Grassley Says He Wants to Discuss Gun Legislation After Massacre

[Swordsmyth]

A day after another school shooting massacre, Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley indicated he’s willing to discuss new gun measures as Democrats begged him Thursday to take up the issue.

Grassley told Feinstein -- a longtime advocate of tougher gun measures -- that he planned even before the shooting to sit down with her and Senator John Cornyn of Texas to "see what sort of an agreement we can reach on legislation."

More at: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-15/grassley-says-he-wants-to-discuss-gun-legislation-after-massacre

[RonZeplin]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWrnQVUdpNQ

If you want to buy a gun you're crazy, background check FAILED? The Cornyn plan.

[Anti Federalist]

Worthless.

These assholes are gonna get blown out of the water in the fall.

Stab your base in the back to kiss the ass of the opposition that despises you.

Brilliant.

[Swordsmyth]

Florida gov on gun laws: 'Everything's' on tableFlorida Gov. Rick Scott says "everything's on the table" when considering tightening gun control laws in the state following the school shooting (https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/15/us/florida-school-shooting-latest/index.html) that took the lives of 17 people on Wednesday. "Everything's on the table. I'm going to look at every way that we can make sure our kids are safe," Scott told CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Thursday when asked if he was ready to commit to working on tightening gun restrictions in the state.
"We cannot let this pass without making something happen that hopefully, and it's my goal that this will never happen again in my state," Scott later said on CNN's "The Situation Room."

Scott is considered a possible candidate (https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/03/politics/rick-scott-florida-senate/index.html)to run against Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson in the upcoming midterm elections.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/15/politics/rick-scott-gun-control-cnn-tv/index.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%253A+rss%252Fcnn_allpolitics+(RS S%253A+CNN+-+Politics)




Video games, not guns, to blame for school shooting, says Kentucky gov.
In the wake of a shooting that left at least 17 dead (https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/14/us/florida-high-school-shooting/index.html) on Wednesday in a high school outside Boca Raton, Florida, Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin (R) focused on violent video games as part of a "culture of death that is being celebrated" and leading to these kinds of incidents.
"There are video games that, yes, are listed for mature audiences, but kids play them and everybody knows it, and there's nothing to prevent the child from playing them," Bevin said in an interview on WHAS' Leland Conway show Thursday morning (https://www.iheart.com/podcast/66-Leland-Conway-28199879/). "They celebrate the slaughtering of people. There are games that literally replicate and give people the ability to score points for doing the very same thing that these students are doing inside of schools, where you get extra points for finishing someone off who's lying there begging for their life."

"These are quote-unquote video games, and they're forced down our throats under the guise of protected speech," Conway continued, seemingly referring to a 2011 Supreme Court decision (https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2011/06/us-supreme-court-strikes-down-video-game-law-on-first-amendment-grounds/) that prevents content-based restrictions on games. "It's garbage. It's the same as pornography. They have desensitized people to the value of human life, to the dignity of women, to the dignity of human decency. We're reaping what we've sown here."
When Conway asked if Bevin was interested in a ban on these types of games or merely more parental oversight of children's access, Bevin asked for media producers to take some responsibility for their works. "I think we need to start by having an honest question about what value any of these things add," he said. "Why do we need a video game, for example, that encourages people to kill people. Whether it's lyrics, whether it's TV shows, whether it's movies, I'm asking the producers of these products, these video games and these movies, ask yourselves what redemptive value, other than shock value, other than the hope you'll make a couple of bucks off it. At what price? At what price?"
Video games and other cultural products were part of a long list of causes Bevin suggested for the increase in school shootings and the nation's loss of its "moral compass." Parents, churches, and schools have all abdicated their responsibility to "hold children to task," he said, leading kids to "make their own rules without fear of consequences." He also made brief reference to the prevalence of medications and their harmful side effects as a potential cause.
Bevin recalled that children used to regularly bring guns to school after Christmas when he was a child but said it's changes to society that have led to those children using those guns in schools today. "We as adults have to stop acting like children ourselves. We need to step up and say that right is right and wrong is wrong."

More at: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/02/video-games-not-guns-to-blame-for-school-shooting-says-kentucky-gov/

[Brian4Liberty]

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Watch out. The new GOP will probably pass gun control legislation that their communist colleagues could never dream of getting passed.

It's for the children! - The new rallying cry of the GOP.