re: #251 Gus

So really Republicans are going to oppose just about any and all gun control measures. I can sit here and say, “OK, I’m against an assault weapons ban,” let’s compromise. Yet, they don’t want to compromise. Republicans are effectively saying that anyone should be able to buy a gun without background checks.

They’re saying the usual, namely that any gun control passed will have to be sabotaged in such a way as to render it effectively useless. Shifting the cost of background checks onto the government means they can just vote, at one level or another, to cut that funding and ensure that gun shops aren’t running background checks due to lack of funding. When the number of checks goes down and guns in the hands of those who shouldn’t have them rise, they declare this “proof” that background checks are ineffective and push to abandon them.