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    Octopit didn't choose the burrito life, the burrito life chose octopit.Lauren Evans
    6/16/16 3:14am

    I look forward to an even longer filibuster when republicans fuck it all up. Woooooo.

    (But seriously, today was the first day I really felt like elected officials gave a shit about who they were actually elected by. It was fucking moving.)

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      anyah8sbunniesOctopit didn't choose the burrito life, the burrito life chose octopit.
      6/16/16 3:38am

      It’s about time

      Meanwhile in Canada...one of our Conservative MPs tried to get the laws around AR-15s loosened

      http://globalnews.ca/news/2761091/c...

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      Paranoid Android (sometimes says dumb things)Octopit didn't choose the burrito life, the burrito life chose octopit.
      6/16/16 3:42am

      Rumor has it that Ted Cruz was found buying adult diapers, throat spray and a copy of All The Places You’ll Go at Walgreen’s.

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    lurkerbynatureLauren Evans
    6/16/16 5:57am

    You know? Fuck no-fly lists. They’re pretty useless. I want to see the firearms equivalent of SIP laws. Nearly every state has laws in place to make bartenders culpable if they serve to intoxicated persons. They may not be well enforced, but they’re there and legal precedent.

    Make firearms dealers register their sales. Penalize firearms dealers who sell to violent people.

    Don’t like having to figure out who is too violent or irrational to be a safe gun owner? Too much trouble for you to use your own judgment? Maybe you’ll allow for background checks that cover your damn ass. You didn’t keep track of sales? You lose your licence to sell. Constitution may protect the right to bear arms, but it doesn’t say shit about the right to sell arms.

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      MillyNillylurkerbynature
      6/16/16 7:16am

      Yes, a thousand times, yes. Make anyone who sells a firearm to someone who then uses that firearm to commit a crime, an accessory to that crime. Fuck this fucking shit. ENOUGH.

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      Gunkhurstlurkerbynature
      6/16/16 8:04am

      A couple of years ago I had a nasty road rage incident. When I got home (via a very circuitous route), I tried to find out if this guy had a gun. You can’t. There is no registry where you can check that kind of thing. How insane is that?

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    ZeeniaLauren Evans
    6/16/16 3:34am

    Is that a picture of Noah Pozner? I want to blubber at that little symbol of invincibility on that little chest. What kind of humans would last 12 hours looking at that and blocking attempts to save childrens lives?

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      Paranoid Android (sometimes says dumb things)Zeenia
      6/16/16 3:44am

      It’s a bit morbid and probably in bad taste but I think it would be more effective to display one of the murdered children’s autopsy photos. I want to see which asshole says no to gun control after staring at that for hours.

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      KhatzyParanoid Android (sometimes says dumb things)
      6/16/16 4:25am

      THIS is the argument I’ve had with those who I consider NOT my friends (also know as the “An AR doesn’t do that much damage” cuntbags). I work in Emergency Medicine and believe me, If I had to (touch wood) be shot with a gun and a choice, I’d go handgun/pistol all the way. That’s repairable (mostly; unless someone has fantastic aim and it’s an immediate death); ARs? They DESTROY flesh and bone and we can’t always put that shit back together. It’s like when you’re a kid at the beach building a sandcastle and you’re using the really good wet sand and then some asshole kid comes along and fucks it up.. then his mom makes him try to fix it with shitty dry, hot sand that won’t fix shit. Or dried playdoh. You can’t fix or do shit with dried playdo. That’s what it’s like trying to fix an AR injury. It’s not a flesh wound, it’s a fucking killing machine. And scarily enough the number of people being “treated” (Using that loosely as they’re fixed the best way possible) for ARs in US ERs has risen in the last year. I don’t like that. No bueno. But these assholes in DC have no idea what it’s like to be on the front lines dealing with it. Yes, there are a few “doctors”, but they were most likely private practice arseholes who never saw this shit or had someone bleedout in the back of their ambulance. It’s ridiculous. And it just keeps happening... every. single. day.

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    KonigskobraLauren Evans
    6/16/16 4:02am

    If this goes through it won’t keep anybody safer, none of the mass shooters we’ve seen in the news were on the watchlist, this legislation wouldn’t have stopped the legal purchase of the weapons used at Pulse or at Sandy Hook.

    I’m really, really not getting why people are celebrating. This is an arbitrary, racist, secret list of people who have been convicted of no crime and will receive no due process. I wonder if so many Democrats would be in favor of this if it were about waiving the 4th amendment instead of the 2nd.

    Give me real gun control legislation, close loopholes on background checks and registration, ban assault weapons, and I’m all for it. But stripping rights we’re preserving for others based on a secret list of people found guilty of no crime is bullshit, no matter what right is it.

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      jinniKonigskobra
      6/16/16 5:39am

      I agree with you. The No-Fly List has included people who were innocent/confused with others with similar names. I wonder if the ACLU will contest this.

      I do agree with the expansion of background checks on the Internet, and at gun shows (how is it that this is a thing?)

      Also: when will people convicted of domestic violence be banned from purchasing firearms? Wake me when that happens.

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      Non Sleeping GiantKonigskobra
      6/16/16 6:37am

      Are you serious? Do you think that people get added to terror watch lists for simply being brown? Did you NOT see how the last massacre could have been obviously avoided if this law was in effect when he went to purchase his death device, since he WAS on the watch list?

      The worst thing to happen here if an innocent person gets denied a fucking assault rifle is... there’s one less on the streets. Boo friggin hoo.

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    zap rowsdowerLauren Evans
    6/16/16 3:44am

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      BurnDentonAlivezap rowsdower
      6/16/16 4:26am

      why the hell is John McCain given so much? that’s $7+ million for a guy that might die. how is he more important than all than all the other senators combined x10? does he have like a super vote or anything?

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      MeggannaBurnDentonAlive
      6/16/16 4:31am

      Well, he did run for president.

      Also, he’s one of the more “moderate” Republicans, so maybe the NRA specifically targets them? Why give someone a lot of money if you know they're on your side already?

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    Bradley's BallsLauren Evans
    6/16/16 3:46am

    Who was the repub that supported? (mentioned in another article)

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      some obscure referenceBradley's Balls
      6/16/16 4:29am

      Pat Toomey, R-Pennsylvania.

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      BrotherFromAnotherMotherBradley's Balls
      6/16/16 4:39am

      Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, who is desperately trying to win reelection.

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    Paranoid Android (sometimes says dumb things)Lauren Evans
    6/16/16 3:40am

    It’s a teenie, tiny step....

    but I’ll take it.

    I hope more of this happens. The more politicians that defy the NRA, the less power the NRA retains.

    In conclusion- eat a bag of dicks, NRA.

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      some obscure referenceLauren Evans
      6/16/16 4:40am

      Hey, it worked, despite the predictions of some douchebag on Twitter who randomly decided to pick a fight with me. (He lost.)

      Now it’s your turn. Tell your senators how you’d like them to vote on this. Yes, that includes the ones who you’re pretty sure you don’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of budging. Even if you didn’t vote for them, you’re one of their constituents. Weigh in.

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        Ginger Is A Constructsome obscure reference
        6/16/16 10:02am

        Bump. My senators are both democrats but Michigan loves their guns, you better believe I contacted both of them. I asked them to support these bills and to push for more gun control legislation.

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        JenisaurusRexsome obscure reference
        6/16/16 10:16am

        I called both of mine last night. I am from Wisconsin, so I have Ron Johnson (who I hope Feingold wipes the floor with this November) and I could hardly keep my composure because I have a feeling my request (and the requests of so many other like-minded constituents) will fall on deaf ears. At least we have Tammy Baldwin to balance him out.

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      SourSghettiLauren Evans
      6/16/16 3:12am

      It’s long-awaited and perhaps too late and may not do much, etc. But despite all of that...

      FUCK YEAH DEMOCRATS! KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!!

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        PearlCrabs, Queen of the MandalsSourSghetti
        6/16/16 3:33am

        It's nice to see some Democrats grow some balls finally. And I'm saying that as a Democrat.

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        Black HermioneSourSghetti
        6/16/16 10:55am

        Absolutely. I am loving this Democratic fire. Let’s keep the ball rolling!!!

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      Major Lazer Power BlazerLauren Evans
      6/16/16 8:58am

      part of me is like ‘yay gun control!’ and then the other part of me is like ‘lol terror lists with no due process! noooooo’

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        knyghtrydaMajor Lazer Power Blazer
        6/16/16 1:59pm

        Yup... Same feeling here. Sane, sweeping gun control is a good thing. Using a no fly list with no checks and iffy rationale as some kind of bar of gun ownership qualification is just stupid, and doesn’t help either side. Make it harder for EVERYONE to get a gun. You know what? I dont like the idea of bans on stuff, mainly cuz the government tends to handle them very poorly (see butterfly knives, or Kinders eggs). But at this point a ban might be the overreaction that’s needed to get policy moving on something more sane.

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