Kaine: Dems Will Put Background Checks on the Senate Floor to ‘Test the Republicans’

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Kaine: Dems Will Put Background Checks on the Senate Floor to ‘Test the Republicans’

Pam Key
24 Mar 2021

Senator Tim Kaine (D -VA) said Wednesday on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” that Democrats will unify on gun safety by putting a background check bill on the Senate floor for a vote to “test the Republicans.”

Kaine said, “Let’s do background checks. 77% of Republican voters want us to do comprehensive background checks. The numbers with Independents and Democrats are higher still. So, let’s unify the Democrats behind that, and let’s test the Republicans. Are they going to oppose 70% of their own voters on this? We have to find a path, put this on the floor for a vote, and I hope we’ll do it soon.”

He added, “When we came close to 60 votes in 2013, I was four months in the Senate. We had the vote nearly on the anniversary date of the shooting of Virginia tech. They were sitting in the Senate holding hands with Sandy Hook families, and it felt horrible that we fell short. We did have Republican votes. To get this past the goal line on background checks, get all Democrats to unify and say we accept this is a test of us. We said if we got a majority, we would do it. We have to do it. Then we can go out and see about getting Republican support like we had in 2013.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2021/03/24/kaine-dems-will-put-background-checks-on-the-senate-floor-to-test-the-republicans/

[Killer Clouds]

If demonrats didn't lie they would have nothing to say.

[christian]

As how the FBI now investigates finding fault with the innocent and whitewashing any investigations of democrats, Republicans ought to fear how unfair and biased democrats investigate, the FBI as well.

[Sled Dog]

A background check is an infringement, period.

Let's say a ex-felon buys a gun.   There's only one circumstance when that is a problem, if he uses weapon in a crime.

If he does not a commit a crime with the gun, then why should anyone care?  Who is harmed?

Maybe he has legitimate concerns about the safety of his family from his prior associates.  Maybe he's a small business owner with cash on the premises and he works late into the night. 

He has the same rights as anyone else...or hasn't he paid his debt?   If his debt wasn't paid after he was released from prison and completed any probationary term the law required...why then was he released?

But, boy, do those background check empower the government to snoop in to people's lives, or don't they?  They sure do.

Nope, the ex-felon should be just as able to purchase and carry a firearm as any other citizen.

But if the ex-felon is convicted of USING the weapon in a crime, or merely having the weapon in his possession when he comits a crime, he should be punished most harshly.   Clearly the effort to reform him failed, so punish him until he's really old and worn out, as an example to others.