US Senate Republicans block assault-style weapons ban as mass shootings rise

GOP: Gentlemen Gentlemen this is a mental health issue which is we can't ban 2A rights.

Everyone: Ok then give us better mental health?

GOP: Nope that's commie talk. Just get Jesus. (Also shocked why people hate them)

I just wish Dems would stop trying to ban any guns, and not because I'm against gun control, but because it's a losing issue. It's never passing through this Congress, and if it ever did, the Supreme Court would strike it down. Given that that's fairly undeniable, why lose the people who organize and vote on this issue alone?

My feed:

You wanna fix American politics and with that nearly all other problems with it?

Stop the "winner takes all" system you have right now.

You'll get a hundred political parties that have to compete with eachother. People will start voting more because now there are parties they can actually agree with and you get rid of this "always nearly 50/50" bullshit and one big party that blocks any proposal to actually improve the country

Want to stop the bank on assault rifles? Good luck stopping 20 parties

Banning specific guns is pure theater, even if it passes. There's zero real safety in it.

Nothing will change until it’s their grandkids who get mowed down.

you ever notice that when a vote is 49-51 conservatives win whether they're the 49 or the 51? Or how if it looks like they're gonna lose the vote by a large enough margin to actually lose that they can just prevent a vote from happening at all? You ever wonder how the government dare call itself "representative" and then ignore something that 92% of us want?

This is the best summary I could come up with:

WASHINGTON, Dec 6 (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Republicans moved to block a ban on assault-style weapons put forward by Democrats on Wednesday, as the United States recorded the highest number of mass shootings for the second year in a row.

The motion, put forward by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, would have reauthorized the Assault Weapons Ban, which first passed in 1994 and expired 10 years later.

The ban covers certain semi-automatic firearms and large capacity ammunition magazines, and ushered in a decrease of deaths from gun violence while it was in place.

"The American people are sick and tired of enduring one mass shooting after another," Schumer said on Wednesday in a speech bringing the motion to the floor.

"Americans have a Constitutional right to own a firearm," he said in a speech on the Senate floor, arguing that the bill was about "trying to label responsible gun owners as criminals."

The most recent high-profile killing happened in Lewiston, Maine, where 18 people were shot by a U.S. Army reservist who committed suicide shortly after the shooting spree.

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Conservatives won’t stop standing in the way of progressive gun control until school shootings become a national attraction.

“Hey look kids! A school shooting! So glad we took this vacation to rural America!”

The Republican party is a criminal and terrorist organization. At this point, this is literally political terrorism.

I hope the politicians who blocked that get shot.

How many more people have to be killed while going about their daily lives?

Good, anti 2A laws should be struck down.

Good

It’s a small price to pay so we can have dorky looking fake machine guns when a tyrannical leader sends waves of drones and infantry.

According to the article it's the same AWB from the Clinton years.

They can fuck right off. It's not what we need. We need to ban external magazines. This cosmetic shit is bullshit and just posturing to make gun owners suffer.

We need to withhold all federal funding from states that do not send information to the NICS system and we need universal background checks.

Banning external magazines works because every rifle can be retrofitted by welding a magazine in place and loading with stripper clips.

Edit - ITT people who think they have a right to carry guns everywhere but are too afraid to write a reply.

Edit 2 - And apparently most of the ones willing to reply fall into the camp of pretending to care as they've laser focused on one word. No I'm not going to change it. Being a nuisance is not the objective. Cathartic release is not the objective. Cutting gun violence is the fucking objective.