pappilon wrote:Short answer is NRA Lobby giving over $15,000,000 to the Republican National Committee and about the same to individual senators. As one Senator honestly stated, we will change our stance on firearms legislation when we start losing elections over it.
As it has been stated in other topics, you need 60 senators to vote for "cloture", an end to debate and move for a vote on the floor. Currently the republicans have 51 votes, which effectively kills any national legislation.
They win elections by being pro unlimited gun ownership. Or put the other way, candidates espousing gun ownership limits do very poorly in elections.
Oh, I know all that. I'm assuming Senior Chief and the others know it too. What I'm actually curious about is how they rationalize this being a good thing.
(Ancillary thought: Have none of you pro-gun people ever considered that "the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun" only makes sense if you want to sell two guns?)