Basically, if an anti-gun Senator walks down to the floor tomorrow and asks the Senate to pass H.R. 8 by unanimous consent, and there is no pro-gun Senator on the floor to object, then gun control would pass. [More]
They'd have to do that because otherwise, there's a "2% chance of being enacted."
This is dated yesterday and they say if it's going to happen the Dems will try it today, so I guess there's not much point in my sending an appeal to gun-grabber Sherrod Brown. I wish GOA would provide a way to send these things to where they will do some good.
Actually, I wish representatives would be sending me alerts as opposed to me having to inform and then beg them.
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"I sat there with the majority leader and everybody else had gone home, and we made an arrangement. We let that [Brady] bill pass."
ReplyDeleteSenator Bob Dole (R-KS), August 23, 1994, p. S.12363, Congressional Record