Children are being murdered. But weāve known since Sandy Hook the Republicans donāt care. Cost of doing business, murdered children, thatās all. Not worth risking a primary challenge or lost funding. These are the difficult decisions we pay these people to make, it seems.
Heās going to face stiff competition in November, has to come out sounding like a gun loving R or be sent home to the family.
Hereās why the Rs are never going to support any changes even background checks. This story has unnerved me. What this NRA lobbyist has done to FL has been imported to other states, most esp. Stand Your Ground laws.
Feinsteinās pushing legislation similar to what she did in 1994 but thereās no enthusiasm for taking it.
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I thought Joe Lieberman was gone.
Joe Manchin will be right behind Trump when he bursts through the doors to save the students during the next school massacre.
They still think, even with Trump at the bottom of the barrel and the American public enraged at easy access to guns and the NRA and the extraordinary post-massacre efforts of the students at Parkland High School, that things are still the same as always, and they can get away with doing nothing and no one will notice and it will all fade away.
Not this time, motherfuckers. And can we please get enough Dems in the Senate so we can tell Joe Manchin to become the Republican heās always dreamed of being? I am so sick of that motherfucker.
I will grind my teeth to powder, and then say nothing. Joe Manchin is probably the best Senator we can hope for from modern day West Virginia. I wonāt cut my nose off to spite my face and get him replaced with a Rand Paul.
Even if sometimes I really, really want to throw his ass to the wolves.
West Virginia aināt Connecticut.
It is shameful that as a nation we choosing guns over safe schools, safe streets, safe movie theaters, safe country western concerts, safe colleges, safe churches, safe shopping malls.
Why are we ignoring the US Constitution!!! āa well regulated militiaā.
We have limitations on all of our rights to safeguard the greater population (public). You canāt yell FIRE in a movie theater as free speechā¦just like you canāt practice a religious ceremony that kills people.
Over 33,000 Americans die from guns each year! Over 425,000 have died from guns since 9/11/2001!
Americans are shooting fellow Americans!
Manchin needs to be removed from the Democratic Partyā¦his policies and beliefs are 100% Republican white nationalism! The Democrats need to stand for the people. Ma chin is a Republicanā¦he has to go!
The members of Congress are waiting for leadership from Trump. How precious.
No one ever said it was, bit it still doesnāt excuse him. Iām just waiting for the election, when his GOP opponent will be screaming about how everyone should be able to have an assault rifle and calling the Parkland students ācrisis actorsā, and Joe will stand there and smile and say, āWell, maybe we shouldnāt give guns to blind people. We have to draw the line somewhere.ā
In other words, the NRA is dictating that nothing will happen this time, either.
I hear youā¦ he is a real profile in courage.
And meanwhile teachers in his state are entering their second week on strike. Mostly due to poor pay and lack of respect from Republican legislators, but I wouldnāt be surprised if lax gun laws werenāt a part of the equation.
Nah, Manchin sucks. But if he loses, whoever replaces him will be worse.
Thatās not pessimism, thatās just the realities of regional politics.
They donāt learn do they?
Before I was born, my parents lived in the Sierras on a trout farm they owned and ran. My dad used to tell me about their two dogs. One was a shepherd mix who sounded like one of those awesome dogs shepherds can be. The other was a Beagle named Tippy. Both dogs when young confronted porcupines and got faces full of quills. The shepherd only did it once. Tippy came home with a faceful of barbed quills my dad had to pull out with pliers about 2 or 3 times a year.
We have background checks at gun shows in PA.
Guns are still being sold,so what is the problem?
And Trump says heās waiting for congress to send him something. With all this waiting we can be assured that gun manufacturing profits will remain safe.
Ahā¦ the GOPā¦ the Party of Someone Elseās Responsibility. Everything, is always, Someone elseās responsibility.
I do hope that my fellow voters are paying attention.