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SayWut

(153 posts) Tue Mar 19, 2013, 10:07 AM Mar 2013

Assault Weapons Ban Probably Isn’t Happening [View all]

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Assault Weapons Ban Probably Isn’t Happening

It's always seemed unlikely that Congress would reinstate a version of the 1994 assault weapons ban, and Harry Reid is now poised to put the final nail in the coffin. Politico reports that following a meeting with the Senate majority leader on Monday, Dianne Feinstein said the bill she sponsored won't be part of the Democratic gun bill that might be offered on the Senate floor as early as this week. “My understanding is it will not be [part of the base bill],” Feinstein said. “It will be separate.” The assault weapons ban would be offered as an amendment, which would almost certainly be defeated.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/03/assault-weapons-ban-probably-isnt-happening.html

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She'll be back with it again next year, as she does every year slackmaster Mar 2013 #1

it's called trying to save lives samsingh Mar 2013 #3

Maybe we could save lives if we banned hammers. Remmah2 Mar 2013 #4

the same old useless arguments samsingh Mar 2013 #19

The statement was that we needed to save lives. Remmah2 Mar 2013 #22

Well, Feinstein's made plenty of 'em. Eleanors38 Mar 2013 #25

No, it is not. Clames Mar 2013 #5

they are not mutually exclusive. samsingh Mar 2013 #20

Sacrifice the Democratic Party to save ~300 lives sir pball Mar 2013 #10

Naaah. She's a self-righteous prohibitionist. Including pot. nt Eleanors38 Mar 2013 #24

If you REALLY want to save lives ... holdencaufield Mar 2013 #31

i'm not worried about a lunatic massacring 20 kids with a large drink cup samsingh Mar 2013 #32

I can't sleep just thinking about it holdencaufield Mar 2013 #33

meanwhile guns are massacring kids samsingh Mar 2013 #34

And firearms are also protecting our kids holdencaufield Mar 2013 #35

not as many as are being killed samsingh Mar 2013 #36

How do you know? holdencaufield Mar 2013 #37

have you read the news? samsingh Mar 2013 #38

Have you read my post? holdencaufield Mar 2013 #39

your post is similar to what the climate deniers say and i completely reject it samsingh Mar 2013 #40

How could anyone deny climate? holdencaufield Mar 2013 #43

there are many who manage to deny it samsingh Mar 2013 #44

It's the only song she knows the words to. N/T DonP Mar 2013 #11

what a relief to the lovers of death and destruction samsingh Mar 2013 #2

Let's see you explain why one model of semi-automatic shotgun.... Clames Mar 2013 #6

they should both be banned, but the gun lobby has samsingh Mar 2013 #17

Gun lobby has nothing to do with why one is exempted and the other is not. Clames Mar 2013 #23

"lovers of death and destruction"? AnotherMcIntosh Mar 2013 #8

i don't think everyone who owns a gun is a lover of death and destruction samsingh Mar 2013 #18

can you name a place where a ban worked as advertised? gejohnston Mar 2013 #21

that is complete utter nonsense samsingh Mar 2013 #26

can you name another product that gejohnston Mar 2013 #27

cars samsingh Mar 2013 #29

not even close gejohnston Mar 2013 #30

Woohoo! NaturalHigh Mar 2013 #7

It's dead, Jim. It's dead. Pullo Mar 2013 #9

Three tip offs that DiFi was grandstanding sarisataka Mar 2013 #12

You definitely hit the high points. NaturalHigh Mar 2013 #13

That's good. The AWB as I've seen it described is a bloated, inefficient, and petronius Mar 2013 #14

This gun ban attempt, based on cosmetics, poisoned the well for other measures Pullo Mar 2013 #15

That's pretty much how I see it: I thought VP Biden overall came up petronius Mar 2013 #28

^^^^ what you said ^^^^ Tuesday Afternoon Mar 2013 #41

If they were really serious about reducing gun violence kudzu22 Mar 2013 #16

Some good news for America and her citizens. ileus Mar 2013 #42