Found here, at CNN:
http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/19/opinion/waldman-gun-vote
Pertinent 4 paragraphs:
Take Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, who many years ago was known as a straightforward, even moderate fellow, but who at some point decided that if he didn't like a bill, the best thing to do is to simply lie about what it contained, stoke fears or both.
He did it when he spread the "death panel" lie during the debate over health reform, and he did it again this time, telling people falsely that the Manchin-Toomey amendment would mean a national registry of every American who owns a gun. He then warned darkly, "when registration fails, the next move will be gun confiscation."
For the record, the Manchin-Toomey amendment specifically forbade the government from creating a gun registry, which is why Obama and Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia -- a guy from a state Obama lost by 27 points in 2012, who got elected to the Senate with an ad showing him firing a rifle shot through a piece of legislation while the announcer trumpeted his NRA endorsement -- accused the NRA and its supporters of lying about it.
But Grassley and others spread the lie, knowing it would energize the paranoid and influence the more cowardly of their colleagues. As one gun lobbyist gloated after the bill was defeated, "The gun registry defined the battle over universal background checks."
In other words, the bill Senator Dumbass wrote to you about had little to do with improving gun safety. Or its supporters wouldn't have had to lie about the Manchin-Toomey bill. But it was all about re-framing the argument so that place-holders and posturing sell-outs in Congress could do something to make themselves look good, for their inattentive or ignorant constituents who might not know any better.
= new reply since forum marked as read