House Republicans Have Agreed To Hold A Vote On Gun Control

[Stellar]

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2016/06/30/3794743/house-agrees-to-gun-control-vote/

There will be a vote on gun control in the House of Representatives.
On Thursday — one week after nearly 170 House Democrats staged a historic sit-in protest on the House floor demanding a vote on on gun control legislation — Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) said he will allow a vote on a bill to prevent suspected terrorists from buying guns.

ccording to The Hill, Ryan told Republicans on a conference call "that the House will take up a terrorism package that will include measures to disrupt radicalization and recruitment, as well as a provision to prevent suspected terrorists from purchasing guns."

[Press Virginia]

1. You can bet it will be one that is unacceptable to most Democrats

[deathrind]

2. It's a start...

Too bad it took such drastic measures to get republicans to finally vote on if it is a good idea or a bad idea to let a person (suspected of terrorism) who is on the no fly list to buy weapons.

[thesquanderer]

9. They may be okay with the "no fly list" exception for gun purchases...

...because it will probably end up in the supreme court and may well be ruled unconstitutional and so will then be gone. (If the 2nd amendment is gives citizens the right to own guns, it would likely be unconstitutional to take rights away from people who are merely suspected of things, i.e. without conviction or other kind of due process).

[Brother Buzz]

3. Watered down Kool-Aid would be my guess

[Stellar]

5. you think?

[Brother Buzz]

7. Yep. Even Brautigan's Kool-Aid wino, rupture and all, would reject what these nimrods are serving

http://xefer.com//2003/02/koolaidwino

[scscholar]

6. This. You just know those Republicans will force due process restrictions...

that will gut the effect of the bill.

[asiliveandbreathe]

4. They will probably load it with amendments the Dems will not agree to..if a clean bill???? -

Sorry - I have no respect for AYNRYANRAND....reminds me of the story of the Scorpion and the Frog...

We'll see....

[gratuitous]

8. So that "political stunt" forced us off square one?

No telling what will be in the terrorism package, but House Republicans are obviously responding to the pressure to do something (even if it's totally wrong and ineffectual) instead of doing more nothing than they've been doing. And, since this is the Republicans we're talking about, you can bet that they'll herald their latest brilliant idear as great statesmanship. But the number of folks who believe their nonsense anymore is dwindling. A go-nowhere make-work bill will be worse than doing nothing, but I think that's just what the Republicans will do.