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Lucille
05-30-2013, 04:11 PM
Sorry if this has been posted. I looked! I got an email on this from C4L today, and it took me forever to find the source article.


President Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid have both promised gun control would be back on Congress' agenda.

But now, Representative Bob Goodlatte told The Hill he is working with Speaker John Boehner on legislation "strengthening" the unconstitutional federal "background check system"!

Prepare to be Boehned.

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/299221-house-gop-lawmaker-we-are-not-backing-away-on-gun-bill


House Republicans are not ruling out passing gun legislation this year, according to a key GOP lawmaker.

The collapse of gun control in the Senate last month led many on and off Capitol Hill to believe the issue would not be revived in this Congress.

But House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) told The Hill on Friday that he’s had “a lot of discussions” with Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on guns. Goodlatte suggested the Speaker is more involved in the behind-the-scenes wrangling of how to move a gun bill than the Ohio Republican has let on in public.

"We are trying to improve the system to keep people who are barred under the law from owning firearms, from getting access to them. We don't think the things that were proposed in the Senate do that. So we have not backed away from trying to figure out how to improve that, but we've made no decisions yet about what to do," Goodlatte explained.

Goodlatte, serving his first year as the head of the Judiciary panel, pointed out that the National Instant Criminal Background Check System needs to be reauthorized before year's end. The reauthorization could be the vehicle through which the GOP tackles the highly charged issue. Goodlatte, who has an "A" rating from the National Rifle Association (NRA), said earlier this year he wants to keep guns out of the hands of the mentally ill.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) believes the House will deal with guns this year as well. But the top-ranking Democrat favors the background check bill crafted by Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.). A House companion bill authored by Rep. Pete King (R-N.Y.) has 159 co-sponsors.

Pelosi said the high number of co-sponsors, only three of which are GOP lawmakers is “remarkable" because many Democrats in her caucus want a bill that includes an assault weapon ban.

She said Thursday that “some have said in both parties, ‘I will vote for [Manchin-Toomey]. I don't want to be a co-sponsor.' But to get 160 on a bill that has all the outside mobilization coming down so strongly from the NRA and Gun Owners of America and the rest, it is pretty remarkable.”
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Since the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn., last December, Boehner has repeatedly said the Senate would act first on gun reform legislation. The top-ranking House Republican has also told his conference that the GOP needed to have a “conversation” on guns.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BK4jGTFCIAELS8B.jpg

http://www.ammoland.com/2013/05/is-boehner-helping-obama-control-your-rights/#ixzz2UofUYnqy


The Washington, D.C. news source The Hill reported yesterday that “. . . Speaker Boehner is more involved in the behind-the-scenes wrangling of how to move a gun bill than the Ohio Republican has let on in public.”

They also report that powerful Republican House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte of Virginia has had “. . . a lot of discussions with Speaker John Boehner on guns.”

This is exactly the type of “back-room” deal-cutting of your Second Amendment rights I’ve been warning you about for months.

And with my Capitol Hill legislative team reporting that there are dozens of House Republicans itching to support a gun control “compromise"

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The Neo-Con leadership (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-29/guest-post-its-not-about-obama) of the backwards party continuously supports nearly identical legislative actions to the hated Obama paradigm. Unfortunately, there are still some naïve people out there who hope against hope that the GOP will rise up and defeat the Democratic stronghold, all while the GOP openly energizes Democratic policies.
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I could go on and on, but I think my point is clear; there is no light at the end of the election tunnel in the Republican Party. The Neo-Cons and the Neo-Libs have the same objective, total centralization and the dissolution of U.S. sovereignty. Both parties are merely continuing the perpetual game of good-cop vs. bad-cop, switching roles every decade or so to keep the public confused and dependent on the system rather than enforcing their own solutions.

Christian Liberty
05-30-2013, 04:16 PM
Screw them...

They hate our system and they should be hanged for treason. The 10th amendment is very clear. And these people are giving "Aid and comfort" to the enemies of the United States...

pcosmar
05-30-2013, 04:18 PM
I told you all this way back when.. Gun ban would be proposed,, defeated and the GOP would push for More and stricter checks.. and possibly even closing private sales (gun show "loophole")

Observe.

DamianTV
05-30-2013, 05:55 PM
Eventually, they'll get what they want: a disarmed population.

When Guns are Outlawed, only Outlaws will have Guns. This includes those in office and employed by any level of US Govt.