bipartisan compromise

[vamo]

Know I am preaching to choir here, but the language of the anti's is irking me. How is a bill that was voted so narrowly along party lines bi-partisan. And how is it a compromise when one side wants less gun restrictions and one wants more and the net would be more restrictions.

They need to just call it what it was: the neutered gun control bill that you thought you could squeak out of the senate, so you can say "see I did something."

Admittedly that's a mouthful and a lot less catchy.

 

[Bartholomew Roberts]

The ironic thing is that right after their bipartisan compromise failed, they were offered another bipartisan compromise to improve NICS so that people like the VA Tech shooter wouldn't fall through the cracks - and even knowing that it was this improvement or nothing, 46 Senators who had just lectured all of us on how important background checks were voted to do nothing!

And then they have the temerity to blame the NRA afterwards.

 

[NC-Mike]

The ironic thing is that right after their bipartisan compromise failed, they were offered another bipartisan compromise to improve NICS so that people like the VA Tech shooter wouldn't fall through the cracks - and even knowing that it was this improvement or nothing, 46 Senators who had just lectured all of us on how important background checks were voted to do nothing!

There is a very wide chasm between sides on this issue and that has spawned some regretful events. There is no trust and no agreement on an end-game, hence the rancor.

I fully admit, I would have liked to throw them a bone on the UBC but I do hear many of the other side lamenting how such a good first step was voted down...

Its very much unsettling, this continual battle.

 

[vamo]

I would have liked to throw them a bone on the UBC

I don't completely disagree with that sentiment, but we cannot give in on anything without getting something in exchange. I feel like the current anti 2a strategy is to make minimal changes when the opportunity arises today its UBC, when that doesn't work it will be magazine size. If we say gave them gunshows and internet sales and got back a national ccw that might actually qualify as a compromise.

 

[r1derbike]

There is a very wide chasm between sides on this issue and that has spawned some regretful events. There is no trust and no agreement on an end-game, hence the rancor.

I fully admit, I would have liked to throw them a bone on the UBC but I do hear many of the other side lamenting how such a good first step was voted down...

Its very much unsettling, this continual battle.

Unsettling, and the battle will continue.

This whole charade has shaken the trust in our government, at least for me.

The last several years of political infighting has driven me to disgust, especially since everything around us is crumbling, yet the beltway bozos are so distracted with power plays, they are blind and deaf to what is going on around them, and the world.

Tonight, I am still disgusted. I wish I could wake up, go through the day, and hear or see that our government is doing something constructive to help America, instead of tearing it down.

 

[NC-Mike]

I don't completely disagree with that sentiment, but we cannot give in on anything without getting something in exchange. I feel like the current anti 2a strategy is to make minimal changes when the opportunity arises today its UBC, when that doesn't work it will be magazine size.

Likewise, I don't completely disagree with that either.

But this one did not feel right and once again our "leaders" failed us by not coming up with a workable solution. It would seem there must be a better way than drawing a line in the sand. Hopefully.

 

[NC-Mike]

I wish I could wake up, go through the day, and hear or see that our government is doing something constructive to help America

That would be nice for a change.

 

[Shadow 7D]

Grassley
Everywhere the Anti's are spewing their Vitreol, we need to HAMMER HARD that these Senators DID vote for 'Common sense' background checks...
The Democrats killed it