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California College involved in deadly shooting.

Hey look, kids, a silly post that conflates banning guns with gun free zones. Oh the boomsticklovers and their jests.

Hey look adults, someone who doesn't know what this thread represents......................a failure of gun control.
 
what was the biggest round of ammunition available to civilians to use in firearms? and what is the biggest round available for use in their fire arms?

What does that have to do with the price of tea in China?
 
"the gop has good chances of picking up open seats in south dakota and west virginia [and montana], and the outcomes of races in the targeted states of alaska [begich] and arkansas [pryor] will be critical to control of the senate in 2015"

After gun bill's defeat, it's Democrats, not Republicans, paying the political price - The Washington Post

meanwhile, out west, tom tancredo is suddenly within a point of hickenlooper

Colorado (CO) Poll - Hickenlooper 42, Tancredo 41 | Quinnipiac University Connecticut

and then there're the recalls

Second Colorado Democrat facing recall over gun vote - Washington Times

most notably, state senate president john morse, colorado springs, home of doctor james dobson and focus on the family and headquarters for the most mega churches in the country...

stay tuned
 
more from colorado

Two leading Republican 2016 presidential front-runners best two leading Democratic front-runners in a key swing state, a new poll shows.

Clinton fares better than Biden, and Christie fares better than Rubio. Biden trails Christie 32 percent to 48 percent, and he trails Rubio 35 percent to 48 percent. Clinton trails Christie 41 percent to 44 percent but trails by only 1 percent to Rubio.

Colorado poll: GOP ahead on 2016 - Hadas Gold - POLITICO.com

how do you spell backlash?

ie, the west aint connecticut

today, fyi, is the 6 month anniversary of sandy hook

pray
 
even connecticut aint the nutmeg she used to be

Pro-gun Republican wins vacated Democrat seat in Connecticut | Examiner.com

A political theme being advanced by “progressives,” that pro-gun support is going to cost politicians their seats, got a harsh reality check Tuesday when Republican Samuel Belsito captured the Conncecticut State Legislature’s 53rd House District. The special election, held to replace Democrat representative Bryan Hurlburt, who resigned to take a job with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, marks the first time a Republican has won the district in 40 years, The Journal Inquirer reported.

For those gauging the impact of the gun issue, Belsito “said he would have voted against the recent gun control legislation.” Importantly, his opponent, Democrat Anthony Horn, felt the same way.

"I would have voted 'no','' Horn told the Hartfrod Courant, adding "Even though they say it is just registration, I don't think that's the end of it.

"Every day I was out knocking on doors, I would get at least one person who was really ticked off about the gun bill, he recalled. “There were an awful lot of people, including Democrats, who are really ticked off about the gun bill -- and the budget.''

That is significant, particularly in Connecticut, where draconian measures were enacted in the wake of Newtown, and where Democrat Gov. Dannell P. Malloy has made “gun control” a defining platform of his administration, one he’s been vocal about extending to the national level. Yet Belsito and Horn were competing for the gun owner vote, not for the citizen disarmament faction.
 
Hold on a goddamn minute, California has the toughest ****ing gun laws in the country. How could this happen?


Wow, nice to see such compassionate conservatism.
 
We haven't banned guns, that's the problem. The guy was probably from Texas.

But there you boomsticklovers go -- politicizing another mass shooting. It's what you guys do.

Wouldnt a debate about guns that doesnt take current events (AKA real life) into account be a somewhat flawed one? I find the suggestion that the debate about the events themselves and the debate on the policies should be entirely divorced from each other somewhat concerning.
 
today:

Joe Biden concedes White House gun push has faltered - Reid J. Epstein - POLITICO.com

Vice President Joe Biden insisted to a subdued audience Tuesday that he and President Barack Obama “haven’t given up” on gun control.

But his remarks came at the first White House event since the Senate’s failed April 17 background checks vote. And all that he had to show gun control supporters by way of progress was a list of completed or mostly completed executive actions — and a set of new guidebooks for churches and schools on how to deal with a mass shooting situation.

Over the past two months, the White House has dramatically dialed back its gun push.

Biden chief of staff Bruce Reed’s Friday White House strategy meetings for representatives of gun control groups ended weeks ago. The barnstorming tour Biden pledged would pressure senators who voted against background checks hasn’t materialized.

No new sponsors or votes for the background check bill have emerged publicly. Neither has any sort of timeline for when Congress might take up the measure again.

I had hoped we would have assembled in this auditorium earlier,” Biden said. “I had hoped we would have assembled here a couple of months ago celebrating the first in a number of victories that we will have.”

So Biden conceded the obvious Tuesday: the White House gun push in Congress has faltered.
 
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