"Notwithstanding"

Toomey-Manchin will allow Attorney General Holder to create a gun registry. Wait. Isn't there that bit forbidding a federal gun registry with criminal penalties if some bureaucrat makes one? Why yes there is, but then that pesky word notwithstanding pops up after the ban on registries and before Holder's power to write regulations. Notwithstanding is kinda like the word but. You use it and it negates whatever precedes it. But of course that's not Schumer's, I mean Toomey or Manchin's intention, and Holder would never take advantage of a turn of phrase. Right?

Kill the bill.

H/T to Bob.

Two Opinions

The Senate voted to kill the filibuster on the current gun legislation and move to debate. Both my senators were among them. I expected no less of Kaye Hagan. Richard Burr posted on Facebook

Regarding today’s earlier vote, I was pleased Senate leadership agreed to unlimited debate and amendments; that has always been my threshold for voting to allow legislation to be considered. Given that understanding, the issue can receive a full and open debate, amendments, and an amendment process with multiple opportunities to stop, alter, or kill the legislation.

Some gun rights people are of the opinion that the debate will allow the bill to be seen for what it is and its supporters to shoot themselves in the foot thus allowing it to be killed. The other opinion is gun prohibitionists are untrustworthy pricks with no honor. They will lie, cheat, and pull whatever shenanigans they can get away with to further their cause. So we don't give them the chance and fight them tooth and nail from the beginning. If you can keep it off the floor with a filibuster THAT is what you do.

I lean strongly toward the second opinion. If this bill passes because Senator Burr and eight other so called supporters of the Second Amendment called it wrong...well, time will tell.

It's called a slippery slope...

...you twit, and you're pushing us further down the slope.

H/T to John.