Andrea Mitchell just told a whopper about Bernie:

[JDPriestly]

42. And it is not true! It is false. It is a total lie!

Here is his record:

https://votesmart.org/candidate/key-votes/27110/bernie-sanders/37/guns

He voted for most of the gun legislation. He voted against the Brady Bill.

Sanders voted for the Manchin-Toomey amendment in 2013, however, which would have expanded background checks, as well as for separate amendments that would have banned assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.

Sanders has staunchly defended his record. He maintains that his objections to the Brady Bill, for example, were due to the inclusion of a mandatory waiting period for gun purchases, rather than the background checks themselves, and boasts of his D-minus ranking from the National Rifle Association.

As a senator from a rural state with lax gun laws, Sanders has argued that he is uniquely positioned to bridge the divide between gun control advocates and their opponents -- a sentiment he reiterated on MSNBC on Thursday.

“What we need, Chris, as a nation, is to get beyond the shouting,” Sanders said. “Some people want to ban every gun in America and some people believe in nothing at all. I think the vast majority of the American people, as the president indicated, including gun owners -- and I know that's true here in Vermont -- want sensible gun control legislation and they also believe that we should have more access to mental health facilities and counselors than we presently do.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-gun-control_56105dade4b0af3706e1181f

Ir should be easier for people involved in explosive situations, marital disputes, etc. to get restraining orders and to get enforcement of those orders. That would not help in the mass shootings, but it would help in other situations.

When I read some of the posts on DU, a liberal site, and feel the anger expressed in them, I think we have a problem that goes way beyond guns. So Bernie's emphasis on mental health is well taken.

There are and have been DUers whose posts indicated in my opinion that they have serious apparently untreated mental health issues. We all have bad days. But to be constantly on edge and on the verge of violence or screaming suggests emotional instability, and that is something we can do something about.

Guns are inanimate objects.