Dianne Feinstein: 'Gun People' Hold A 'Hammerlock' On Gun Control Reform
Source: Huffington Post
Three days after a shooting at Los Angeles International Airport left one TSA agent dead, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said she believed "deep down" in reforming gun control legislation.
Would I do a bill? Sure Id do a bill. I believe this down deep in my soul, Feinstein said on CBSs Face the Nation Sunday. But the senator said firearms supporters will prevent such legislation from passing.
I think theres a hammerlock on the Congress by the gun owners and gun people, and it doesnt matter," she said.
Feinstein noted that the gun used at the Los Angeles airport was the same model as the gun used in the 2012 Aurora, Colo. movie theater shooting that left twelve dead and 70 injured.
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/03/dianne-feinstein-gun-control_n_4209892.html
Luckily, just like the Republican Tea Party Fox News viewership they overlap, gun nuts are aging rapidly.
As America blues, diversifies, and populates, racist gun culture will fade away.
leftyohiolib
(5,917 posts)how does that look from your glass house
NOVA_Dem
(620 posts)She's a phony. She knew that her bill would go nowhere b/c of the filibuster and she made sure the filibuster stayed in place.
Ranchemp.
(1,991 posts)her AWB and mag. limit bills didn't even garner 50 votes in the Senate the last time it was voted on.
NOVA_Dem
(620 posts)Why should they risk their seats when they don't have 60 votes? Feinstein can pretend to offer the AWB bill from her safe seat in CA. She wouldn't do it if she was from FL or CO.
She complains about the need for 60 votes and then makes sure the threshold stays at 60 votes.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/17/filibuster-reform_n_3104519.html
I think thats a mistake at this time but Ill listen to arguments, said Feinstein, when asked about the prospect of using the constitutional option to change filibuster rules.
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/270237--reid-must-wrestle-with-nine-undecided-democrats-to-reform-filibuster-rules
Ranchemp.
(1,991 posts)I may have misunderstood your post, if so, sorry about that.
NOVA_Dem
(620 posts)Primarily for her cronyism, war profiteering, and civil liberty positions.
Demeter
(85,373 posts)You're chair of the committee...fix it, or resign!
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)Her idea is, per the bill she just submitted, to simply make the NSA's over-reach fully legal.
Demeter
(85,373 posts)but by pointing out the flaws, perhaps she will get a clue. Otherwise, we should file corruption charges, based on her hubby's real estate ripoffs.
Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)on domestic spying reform.
krispos42
(49,445 posts)Except guns, right?
Paladin
(28,276 posts)It's easy for you as a Connecticut gun activist to trash Feinstein, and I'll readily admit she's far from perfect. But she's a damn sight better than the brain-dead, gun-loving Teabaggers that millions of us are saddled with.
reddread
(6,896 posts)I suggest a better telescope, and more observation time.
She is one of the worst things in our entire government.
Which says just about enough.
Paladin
(28,276 posts)Cruz and Cornyn in exchange for Feinstein? No contest. I stand by my previous comments.
reddread
(6,896 posts)that snake is much more effectively dangerous.
Wish what you want.
Texas is my least favorite state, and I still wouldnt put her there, even to punish Texas for being Texas.
And dont tell me Texas doesnt try to punish California.
Anything to get her out of California, but not into a position of power anywhere.
That lesser evil stuff is hogwash.
Paladin
(28,276 posts)Sarcasm alert, because I figure you might need it.
reddread
(6,896 posts)Your Senator Cruz has done more for what you probably consider the left than DiFi ever will.
Imagine what a few more like him could accomplish?
Feinstein is the ultimate profiteer, milking California and the Federal treasury like it werent no thing.
Shes a huge success, I'll give her that.
Certainly benefited from gun violence more than most on this side of the aisle.
you can have her.
no sarcasm.
none.
Paladin
(28,276 posts)And hey, we're all friends here, you can tell us: What sort of Christmas present are you buying Cruz this year, since you're so Goddamned grateful to him?
krispos42
(49,445 posts)...that's a no-brainer position.
Doesn't change the fact that when she proposes gun legislation, it's to wage a "culture war", not to make America's streets safer.
Dopers_Greed
(2,640 posts)And you're one of them.
Zeke L Brimstone
(89 posts)And Feinstein's people have a hammerlock on your foreign policy.
spin
(17,493 posts)at the national level if Dianne Feinstein had not pushed for another assault weapons ban.
Perhaps by now we would have had universal background checks and a more effective NICS background check system which would contain the names of those who had been legally adjudged as having serious mental problems that might pose a danger to other people.
Instead we have made zero progress at the national level and limited changes at the state level. Our party has also alienated many of the 80,000,000 gun owners in the nation and it is quite possible that these gun owners will show up at the polls to vote against any and all Democrats. This may cause the loss of close elections at the local, state and national levels.
It's my opinion that it would be wise for our party to ban the use of the word "ban" in the gun control debate and suggest reasonable improvements in our gun laws. If we don't overreach we may convince many gun owners to vote for Democrats rather than the "Party of NO."
I also favor requiring anyone who purchases a firearm or ammunition to have a card proving that he has obtained gun safety training. A scuba diver has to show such a card in order to get air for his tanks as does a sky diver before he boards a plane to jump.