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Gun Control & RKBA

friendly_iconoclast

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2. The 'we want all or nothing' crowd is already on it:

Reply to sarisataka (Reply #1)

Thu Mar 1, 2018, 04:07 PM

Mar 2018

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210304692#post14

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/02/28/why-senate-democrats-are-considering-holding-up-a-gun-control-bill-from-one-of-their-own/?utm_term=.833d7cca858c

Why Senate Democrats are considering holding up a gun-control bill from one of their own

My own decidedly dyspeptic take on it:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210304692#post26

History repeats: "Screw that 'half a loaf'! We want the whole thing, or nothing!"

And 'nothing' is *exactly* what they'll get with that attitude.

FFS, do they not remember the last go-around on the same damn issue in 2013?

A cynic might suggest that they feel there's more political mileage to be had by appearing
to have been stopped by the eebil NRA than by actually *gasp* negotiating the matter.

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We hear a lot of sarisataka Mar 2018 #1

The 'we want all or nothing' crowd is already on it: friendly_iconoclast Mar 2018 #2

It would be funny sarisataka Mar 2018 #3

count me as one of those cynics. gejohnston Mar 2018 #4

Me cynical? Puha Ekapi_2 Mar 2018 #5