Comments on: Remarks on the Senate’s Failure to Legislate (gun background checks) https://gregladen.com/blog/2013/04/18/remarks-on-the-senates-failure-to-legislate-gun-background-checks/ Fri, 19 Apr 2013 03:12:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: benjamin https://gregladen.com/blog/2013/04/18/remarks-on-the-senates-failure-to-legislate-gun-background-checks/#comment-486843 Fri, 19 Apr 2013 03:12:52 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=16404#comment-486843 this is justanother case of politicians maintaining the dumbass status quo. classic of senators to cockblock human advancement by catering to yokels clinging to bygone fears of government takeovers.

]]> By: Chris Winter https://gregladen.com/blog/2013/04/18/remarks-on-the-senates-failure-to-legislate-gun-background-checks/#comment-486842 Thu, 18 Apr 2013 19:24:12 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=16404#comment-486842 Let’s consider the NRA claim that expanded background checks — even the scaled-back checks the bill specified, far from the universal checks the president wanted — would infringe the right of law-abiding, responsible citizens to own guns. The only way this could happen is if those allegedly responsible citizens are mentally ill, or are hiding criminal records.

If that were true, are these the sorts of people the NRA leadership would want to make up their “well-regulated militia”? I certainly hope not.

]]> By: Dan J. Andrews https://gregladen.com/blog/2013/04/18/remarks-on-the-senates-failure-to-legislate-gun-background-checks/#comment-486841 Thu, 18 Apr 2013 16:30:49 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=16404#comment-486841 There are at least three ads from a mom’s gun control group. One is here, the other two are similar (one uses dodgeball).

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