Is it everything that I want?
No.
But, will I disregard it?
No.
It’s a big deal and covers much more than I thought the GOP Senators would agree to. I didn’t think they’d sign on to more than red flag laws. pic.twitter.com/ORiIaRtPyg
— 🎗️🥁 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 Catherine Thee Liberal Dem (@CMargaronis) June 12, 2022
🚨NEWS: We have a deal. Today a bipartisan group of 20 Senators (10 D and 10 R) is announcing a breakthrough agreement on gun violence – the first in 30 years – that will save lives.
I think you’ll be surprised at the scope of our framework.
1/ Here’s what it includes:
— Chris Murphy 🟧 (@ChrisMurphyCT) June 12, 2022
3/ Billions in new funding for mental health and school safety, including money for the national build out of community mental health clinics.
— Chris Murphy 🟧 (@ChrisMurphyCT) June 12, 2022
5/ First ever federal law against gun trafficking and straw purchasing. This will be a difference making tool to stop the flow of illegal guns into cities.
— Chris Murphy 🟧 (@ChrisMurphyCT) June 12, 2022
for not getting ALL the #GunReform Legislation in 1 bite. The Filibuster is your enemy, not all the Dems. Get that Senate Majority LARGER and then we can have more #guncontrol. You know there are 50 GOP Senators + 2 Dem senators stopping our progress. #53PickUp 2/2
— 🩺 Sassenach (@sass3366) June 12, 2022
Right now, if you commit domestic abuse against your wife, you can’t get a gun. If you do it to your girlfriend, you can.
That’s outrageous — and that's why I lead the bill to close this "boyfriend loophole." We need to pass it now. pic.twitter.com/ykS25noIAM
— Amy Klobuchar (@amyklobuchar) August 13, 2019
The expanded background checks for 18-21 would’ve prevented Buffalo, Parkland and Uvalde.
— 🎗️🥁 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 Catherine Thee Liberal Dem (@CMargaronis) June 12, 2022
No bigger or better advocate for sensible gun and weapons laws than Fred. If he supports this, and he does, that is a good sign it is the right step https://t.co/ytw7areFhS
— President Kamala’s Hand (Again) (@myronjclifton) June 12, 2022
For all those who say this Gun Bill isn't enough…. Imagine if African Americans said fuck it and gave up after this was all they could get in 1957…..
They kept scrapping and got the man who watered the 1957 bill down next to nothing to sign a better Bill in 1964. pic.twitter.com/mz5grfsyF7
— A Unapologetic DEI (@reesetheone1) June 12, 2022
The senate’s new gun safety deal closes the “boyfriend loophole,” finally. This was part of the original VAWA and senators were unable to come to an agreement on adding it back once VAWA expired. This is a huge fucking deal!!
— queen of hoops snark 👸🏻✡️🏀💖 (@layneashley222) June 12, 2022
I expected to get no deal so I am fine with getting something. The bar is low we have a 50-50 Senate. To the Dem Senator on the bipartisan who fought to get the “boyfriend loophole” included thank you.
Complaining will get us nothing better.
— Candidly Tiff (@tify330) June 12, 2022
"Gun safety legislation isn't just good policy. It's good politics. And we need lawmakers to feel that if they don't act, there will be consequences. And business leaders need to hold these lawmakers accountable as well" – @shannonrwatts w/ @NicolleDWallace pic.twitter.com/Odisqt073x
— Deadline White House (@DeadlineWH) June 10, 2022
Gun safety measures like red flag laws and more background checks for those under 21 are important measures to support. I look forward to reviewing the full text of this proposal and working to improve gun safety at the federal level.
— Sen. Maria Cantwell (@SenatorCantwell) June 12, 2022
Posted earlier:
If we want a better bill we need to vote. I’m not a whiny “progressive.” Let them complain, we will get to work.
It’s a starting point not a destination. Get to work & stop making TikTok videos & excuses
— Sons of Killmonger & Disciple of Dark Brandon (@2Strong2Silence) June 12, 2022
https://twitter.com/luckydeviIgaia/status/1536069867484454912?s=19
Do something twitter, 24×7: DO SOMETHING!!R(#$J$#!
Dems: We did something that hasn't been done in 30 years.
Do something twitter: Not that. So what. That's not a big deal. Whatever. That's not what we meant. Also, we won't vote in midterms and we don't support president or VP.
— President Kamala’s Hand (Again) (@myronjclifton) June 12, 2022
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So I've seen a lot of "not enough" bitching about the framework for the gun control bill. I've been in Child Protection for 28 years. Let me tell you why the ending the boyfriend loophole saves lives. 1/
— Patrick (@QuadCityPat) June 14, 2022
DV or more appropriately IPV Has a last effect on children. You don't have to be CPS to understand this. Fortunately I've only had a few cases where a mother was injured or murdered in an IPV incident with a gun 3/
— Patrick (@QuadCityPat) June 14, 2022
So ending the Boyfriend exception, saves lives. Reduces kids being exposed to violence and makes my job easier. After 28 years in the shit, anything that makes my job a smidge easier and helps women and kids is a win 5/5
— Patrick (@QuadCityPat) June 14, 2022
And so it begins.. the complicit media desperately looking to shine up mini buffoon..
https://twitter.com/BrickmanInGA/status/1537148144705843200?s=20&t=mkVUkYC-nQCZZWB50deoEw
https://twitter.com/ritchjc/status/1537169568434642944?s=20&t=mkVUkYC-nQCZZWB50deoEw
🤢🤕🥴😏..
“..Herschel Walker, the Republican nominee for Senate from Georgia, who has often spoken out against absentee fathers, particularly in Black households, on Tuesday publicly acknowledged having fathered a second son with whom he is not in contact.
The admission came in response to a report by The Daily Beast, which said it had confirmed the 10-year-old boy’s parentage but withheld his name and that of his mother. It said the child’s mother had sued Mr. Walker a year after giving birth to obtain a declaration of paternity and child support, and that the suit lasted until August 2014, when Mr. Walker was ordered to pay child support. The boy, by then more than 2 years old, took Mr. Walker’s last name.
At the same time, he has repeatedly criticized fatherless homes in Black communities: In a 2020 interview with the conservative activist Charlie Kirk, he called the absence of fathers “a major, major problem” in Black households and boasted of having been “like a father” to many young people in his hometown in Georgia.
And in a 2021 interview with the Black conservative media personalities Diamond and Silk, Mr. Walker lamented that “the father leaves in the Black family. He leaves the boys alone so they’ll be raised by their mom,” comparing the dynamic to family separations during slavery.
The development is the latest and potentially the most damaging of a number of reports detailing Mr. Walker’s exaggerations and outright falsehoods concerning his life before entering politics. He has falsely claimed that he worked as a member of law enforcement in Georgia and with the F.B.I. in Quantico, Va., according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He has also exaggerated his business record as the owner of a poultry company that collapsed years before he ran for office.
Mr. Walker’s opponent in the Senate race, Mr. Warnock, is contending with his own child custody dispute with his ex-wife, who has sued to have his child support payments “recalculated” given his increased income since taking office last year..”
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/14/us/politics/herschel-walker-son.html?smid=tw-share
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“…media personalities Diamond and Silk..” 🤣😂🥴🤪🤣
The world has truly gone mad..
Oy..
https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1536898626600960000?s=20&t=Klwt-RmA_FaDeb-l43l06A
https://twitter.com/UndrayR/status/1536876317316202497?s=20&t=Klwt-RmA_FaDeb-l43l06A
https://twitter.com/BienvenidoIA/status/1536944757733089280?s=20&t=Klwt-RmA_FaDeb-l43l06A
https://twitter.com/buckheadlawyer/status/1536872834710048768?s=20&t=Klwt-RmA_FaDeb-l43l06A
I do not intend to marginalize this “gun safety framework” and I believe that Sen. Chris Murphy has only good intentions. This may very well be the best he can do with a corrupted and dysfunctional Senate that includes two Democratic traitors, Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin.
However, the most effective way to stop or dramatically reduce the massacres is to re-instate the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban. The goal here is clearly not to stop the massacres.
Regarding “gun rights”, the Democrats are not going to take on the right wing despite the will of the people. So their approach to gun safety is to focus on the gun handler and not the gun. They’ll throw money at the states and see what they can do with red flag laws and mental health clinics.
If this passes, both Democrats and Republicans will congratulate themselves for doing something, but Democrats will sell it as a good start and Republicans will sell it as the final solution. They’ll go no further.
Neither side has the will or determination to re-instate the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban.
Their goal is to pass something that looks like a major gun safety bill but will take years for the states to implement new laws, build mental health clinics etc… and years to collect enough data to determine the efficacy of this framework. And that is assuming it gets legislated.
Yup..
UH HUH
UH HUH
Terry Watkins Jr. 💛💜⚖️ (@TerryWatkinsJr1) tweeted at 2:55 PM on Mon, Jun 13, 2022:
AOC doesn’t inspire young voters.
Those who listen to her aren’t motivated to vote more, or support the Democratic Party agenda.
She encourages apathy.
She motivates an unwillingness to cooperate, and worst yet, she sows seeds of doubt in progressive agenda that lacks her name.
(https://twitter.com/TerryWatkinsJr1/status/1536437095014846472?s=02)
Pizza Hut Christian Defense Fund (@NickTagliaferro) tweeted at 6:35 PM on Mon, Jun 13, 2022:
I mean yeah Wall Street has been begging for a Main Street recession for like a year now because they’re tired of workers not knowing their place, I wouldn’t be surprised if they triggered one on purpose or bullied the Fed into doing it for them
(https://twitter.com/NickTagliaferro/status/1536492360762368001?s=02)
I love calling them the ‘ fan fiction left’. It SOOO fits.
Nandi (@NandisCouch) tweeted at 8:07 AM on Mon, Jun 13, 2022:
The “fan fiction” left are against a bipartisan infrastructure bill, against $10k in student loan forgiveness, against sending aid to Ukraine, against a bipartisan bill to reduce gun violence, against voting…
They share that in common with the MAGA wing.
(https://twitter.com/NandisCouch/status/1536334433749454850?t=12VcdZjjG3pGfbWYqovbfw&s=03)
I was very much in favor of the “bipartisan” infrastructure bill.
However, when Biden went to the House and told the progressives it had to be decoupled from Build Back Better, I knew BBB wouldn’t pass in the Senate. Biden assured everyone it would pass separately, but he underestimated the willingness of Kyrsten Sinema to take down his agenda because she had already sold her vote. And Joe Manchin never could decide if he liked any of it or not. So, BBB is effectively dead and if the GOP takes back the House or Senate this year, then BBB may as well be cremated.
If we go back and review what the Democrats ran on in 2020, it’s clearly not what we’re getting. There was only a two year window in which to pass major progressive legislation
and that window is closing. And what stopped the Democrats? Two traitors in the Senate.
Forgive me if I don’t get excited when these so-called legislators do the bare minimum and many times not even that much.
Oh, yeah, one more thing. The Infrastructure Bill passed in the Senate because Mitch McConnell allowed GOP Senators to vote for it.
He’ll do the same on the gun safety bill, more than likely.
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) tweeted at 4:40 PM on Mon, Jun 13, 2022:
So far Herschel Walker has been caught:
—Lying about being high school valedictorian
—Lying about owning a nonexistent business
—Lying about even graduating from college
—Lying about graduating in the top 1%
—Lying about being a police officer
—Lying about being an FBI agent
(https://twitter.com/NoLieWithBTC/status/1536463486397693957?t=CkIbk5e2dOXysNwV2n5_SQ&s=03)
nothing but RUBES
Hugo Lowell (@hugolowell) tweeted at 11:48 AM on Mon, Jun 13, 2022:
NEW: Jan. 6 committee establishes the Trump campaign was a complete grift — they raised $250 million after the election for the “Official Election Defense Fund” which did not exist and the money instead went to Trump hotels and his own Save America PAC
(https://twitter.com/hugolowell/status/1536389981626896384?t=oB_oVD9GYgDbL1yKbCtamw&s=03)
Michael Kapp (@michaelkapp) tweeted at 4:12 PM on Mon, Jun 13, 2022:
Chairman Bennie Thompson said it best: Donald Trump “spurred a mob of domestic enemies of the Constitution to march down the Capitol and subvert American democracy.” https://t.co/LRtktfMTWJ
(https://twitter.com/michaelkapp/status/1536456413148585986?t=jxbTUoSNLbd1PFNPckrvfg&s=03)
Is it a crime, if the rubes don’t mind?
CSPAN (@cspan) tweeted at 0:05 PM on Mon, Jun 13, 2022:
.@RepZoeLofgren on former President Trump: “It’s clear that he intentionally misled his donors, asked them to donate to a fund that didn’t exist and used the money raised for something other than what he said. Now it’s for someone else to decide whether that’s criminal or not.” https://t.co/hp1A8ApRvN
(https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1536394455460237317?t=rQoJNDRZoE3TEfT0tEICgw&s=03)
the sarcastic little sea shill 🧜🏻♀️✡️🪬 (@layneashley222) tweeted at 0:59 PM on Mon, Jun 13, 2022:
I am so fucking done with people downplaying how important it is to close the “boyfriend loophole.” Democrats tried to do this for YEARS after VAWA expired. They couldn’t even add it back into the reauthorization of VAWA that passed just 3 months ago
(https://twitter.com/layneashley222/status/1536407908904214529?s=02)
“I am so fucking done with people downplaying how important it is to close the “boyfriend loophole.””
I am so f’cking done with people who magnify the accomplishments of legislators who are doing the bare minimum.
Someone actually called me a few days ago and wanted me to thank Kyrsten Sinema for something or other. Ha ha, they got an earful.
Good Morning, Everyone😊😊😊