And we see it advocated for all the time, the call for periodic checks on gunowner's homes, for example.

First, Second, Fourth, Fifth.....

Not worth it, find different ways to reduce violence, like reversing poverty, improve education.

I heard news clips of Morse telling the other Senate members on the floor they had to ignore pressure from their constituents on the gun issue and get it passed. Dumb thing to say in the first place, even dumber to say on the record. Now Governor Hickenlooper is second guessing himself and trying to back away from the gun laws he signed before the election next year.

So in essence, anyone in Colorado that didn't agree with the new Bloomberg laws, was in a "shut up and sit down" trick bag. I think that pissed a lot of people off more than the laws themselves did, arrogance and condescension usually do.

But then again we've already been assured by some of our "friends" here that Colorado was really a right wing scam all along, just like our new concealed carry law in Illinois is also total right wing construct. In spite of it being proposed, written and passed by a Dem legislature with a super majority in both houses. At least that's what people with no knowledge or experience in Illinois politics tell me.

I've just stopped paying any attention to the people that can't see the reality of these trends. But I guess as long as Bloomberg writes all the checks and they don't have to do anything but whine online about it, they'll stick around.

I'm pretty sure that the minute any of them have to actually back up their words with money or effort it will fade away.

and Morse refused to meet with her personally. She was a CC permit holder but her campus was a gun free zone. She was attacked and raped before her attacker could be caught he raped and murdered another young woman. It was episodes like that which turned public ire into a burning white hot resentment.

America likes their guns. How many times do these idiots have to lose their jobs to learn this lesson?

Concealed carry laws should be uniform across the state, and I don't really see a significant objection to having permits issued at that level...

And the locals either don't want to be involved, or see this as a way to eliminate or sharply reduce permits in their area.

According to my first result (USACarry.com),

If you piss off your constituents, whom YOU, are supposed to represent, don't be surprised if you get tossed out like last weeks salad.

I prefer to see recalls based only on actual corruption, criminality, or similar malfeasance - and I'll never support one that isn't on those grounds...

nuc uni: ... let's remember 1/10th of the deep blue Rhode Island town's population signed the recall petition. I'll even go so far as to wager that the council's arrogance in cutting short debate and refusing to allow dissenting voices be heard earned them more signatures than the gun control issue alone. The problem with "gun control" advocates is they never confine their controlling impulses to guns. Speech, association, etc. are also part of the agenda.

You seem beaming with pride over this, over another rightwing coup;
.. question: why you so proud that 10% of deep blue rhode island town's population signed the recall petition? did you really think rhode island was 100% democrat? those predominantly were republicans, tea partiers, libertarian or rightwing signatures gotten.
.. rhode island residents probably majority support the guncontrol position, it's just rightwing whiners who are mucking up the system over some specious juvenile trumped up approach to guncontrol - their childish right to whine about gun control.
.. how come there's no outcry about the waste of taxpayers money to conduct these temper tantrums? why do you support the tea party & rightwing approach if you consider yourselves democrats? oh I know why, it's cause you yourselves are democrat fringe elements on guns.

If I appear beaming with pride then you have proven yourself delusional.

It's not a coup, let alone a RW coup in Rhode Island, of all places. Recalls are part of the democratic process. The coup was when the council circumscribed established order to silence their constituents and stifle debate. It's aggravating because the controllers' mono-mania is costing us.

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If these guys were fundies who decided to force the schools to change the Pledge of Allegiance to the "word of Jesus Christ or the Prophet Mohammad" instead of the flag (fundies come in all different flavors) and disallowed input not only from Jews, Wiccans, Atheists, Agnostics, non of the aboves, but also Christians and Muslims don't share that outlook, would it still be a temper tantrum?