Credit where credit due Dept...to Pat Toomey, REPUBLICAN, Pennsylvania

[GordonGecko]

Who just reached a deal with Joe Manchin on background checks.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brief...y-to-unveil-details-on-background-check-talks

A bone was thrown to the paranoids and the Senators who pander to them on "no national gun registry".....so....what now?

 

[as seen on tv]

gecko - i continue to (unreasonably?) believe that all these creeping erosions of gun rights will end up as supreme court challenges. what is needed is a constitutional amendment to license and insure firearms in a manner similar to automobiles. state level laws do nothing to deter the transportation of firearms across state lines, and all the background checks to date have had little impact at keeping guns out of the hands of felons, who either get them throough proxy purchasers or just steal them.

that said, guns are too dangerous to be unrestricted, even if the history of such restrictions does not inspire a lot of confidence that the problem will be "solved" by more of them.

 

[Corruptbuddha]

I think it's a decent compromise.

But will it fly?

 

[GordonGecko]

gecko - i continue to (unreasonably?) believe that all these creeping erosions of gun rights will end up as supreme court challenges. what is needed is a constitutional amendment to license and insure firearms in a manner similar to automobiles. state level laws do nothing to deter the transportation of firearms across state lines, and all the background checks to date have had little impact at keeping guns out of the hands of felons, who either get them throough proxy purchasers or just steal them.

that said, guns are too dangerous to be unrestricted, even if the history of such restrictions does not inspire a lot of confidence that the problem will be "solved" by more of them.

It's just easier to read that way....and think I'm talking to two different people.

 

[GordonGecko]

I think it's a decent compromise.

But will it fly?

Fly enough to avoid a GOP filibuster....probably. Filibuster-threateners can point to the "No National Gun Registry" part, while still voting against the bill if they must. Buys them enough cover for avoiding the NRA running a primary challenger against them.

In the House?....who knows? Boehner and Pelosi will have the whip count and may do some "dickering"....trade a GOP voting for it, for a Dem from "Gun-land" voting against it. Pass it by a slim margin and again Boehner and the Repubs can claim "We TRIED to stop it" to an NRA Crowd....AND "We got it passed, hooray for us" to the appropriate moderate and Indy crowds.