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Another Mass Shooting: It's Those Darn Video Games!

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ScoobyDoo said:
This has been Biden's Achilles Heel all along.
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Amazing that a comedian was sitting with a Democratic president and making the Democratic argument and the president was making the GQP argument.

He's doing a bang up job campaigning for Republican majorities in Congress. It's going to be a bloodbath.
 
https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/statu...11604030111746

NEW: Key senators announce a deal on new gun legislation after negotiations led by Murphy/Cornyn
—Red flag laws
—Enhanced background checks for 18-21
—Clarify "FFL" def'n
—Mental health $$
—School safety money
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Supposedly 10 GOPers signed off on this...it will be fun to watch then vote against it when push comes to shove.

And here is why they did: https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1536013178852737025

What's NOT in the Senate gun deal
—No ban on semi-automatic weapons
—No ban on high-capacity magazines
—No 21 minimum age to buy AR-15-style rifles
—No universal background checks
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So they did nothing...
 
WeAreNDHockey said:
The dems are worse in that we know the GQP are the actual democracy hating fascist terrorists. Are the dems this feckless or are they complicit?
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A little bit of complicity and being drunk on their current power (mainly on the part of DINOs like Manchin and Sinema), a little bit of senility, a little bit of denial, a little bit of nepotistic concern for their own families and accumulated stash.
 
FadeToBlack&Gold said:
A little bit of complicity and being drunk on their current power (mainly on the part of DINOs like Manchin and Sinema), a little bit of senility, a little bit of denial, a little bit of nepotistic concern for their own families and accumulated stash.
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I think you've nailed the Democratic Cocktail.
 
Pretty hilarious that they were reporting this morning how Men's Pre-Frontal Cortex isn't fully developed till 25 but we gotta keep the age you can buy an AR-15 at 18 cause reasons.

We're destroying ourselves. That's the goal.
 
I’m sure womens are formed at 10, when they can be forced to have a kid
 
So, A few things:
  • I'm disappointed by this agreement as well. Further, it's only a "framework", not an actual draft bill.
  • With a 50/50 senate and a GQP hellbent on preventing anything passing, there is zero chance of... anything of substance passing. Don't get mad at the Dems here. We can even likely thank TFG for the two Georgia senate seats just to get us to 50/50.
  • Despite 10 GQP senators being signatories to this - again - "framework", I have zero faith that at least a few of them will pull out at the last minute, declare it some word salad of socialism, commies, whatever, and then block it via filibuster anyway.
The GQP is the problem.
 
The Democratic Party is truly fucked if it’s most educated and liberal members, men and women who understand how government actually works, are going to call them feckless and cowards when they actually might pass a gun control bill with 10 traitors to democracy. If there were 60 Democrats in the Senate, all of those things would likely be included, and maybe more. Is this current bill going to move the needle much? No. We all know this, including Mr. Hovey, who has been telling us all along it’s the guns. But for fuck’s sake, we’d be bashing them for not passing anything either. I, for one, am shocked even THIS bill has a chance at passing, woefully inadequate as it is. But that’s because of it requiring the support of the 10 traitors to democracy, not because of the 50 Democrats voting for it.

Edit: Swansong beat me to it with his easier to read bullet points.
 
ScoobyDoo said:
Pretty hilarious that they were reporting this morning how Men's Pre-Frontal Cortex isn't fully developed till 25 but we gotta keep the age you can buy an AR-15 at 18 cause reasons.
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Then clearly 25 should become the new age of majority for men - booze, pot, tobacco, firearms, porn, strip clubs, voting, entering into contracts, etc. Right?
 
Swansong said:
So, A few things:
  • I'm disappointed by this agreement as well. Further, it's only a "framework", not an actual draft bill.
  • With a 50/50 senate and a GQP hellbent on preventing anything passing, there is zero chance of... anything of substance passing. Don't get mad at the Dems here. We can even likely thank TFG for the two Georgia senate seats just to get us to 50/50.
  • Despite 10 GQP senators being signatories to this - again - "framework", I have zero faith that at least a few of them will pull out at the last minute, declare it some word salad of socialism, commies, whatever, and then block it via filibuster anyway.
The GQP is the problem.
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Voters, especially GQP, voters are the problem. If there were fewer idiots in Florida, Ron Desantis would be lucky to have an AM radio overnight show on the weekend conspiracy talk show circuit. If there were fewer idiots in Texas, Ted Cruz would be selling used cars. If there were fewer Nazis and other flavors of fascists in Wyoming we could go back to hating Liz Cheney for her shockingly cruel and backward voting record instead of viewing her as some sort of savior of democracy.

As for the bill being discussed by the Senate, it might pass, or, as Swangsong notes, it might not. Hopefully it does. But the real problem I see with it is it is like having a horribly dislikable coach for your college football team who finds a way to never be worse than 7-5, but will never be 11-1 and play in a New Year's Day bowl game. If this bill passes, it gives fodder to the Biden-esque notion that republicans are honest brokers and takes a lot of wind out of the sails of voters who might possibly be moved enough in places like Texas or Florida to actually vote the right way for once. While we can't let any improvements -- no matter how miniscule they may be -- fall by the wayside, I fear in the long term it does more harm than good. You never want to root against your team, but sometimes 2-10 is better in the long run than 7-5.
 
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