The DC Caller – by Neil MunroThe Senate will try again to pass recently defeated gun control legislation, and will be aided by increasing activism from previously neutral voters, Sen. Chuck Schumer predicted today at a press conference.
“I think we will bring the bill back before the end of the year… lots of Senators who thought it was safe to vote against it [April 17] because of the intensity [of gun-rights supporters] are not so sure any more,” Schumer told reporters at an April breakfast hosted by the Christian Science Monitor.
“I do agree with Chuck that I think the issue will come back,” said Sen. John McCain, who supported an amendment to expand background checks during an April 17 vote.
The amendment failed to get the needed 60 votes to overcome a filibuster, and failed 54 to 46.
It was a critical defeat for President Obama, whose top three legislative issues for 2013 are gun control, an overhaul of immigration laws and a budget deal that includes a major tax increase.
The April 17 vote shielded several Democratic Senators from likely opposition by gun-rights supporters in the 2014 election, but it also allowed the Democrats’ leader, Sen. Harry Reid, to bring the issue back for another vote.
Schumer told reporters that the intensity of public support for gun control is increasing.
“I think we’re at a turning point… I think the numbers are getting a little more intense,” he claimed.
In a recent tour of conservative areas of New York state, “I heard from people who said ‘Keep at it,’ and I never heard from those folks before.”
Obama’s Organizing for America is using some of the staff, data and techniques form Obama’s high-tech 2012 campaign to build public support for gun control.
The rising intensity, Schumer said, is offsetting the passionate involvement of gun-rights supporters.
In the early 1990s, a previous wave of public support for gun control overcame opposition from the National Rifle Association, he said. “The middle rose and said, ‘we want rational laws on guns.’ Why? Because crime was ripping apart America,” he said.
However, he noted, the Democrats immediately lost control of the House and Senate in1994 amid protests from gun-rights activists. “Rightly or wrongly, those two bills were blamed for the Democrats losing control of the House and Senate … [so] nothing happened for 20 years,” he said.
McCain predicted the gun issue would brought up again by Reid, and said that Senators are not doing enough to keep guns away from “crazy people.”
“Second-amendment defenders” are very active, McCain said, adding that “the “toughest part of the issue [is] where do individual rights end, and the obligation to protect the community begins.”
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What the hell is McCains’ problem anyway? Why doesn’t this zionist loving turd drop dead somewhere…..F#%king traitor! this weasel has turned into a maniac…..
yeah, I don’t expect them to stop. What choice do they have? They’ll do whatever they can to avoid the justice that’s coming their way, so their attempts to disarm us are really a matter of survival for them, and keeping our weapons is a matter of survival for us. The eventual conflict is unavoidable.
McCain is a disgrace, but what the Hell is wrong with Arizona voters that keep sending this ass back to DC??????
They have time to strong arm the senators who voted it down. There must be more pressure by Second Amendment supporters than ever before to let them know we are not rolling over and if they change their support they will be fired in 2014. Don’t wait until they bring it up again, keep the pressure up constantly until then. Encourage those who have been sitting it out that they are in danger of losing it all if they don’t get engaged.
Arrest, Try & EXECUTE these treasonous Oath-Breakers NOW!!!