggested, are effective only when coupled with a national registration system. Admittedly, the Toomey-Manchin plan prohibited a national registry. Yet it required a massive expansion of gun ownership data collected by federally licensed dealers to which the government has access.
Oh, don't gloat too much. I find it hard to get at all mad about it. I knew it would fail. It had failure written all over it. There are zero consequences to inaction on gun control. No one will lose an election because s/he voted for or against the bill. Americans have decided that it is not worth their time to care. It's not worth raising a fuss to prevent the next Newtown.
And our politicians know that better than anyone. You'll never lose a bet on American apathy.
The polls say 90% of people are in favor of universal background checks. But 90% are probably also in favor of oxygen or marshmallow creme. That doesn't mean they're going to fight for it.
Something like 86% of Americans favor expanding background checks. The GOP obstruction is a small setback now, but will be the gift that keeps on giving in 2014 and 2016 for Democrats.
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