This will likely piss off a lot of people. Democrats should tell the likes of Cornyn to kiss

[Atticus]

our ass when he graciously offer to "search for common ground" regarding gun legislation.

What has he offered? Well, he's willing to begin to commence to consider maybe starting to talk about the possibilty of studying 2% of what our president proposed.

Let's have a vote on legislation which reasonably addresses the epidemic of mass shootings, not some fake Republican "promise" to "do something some day" "when the time is right".

When only one party has concrete proposals to address a problem, that is not a "bipartisan discussion"; that is stalling in hope that people will forget about the problem.

[SoCalDavidS]

1. The Problem Is, When You're Starving, You'll Even Eat A Shit Sandwich

We'll get 1 Shit Sandwich now, and then probably Nothing for another 30 years.

[Walleye]

4. Yeah but with no bread

[SoCalDavidS]

5. Truth!

[Walleye]

2. They don't intend to do shit. They are absolutely stalling, you called that right

Didn’t they actually send that out in their mass talking points emails. Stall, change the subject. Now we’re watching them do it. It gets tiresome

[elleng]

3. He lies, of course, as expected when mcconnell selected him.

[Triloon]

6. Exactly, it is a stall.

Also, those concrete proposals you mentioned have all been laid out publicly. If he wants to search for common ground he is welcome to, but he will find it among those proposals or he won't find it at all.

[brooklynite]

7. "Let's have a vote on legislation"

And when it fails, what will you do?

As I raised the question in another post, which voters will shift their choice when Republicans vote down the Democratic-only legislation?

[dpibel]

10. The ones that support it?

Just a wild guess!

But when you have a majority, in multiple polls, over time, supporting some form of gun control, you could almost guess that some fraction of that majority would think to punish the people who keep preventing what they want.

Although I do understand that the unwashed masses can only think of the kitchen table and do not know the difference between that and a gun.

[brooklynite]

12. As I pointed out previously, they didn't punish pro-gun Republicans in the past...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=16766373

[dpibel]

13. Well, what are the answers?

You pose a series of questions about the effects of "refusing to pass desired gun regulations."

But you leave them as rhetorical questions, clearly intending that your readers answer "No it did not!"

My answer is bipartite:

1) Were there any such "desired gun regulations" actually brought to a vote?

and

2) What, in fact, was the effect on Republican candidates?

Because, honestly, I don't know.

And, honestly, I don't think you know either.

The granularity that would be required to answer your "But everybody knows!" questions may not even be available.

But you are acting as if it is, so whyn't you go ahead and supply us groundlings with the answers to your questions?

[walkingman]

8. Cornyn is a mealy-mouth POS who has already publicly said there will be no gun control.

[CentralMass]

9. Yes but Joe Manchin has Cornyn's' back and we know how amazing he is.

[harumph]

11. Disagree. They need to offer raising the buying age to 21 and waiting periods.

That's it. If the R's can't pass that - then use it in the midterms to pummel then.
IOW:
"Republicans don't care about gun safety, they couldn't even raise the buying age to 21!"
"Republicans don't care about gun safety, they couldn't even do the bare minimum!"
"Republicans can't seem to do the bare minimum to improve gun safety."

[agingdem]

14. common ground...bullshit!

I hate the "anything is better than nothing" crap..tell me what is the "anything" Cornyn is offering other than soundbites without substance?...and you're correct, Cornyn and company are waiting until we no longer see the faces of victims in our sleep..

[kacekwl]

15. Yep, +10000

[Bev54]

16. +1