Libertarians poll around 12% of the population, registered republicans higher.
Your 90% number is pulled from thin air. Which doesn't even get into the notion that background checks will somehow fix any of this. It's like Pandora's box in a way. It's already been opened. There are as many guns as people in this country. If you stopped manufacturing them today, prohibited ownership today, the black market would still thrive, and under ground manufacturing would boom. This is not this question by the way. On Jun 15, 2014 11:30 AM, "Eric Roberts" <ow...@threeravensconsulting.com> wrote: > > You missed the actual reason...we have congressional republicans that vote > no or block the vote on everything that does not enrich their corporatist > masters. Background checks were agreed upon by 90% of the country, yet > that > couldn't get passed by a congress because congressional Republicans are > paid > off by the NRA and don't want to piss the NRA off. They can car less if > they piss the people off...but they put the kid gloves on when it comes to > corporate lobbyists. So I call BS on your statement as a whole. > > Eric > > -----Original Message----- > From: C. Hatton Humphrey [mailto:chumph...@gmail.com] > Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2014 8:33 AM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: Obama's biggest frustration: inability to pass common sense > gun > laws in the United States > > > On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Rick Faircloth <r...@whitestonemedia.com> > wrote: > > > An ignorant and naive statement by the US President concerning the > > madness that is occurring too frequently in the US. > > > > Presented in a sympathetic journal that can't even label their own images > correctly (look at the "big red spending" infographic) > > However, I call BS on the President... because it's not just guns, it's > anything on his checklist. He's had to resort to using agencies to advance > his agenda (FCC, EPA, BLM, IRS, Border Protection, DoJ) for one of two main > reasons (or both): > 1. The policy that he wants to push is so far afield of what the American > people would accept that even a simple majority in Congress is willing to > touch it. > 2. The action or policy change he wants to implement runs directly counter > to either the Constitution or existing Federal Law. > > What most Americans, especially our President and members of the Media seem > to forget is that the Federal government was designed to be slow. The > Constitution is a document that defines what the government *can* do as > well > as what it *can't*. > > The fact that Obama is whining to a left-wing publication about his > inability to "get things done" after being in office for 5 years should > speak volumes. > > Until Later! > C. Hatton Humphrey > http://www.eastcoastconservative.com > > Every cloud does have a silver lining. Sometimes you just have to do some > smelting to find it. > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:370967 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
