Sen. Chuck Grassley's Iowa Town Hall Heats Up over Inaction on Gun Violence: 'The Answer Is Not to

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Americans' frustration toward gun violence boiled over this week at a town hall held by Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, when several attendees interrupted the Republican lawmaker to accuse him of putting children's lives in danger by holding up gun reform measures.

"You have been filibustering gun reform," one attendee said, Iowa Starting Line reports. "My daughter's a teacher, my daughter-in-law is a teacher, you are risking their lives."

The outlet reports that Grassley was repeatedly pressed about the measures he would be open to supporting, though he demurred when it came to giving specifics. Instead, he said he wanted to wait and see how negotiations proceed between Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn. — who met virtually this week to discuss gun reform.

"To answer your question, I'm going to wait until they report next week before I decide what I'm going to do," Grassley told the crowd, according to Starting Line.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/sen-chuck-grassleys-iowa-town-205414031.html

Delay and hope it goes away.

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1. Sen. John Cornyn's job is "talk" about gun law reforms with people like Sen. Murphy but in reality..

.... his real job is to delay any real reforms from happening.

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2. He's 88 years old. It's hard to be a progressive society when the same people keep getting elected

over and over. Maybe we should think about term limits.

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4. never warmed to the idea

I've been watching for a while - and in general, I haven't seen where 'turnover' really improves representation (and a lot of examples of where the reverse might be creditably maintained)

Myself - I've had about enough of talk show hosts, quack physicians and former sport stars. There's nothing to say that these people might not (by some happy circumstance) turn out to be decent public servants - but there is not a lot of positive indication that they will either. If an individual has some kind of 'record' to look at - at least I have some grounds to make a judgement.

[gldstwmn]

5. The only real turnover on a national level is the presidency. Make of that what you will.

[stopdiggin]

6. what I make of that

is that in a lot of cases people are relatively satisfied with their representation (as polling consistently indicates) - or at least more so than taking a flier on an unvetted and unproven 'choice' offered by the opposing party - but also that they do have that choice - and I don't see any rational (or truly 'democratic') reason for denying them that option/choice.

And - as stated previously - I don't see any real strong evidence for superior representation (or government) offered by 'new blood.' And, even if it did - doesn't democracy entail the right to vote and install 'unqualified, unpopular and unfit' choices?

[gldstwmn]

7. Citizens United cemented all that.

We are well and truly f*cked in that regard, no one is coming to save us so we're going to have to save ourselves.

[world wide wally]

3. "I know you are right and I am just an antique piece of shit... But golly, the NRA pays me so well"