The Overwhelming Hypocrisy of the Right wing

United States Amendment 2910 – 114^th Congress

12/3/2015

Sponsored by Senator Dianne Feinstein with 25 cosponsors

PURPOSE:  To increase public safety by permitting the Attorney General to deny the transfer of firearms or the issuance of firearms and explosives licenses to known or suspected dangerous terrorists.

REJECTED: 50 to 48. 50 Republicans voted to allow anyone, including persons on the terrorist watch list to purchase guns.

47 Democrats and 1 Republican voted to prevent this abomination. (The list of names is below).

WINNERS: The NRA and their masters, gun manufacturers and terrorists.

LOSERS: America, its citizens and those folks who are unfortunate enough to be present the next time there is a terrorist attack, either here or abroad.

We are the main supplier for madmen with guns.

The hypocrisy, the gut wrenching hypocrisy displayed by the members of the GOP running for President and those who voted yesterday is beyond the pale.

On Wednesday we were greeted by the standard my thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families of this terrible tragedy comment by any politician who had a microphone thrust into their face.  The Right was upset when the President’s statement after the attack in Colorado Springs read in part “We can’t let it become normal. If we truly care about this — if we’re going to offer up our thoughts and prayers again, for God knows how many times, with a truly clean conscience — then we have to do something about the easy accessibility of weapons of war on our streets to people who have no business wielding them. Period. Enough is enough.”

Well enough on Friday, November 27^th was not enough, since on Thursday, December 3^rd, a day after 14 Americans were massacred and 21 injured by 1 domestic and 1 foreign terrorist*, who obtained their guns here in the States our elected officials chose not to close one small loophole in our laws.

*They were not on the watch list, we do not know how they obtained the guns, but with our lack of laws anyone can buy a gun legally.

How many more must die? How many must die in one massacre before the 2^nd Amendment Americans wake up to the crimes they are committing by supporting the gun manufacturers?

I believed that when 20 children and their teachers were murdered on December 14^th, 2012, that we would finally pass some laws to curb the easy access to guns.

When that did not happen I accepted the fact that it would take a massacre of at least 20 x 5 or perhaps even 10 before something is done.  We almost had such an occurrence on Wednesday, since the killers in San Bernardino had tried to retrofit the long guns to make them automatics.

So Senators, governors and politicians at every level of government here in America, if you do not support the curbing of the madness that has overtaken us, then spare us your ‘thoughts and prayers’.  You do not care about us; all you care about are the contributions from gun manufacturers and our votes.  Your thoughts and prayers are directed towards hoping that we as a people do not at some point say “enough is enough”.

The Leader of the Senate received $922,000 in contributions from the NRA to help fund his 2014 re-election bid.

He tweeted:

At least he had the decency not to say “and prayers”.

Grouped By Vote Position

YEAs ---48
Baldwin (D-WI) Bennet (D-CO) Blumenthal (D-CT) Booker (D-NJ) Boxer (D-CA) Brown (D-OH) Cantwell (D-WA) Cardin (D-MD) Carper (D-DE) Casey (D-PA) Collins (R-ME) Coons (D-DE) Donnelly (D-IN) Durbin (D-IL) Feinstein (D-CA) Franken (D-MN)	Gillibrand (D-NY) Heinrich (D-NM) Hirono (D-HI) Kaine (D-VA) King (I-ME) Kirk (R-IL) Klobuchar (D-MN) Leahy (D-VT) Manchin (D-WV) Markey (D-MA) McCain (R-AZ) McCaskill (D-MO) Menendez (D-NJ) Merkley (D-OR) Mikulski (D-MD) Murphy (D-CT)	Murray (D-WA) Nelson (D-FL) Peters (D-MI) Reed (D-RI) Reid (D-NV) Sanders (I-VT) Schatz (D-HI) Schumer (D-NY) Shaheen (D-NH) Stabenow (D-MI) Tester (D-MT) Toomey (R-PA) Udall (D-NM) Warren (D-MA) Whitehouse (D-RI) Wyden (D-OR)

NAYs ---50
Alexander (R-TN) Ayotte (R-NH) Barrasso (R-WY) Blunt (R-MO) Boozman (R-AR) Burr (R-NC) Capito (R-WV) Cassidy (R-LA) Coats (R-IN) Cochran (R-MS) Corker (R-TN) Cornyn (R-TX) Cotton (R-AR) Crapo (R-ID) Cruz (R-TX) Daines (R-MT) Enzi (R-WY)	Ernst (R-IA) Fischer (R-NE) Flake (R-AZ) Gardner (R-CO) Graham (R-SC) Grassley (R-IA) Hatch (R-UT) Heitkamp (D-ND) Heller (R-NV) Hoeven (R-ND) Inhofe (R-OK) Isakson (R-GA) Lankford (R-OK) Lee (R-UT) McConnell (R-KY) Moran (R-KS) Murkowski (R-AK)	Paul (R-KY) Perdue (R-GA) Portman (R-OH) Risch (R-ID) Roberts (R-KS) Rounds (R-SD) Rubio (R-FL) Sasse (R-NE) Scott (R-SC) Sessions (R-AL) Shelby (R-AL) Sullivan (R-AK) Thune (R-SD) Tillis (R-NC) Vitter (R-LA) Wicker (R-MS)

Not Voting - 2
Johnson (R-WI)	Warner (D-VA)