The Stupid Party Surrenders Again, This Time on Guns

[jimnyc]

IMO, as I've always said, this opens the door. It creates some form of precedent.

Lindsey Graham - can't wait until he retires.

---

The Stupid Party Surrenders Again, This Time on Guns

Ten GOP senators sell their souls to Chuck Schumer and think they’ve made a patriotic deal.

The names of the 10 Republican senators who jumped in bed with Chuck Schumer and Chris Murphy to forge a stupid deal on guns Sunday won’t surprise you.

It’s the usual roster of the Washington Generals, the political version. You know, the basketball team which finds a way to lose to the Harlem Globetrotters every time?

Those guys. Their names are John Cornyn of Texas, Thom Tillis and Richard Burr of North Carolina, Roy Blunt of Missouri, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Susan Collins of Maine, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Rob Portman of Ohio, Mitt Romney of Utah and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania. Burr, Blunt, Portman and Toomey are all leaving the Senate and will likely be replaced with far better conservatives, people with blood and sand. Romney comes up for reelection in 2024 and Cassidy comes up in 2026 and they will almost certainly be shown the electoral gate by Republican voters. Cornyn and Tillis seem destined to underwhelm their voters until they die in political office. As will Graham. And Collins? Well, she’s essentially a welfare Republican; we’re to believe that Maine can’t do better than a GOP senator who’d rather be a Democrat as often as not.

It’s not that the deal is the worst thing this crew could have agreed to. They could have done more damage to the Second Amendment — and quite possibly the First — and we should by no means discount the possibility that they will before it’s all said and done.

But — and we’ll talk about this in a minute — what is the point of making any deals at all on guns?

The Senate compromise is a pale imitation of the radical gun control bills passed in the House that included safe storage mandates, federal “red flag” confiscation, and a ban on semi-automatic gun sales to adults under 21 years old. From the AP . . .

The proposal falls far short of tougher steps long sought by President Joe Biden and many Democrats. Even so, if the accord leads to the enactment of legislation, it would signal a turnabout from years of gun massacres that have yielded little but stalemate in Congress.

Leaders hope to push any agreement into law quickly — they hope this month — before the political momentum fades that has been stirred by the recent mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas.

Rest - https://spectator.org/the-stupid-par...-time-on-guns/

[SassyLady]

Supreme Court challenges? Now that they've had their lives threatened by guns, how will they feel about ruling on them?

[icansayit]

Does anyone here who may have read my posts over the years remember???

How I reminded everyone WHY I do not Trust ANY Politician???

IF they are this willing to destroy our rights...FROM BOTH PARTIES.
How long before the SELFISH, IGNORANT BASTARDS Allow Socialists to DESTROY OUR CONTSTITUTION TOO???
As sleepy Joe Biden likes to say...

[jimnyc]

I just think it's only a matter of time before they try again for another bite at guns and then somehow keep using the prior precedents.

[revelarts]

saw this quote,

"If the Republican Senate is in favor of:
- red flag laws
- amnesty
- not funding border wall
- spending trillions we don’t have
- vaccine mandates
What is the point of the Republican Party again?"

[Gunny]

IMO, as I've always said, this opens the door. It creates some form of precedent.

Lindsey Graham - can't wait until he retires.

---

The Stupid Party Surrenders Again, This Time on Guns

Ten GOP senators sell their souls to Chuck Schumer and think they’ve made a patriotic deal.

The names of the 10 Republican senators who jumped in bed with Chuck Schumer and Chris Murphy to forge a stupid deal on guns Sunday won’t surprise you.

It’s the usual roster of the Washington Generals, the political version. You know, the basketball team which finds a way to lose to the Harlem Globetrotters every time?

Those guys. Their names are John Cornyn of Texas, Thom Tillis and Richard Burr of North Carolina, Roy Blunt of Missouri, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Susan Collins of Maine, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Rob Portman of Ohio, Mitt Romney of Utah and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania. Burr, Blunt, Portman and Toomey are all leaving the Senate and will likely be replaced with far better conservatives, people with blood and sand. Romney comes up for reelection in 2024 and Cassidy comes up in 2026 and they will almost certainly be shown the electoral gate by Republican voters. Cornyn and Tillis seem destined to underwhelm their voters until they die in political office. As will Graham. And Collins? Well, she’s essentially a welfare Republican; we’re to believe that Maine can’t do better than a GOP senator who’d rather be a Democrat as often as not.

It’s not that the deal is the worst thing this crew could have agreed to. They could have done more damage to the Second Amendment — and quite possibly the First — and we should by no means discount the possibility that they will before it’s all said and done.

But — and we’ll talk about this in a minute — what is the point of making any deals at all on guns?



Rest - https://spectator.org/the-stupid-par...-time-on-guns/

Cornyn may have overreached himself this time. Some may recall back when I pointed out Abbott was moderate compared to a lot of Texas Republicans. The fire-eaters are in control of the Texas GOP and they flat out rebuked Cornyn at their convention. His days could be numbered.

Personally, I don't see why anyone needs an AR-15. It's a weapon of war designed to kill people, regardless all the smoke blown /semantical arguments.

The bigger problem is the left getting another toe in the door. On paper, it doesn't look like it will affect law-abiding citizens. How the left will abuse it is the problem. And they always do. All one has to do is look at look at Biden and the Dems' handling of our country so far to see just how much worse it can get. Not hard to connect the dots when conservatives who make any noise against the Admin and/or leftist agenda are labeled domestic terrorists and spied on by DHS.