Background check defeated...Obama pissed.

g under p wrote:

fife wrote:

pandora wrote:

As someone said this wasn't expected to pass so I wonder how many got busy and wrote, called,
daily their representatives if they wanted this to pass .... like the very many who didn't want it.
It's important to join groups, put your $$$ where your mouth is, contact your representatives
for the causes you believe in. I hope everyone here put their 2 cents worth in. And 90% of what :?
not the entire population. Must be Obama math again.... liar.... we see that now right?

are you telling people to lobby government with $$$? cause i have a feeling that this is the root of all your problems in your country.

Jeanwah wrote:

pandora wrote:

guess if you look at things negatively... which might be a theme for some...
should I ask why yet again :?

people join organizations that promote what they believe in and together they work
for policy they want to see.

The key word here though was not money but work ...
hope everyone worked towards the outcome they wanted.

It's delusional to think that it's the people who have not bugged their senators enough for the the reason it got voted down. It got voted down due to politics and lobbying for the NRA. Have you even read the rest of the thread?

Byrnzie wrote:
Some things can only be confronted with satire:


http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/b ... eople.html

Courageous Senators Stand Up to American People
Posted by Andy Borowitz
April 18, 2013

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—In the halls of the United States Senate, dozens of Senators congratulated themselves today for having what one of them called “the courage and grit to stand up to the overwhelming wishes of the American people.”

“We kept hearing, again and again, that ninety per cent of the American people wanted us to vote a certain way,” said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky). “Well, at the end of the day, we decided that we weren’t going to cave in to that kind of special-interest group.”

“It was a gut check, for sure, but we had to draw a line in the sand,” agreed Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S. Carolina). “If we had voted the way the American people wanted us to, it would have sent the message that we’re here in Washington to be nothing more than their elected representatives.”

Calling yesterday’s Senate action “a bipartisan effort,” Senator Mark Pryor (D-Arkansas) said, “This proves that on a matter that affects the safety of every man, woman, and child in the nation, we can reach across the aisle to defy the interests of all of them.”

Senator McConnell agreed that yesterday’s vote “sent a powerful message,” adding, “If the American people think that just because they voted us into office and pay our salaries, benefits, and pensions, we are somehow obliged to listen to them, they are sorely mistaken.”

You are correct when you have Senators like McConnell who make statements like this ^^^^^^. Pandora what would any contact of our representatives do when some have this kind of thinking. It would have ZERO EFFECT and it is a delusional thought to think any lobbying of reps would make a difference in making this bill pass.

Peace

RustyShackelford wrote:

The use of polling numbers in this thread is funny. Does anyone even know where these polls came from? What were the exact questions asked? Who was asked? I know I have never been polled on this issue. This is like saying...90% of the people on this board votes for who Eddie Vedder wants them to vote for.

Why don't they try to enforce the current laws on the books instead of trying to create new ones? A felon who goes into a gun store and tries to buy a gun is suppose to be prosecuted. In 2010, apparently some 15000+ felons attempted to buy a gun and were denied with a background check. Only 44 were prosecuted...