Murphy refuses to leave Senate floor until gun control debated

[deminks]

http://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Murphy-refuses-to-leave-Senate-floor-until-gun-8201610.php

In protest of congressional inaction on the scourge of gun violence, Democrat Chris Murphy of Connecticut is refusing to leave the Senate floor until lawmakers take up legislation expanding background checks and banning assault weapons.

The symbolic filibuster by Murphy is the latest show of frustration by minority lawmakers from the state since 49 people were killed early Sunday morning at a gay nightclub in Orlando by a heavily-armed gunman with allegiances to the terrorist group ISIS.

“What we’re asking for is not revolutionary,” Murphy said Wednesday. “It is not radical. It is simply common sense.”

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[La Lioness Priyanka]

1. Oh these establishment democrats

They are owned by corporations



Go dems! Stop this insanity.

[flamingdem]

2. Excellent, who better than Murphy

[Helen Borg]

3. What is this achieving?

Don't mean it sarcastically, I just don't know. In practice, what is this achieving?

[Saviolo]

4. They've got to stop tossing that "allegiances to ISIS" stuff in there

He called 911 from the bathroom to declare allegiance to ISIL and also to the group that the Tsarnaev brothers claimed membership of before the Boston Marathon bombing. Those two groups -are not allies-.

He also has claimed membership of Al-Qaeda and Hezbollah, all groups that would happily kill each other if they had the chance.

Orlando mass shooter Omar Mateen claimed allegiance to Islamist terror groups and cited the Boston Marathon bombers as his inspiration, according to the FBI. The attacker had been probed twice for making similar comments and having suspected terror links.

Over the course of two phone calls, in which he called 911 and was then called back during Sunday’s massacre, Mateen pledged loyalty to Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) and a rival Islamist group called Al-Nusra Front. He also paid tribute to the Tsarnaev brothers, the “lone wolves” responsible for the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, FBI director James Comey revealed during a Monday press conference in Washington, DC.

“During the calls, he said he was doing this for the leader of ISIL, who he named and pledged loyalty to. But he also appeared to claim solidarity with the perpetrators of the Boston Marathon bombing and solidarity with a Florida man who died as a suicide bomber in Syria for Al-Nusra Front, a group in conflict with the so-called Islamic State,” Comey said. “The bombers at the Boston Marathon and suicide bomber from Florida were not inspired by ISIL, which adds a little bit to the confusion about his motives.”

He radicalized himself and would rather be thought of as a radical after death than as a homosexual.

However, the FBI says there was “no indication” that the 29-year-old had been aided by anyone from Islamic State in his preparations for the shooting in which 49 people were killed, or that he had been in contact with members of any existing terrorist groups.

"So far, we see no indication that this was a plot directed from outside the United States and we see no indication that he was part of any kind of network," the FBI chief told reporters. "We're highly confident this killer was radicalized at least in some part through the internet."

Good work on the filibuster, though! Hopefully finally this will finally cause some movement!

[mwrguy]

5. Can they take up legislation while he filibusters?

[aggiesal]

8. Not an actual filibuster ...

The normal filibuster, if you can't get 60 votes for cloture, then
the bill is never brought up to the floor for a vote, but other Senate
bills and business can continue as normal.

But if you do what Sen. Murphy is doing, this does not allow for
any Senate business to happen.

So to answer your question; NO!

[perdita9]

6. A true American hero

Thank you, Senator Murphy for standing up to the Republican thugs.

[WillowTree]

7. He may be there awhile.

[Takket]

9. BTW: 0 mention of this on ABC World News

[Kang Colby]

10. haha...they will be calling him stinky Murphy..

before long.

Gun control is a lost cause, we need to expand rights not infringe upon them.