SENATE TO VOTE MONDAY ON ANTI-GUN BILLS.....CONTACT YOUR SENATORS TODAY!

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Please click link at bottom of page to contact your senators and advise them to oppose the anti-gun proposals coming up for a vote Monday. You can send the prepared email or compose your own.

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Keep the Pressure on Your Senators


There are several anti-gun amendments that will come up for a vote on Monday, June 20. They will be amendments to a Commerce-Justice-State spending bill (H.R. 2578).

A Feinstein proposal will bar (or delay) honest Americans from buying guns, if their name mistakenly winds up on a government watch list.

And a Murphy proposal will institute universal gun buyer registration -- via so-called Universal Background Checks.

Then there’s the Constructive Republican Alternative Proposals (aka, CRAP).

One Republican “compromise” version -- which is an alternative to the Feinstein “terror watch” language -- will still result in lengthy delays for honest Americans who are trying to buy firearms for self-defense.

Ironically, the “compromise” language would not apply to a terrorist who is being investigated for purchasing fertilizer, renting a Ryder truck and posting statements about blowing up federal buildings.

It only demonizes guns and those who want to buy guns -- and innocent people will be denied firearms.

This is because the government watch lists are horribly flawed and have massive mistakes -- as seen by the fact that even Congressmen and Senators have ended up on the lists.

(Well, some might argue that Congressmen should be on this list for voting to violate our Constitution, but that’s a whole separate discussion.)

Anyway, Republicans are offering their proposals as “side-by-side” amendments, which are intended to kill the Democrat gun control proposals.

Sadly, it’s a reality of the Senate that the “squishies” there demand to have something to “vote for.”

One can argue the merits or demerits of this -- we certainly do -- but if there is any consolation to all this, it’s that all the proposals are intended to fail (even the Republican ones).

Well, we’ll certainly have to see how this precarious strategy works.

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It's all in the point of view, if the subject were addressing whether terrorists who are on a no fly watch list should be able to buy guns while they are on this watch list most people have an entirely different point of view. Most would say he11 no, well you can't keep them from getting guns if it doesn't affect all of the people on the list.

That said this is about refining who gets put on the list in the first place, and more importantly being able to heck to see if your name is on the list and having a much quicker means of correcting names that are mistakenly put on it.

Then if your name was put on it for a reason, the few thousand people on that list will have to deal with it.

This is about much much more than keeping a few hundred or even thousand "innocent" people from protecting themselves, it's about keeping the far larger number of not so innocent people on that list and keeping them from buying guns. This affects only lone wolf terrorist acts anyway, becaus the well connected ones involved with a well funded organization won't have to buy guns, they will be outfitted with any guns and explosives from the established cell.

There are two sides to this issue, and both sides take extreme positions, anti gun goes to far, pro gun doesn't want to go anywhere yet they want something done about muslim terrorists. Here's a newsflash, go after muslim terrorists in any meaningful way and homegrown christian extremists are going to get caught up in that (as they should be). The white supremist that went into the black church and killed a bunch of blacks.... Apply any preventative ideas being looked at as far as responding to warnings that come out ahead of time by people who know the guy and know he's planning something extreme. What should be done about a muslim or supremist whack job before they actually commit a crime, the point where someone might report that they are planning something? Right now neither the FBI or Homeland Security can do anything except watch them, and during that period that someone is being watched they should not be able to buy guns.

Effective methods of preventing terrorist acts are not easily accomplished in the first place, mistakes are going to be made and tying the hands of the agencies responsible for our safety is not the answer. But quickly fixing mistakes made as far as innocent people mistakenly put on a list should be a must. That and refining the process that defines who goes on that list in the first place.
 

Done, but both my Senators are liberal Democrats, so I'm sure my word doesn't mean much to them. I sent it anyway.
 
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