It Is All About Politics With Our Lives

When Trump was in the White House they were in favor of it, now that Biden is president they are against it. What is “it”? The banning of bump-stocks.

Republican senator blocks ban on bump stocks for guns brought by Democrats

Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., sought unanimous consent to pass the BUMP Act, but Sen. Pete Ricketts, R-Neb., objected for the GOP, effectively blocking the legislation.

NBC News

By Sahil Kapur and Frank Thorp V

June 18, 2024

Senate Democrats sought to pass legislation Tuesday banning bump stocks for firearms after the Supreme Court overruled a previous ban, but a single Republican objected on behalf of his party, effectively stalling the bill.

Backed by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., sought “unanimous consent” to pass his BUMP Act that would prohibit the devices, which modify semi-automatic weapons to fire bullets more quickly.

The New Mexico senator said he’s a firearm owner who sees no purpose for bump stocks other than to facilitate mass shootings, as in Las Vegas in 2017, when a gunman killed dozens of people at a music festival and more than 500 people were injured.

But the Republicans now see an advantage in blocking the bill because now the bill is evil… it will take away your Second Amendment right… those evil Democrats always trying to take away your guns!

But the bill was met with an objection from Sen. Pete Ricketts, R-Neb., blocking it from moving forward. The objection was backed by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and many other Republican senators, marking a turnaround after many of them championed a bump stock ban imposed by the Trump administration after the Las Vegas massacre.

Ricketts labeled the bill “a gun-grabbing overreach," saying it is written vaguely and could give the Biden administration power to target “common firearm accessories, not just bump stocks.”“That’s really, really scary,” Ricketts said, calling the measure an infringement on the rights of law-abiding gun owners.

Playing politics with your lives!

They are so Two-faced and they think you are that we the voters will not not notice it.

'Shame on him for disrespecting the dead': Nevada senator erupts after Sen. JD Vance's bump stock remarks

Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen is seeking re-election this year in Nevada, where a gunman killed 58 people in 2017 with firearms equipped with bump stocks.

NBC News

By Frank Thorp V and Sahil Kapur

June 17, 2024

Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., tore into Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, on Monday over remarks he made about bump stocks as the Senate grapples with whether to ban them.

Vance, who is widely considered a vice presidential contender on the GOP ticket with former President Donald Trump, called efforts by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York and other Democrats to ban the devices “a huge distraction.”

“I think that we have to ask ourselves: What is the real gun violence problem in this country, and are we legislating in a way that solves fake problems? Or solves real problems?” Vance told reporters. “And my very strong suspicion is that the Schumer legislation is aimed at a PR problem, not something that’s going to meaningfully reduce gun violence in this country.”

Now this is from a Senator who approved Trump’s Executive Order ban on bump-stocks but now it has become evil because the Democratic introduced the bill!

Lets step back a bit… What did the Supreme Court do last week?

US Supreme Court rejects federal ban on gun 'bump stocks'

Reuters

By Andrew Chung and John Kruzel

June 14, 202

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday declared unlawful a federal ban on "bump stock" devices that enable semiautomatic weapons to fire rapidly like machine guns, rejecting yet another firearms restriction - this time one enacted under Republican former President Donald Trump.

The justices, in a 6-3 ruling authored by conservative Justice Clarence Thomas, upheld a lower court's decision siding with Michael Cargill, a gun shop owner and gun rights advocate from Austin, Texas, who challenged the ban by claiming that a U.S. agency improperly interpreted a federal law banning machine guns as extending to bump stocks. The conservative justices were in the majority, with the liberal justices dissenting.

The rule was imposed in 2019 by Trump's administration after the devices were used during a 2017 mass shooting that killed 58 people at a Las Vegas country music festival.

Democratic President Joe Biden, whose administration defended the rule in court, said the decision "strikes down an important gun safety regulation."

"Americans should not have to live in fear of this mass devastation," Biden added, saying he has "used every tool in my administration to stamp out gun violence."

"I call on Congress to ban bump stocks, pass an assault weapon ban and take additional action to save lives - send me a bill and I will sign it immediately," Biden said.

But now Two-faced Trump did a 180 and is now against the ban on converting semi-automatic weapons to fully-automatic weapons!

Our lives are for sale for votes. Votes for Trump by the far-right gun nuts.

Watch the Republicans trying to squirm and weasel out of answering the questions!

Tongue Tied

Republicans talk out of both sides of their mouths and they don’t see the hypocrisy in it. They call for one thing when it is in their favor and ignore it when it is not.

Mike Pence left stammering when CNN host points out his hypocrisy on trans youth

Pence could barely put two words together before he changed the subject.

LGBTQ Nation

By Alex Bollinger

June 8, 2023

GOP presidential candidate Mike Pence could hardly respond when a CNN reporter pointed out his hypocrisy on LGBTQ+ issues. Pence argued that parental rights are paramount in one instance and then argued against parental rights when it comes to gender-affirming care.

CNN held a town hall event for Pence last night – the same kind of event that has gotten CNN criticized for not properly fact-checking the GOP presidential candidates as they speak in front of a hand-selected and very friendly audience – and he railed against gender-affirming care for transgender youth.

“We’re gonna protect kids from the radical gender ideology and say no chemical or surgical gender transition before you’re 18, period,” he said, getting applause from the conservative audience.

Host Dana Bash pushed back: “I just want to be clear on this because you are so adamant about parents’ rights.”

“Right, I am,” Pence responded.

But, but only when it is in their favor, they talk out of the other side of their mouths in the next sentence. However, they are blind to it even when pointed out to them.

“But in this particular case, parents who say, along with the doctors, that what is best for their kids, what their kids feel most comfortable with doing, is gender transition,” Bash said. “The parents should not be allowed to do that?”

Pence did not appear to have a response ready for this fairly obvious question.

“Right, look, I, I, look… The, the s- state has the obligation to see to the safety and health and well-being of the people in the state,” he said, even though Pence adamantly opposes safety measures like vaccine mandates, which do a lot more to keep people safe than focusing on transgender youth. “And I accept that. Look, yet… I, I take your point, I take your point….”

Come on spit it out! Gears start smoking and slipping I… I… I… “That does not compute, Will Robinson!” Buzzit buzzit.

Bash insisted that she wasn’t making a point, “It’s a question,” as Pence continued to stammer.

“Well, I, I, look, this… Well we have afoot in America that is a radical gender ideology that has taken hold in our schools, that has taken hold in our universities, it is afoot across the nation….” Pence responded, trying to talk about anything other than the inconvenient fact that many parents of transgender kids support their children.

They don’t see it with book bannings, that it should be the parent that decides and not the government!

They don’t see it with banning abortions, that it should be the woman who decides not the government.

They don’t see it with banning drag queens, that it should be the parent who decides to take a child to a book reading by a drag queen not the government. They do it in a “R” rated movie why not to a drag show? It is simple... it goes against the Republican talking points.

Talking point #1 "We push "parental rights" that it should be the parents who have a right in what gets taught to their child."

Talking point #2 "We have to look out for the children and not allow them to do what is medically necessary."

They just don't see that the two are mutually exclusive. You can't have it both ways!

“Parental rights” have been used in the past several years to attack LGBTQ+ equality, with anti-LGBTQ+ bills often being named after parental rights. Florida’s Don’t Say Gay law was officially named the “Parental Rights in Education” law. Anti-LGBTQ+ activists often style themselves as parents’ rights activists since they believe that parents have a right to prevent their children from knowing that LGBTQ+ people exist, and they simply assume that all parents agree with them.

They don’t see the hypocrisy in it. But then that is typical when you follow political ideology your followers are mindless automatons.

I doubt it were much that Pence when home and thought about it, "Am I doing that?"

The upcoming Republican primary may see more sensationalized stories about transgender individuals, signaling a shift in political strategy towards targeting the rights and humanity of transgender people.

They are getting a lot of mileage in attacking us.