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BumRushDaShow

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12. Again you are missing the point and purposely fixating on the messenger
Thu Nov 14, 2019, 07:56 PM
Nov 2019

of the legislation and ignoring the point. There have been who knows how many killings by those who purchased through gun shows at private vendor tables, where no background check happened. Let's start there.

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The Bill would have not stopped this horrific deal....ever. AncientGeezer Nov 2019 #1
This is not just addressing this one incident BumRushDaShow Nov 2019 #4
EXCEPT...this Bill would have done nothing for "loopholes" like this. AncientGeezer Nov 2019 #6
He's spearheading this bill in general but it doesn't matter who presents it BumRushDaShow Nov 2019 #8
This idiot had a handgun... AncientGeezer Nov 2019 #9
Again you are missing the point and purposely fixating on the messenger BumRushDaShow Nov 2019 #12
You can't source ONE....not since Columbine....I'm not missing ANY points. AncientGeezer Nov 2019 #15
"I have ZERO problem starting there.. none what so ever." BumRushDaShow Nov 2019 #16
I donated to Sen Murphy 3 yrs ago....it has nothing to do with him. AncientGeezer Nov 2019 #18
Your ranting and railing about him and Sandy Hook gives me pause. BumRushDaShow Nov 2019 #22
Show me EVER ranting and railing about Sen. Murphy.... AncientGeezer Nov 2019 #23
I rest my case! BumRushDaShow Nov 2019 #24
Wise decision.....you couldn't do it.... AncientGeezer Nov 2019 #25
Unless you confiscate...AWB is worthless. AncientGeezer Nov 2019 #11
Many municipalities did gun buybacks BumRushDaShow Nov 2019 #14
Not mandatory of course....completely voluntary...and on the City dime. AncientGeezer Nov 2019 #17
You are changing goal posts BumRushDaShow Nov 2019 #19
I didn't "change" squat....I just said that Sen. Murphy's bill would do nothing.. AncientGeezer Nov 2019 #20
The "bill" which is the House's bill by the way BumRushDaShow Nov 2019 #21
Gun shows DO have background checks for sales.... AncientGeezer Nov 2019 #27
Not for private sales from people who rent a table and set up shop. BumRushDaShow Nov 2019 #28
Not true.....that's a widely assumed myth. AncientGeezer Nov 2019 #31
At the very moment I was on the Senate floor making a motion to force a vote on universal background riversedge Nov 2019 #2
So he claimed that if this measure passed, the slaughter would stop. Igel Nov 2019 #5
If the bill saves ONE child, it is worth it to their parents. IMHO. #Onelessgun riversedge Nov 2019 #10
How would it have resulted in 1 less gun.....or saved 1 child today? AncientGeezer Nov 2019 #13
Would have had ZERO bearing on this freakshow...none AncientGeezer Nov 2019 #7
I too pretend my allegations, lacking data to support them, are absolute. LanternWaste Nov 2019 #32
The freak was 16....illegal Federally NOW to posess a handgun. AncientGeezer Nov 2019 #33
Good. Force the Reeps to take the wrong side publicly! ananda Nov 2019 #3
Looks like the only thing... Toorich Nov 2019 #26
Did Sen Murphy think that any gun control measure would get "unanimous consent"? JustABozoOnThisBus Nov 2019 #29
It was the House bill that had already been debated and passed in the House with bipartisan support BumRushDaShow Nov 2019 #30
Still wouldn't have stopped the deal......you know that. AncientGeezer Nov 2019 #34
It is designed as a deterrant. And you refuse to acknowledge that. BumRushDaShow Nov 2019 #35
Seems like a great place to start ManiacJoe Nov 2019 #36
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