UFGN wrote:EliteKiller wrote:UFGN wrote:EliteKiller wrote:UFGN wrote:DiamondGooner wrote:Rockape wrote:I’m a 60yr old bloke who isn’t prone to being emotional, but seeing the pictures of the children who’ve had their young lives wiped out by this piece of shit, just makes me want to cry.
How can it be possible that an 18 yr old can buy two assault rifles and a back pack full of ammo….. it just defies belief! Stupid, stupid Americans!
So what's Biden going to do about it?
Show's how corrupt they are, Democrats are supposed to be anti-guns, they've had around 5 different incidents of high level press and what do they do? nothing.
Where is the vote, where is the referendum to at least test the publics gauge on the subject?
Nothing, just talk, as per usual.
Truth is Washington don't give a sht if the American public slaughter each other, they care about gun profits.
How are they supposed to get anything on gun control through Congress? Seriously?
Funny you normally live in the past - now you suddenly forget - Nancy Pelosi (yup same bitch) was first elected speaker in the House in 2007 when for the next two years the Democrats had a majority in both the House and Congress - did they tackle gun control? Did they feck, instead they started a troop surge in Iraq massively supporting the gun lobby, under the Dems there was a near 20% increase in private gun ownership over the next four years 2007-11, this figure remained fairly constant under Obama then declined slightly under Trump, now under Biden it's shooting back up .... go figure
How are they supposed to get anything done - you're having a laugh - they have no intention of doing anything, not when they had the power and not now.
US politics is fecked - indeed the US is fecked - the sooner we all cut ties the better.
Well I agree with your last sentence but stop trying to put an obviously right wing problem onto the left and pretending it's somehow their fault
Did they have a two thirds majority so they could enact constitutional change? If not, would the republicans have helped them?
No and no.
The 2/3rds majority is not required when you have House, Senate and President .... but you're right they cant do anything in the current impasse, which will only get worse come November ....
Most legal gun owners are Republican that's true, the vast majority of illegal guns are in Democratic controlled states and cities - so why is it all a Republican problem again?
The reality is Biden will now say "
We are coming after your guns" that will lead to a massive INCREASE in gun sales, Biden and the Dems will then once again do nothing leaving an additional 30k-40k guns on the streets with no changes in the law. Don't believe me? the stock market is already factoring it in ..... just watch and learn.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/05/26/gun-ammo-stocks-texas-shooting/
If a law is passed, which is later deemed by the SC to be unconstitutional, then that law can not stand. Unless 2A is replaced by a new amendment, then that's exactly what would happen
Hence the need for two thirds support which the republicans will never help with.
Which is precisely why both Obama and Biden were and are reduced to trotting out worthless rhetoric.
The right just love their guns more than they love the idea of kids not getting shot in their classrooms
Why do you always have to resort everything to a Left vs Right issue?
The fact is this is cultural, Americans love their guns, not just Republicans.
Also how come they managed to ban guns in NY and Los Angeles without a constitutional change then?
We all know why they did it, but what's to stop those rules rolling out across America?
Also when I say cultural, in Texas etc not everyone there is Republican, same as in Ohio etc, fact is the less urban areas of America whether Dem or Repub love their guns.
Most Dems however are based in the East and West coast areas where you can't have guns so they don't have the same affection for them as Mid West states do.
The other areas don't want to give up their guns, the Dems in LA and NY don't have any to give up hence why they're happy to be anti-guns a bit like us in the UK, I bet you could find Republican New yorkers who don't care much for guns either, you don't miss what you never had kind of thing.