modified background check

[1worthlessnut]

So happy and relieved that the modified background check was shot down today.

[Snapshot]

It will rear it's ugly head again

[bonecollector]

Mclame still voted for it. We must stay on them, its not over yet.

[1worthlessnut]

Well I guess my emails and phone calls fell on Mccain's deaf ears.

[DesertBull]

What did Flakey Flake do?

[bonecollector]

What did Flakey Flake do?

Voted against it.

[Snapshot]

The Dem's will eventually buy off enough Reublican votes to make it happen at some point. Wait and see.

[Snapshot]

God, I really hate Obama. I really, hate, that lying sack of turds.The shameful day in Washington started when Obama took office.

 

91 % of americans are for expanded background checks? What a bunch of hogwash. This ignorant woman and her skewed statistics. Does she realize over 50 million people own guns.

I bet the 23,000 gun owners on her list are mostly Democrats.

 

 

 

 

Despite an impassioned push by President Barack Obama and an emotional lobbying effort by the families of mass shooting victims, proponents of a compromise measure to expand gun background checks on Wednesday fell six votes short of passage in the Senate.

The vote on the amendment was 54 to 46. Sixty votes were needed for the amendment to be adopted.

The deal was the result of a deal struck between Republican Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania and Democrat Joe Manchin of West Virginia. It would have extended existing background check rules to gun sales made online and at gun shows.

 

Speaking in the Rose Garden after the vote, a visibly frustrated Obama decried the defeat of the measure as parents of victims of last year's Newtown school shootings and former congresswoman Gabby Giffords looked on.

"All in all, this was a pretty shameful day for Washington," he said sternly, urging backers of gun control to continue the fight.

Slamming critics who said that victims were used as "props," Obama said that their voices and experiences should have been welcomed, adding that gun lobbyists "willfully lied" about the consequences of the background check measure.

As the bill was defeated, Patricia Maisch -- a survivor of the Tuscon shooting that targeted Giffords -- yelled "Shame on you!" from the Senate gallery.

After the vote, Maisch said outside the chamber that she screamed when she realized the amendment had been defeated.

"They need to be ashamed of themselves," she said. "I think the ones who voted no ... they have no soul. They have no compassion for the experiences that people have lived through, gun violence, who have had a child or a loved one murdered."

Although backed by many victims of gun violence, including the Newtown families, the legislation was vehemently opposed by the National Rifle Association, who said it infringed on the rights of gun owners.

In a statement, NRA-ILA executive director Chris Cox applauded the proposal's defeat: "This amendment would have criminalized certain private transfers of firearms between honest citizens, requiring lifelong friends, neighbors and some family members to get federal government permission to exercise a fundamental right or face prosecution," he said. "As we have noted previously, expanding background checks, at gun shows or elsewhere, will not reduce violent crime or keep our kids safe in their schools."

 

 

Four Republicans -- Sens. John McCain of Arizona, Susan Collins of Maine, Mark Kirk of Illinois and amendment author Toomey -- broke with the rest of the GOP to support the background check legislation.

 

 

 

Four Democrats -- Sens. Max Baucus of Montana, Mark Begich of Alaska, Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota and Mark Pryor of Arkansas -- voted against it.

 

 

Those Democrats are now the targets of liberal groups vowing to advertise their 'no' votes. In a statement shortly after the defeat, Progressive Change Campaign Committee co-founder Stephanie Taylor slammed the four defectors.

"Today, the Senate voted against the 91% of Americans who support background checks to stop gun violence," she said. "We'll be holding accountable Democrats who voted against their constituents by running ads in their states, featuring some of the 23,000 gun owners who have joined our campaign for common sense gun reform."

[buffhunter]

Remind me to buy those dems a beer that voted it down!!!!!!!!!!! One small victory but we still need to stay on our toes. And I wanted to slap obummer in his face when he said what a bad day it was and how congress failed us....... he sounded like a whiney loser....... calling people liars ha isn't that the pot calling the kettle black??????

[Snapshot]

Remind me to buy those dems a beer that voted it down!!!!!!!!!!! One small victory but we still need to stay on our toes. And I wanted to slap obummer in his face when he said what a bad day it was and how congress failed us....... he sounded like a whiney loser....... calling people liars ha isn't that the pot calling the kettle black??????

The four Dems who voted against it are from red states, with lots of hunters and gun owners. These 4 are up for re-election in 2014. I bet my bottom dollar that if they are re-elected, they will flip flop in a hurry.

[sidwynder505]

Yeah it did not pass the senate!! thank god !! ran by the Dem's!!......imagine what the "House" what have did???>>>LOL!.. to see OBAMANATION that upset was making me feel like!!...well like there is still hope for our nation!! hehehehe sorry i dont curse!!..an i wont! one small victroy!! but we got to keep fighting the good fight!!....all hale the NRA!

[DesertBull]

So, what was the strategy of Harry Reid voting against it? Has to be some sort of loop hole that lets the bill resurface if the Sen Majority leader votes no?

[Snapshot]

So, what was the strategy of Harry Reid voting against it? Has to be some sort of loop hole that lets the bill resurface if the Sen Majority leader votes no?

Exactly. If he votes against it, they can bring it back to life.

[PackerMenges]

I havent felt hopeful for awhile and this just teased me with a glimmer of it. Still a constant fight in front of us but I am so thankful this deal was shot down for the time being. It truly is an irrational, emotionally charged piece of legislation that makes ZERO sense. Any person with a brain should be able to understand that making it harder for legal, good, law abiding citizens to own weaponry only makes the bad ones foam at the mouth and lick their chops. Wolves never sleep, the shepherds must always be ready.

[goinhuntn]

Don't get to excited guys it was definately a victory, but you can bet the farm it is far from over!!! Obama is a disgrace to this country!! The libs will brow beat the dems that voted against it so bad that eventually they will cave in next time. I agree with an earlier post about the dems who voted against it as soon as their reelection is over they will vote for it. McCain needs to go that old geezer is thru & arizona needs him out for sure he is a candy butt!!!