DiFi’s Ban on “Assault Rifles” Not Likely to Pass so What’s the

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DiFi’s Ban on “Assault Rifles” Not Likely to Pass so What’s the Real Agenda? UPDATED With Sen. Ted Cruz Statement NRA Responds

The good news is: Obama and the Senate Democrats have no intention of passing more idiotic gun legislation in response to the Newtown massacre. The bad news is that they also have no intention of passing any legislation about the mentally ill, which would actually do something to reduce these mass shootings.
Instead, the Democrats will jawbone about “assault weapons” and other meaningless gun laws for the sole purpose of scaring soccer moms into hating the National Rifle Association. Expect to hear a lot about Republicans preferring “the gun lobby” to “children.” (Which is evidently not at all like preferring the teachers lobby to children.)
Democrats are hoping to pick up another dozen congressional seats in 2014, so they need terrified women.
Just don’t expect a vote. Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid cannot afford a vote on any of these nonsense gun laws because he needs to protect the seats of Democrats who have to get re-elected in districts where voters know something about guns.
Even the stupidest politician has to know how utterly meaningless “assault weapon” bans are. (In fairness, New York’s Rep. Carolyn McCarthy and Gov. Andrew Cuomo may not know.) But Democrats need to gin up the most easily fooled voters.

There may be some truth to that, but I think Bob Owens is closer to the mark:

Let’s skip the crap: Democrats have zero chance of passing Dianne Feinstein’s fantasy ban on semi-automatic rifles through the Senate, much less the House of Representatives.
It isn’t even their real goal. It’s a tactical diversion. For now, at least.
What Feinstein and her fellow bullies want is to browbeat legislators to “compromise.”
In Democratese, “compromise” is when they demand a dozen liberties be stripped from you, and give the most outlandish rights away and “accept” just one or two of your freedoms being stripped away.
The apparent real targets of the various Democratic bans floating through Washington are:

• Bans of standard capacity magazines
• A national gun registry
• tracking, limiting sales of ammunition, or stopping online sales of ammunition.

http://nicedeb.wordpress.com/2013/01...e-real-agenda/

[GREENCOUNTYPETE]

woke up to the news this morning , just in time to hear Biden say he is not as concerned about passing an "assault weapons ban " as he was about limiting the number of rounds in a magazine


but don't forget we had 10 years of useless magazine limits , and CA , NY, NJ , HI, and possible a few other states kept that ban now for 18-19 years still with no affect on crime

how do you sell something as absolutly essential in one breath then the next say but they are used in such a tiny % any way , the better question when you back talk yourself like that how does anyone believe you the next time you say anything.

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Originally Posted by GREENCOUNTYPETE

woke up to the news this morning , just in time to hear Biden say he is not as concerned about passing an "assault weapons ban " as he was about limiting the number of rounds in a magazine


but don't forget we had 10 years of useless magazine limits , and CA , NY, NJ , HI, and possible a few other states kept that ban now for 18-19 years still with no affect on crime

how do you sell something as absolutly essential in one breath then the next say but they are used in such a tiny % any way , the better question when you back talk yourself like that how does anyone believe you the next time you say anything.

The problem actually is with conservatives. We have to hold on to our old BS idea that it is not if you win or lose but how you play the game. Conservatives just cant get it in their heads that it doesn't make any difference how many times you lie or what your credibility is. SO the Conservatives cave in and figure if they give a little the left will be satisfied and learn. hasn't happened since Woodrow Wilson and surely not since the 50-60's
But we'll keep on bein nice and play by the rules till they crush us. But we can walk around with our fingers in our susendes when we think no one is looking saying we may be slaves but we played fair