When pigs flyâŚ
There goes the A+ rating.
BUT! Would he have run into the school, like our fearless leader? Believe me, I donât think so. Even though Iâm sure heâs a great, great person. Very great.
Huckabee Sanders clarified that Trump mentioned the CONCEPT of raising the age limit. Brave in words and actions, that guy.
âPrivately interested?â
What a cute conviction. I bet it lasts for all of ten minutes.
Arenât these the same guys endlessly saying thereâs no such thing as an assault rifle? Methinks Mr. A+, crocodile tears notwithstanding, is highly likely to be point man on an effort to craft legislation that sounds great and does next to nothing. That way they can appease the rest of us while continuing to fondle their rifles. Iâd be thrilled to be wrong.
Key phrase: âprivately receptive to his proposals.â
Slowly the GOP is starting to realize that the NRA is now a toxic association that will hurt them more than they help politically. As the NRAâs popularity plummets, we might see a pile on of politicians from both parties competing to vilify them. It might only take a year or two before the NRA is as marginalized as the KKK. We can only hope.
Yeah, when you show anything other than slavish agreement with the NRA, they start pulling out all this arcane gun knowledge to try and show you donât know what youâre talking about or not being reasonable.
Iâm willing to give Rep. Mast the benefit of the doubt here, but until he introduces a bill that specifically bans the ownership and sale assault weapons, and the components thereof, Iâm in wait and see mode.
when Manchin (sp?) is on board we may start to get someplace
Mast said he was inspired to write the op-ed after he visited a pool with his family and realized his children were all âsitting ducksâ if someone decided to attack the pool and there wasnât much he could do to save them, even though he was carrying a concealed pistol.
Ha! Just bring Donald Trump with you to the pool! Cadet Bone Spurs will run right in there, even without a gun, and take any shooter out, all while calling you a pansy-ass wussieâŚ
How bad of a day is it for you when you find out that youâre more toxic to the GOP than fucking Nazis? Hey NRA! Sucks to be you!
It was law once before until GOP morons stepped on to the money train.
So, in crafting the 1994 ban, lawmakers mainly focused on 18 specific firearms, as well as certain military-type features on guns. Complicated flow charts laid it all out. Certain models of AR-15s and AK-47s were banned. Any semiautomatic rifle with a pistol grip and a bayonet mount was an "assault weapon."Dec 17, 2012
Are we sure this guy is a Republican? Maybe itâs the fact that he used to live in Parkland thatâs done it. Republicans donât usually speak out until something affects them personally and directly.
This is the tip of the wedge. The way Republican unity begins to fracture.
Small baby steps towards sanity? Hopeful, but not holding my breathâŚ
Or, more accurately, like our fearless leader claimed he would have done, two weeks after the event occurred.
As Andy Borowitz calls him, âThe Last Responderâ!
Brian Mast will have a tough Democratic opponent - former State Department official Loren Baer. Mast is showing his fellow Republicans a way to face the 2018 elections. If his colleagues in the House donât take him up on his proposal, they will be unprotected against the Democratic wave. If Mast canât move his colleagues, that inability will allow Baer to make Mast a target.
Manchin was behind (in fact was the co-author of) the universal background check bill/amendment that was introduced after the Sandy Hook massacre.
That failed too, despite polling showing overwhelming public support (over 80%) for the measure. The best Congress money can buy.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2013/04/17/manchin-toomey-gun-amendment-fails/
OT: Esquire just posted a nice critique of Jon McNaughtonâs latest piece of right-wing jingoist âartâ: