So - Republicans will do NOTHING? Again. Then paste ...

[Whiskeytide]

… that sick shit all over them. Pass a SIMPLE, stand alone background check bill in the house. Today. No riders or amendments. And no over-reach. It CAN’t have any other shit in it!!! Straight up and straight forward background check law. Bring it up for a vote in the Senate and let them vote against it.

Then pass one requiring a strict permit requirement for the purchase or possession of high capacity magazines. Call ‘em “school children slaughtering magazines”. Call the bill the “school children protection from bullets’ bill.

Then one that imposes stiff penalties on gun sellers who sell guns to people with known mental illness.

Then one that makes the minimum age 21.

Etc., etc.

Simple, stand alone bills that 70%+ Americans agree with. The key here is to keep our own wish list stuff out of these bills. Don’t give them reasons to oppose them, or ammo for FO࿖ News to spin.

And the paint the assholes with their no votes.

[jimfields33]

1. They are going to wait until after the recess

[Demsrule86]

3. Republicans won't do anything and we don't have the numbers to do it by ourselves.

[Whiskeytide]

5. That's the point. Make them go on the record. n/t

[Demsrule86]

8. We also make our people go on the record ... in some areas that won't help,

If we could fix this, I would right now. But we can't.

[Whiskeytide]

9. That's a valid observation. But I genuinely think ...

… that the support for some basic, common sense measures would benefit us more than hurt us.

How can any reasonable person oppose background checks and age restrictions on people seeking to purchase tactical weapons DESIGNED for mass killings? That is, unless they are being paid by lobbyists to oppose?

And again, my point about this strategy is to carefully NOT include anything controversial in the bills. Stick only to the measures known to be supported by the vast majority of the electorate. I’m talking about a 1 or 2 paragraph bill that can’t be twisted out of context. Call it the “Respect for Law Abiding Gun Owners” bill, targeting the non-law abiding offenders as people who should never own such a weapon - like troubled 18 year old teenagers.

It’s NOT going to pass. Agreed. But we know most of not all republicans will vote against it, right? No matter how simple and rational it is. Then they’re on record, and we can saturate the airwaves in the run up to the midterms.

And yes, I realize this is the very definition of politicizing this tragedy. But it is a political policy issue. It’s time we treated it as such.

[Demsrule86]

11. I don't doubt that is true. However, this is a midterm and while I hope it will be different this

year, historically we face a low turnout.

[Demsrule86]

2. And you find that surprising or shocking. I don't.

[Whiskeytide]

6. I don't either. But I'm saying use it. n/t

[Demsrule86]

7. Ok

[NCDem47]

4. They'll talk "mental illeness"...

But nobody will advance a bill. Fund anything.

They know this will all blow over. Like always.

[Whiskeytide]

10. We have to push it to the forefront with legislation. Don't let it blow over. n/t