Democrats will try forcing a Senate vote on a proposal making it harder for suspected terrorists and people on government terror watch lists to buy guns and explosives, they said Monday as Congress moved toward a possible partisan fight following the weekend’s mass shooting in Orlando.
Their response, and remarks by Republicans focusing on the threat from the Islamic State extremist group, underscored how the mass killing in Florida touched on a range of political issues just months before elections in which control of the White House and Congress are at stake.
Top Democratic senators told reporters they’d seek a fresh vote on a proposal by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., that the Senate rejected last December in a near party-line vote. Judging from that vote, the Democrats’ latest attempt is likely to be difficult.
Democrats consider the bill “the logical and first and most likely to pass step” in response to the shooting, said Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. Other steps could include trying to expand background checks for gun buyers, he said.
Schumer, a member of the Senate Democratic leadership, said he believes Republicans “in a political season are going to find it very, very difficult” to oppose the legislation this time.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., did not address Feinstein’s bill as the chamber convened Monday but focused on links the shooter apparently had to the Islamic State extremist group. President Barack Obama and administration officials said the shooter, identified by officials as American-born Omar Mateen, 29, was probably inspired by foreign terrorist organizations.
“It’s no longer an open analytical question whether the followers of ISIL and other Islamic terrorist groups will attempt to strike us here in the West,” said McConnell, using an acronym for the Islamic State. “They have, and they’re going to continue to do so.”
McConnell said the U.S. must “fight back” to prevent additional attacks and called on the Obama administration to brief lawmakers on its plan for doing that.
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., criticized Republicans for the Senate’s 2013 rejection of bills to tighten background checks and curb assault weapons.
Reid questioned how Republicans could “campaign for re-election in good conscience” because of those votes.
Forty-nine victims died in the Orlando attack and more than 50 were injured, making it the worst mass shooting in U.S. history. Mateen was also killed in the Sunday morning shootings.
FBI Director James Comey said Monday that Mateen had “strong indications of radicalization” and was probably inspired by foreign terrorist organizations. Officials said Mateen had twice come to the FBI’s attention, including a 10-month investigation prompted after co-workers expressed concern over statements he’d made about possible ties to terrorist groups.
Comey said Mateen was added to a terror watch list in 2013 when he came under investigation and then taken off it when that 10-month inquiry ended.
According to the FBI, the government’s terror watch list has about 420,000 names on it of people known or suspected to be engaged in terrorism or planning such activities. Only 2 percent of the names on the list are Americans or legal permanent residents permitted to purchase firearms, with foreigners able to do so on rare occasions.
Currently, the FBI is notified when someone on a list applies to purchase a gun from a federally licensed firearms dealer. That often results in increased surveillance of a suspect, but simply being on a watch list is not grounds for barring a gun sale.
People undergoing background checks for gun purchases can be denied the firearm if they are convicted felons, have certain serious mental illnesses or fall into other categories.
Out of 2,477 times that people on the terror watch list applied to buy guns or explosives from February 2004 through 2015, 2,265 — or 91 percent — were allowed to make the purchase, according to a letter sent in March to Feinstein by the Government Accountability Office. The office is a nonpartisan investigative agency of Congress.
The federal no-fly list is a subset of the terror watch list and has about 16,000 people on it, the FBI says.
Last December, Republicans offered their own proposal for curbing guns for people on terror watch lists that also fell short in the Senate. That measure by No. 2 Senate GOP leader John Cornyn of Texas would give the government up to 72 hours to block such a sale by proving in court that there was probable cause to do so.
Democrats said they would try attaching Feinstein’s measure to a bill financing Justice Department and other programs that the Senate could debate this week.
A similar House proposal by Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., has gone nowhere in that chamber.
Congressional leaders arranged briefings on Orlando by administration officials on Tuesday for House lawmakers and Wednesday for senators.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
With our Congress considering more unconstitutional gun laws proves they are not representing us. Only an idiot believes guns are the problem, it is the person who is the problem especially the muslim ones, so are our elected officials just stupid or not..?
Get rid of mooslums!! And I am a fifty year dem!!
If a someone in the club had a conceal carry license they could have saved a lot of lives. The Demoncrats are so traitorous in their attempts to disarm American good guys they are doing all they can to support the Muslim terrorist. If the terrorist were being shot before killing lots of innocent people they just might reconsider their acts.
If I had been somewhere the terrorist started shooting I would have done my best to shoot them and prevent the multiple murders. The Muslim terrorists are like obama and many demoncrats in they are supporters of Satan
I wonder why some people are too ignorant to understand the fact that the cities with the tightest gun controls have the highest gun violence in the country? Cities where there are gun friendly laws have the least crime. It is because criminals don’t obey laws, and in cities with heavy gun laws criminals know most citizens (who obey the law) are not armed, so it is easier to get away with commiting crime. In Gun friendly cities criminals don’t know who is legally armed so there is less crime.
Our “Bill of Rights” is under attack. If the “Bill of Rights” is destroyed; so are our protections and our freedom.
If we allow the evil politicians to destroy America’s Bill of Rights our country will be owned by Satan
In 2009 Janet Napolitano’s Department of Homeland Security issued a report raising concerns that vets returning from service in Iraq and Afghanistan could be possible terrorist recruits. Her department also raised the possibility that whites, Christians and those opposed to abortion, gay rights and illegal immigration were also possible terrorists.
I have no problem with the federal government blocking actual terrorists from buying guns, but it is likely such a law will be interpreted to ban whites, Christians, vets, pro-lifers, those who oppose gay rights and illegal immigration, and TEA party members from owning firearms. The real problem is we have seen seven and a half years by this president and his administration trampling on the Constitutional rights of law abiding American citizens. I don’t trust President Obama to limit any gun control law to radical Muslim terrorists.
Always blaming the 2nd Amendment. …Have you ever wondered why they want our guns so badly? Is it possible the Conspiracy Theories about the Rothschilds, and New World Order are correct? And We are standing in the way of implementation of it with our weapons? Take a hard look, and do the research. …You may find it to be true!
As I have mentioned on other reports, I think it was a planned shooting for Hillary to get votes and for gun control, but I am also reminded that not ALL assault rifles or guns come from the streets or stores. The U.S. Government traded, gave or misplaced guns in the past. The democrats keep focusing on guns, but what is the other remaining common factor…terrorist or Muslims.
IF ALL THE PATRONS IN THE ORLANDO BAR WERE CARRYING GUNS, THE SHOOTER WOULD NOT HAVE GOTTEN VERY FAR WITH HIS MURDERS!
The Democrats are going after Legally owned Firearms and Owners of Legally owned Firearms, however they fail to mention that the person for this act of Terrorism was Investigated and given a Pass / OK by the FBI twice.
However barrack hussain obama and hillary rodham clinton again want to wage WAR on the NRA and ALL legal Forearm Owners over this incident. An Incident that neither Owners of Legal Firearms nor the NRA had anything to do with and regret it happened.
The shooter was also Legally licensed by the State of Florida to Legally on and carry Firearms.
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Wonder why the Federal Government has bought over 2,000,000,000 (2 BILLION) rounds of ammunition (much of it hollow point) for use within the borders of The United States of America and why some will blindly follow the Democratic Party with NO questions ask.
barrack hussain obama and hillary rodham clinton again want to wage WAR on the NRA and ALL legal Forearm Owners over this incident. An Incident that neither Owners of Legal Firearms nor the NRA had anything to do with and regret it happened.
However, this reminds me of the past. Germany has similar instances.
This incident could be enough for the Democratic Party to use this like the Nazi’s did prior to WW2 and that incident would be the shooting of a German diplomat in Paris by a teenage Polish Jew. Hitler directed propaganda minister Josef Goebbels to orchestrate the Night of the Broken Glass
Now the Racist and Bigoted Democratic Party who daily expounds about their wanting to turn the once great United States of America into a Socialist Dream Land, are taking their ideas from a group who had the same Dream. The Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (National Socialist German Workers’ Party; NSDAP). aka NAZI.
The Racist and Bigoted Democratic Party get their idea straight from the NAZI playbook.
The perennial gun-control debate in America did not begin here. The same arguments for and against were made in the 1920s in the chaos of Germany’s Weimar Republic, which opted for gun registration. Law-abiding persons complied with the law, but the Communists and Nazis committing acts of political violence did not.
In 1931, Weimar authorities discovered plans for a Nazi takeover in which Jews would be denied food and persons refusing to surrender their guns within 24 hours would be executed. They were written by Werner Best, a future Gestapo official. In reaction to such threats, the government authorized the registration of all firearms and the confiscation thereof, if required for “public safety.” The interior minister warned that the records must not fall into the hands of any extremist group.
In 1933, the ultimate extremist group, led by Adolf Hitler, seized power and used the records to identify, disarm, and attack political opponents and Jews. Constitutional rights were suspended, and mass searches for and seizures of guns and dissident publications ensued. Police revoked gun licenses of Social Democrats and others who were not “politically reliable.”
During the five years of repression that followed, society was “cleansed” by the National Socialist regime. Undesirables were placed in camps where labor made them “free,” and normal rights of citizenship were taken from Jews. The Gestapo banned independent gun clubs and arrested their leaders. Gestapo counsel Werner Best issued a directive to the police forbidding issuance of firearm permits to Jews.
In 1938, Hitler signed a new Gun Control Act. Now that many “enemies of the state” had been removed from society, some restrictions could be slightly liberalized, especially for Nazi Party members. But Jews were prohibited from working in the firearms industry, and .22 caliber hollow-point ammunition was banned.
The time had come to launch a decisive blow to the Jewish community, to render it defenseless so that its “ill-gotten” property could be redistributed as an entitlement to the German “Volk.” The German Jews were ordered to surrender all their weapons, and the police had the records on all who had registered them. Even those who gave up their weapons voluntarily were turned over to the Gestapo.
This took place in the weeks before what became known as the Night of the Broken Glass, or Kristallnacht, occurred in November 1938. That the Jews were disarmed before it, minimizing any risk of resistance, is the strongest evidence that the pogrom was planned in advance. An incident was needed to justify unleashing the attack.
That incident would be the shooting of a German diplomat in Paris by a teenage Polish Jew. Hitler directed propaganda minister Josef Goebbels to orchestrate the Night of the Broken Glass. This massive operation, allegedly conducted as a search for weapons, entailed the ransacking of homes and businesses, and the arson of synagogues.
SS chief Heinrich Himmler decreed that 20 years be served in a concentration camp by any Jew possessing a firearm. Rusty revolvers and bayonets from the Great War were confiscated from Jewish veterans who had served with distinction. Twenty thousand Jewish men were thrown into concentration camps, and had to pay ransoms to get released.
The U.S. media covered the above events. And when France fell to Nazi invasion in 1940, the New York Times reported that the French were deprived of rights such as free speech and firearm possession just as the Germans had been. Frenchmen who failed to surrender their firearms within 24 hours were subject to the death penalty.
No wonder that in 1941, just days before the Pearl Harbor attack, Congress reaffirmed Second Amendment rights and prohibited gun registration. In 1968, bills to register guns were debated, with opponents recalling the Nazi experience and supporters denying that the Nazis ever used registration records to confiscate guns. The bills were defeated, as every such proposal has been ever since, including recent “universal background check” bills.
As in Weimar Germany, some well-meaning people today advocate severe restrictions, including bans and registration, on gun ownership by law-abiding persons. Such proponents are in no sense “Nazis,” any more than were the Weimar officials who promoted similar restrictions. And it would be a travesty to compare today’s situation to the horrors of Nazi Germany. Still, as history teaches, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
That is why the Racist and Bigoted Democratic Party want and push minute by minute, hour by our and day by day to do they for Gun Control, as you see how well it worked out for those of the Faith (Jews).
I for one do not ever want to see something like the devastation done from 1935-1945 to EVER happen again. What is so very sad is that there are so many Jews in the Racist and Bigoted Democratic Party who refuse to open their eyes and see what their beloved Racist and Bigoted Democratic Party are attempting to do to their own people, much like the Jewish Nazi collaborators of WW2.
All I can say is NEVER AGAIN.
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I am so tired of hearing ASSAULT weapons .You have no idea about weapons , do you ? The Ar 15 that we civilians have are legal to own . ASSAULT RIFLES are automatic or single stage firing weapons , only the Military and maybe Police are allowed to have those rifles . If a citizen wanted one it would be forever to get one because of the background check , and the license cost quite a bit . It is the man or woman behind the weapons of choice that actually pull the trigger that kills the people . Stop blaming every gun owner for what others do with legal or illegal weapons . Not all of Americans are nuts, we go to the range to shoot targets or live in the rual areas just go out back and target shoot . WE know our rights ,its a damn shame that you people try to make us live your way, but that will not happen at all . The blue hats and suits need to keep their distance from American soil , what we do and how we live has nothing to do with the UN . We live in peace but when push comes to shove ; Well you understand the picture.. Trump 2016
All these shootings are faked by Crisis Actors Inc. a Jewish outfit, as Jews in Congress want our guns so Jews can do in America what demon seed Edomite, Canaanite, Communist Jews did in the Jew owned USSR; Murder Christian True White Hebrew Israelites, the only REAL Semites:
“Esau-Edom is modern Jewry.” 1925 Jewish Encyclopedia, Vol. 5 page 41. (Edomites are Canaanites).
“Strictly speaking, it is incorrect to call an ancient Israelite a “Jew” or to call a contemporary Jew an “Israelite” or a “Hebrew.” Jewish Almanac 1980, p. 3. (Jews know they are frauds).
“Some call it Communism, I call it Judaism.” Rabbi Stephen Weiss. (1935).
“Anti-Communism is Anti-Semitism.” Jewish Voice, July – August 1941.
“There is no Jew who does not hope with all his heart that the Soviet Union will survive and be victorious.” Zionist Review, September 26, 1941, page 7. (Karl Marx was a jew, Butcher Lenin was a jew, Stalin was a jew).
“If the tide of history does not quickly turn toward Communism then the Jewish race is doomed.” George Marlen, 1937.
“Israel need not apologize for the assassination (of JFK) or destruction of those who seek to destroy it. The first order of business for any country is the protection of its people.” Washington Jewish Week, October 9, 1997.
Jews murdered JFK and blamed it on their “patsy” Lee Harvey Oswald. Jew LBJ planed it, and Jew Earl Warren covered it up with his “Warren Report” and the Jew owned media did all they could to help. Jews were “never slaves” in Egypt with Moses (see John 8:33) so Jews cannot BE the Hebrew Israelites of Scripture. Communist Jews didn’t write a WORD of the bible, and didn’t “join the Judeans” until 125 BC after they were defeated in Idumea by John Hyrcanus II, the King of Judea. Jews missed Passover, Hanukkah and the Ten Commandments. They are the physical DNA children of the devil of Genesis 3:15 and John 8:44 where Saxon Christ told them to their face that they are “liars, thieves, and murderers.”
How many would have lived if they all had been armed you stupid DUMOCRATS? How many would have lived if the laws were followed for ILLEGALS coming to this country? IT WAS KILLARY AND THE MUSLIM FRAUD LIAR’s FAULT! If you dumocrats can’t see this then you are as stupid as they are. WHAT IDIOTS!
This is further proof that we to keep control of our personal firearms to protect our homes.
If the Second Amendment is to be destroyed by the pansy politicians we the people have elected, Then We The People have a right under this same “”Constitution”” to change our firm of government. All “SITTING CONGRESSIONAL MEMBERS” should be FIRED, yes I said ” FIRED”, with the loss of ALL PENSION AND OTHER BENEFITS ACCRUED. new elections held, ONE SENATOR and TWO House Reps for each state with Term Limits of
eight years in both houses of Congress, each term being 4 years. No more career
politicians. EIGHT MAX AND YOU’RE OUT