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Sorry to tell anyone who thinks otherwise but the background checks bill passed from the Senate committee on a PARTY LINE VOTE. There are more Democrats in the committee, and they ALL voted for it. The outnumbered Republicans did NOT vote for it. Link below.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/back ... itics.html

The following is from the article. Sorry to tell those who don't like the NRA, but they are NOT for gun control.

The National Rifle Association is opposing any expansion of background checks. An NRA spokesman said the lack of bipartisan support for the bill suggested it could not pass.

bizarrenormality wrote:Debating these people is as productive as the Founders trying to debate King George about the error of his ways.

I whole-heartedly agree with you when speaking of people such as Feinstein, Schumer, Bloomberg, the "Brady Bunch", and the rest of that ilk, as well as their dedicated (rabid) followers. However, not everyone is in that camp; in fact, a lot of folks don't really know what to think, except what they see the ideological bums in the media rattle on about. So, its up to us, the educated firearms owners and patriots who support the Second Amendment to help sort those folks out. But, if we were to go off like some "Michigan militia members", all it will do is reinforce propagandistic stereotypes that the liberal-progressive media has spewed around. Form solid arguments, and work with the FACTS as much as possible. Ignore the hard-core antis and focus the energy where it matters.

I cannot understand how folks cannot see the word ADJUDICATED in there. Not just because a doctor said so, or on some "list", but after going through COURT. I vehemently oppose simply slapping someone on a "list" or letting a doc make the call without any checks and balances.

I think something is being missed here. CNN tried to contact Brady Campaign on this and they wouldn't respond. Some of the other anti-gunners are ticked that it doesn't stop private sales. However, a LOT of people have said, in effect, "We need the law to keep crazy people from getting guns". All of you KNOW that this has been said by a LOT of people. Well, this would be that law. Please note, I am not saying it would be a fully effective law. I am not saying it would stop crazy folks from getting guns and shooting innocent little kids. Not saying that it cannot be abused by a Federal government bent on abusing just about anything they see fit to abuse in the law. What I am saying is that it seems like some Republicans, and the Democrats from some of the "redder" states are trying to head stuff off at the pass, so to speak. And perhaps the NRA realizes that, as well. The important part, and what liberal-progressives probably don't like about it, is that it uses the word "adjudicated". That means someone who has been shown in a court to be with less than a full deck of mental faculties, not just some doc somewhere saying it. You all had to know they were going to "do something" about this "gun problem"...well, here it is.