Joe Manchin: Time to act on guns
"A" rating from the NRA btw. If people in the House start getting this same mindset, we're boned. The way I see it, there are a two different ways this plays out.
(a) Fight any attempt at additional regulations. If our side doesn't win, though, it will be likely be seen and played out in the media as a catastrophic blow to the NRA's power and influence. I see this as all or nothing proposition right now with the emotions involved.
(b) Come to the table with some sort of measures to mitigate (can't ever prevent) this sort of thing from happening. Whether that's making the instant background check available to anyone instead of FFL's or whatever, do something to prevent a ban list and wait for hopefully cooler heads to prevail later. Think of this as the tactical retreat option.
All 435 seats in the House are up in 2014, and you know the left isn't above using this sort of event to it's full political advantage. Lots of people voted for Mitt on the sole basis that while he wasn't perfect, he was at least a stopgap measure until we could get someone better. As much as I hate to say it, I'm betting at this point we're going to have to come with something just to combat the raw emotions involved with this tragedy.
"A" rating from the NRA btw. If people in the House start getting this same mindset, we're boned. The way I see it, there are a two different ways this plays out.
(a) Fight any attempt at additional regulations. If our side doesn't win, though, it will be likely be seen and played out in the media as a catastrophic blow to the NRA's power and influence. I see this as all or nothing proposition right now with the emotions involved.
(b) Come to the table with some sort of measures to mitigate (can't ever prevent) this sort of thing from happening. Whether that's making the instant background check available to anyone instead of FFL's or whatever, do something to prevent a ban list and wait for hopefully cooler heads to prevail later. Think of this as the tactical retreat option.
All 435 seats in the House are up in 2014, and you know the left isn't above using this sort of event to it's full political advantage. Lots of people voted for Mitt on the sole basis that while he wasn't perfect, he was at least a stopgap measure until we could get someone better. As much as I hate to say it, I'm betting at this point we're going to have to come with something just to combat the raw emotions involved with this tragedy.
