Are "gun-rights" advocates who say they "need" combat-style weaponry to "protect the nation from dictatorship" dangerous anarchists who are endangering the REAL Second-Amendment rights of law-abiding Americans with their paranoid, anti-government rants?

Law of the land I CAN BUY AN AR 15 if I WANT ONE OR TWO OR A DOZEN Get used to it.

Law of the land NO#2 Once the restrictions are in place for assault weapons that will be another law you will have to abide by !

WE???? All you did was pi ss and moan on these forums obout nothing but the crap that your right-wing media shoved in your tiny brain ! And still nobody's doing away with your second amendment rights but apparently your not bright enough to understand that ! You will still be able to own guns , just not certain ones !

Who's the dumb one? We fought you folks efforts off once, what makes you think we plan to slack off?

But, with the lack of logic and reason you folks display, ya'all will continue to waste time trying this again and again, rather than deal with issues this country needs to climb back up out of recession.

That's been the tactic since this idiot took office, keep bringing up other BS to distract America from the fact this crowd is bankrupting us!

Oh and dum-dum nobody's doing away with your second amendment rights but apparently your not bright enough to understand that ! You will still be able to own guns , just not certain ones !

Law of the land NO#2 Once the restrictions are in place for assault weapons that will be a nother law you will have to abide by !

Very well said stick. My point exactly. Abortion in the US has killed more than 500 million future Americans. Way more than most of the tyrants in past history. I have never said a negative thing about abortion and the sexual rights of others.. I was wrong in thinking they would return the favor if one of my rights was threatened. I was so wrong !! SO, now that they are attcking my rights, I am gonna rub their sins in their snobby noses.

That's your defense of killing babies? You're a lot like those Nazi Prison Camp guards, huh? Nope, no need to consider that your party wanted abortions legalized, for "rare" situations, yet once they got their way, it's turned into a form of "retroactive" birth control.

You folks won't take responsibility for those murdered children, yet you want to blame ALL gun owners for the actions of a madman who murdered children.

Sure, typical liberal thinking. Anyone can think like a liberal, just remove any chance of logic or reason.

Law of the land , you don't have to like it , just live with it !

Stick, the left is a bunch of crybabies that go out and support abortion and then get all righteous when someone kills with a gun. A doctor snipping the spine of a wimpering unborn but developed child, human being is OK but protecting yourself and loved ones is not !!!They can lie cheat and steal to get votes for affordable health care but someone beats them using their own tactics, because they are stupid, and we are bad !!

Munster. You and Jim Raap of Lowell (Politics Tramples Will of the People, letter to the editor) need to understand that the bill was not only about backround checks but had other provisions that were not good.! The attempt was botched at best.

The point was made that the NRA spent huge amounts of money to influence Senators to vote against the bills. I guess their spending was a bit lower since all they had to do was keep the "for" votes under 60.

That's what angers me, the left has no issue with the "super majority" procedural tactic, when it benefits their point of view. But in this case, it's "unconstitutional" in their view?

I doubt their spending rivaled the spending by Bloomberg to influence Senators to vote for the measures, with promises of additional funds to "save their bacon" when they next came up for re-election. We saw the celebration by those on the left here when, with Bloomberg funding, the anti-gun challenger for Jesse Jackson Jr's seat won the primary. We saw the claims that "their side" had beaten the NRA.

The NRA employs lobbyists, as do any interest group, and I don't deny that fact. But the claim that the NRA bought off people is a lie!

stick, my man, you diminish your credibility when you suggest that the nra didn't spend any money to influence that vote. the lobby has to be paid, and that is not chicken feed. and that is only the surface.

Really free? I've seen no proof the NRA spent any money to defeat these bills, Bloomberg however spent 12 Million on ads screaming for Americans to support the bills.

Did you call either of your Senators? I did, both of them. Brown's staff member who answered the phone acted as if she could care less what I thought. Portman's staff said they'd pass along my comments, and related that they'd gotten a lot of calls, with most asking that the Senator vote against the bills.

The attempt has failed and was tabled. Except Barry wants to keep it alive but the congress people put a stop to his madness. Quit whining and get over the loss!!!

83 to 94 % ???? That is a lying Democrat poll statistic. The people influenced their senators to vote NO on this violation of the bill of rights.!!!

Just let them please keep this up because their cutting their own throats !

And it aint over till the fat lady sings and she's not ready yet ! The NRA's money only stretches so far when between 83% and 94% of THE PEOPLE want this !

AND shut the fuque up.!!

Just like you told us on Nov 5th 2013 after the election. WE WON, YOU LOST GET OVER IT!!