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Scuba

(53,475 posts) Sat Mar 23, 2013, 05:18 PM Mar 2013

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WTF? Obama says Senate has taken steps forward to help protect our kids by reducing gun violence?

Just got this email from the White House ...

Three months after the tragic shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, President Obama says that the Senate has taken important steps forward to help protect our kids by reducing gun violence.

The American people made their voices heard, and the Senate made progress to make it harder for criminals and people with serious mental illnesses to get guns, to crack down on anyone trying to funnel guns to criminals, and to reinstate and strengthen a ban on the sale of military-style assault weapons.

Is this the same Senate that won't even let Diane Feinstein's bill come up for a vote? Is this the same Senate that just blocked the US joining the UN Arms Trade Treaty? Just what constitutes "important steps" for a body charged with passing laws?

Is the White House staff doing acid?

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WTF? Obama says Senate has taken steps forward to help protect our kids by reducing gun violence? (Original Post) Scuba Mar 2013 OP

Cognitive isn't just for Republicans anymore. 99Forever Mar 2013 #1

Feinstein's bill will get a vote as an amendment. tritsofme Mar 2013 #2

99Forever

(14,524 posts)

1. Cognitive isn't just for Republicans anymore.

Reply to Scuba (Original post)

Sat Mar 23, 2013, 05:23 PM

Mar 2013

The line between them gets blurrier every day.

tritsofme

(17,393 posts)

2. Feinstein's bill will get a vote as an amendment.

Reply to Scuba (Original post)

Sat Mar 23, 2013, 05:26 PM

Mar 2013

It just won't get to serve as a poison pill on a base bill that actually has a shot at passage.

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