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Bang! Senate Shoots Down Gun Control

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The Democrat-controlled U.S. Senate today shot down President Obama’s effort to control guns in a series of votes.

The votes were on amendments to a bill by Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., advanced last week, 68-31, to the Senate floor for debate. 

The first, and key, amendment was to expand background checks widely. It failed 54-46 under a requirement of 60 votes for adoption.

The White House has lobbied intensely across the country, including using emotional pleas from the families of victims of the Newtown school shooting. Obama administration officials had confirmed the president’s agenda was sinking. Reuters reported the frustration level was so high that press secretary Jay Carney took to the podium of the briefing room to urge senators to back Obama.

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, told the assembled body that Congress should be focused on “stopping violent criminals” but not “targeting law-abiding citizens.”
 

“The approach that is effective is targeting violent criminals while safeguarding the constitutional rights of law-abiding citizens,” he said.

Cruz blamed the Obama Justice Department for failing to prosecute gun criminals, noting that of 48,000 felons or fugitives who tried to obtain weapons, only 44 were prosecuted.

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    • Equalizer

      Over the weekend, we came four votes away from the United States Senate giving our Constitutional rights over to the United Nations. In a 53-46 vote, the senate narrowly passed a measure that will stop the United States from entering into the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty.
      The Statement of Purpose from the bill read:
      To uphold Second Amendment rights and prevent the United States from entering into the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty.
      The U.N. Small Arms Treaty, which has been championed by the Obama Administration, would have effectively placed a global ban on the import and export of small firearms. The ban would have affected all private gun owners in the U.S., and had language that would have implemented an international gun registry on all private guns and ammo.
      Astonishingly, 46 of our United States Senators were willing to give away our Constitutional rights to a foreign power.
      Here are the 46 senators that voted to give your rights to the U.N.

      Baldwin (D-WI)
      Baucus (D-MT)
      Bennet (D-CO)
      Blumenthal (D-CT)
      Boxer (D-CA)
      Brown (D-OH)
      Cantwell (D-WA)
      Cardin (D-MD)
      Carper (D-DE)
      Casey (D-PA)
      Coons (D-DE)
      Cowan (D-MA)
      Durbin (D-IL)
      Feinstein (D-CA)
      Franken (D-MN)
      Gellibrand (D-NY) Harkin (D-IA)
      Hirono (D-HI)
      Johnson (D-SD)
      Kaine (D-VA)
      King (I-ME)
      Klobuchar (D-MN)
      Landrieu (D-LA)
      Leahy (D-VT)
      Levin (D-MI)
      McCaskill (D-MO)
      Menendez (D-NJ)
      Merkley (D-OR)
      Mikulski (D-MD)
      Murphy (D-CT)
      Murray (D-WA)
      Nelson (D-FL)

      People this needs to go viral. These Senators voted to let the UN take our guns. They need to lose the election. We have been betrayed. These
      46 Senators Voted to Give your 2nd Amendment Constitutional Rights to the U.N.
      Reed (D-RI)
      Reid (D-NV)
      Rockefeller (D-WV)
      Sanders (I-VT)
      Schatz (D-HI)
      Schumer (D-NY)
      Shaheen (D-NH)
      Stabenow (D-MI)
      Udall (D-CO)
      Udall (D-NM)
      Warner (D-VA)
      Warren (D-MA)
      Whitehouse (D-RI)
      Wyden (D-OR

      • Boxed in Freight

        The biggest victory is to the citizens in Colorado, New York and other states who have had their democratic party leaders craft and pass legislation which is totally unconstitutional. It was unconsttitutional before they stripped their citizens of their rights and it has been re-established as completely unconstitutional with the Senate vote today. All of these laws on all of the proprosals Obama submitted and which have been written and estabilshed in these states will be repealed, they have no choice but to repeal them, they are all totally unconstitutional.

      • Ozzie_Thinker

        I believe the UN take over is a “done deal”. Disarming the people to make the Promised Land “safe” may lead to civil war.

    • ThenAgain

      This is play to make the phony Republicans look good. Make no mistake they are as sold as the democrats. They ALL voted for the NDAA, they ALL said nothing about obama’s martial law EO, they ALL are allowing you to be sprayed with chemtrails poison, while monsatan is taking over the food supply, Amnesty for illegals, false flags etc etc.

      It’s just a show. Tell others about chemtrails – http://www.archive.org/details/DontTalkAboutTheWeather_451 – best video, long and complete, can start at any point so you don’t have to watch all at once like jerktube.

    • Anonymous

      What can I say? Stoopid liberals only want to disarm law-abiding citizens. We are the problem you see. We prevent them from having wholesale abortion, their beloved dicktators, murderers running free, and robbery so they can have more power when they think we will beg them for proctection. Much like a racketeer.

      These people are most despicable and heinous humans since they only do this with a pen and a twisted mind.

    • Hawbs

      equalizer rules! i’m surprised bernie sanders and elizabeth warren are on there. you try to vote new people in and the same things happen. definition of insanity, right? only i’m not the insane one. i just looked at a news site called the hill, here is a list of more, interesting characters. these republicans voted yes along with the dems: john mcCain, susan collins, pat toomey and mark kirk. 5 dems voted no to the bill: harry reid, mark begich, mark pryor, max baucus, and heidi heitcamp. i bet they will try another bill. biden is mentioned in that article. biden said “we will get something through eventually.” evil. they keep saying 90% of americans want gun laws. i have never met a soul who wants to take our rights away. more lies.

    • Omerta

      Please Mr. Sotero act on your own now. Show us your power. :wink:

    • Blackie the faithful border collie

      Americans should not be allowed to both have guns and travel. This directive should include their ravenous military, their silly militias groups and their slow witted dumkopf populace. Every American should stay at home and be forced to enjoy their hobby of popping caps into each other, until non are left.
      You have proved you do not mix well, you are bigoted ignorant and small minded and have a pathological obsession with the right to own and use lethal weapons. Your military is the most incompetent in history with more ‘friendly fire’ deaths than the rest of historical military put together. your politicians are even more ignorant declaring war on the product of your wars, namely terror, resulting in a self referencing spiral into death for any country you feel inspires terror in you. You are Nietzsche’s chasm, you have become that which you hate. You have created the odious shallow consumerist twelve second attention span culture of Big Mac Fox Greed is Good Hollywood lies. Stay at home and enjoy it.

    • Oldpuppymax

      And if police across the country continue their lawless assault on gun owners it won’t be long until a law abiding citizen is driven to protect himself by shooting his “protect and serve” attackers.
      Viral videos like the one I’ve linked below are making gun owners less and less trusting of police. No one wants to be handcuffed and thrown to the ground simply because they are exercising their inalienable right to keep and bear arms. Police have threatened gun owners and murdered gun owners (as in Las Vegas.) When the tables turn, perhaps the story of out of control cops will actually be reported.
      /alternative/2013/04/active-duty-soldier-illegally-disarmed-and-arrested-vid-2623794.html?utm_source=direct-b4in.info&utm_content=beforeit39snews-verticalresponse&utm_medium=verticalresponse&utm_term=http%3A%2F%2Fb4in.info%2Fr1sc&utm_campaign=

    • Wonkadelica

      This is all about making sure criminals and lunatics are well armed to maintain the fear state. What other issue has 90% public support? Even a majority of NRA members support it! Those afraid of even having a vote are going down. What cowardice! :evil:

    • Anonymous

      Can’t blame Republican Barry! Go after the criminals jack ass obama.

    • mfritz0

      My, my, my, there is a God.

    • wolvesrunfre

      Take you faithful border collie and shove it and your opinions and shovel up your pathic ass along with that pea size brain you have.

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