Yes, this is the fault of the Repugs who utterly caved to the gun lobby, as usual, but this is also the fault of Harry Reid, who wouldn’t change the filibuster rules.
I’ll admit that Toomey-Manchin had problems, particularly that stupid wording about making a federal gun registry illegal, but 90 percent of the country wanted it, as President Obama tells us. Except for the cowardice of the senators in “the world’s greatest deliberative body” who opposed it, it would be on its way to becoming law.
Though the primary opponents were Republicans, four Democrats opposed it also (with their support, it would have passed). All who opposed it should be voted out of office, and I don’t care what party they belong to (here)…
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…and yeah, lack of campaign finance reform is part of this mess too…
…and kudos to Gabby Giffords for this (and by the way, “Instapundit,” f*ck you)…
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Update 1 4/18/13: I don't care if he pitches for our team or not - Papelbon is still an idiot for this.
Update 2 4/18/13: Yep, no problem with letting terrorists and other mental defectives have all the guns they want, but boy, you’d damn well better whip the fear of God into these two law-abiding women whose only alleged offense was to communicate the feelings of the vast majority of this nation (here).
…but for now, the gun rules over all, still.
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