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I'll say it again, there was no vote on background checks in the Senate. Anybody who tells you otherwise is either lying or is stupid. There was no vote on background checks. That 54 to 46 vote the Senate had recently was NOT a vote on background checks. There has not been a vote on background checks in the Senate
You have to say this about three or four more times.
Then people will believe it, and it will become The Truth.
You will notice that historical data is presented without % signs, but current data is presented with them.
Go to the bottom of page 4.
Under question 24, it clearly states that 91% of people favor universal background checks, 8% oppose, and 1% don't know.
The same data is presented at the bottom of the page as Support 91, Oppose 8, DK/NA 1.
There is absolutely nothing to indicate that they only asked this person of 100 people. The total sample for this poll was 1,711.
If you have information that proves otherwise, please share it.
But apparently you don't. Reposting that same screenshot again -- which conveniently crops out the numbers with percent signs that match the historical data -- will only prove that you are incapable of comprehending the difference between raw numbers and percentages -- or, worse, that you do comprehend it but are knowingly telling a bald-faced lie.
Same old same old. Nothing can get done in the Senate anymore unless you can get a super majority of 60 votes to overcome the usual Republican fillibuser, so essentially, nothing gets done.
I find it absolutely hilarious to see lefties complain about the 60 vote rule when it was the DEMOCRATS who created it.
"In 1975 the Democratic-controlled Senate[5] revised its cloture rule so that three-fifths of the senators sworn (usually 60 senators) could limit debate, except on votes to change Senate rules, which require two-thirds to invoke cloture.[
Above all else, these guys do whatever it takes to keep their jobs. If they believed 90 percent of Americans supported this, they would have supported it too! The fact is that the overwhelming majority of emails, faxes, and phone calls that flooded their offices supported rejecting any gun control bills. They listened to their respective constituents.
It's actually worse than that... voting to not even bring it to the table is the ultimate in cowardly moves. Who in their right mind goes against 90% of the will of the people they're supposed to represent?
Meddling in the subversion of a constitutional right is a very sensitive thing, logline.
The Senators who opposed cloture and those who opposed yesterday's amendments pertaining to "assault" rifles, high-cap magazines and UBCs are, in my opinion, extremely courageous people (under the circumstances, at least) who ultimately didn't allow the uninformed, emotionally-charged passions of a supposed majority trump those of a minority with constitutional protections.
American Federalism is a beautiful thing, isn't it?
Meddling in the subversion of a constitutional right is a very sensitive thing, logline.
Get real, will you? What happened to your common sense?
Undergoing a background check in no way subverts your 2nd Amendment rights to own a gun. Allowing crazies and criminals to get guns INFRINGES UPON MY RIGHTS!
Above all else, these guys do whatever it takes to keep their jobs. If they believed 90 percent of Americans supported this, they would have supported it too! The fact is that the overwhelming majority of emails, faxes, and phone calls that flooded their offices supported rejecting any gun control bills. They listened to their respective constituents.
One reason I was on the phone telling those that voted yes what I thought of them
brushrunner
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