*Efforts to Politicize Arizona Tragedy Highlight Importance of Proposed
Senate Rules Changes*
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*Monday, January 10, 2011*
First of all, our prayers go out to the families and victims of the
horrific tragedy that took place in Tucson over the weekend. We pray
that God will bring comfort to them in this time of trial.
The political left is trying to pin this tragedy on gun owners and
conservative talk radio. Never mind the fact that this creep hated the
Bible and the U.S. flag, loved the /Communist Manifesto/ and /Mein
Kampf/ and, according to his friends, was a drug abusing lefty.
But why let the facts get in the way?
Already, we see the pattern we witnessed in Columbine, with liberal
politicians flocking like vultures to pick political advantage from a
tragedy. Some have blamed people who, like us, are outraged at the
unconstitutional, anti-gun contents of ObamaCare.
And New York Congressman Carolyn McCarthy has already announced her
intention to suck political benefit from the shootings by introducing
anti-gun measures. These apparently include a magazine ban and a gun
show ban, notwithstanding the fact that Jared Loughner bought his
firearm from a retailer and underwent a Brady Check. (The Instant Check
is an unconstitutional requirement in itself, which has failed to stop
"gun violence," but that's an issue for another day.)
The calls for banning or restricting gun shows have also spread to the
state level. Over the weekend, Virginia State Sen. Janet Howell called
for closing the so-called "gun show loophole" and then put GOA in her
crosshairs.
"I think it is imperative that my constituents understand that the
Virginia General Assembly is yielding on every gun issue to a fringe
group called the Gun Owners of America. They make the NRA look
reasonable," she said.
Thanks, Senator Howell, we'll take that as a compliment.
A week ago we would have predicted that congressional Democrats would be
loath to try to ban firearms in the wake of the 2010 elections. But we
can no longer assume that an assault on the Second Amendment is not
forthcoming.
Following the Columbine shooting, we utilized long-standing Senate rules
to slow down and eventually defeat such an anti-gun assault. But
liberal Democrats in the Senate are currently pushing proposals to
change the Senate rules to make it easier to ban guns.
Their proposals include:
* A measure to reduce the time for debate on nominations like Supreme
Court nominees Sonya Sotomayor or Elena Kagan to two hours;
* A measure to block a Senator's ability to place a "hold" on anti-gun
measures (a parliamentary procedure which allows Senators to slow down
legislation); and,
* Several measures to restrict or entirely eliminate the filibuster.
But as we saw during the fight over the anti-gun ObamaCare bill, the
filibuster can be our greatest weapon. We only lost by one vote in the
Senate -- and that's a vote that Harry Reid no longer has.
If the filibuster survives these rules changes, then it may be because
of a "compromise" which will guarantee Reid three vote-buying amendments
at the end of a filibuster. NOTE: The compromise would actually be
worse, and it would lock out pro-gun senators like Jim DeMint from the
ability to offer any countering amendments.
*ACTION:* Contact your two Senators. Insist that they oppose proposals
to change the Senate rules that would open the floodgates on anti-gun
legislation. You can use the Gun Owners Legislative Action Center
<http://capwiz.com/gunowners/issues/alert/?alertid=21943501&PROCESS=Take+Action>
to send your Senators the pre-written message below.
*----- Pre-written letter -----*
Dear Senator:
Efforts by anti-gun Rep. Carolyn McCarthy to pluck political advantage
from the Arizona tragedy highlight the importance of the Senate rules.
Currently, liberal senators concerned that Harry Reid has not crammed
enough unconstitutional legislation down the throats of the American
people are pushing rules change proposals that include:
* A measure to reduce the time for debate on nominations like Supreme
Court nominees Sonya Sotomayor or Elena Kagan to two hours;
* A measure to block a Senator's ability to place a "hold" on anti-gun
measures; and,
* Several measures to restrict or entirely eliminate the filibuster.
If the filibuster survives these rules changes, then it may be because
of a "compromise" which will guarantee Harry Reid three vote-buying
amendments at the end of a filibuster. The compromise would actually be
worse, and it would lock out pro-gun senators like Jim DeMint from the
ability to offer any countering amendments.
Furthermore, all of this is being done via a procedure which, if carried
to its logical conclusion, could allow a simple majority of the Senate
to change the written rules at any time.
Please oppose all these rules change proposals.
I am informed that the rules votes will be rated as "gun" votes by Gun
Owners of America.
Sincerely,
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