Yeah, I couldn’t help but notice that it seems that Kelly, even though she did vote to kill the gun control filibuster, has now signaled that the Manchin / Twoomey “compromise” background check gets the back of her hand. With that, the M/T bill is now in worse shape than a spent 12 gauge shotgun shell laying on the ground. Good riddance to it, as both of those senators said that their bill would not have stopped either Aurora or Sandy Hook.
Thus, in my mind, this is the perfect example of why sometimes the best thing is to do nothing instead of the knee jerk reaction “Hey, we’re supposed to be charge – WE GOTTA DO SOMETHING!” And then we get bills that impinge on people in a myriad of small, incremental ways – but don’t solve the actual problem. Or worse, charge ahead to solve problems that extremely few have – or create solutions to which no problem exists.
And that is why before we give a thumbs up to Kelly on HER legislation, we need to see if it:
- Actually keeps guns away from evil doers instead of just making it harder on law abiding folks
- Actually starts to address the flip side – how to keep firearms out of the hands of the likes of Lanza and Holmes (Sandy Hook and Aurora, respectively) without it becoming a backdoor gun confiscation process (like declaring that returning vets have PTSD, so you loose your Constitutional Right).
And that is the main thing that most won’t bring up –
