Biden warns of ‘political price’ for lawmakers who oppose gun control measures

[alp227]

Source: Washington Post

Declaring that “we have not given up,” Vice President Biden on Tuesday warned that lawmakers who opposed the Obama administration’s proposals to stem gun violence “will pay a political price.”

Biden appeared in a White House auditorium to announce that the administration has completed or made significant progress on nearly two dozen smaller-scale executive actions aimed at strengthening existing background checks, improving record-keeping and providing schools and communities with emergency management plans.

The setting was the same, but the political dynamics far different than they were five months ago when President Obama and Biden used the same auditorium to propose the most expansive overhaul of the nation’s gun laws in generations. They hoped to prohibit assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines and to require that every gun buyer undergo a background check.

But with their agenda blocked on Capitol Hill, Biden acknowledged that the progress report on the administration’s actions — he said 21 of 23 executive actions rolled out in January have been nearly completed — would not be enough to make serious headway in the fight against gun violence.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-to-claim-progress-in-far-narrower-push-to-stem-gun-violence/2013/06/17/213192b2-d7b6-11e2-a9f2-42ee3912ae0e_singlePage.html

[JustAnotherGen]

1. If only it were true

I would like to hope so - but I think the Gun Lobby is far too strong at this point in time.

[Crow73]

2. To bad

He doesn't say that about the 4th Amendment.

[JustAnotherGen]

3. I'm confused

What does a Equal Protection before the law have to do with the NRA?

ETA: You are fairly new to DU. I tend to be very 'literal'. Some folks have figured that out. So I'm sincerely confused - hope I didn't come off as a snot.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

4. Is there any chance that Vice-President Biden and others would act to reduce gun violence by

1. Pushing for economic reform?

2. Advocating for more health care for the mentally disturbed?

3. Supporting legislation to increase prison time for criminals who use firearms during their criminal activities?

[bucolic_frolic]

5. You need to be sane and sober to drive

but not to buy an assault rifle.

[rrneck]

8. You don't have to be sane and sober to buy a car either. nt

[bucolic_frolic]

9. Haha

Technically true, but your car dealer, as proxies for the lending
institutions, might think more than twice about selling and lending
to someone who is not sane and sober. And they'd be as negligent
as a Bartender in letting you drive out of the showroom drunk!

[rrneck]

10. You know different car dealers than me.

Every car dealer I ever met would sell a car to anyone with money, or the promise of it. Most of the "awash in guns" problem in the United States has more to do with consumerism than politics. This place is designed to facilitate the purchase of stuff.

[HeroInAHalfShell]

6. Where was this talk months ago????

[Rain Mcloud]

7. Biden taking a page from Gingrich's playbook of dirty tricks?

All this time,i have suffered the delusion that Obama won in 2008 and again in 2012.
Does this mean that the liberals finally found a pair of lonely testicles roaming the streets cold and hungry and so found them a new home in their empty sac?

Now send that hairy set of mountain oysters down to the house and tell that carrot asshole who the president is and what he expects to get to done or the chairs and committee head positions get revoked!
Andalante! Moo-ving!