Ban Guns. Spread AIDS

[Revolution]

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Illinois gun ban fails for the second time this week.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022119752

Hang in there guys... maybe some day you'll get it right for a change...

House pulls plug on gun-control measures: "We didn't think we had the votes"

SPRINGFIELD-Add gun-control legislation to the growing legislative scrap heap for what thus far has been a lame lame-duck session.
 
Citing a lack of support, the House sponsor of bans on military-style weapons -- dubbed "assault weapons" by critics -- and the high-powered ammunition that feeds them decided Sunday not to call either measure for a vote in his chamber.
 
Those same bills stalled last week in the Senate.

"Since we felt we didn't have enough overwhelming support in the Senate, we were worried about having the support in the House," state Rep. Edward Acevedo (D-Chicago), chief House sponsor of both bills, told the Chicago Sun-Times.
 
The House convened for its part of the lame-duck session Sunday and is scheduled to remain until Tuesday, the final full day of this General Assembly's two-year term. The bills were scheduled to be heard in committee Sunday until the plug was pulled on both.
 
The Senate has scheduled a return to Springfield on Tuesday to deal with anything the House might pass, but it's an open question of whether there will be anything of substance for the Senate to act upon.
 
"We didn't want to call it if we didn't think we had the votes, and we really don't know today if the Senate is coming back Tuesday," Acevedo said. "Time is so limited, I didn't want to lay any of my colleagues out."
 
State Rep. Brandon Phelps (D-Harrisburg), one of the House's leading gun-rights advocates, said he was surprised the gun bills weren't called even though he thinks a majority of House members were spooked by the expansive nature of the legislation, which he said could affect as many as 85 percent of all guns.
 
"It's just too broad and covers way too many guns," Phelps said. "The way I've heard from other people, they're not sitting down negotiating this bill. They're just throwing something out there to see if this sticks."

http://blogs.suntimes.com/politics/2013/01/house_pulls_plug_on_gun-control_measures.html

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022143900

Admittedly, this is not an exciting thread I should have trudged over to the Island, and gotten. There was just ONE post that got to me.

frazzled (8,590 posts)

3. Assault weapons/clips legislation and gay marriage bill will be introduced in new Legislature

in a few weeks. Lame duck sessions don't do this stuff.

Both will pass.

So wait a minute....being able to own a weapon to protect one's family, and one's self is not a human right, but porking your boy toy so you can pork his poop chute is? Let me tell you something, DUmbshit, protecting your personal self, and those related to you comes natural. it is instinctual in EVERY SINGLE spiecies of animal out there. Only 3% of the population is gay. It's not natural. It may well be instinktual though. And you ****ers say you're against torture, but tell me this, DUmmies: How can you stand yourselves being against a tool that will kill someone in less than a second with virtually no pain; yet you are 110% FOR but****ing...which in turn causes AIDS, which I've heard is very destructive, and agonizing to the body before one dies.

Rationalize that!

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Disarm the fags.

[Airwolf]

Last I heard it wasn't a constitutional right to marry or have sex.

[BlueStateSaint]

Disarm the fags.

I do believe that some are on our side in the gun control debate.

http://www.pinkpistols.org

[formerlurker]

If they can't get this done during informal session then it ain't happening kids.

[Skul]

Dis-shortarm the fags.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

I do believe that some are on our side in the gun control debate.

http://www.pinkpistols.org

I was trying to demonstrate the hypocrisy of the libs by showing how inflammatory it is to have one of their own constiteuncies subjected to the rules they would force on the rest of us.

If disarming people is OK then there's no harm in disarming gays.

But as soon as you say that you realize the gays are the only ones disarmed in a heavily armed world and that not only leaves them vulnerable it practically guarantees they will be targeted.

Just because libs would impose their rule on a larger swathe of society doesn't make the danger anymore diminished.

And make no mistake about it. I said "fags" because it's a bigoted term. The left targeting us for disarmament is born of the same type and degree of bigotry towards us that a homophobe would feel towards homosexuals.

BTW -- an excellent point about the Pink Pistols. I've tried, over the years, to steer several acquaintances and co-workers towards their ranks.