Of course, gun-control laws are mostly bad. And mostly unconstitutional.
Disclosure: the authors are my legal counsel in the Mann lawsuit.
[Update a few minutes later]
Why Obama is losing on guns:
…Democrats could have threatened to primary these Democrats or withhold campaign funds, but that’s not very realistic in states in which these moderates may barely hang on in an election in which the Democrats could lose their majority. The White House can try to ply them with pork, although that’s a lot harder to do these days since it isn’t clear there will even be a budget. And the president’s not very popular in many states, so an offer to campaign with and for these Democrats isn’t very enticing. For now it seems the Democrats may try to water down the Toomey-Manchin amendment and try to wean away a few red-state Democrats. It is a sort of legislative limbo in which the bar gets lower and lower, but in this case it’s not clear the red-state Democrats want to play the game at all.
It is a misnomer, then, to blame the “gun lobby” for the difficulty in passing legislation. The red-state Democrats, like most of their Republican colleagues, are reflecting their own constituents’ views. If you polled specifically in the states where these Democrats come from, I bet you’d find gun regulation and bans a whole lot less popular than the nation at large. (I imagine some of them are in fact polling.) If the president were more popular in red states or more able to induce enthusiasm, then that might have made a difference.
And it is still possible that the needle can be threaded. Unfortunately for the president, whatever passes will bear scant resemblance to his desired legislation.
Of course, he’s losing on guns for the same reason that he loses on many things — his agenda is not that of the public. They continue to want real jobs, and he continues to ignore their wants.
Oh? What’s this?
“Senator Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.) said on the floor this morning that background checks would not have stopped Newtown-shooter Adam Lanza from getting a gun. “Let me be clear: universal background checks are very important – I strongly support them – but they would not have been prevented the tragedy in Newtown,” Feinstein said.”
Do tell!
Obama is spending so much time on this gun ban that he couldn’t go to Thatcher’s funeral.
1) female.
2) British.
3) significantly to the “right” of Marx.
There was no way he was going. None.
Not even for a free pass to golf anywhere in the Empire for life.
“Obama is spending so much time on this gun ban that he couldn’t go to Thatcher’s funeral.”
I was hoping “Il Dufe” would keep his out-thrust Mussolini chin away from the Thatcher funeral. Why should he show up and deliver some hypcritical eulogy about what a great person she was since they pretty much represent completely opposite political philosophies?
…and it’s dead.
Rest well, gentlemen, but not for too long.
It was pretty cool listening to him while like a puppy at his press conference.
Quite the temper tantrum indeed. I’m relieved he didn’t go to Thatcher’s funeral, honestly. He is most embarrassing for this nation.
That temper tantrum is pure play-acting for the Lo-Fo masses, and the besotted women (of either sex) who are “in love with my President”. The Dear Leader will use this loss to show how he needs to win the House in 2014…in fact he said that in his tantrum.
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I have a whole bunch of lefties on my Twitter feed who are grinding their teeth over not being “represented” in their desire to take 2nd amendment rights away from more of their fellow citizens. I keep writing little replies with various amounts of cynicism and then don’t hit “tweet” because I remember this is not actually a conversation I want to have on Twitter 🙂
Did Biden’s panel or commission or whatever it was called ever issue a final report and legislative recommendations? Why did the Obama Administration once again out-source writing proposed legislation to Democrats in the Senate? The White House gang (but unfortunately, not the not the hives in EPA, HHS, etc.) does not even try to govern, which has had both good and bad impacts over the past 51 months. I believe POTUS and VPOTUS could have done a much better job trying to get what they wanted. (It’s good that they did not do a better job on this one, in my opinion, as a firearms owner.) Maybe a small part of POTUS’s brain realizes that, but his narcissistic personality can’t fully accept that notion. So he lashes-out at others for not getting what he wanted.
“If the president were more popular in red states or more able to induce enthusiasm, then that might have made a difference.”
I’ve heard this a number of times, in various forms over the entire time this current debate has been going on. And I do NOT understand it. Those making such statements ass-u-me that EVERYONE in Blue States are slaveringly following the WH and Obumbles ideas on guns, magazines, gun bans, gun grabs, etc, blah, blah, blah. That’s obviously NOT true, because there are MANY people in the Blue States who are ALSO fighting this stupidity!
And many of them say openly that they are gun owners, 2nd Amendment supporters and believers as well as being Life, Long, Dem, O, Crats!