So, everyone excited for that big Joe Biden/NRA meeting today?
Behind the scenes, the kind of negotiations that lead to big deals that can get through Congress, like the wheeling and dealing that made Biden a kingmaker on the fiscal cliff, haven’t even begun on gun control.
Just getting the parties to the table was a challenge. The NRA was not invited to a meeting with Biden until Friday, after the vice president already began meeting with other groups. Wal-Mart originally said it couldn’t make it.
And Biden’s meeting with the NRA might get awkward since Richard Feldman, a former gun lobbyist who wrote an NRA tell-all, will also be there.
All of this has left even staunch supporters of gun reform laws pessimistic that a big deal will head through Congress, even after the mass shooting in Newtown, Conn., last month that left 20 children dead.
“I hope a tragedy like this one will get more and more people who’ve kowtowed to the gun lobby to rethink that, but it’s hard to be very optimistic,” said former Rep. Mike Barnes (D-Md.), who duked it out with the NRA as head of the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence in the early 2000s. “It’s very hard to see anything meaningful passing in this House of Representatives.”
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Will he treat them like he did Paul Ryan?
DeathtotheSwiss on January 10, 2013 at 12:01 PM
Biden: “This will be a BFD.”
Guy at a gun shop: “And this will be my BFG.”
apostic on January 10, 2013 at 12:03 PM
How is omitting to invite the biggest player in the game a “challenge”?
The agenda is already set, the bills written, the EO’s planned, all of these meetings with the Vice Groper are just window dressing for the morons.
Bishop on January 10, 2013 at 12:07 PM
“Vice Groper” heh!
bernzright777 on January 10, 2013 at 12:12 PM
You’ll get noting and like it! Judge Joe B. Smails.
Blake on January 10, 2013 at 12:12 PM
Anytime a politician and their catamite media says “Something must be done” they should immediately be put in the stocks for 180 days and pelted with assorted vegetables from Mooch’s garden.
CorporatePiggy on January 10, 2013 at 12:13 PM
No republican has said anything in defense of the 2nd Amendment, either.
BobMbx on January 10, 2013 at 12:22 PM
Show for the cameras. Nothing else. Biden will probably be listening to his iPod the whole time.
KS Rex on January 10, 2013 at 12:26 PM
Colbyjack on January 10, 2013 at 12:28 PM
How about a budget first…it’s only been about 1,300 days since the last one…
right2bright on January 10, 2013 at 12:42 PM
Incorrect.
Rebar on January 10, 2013 at 12:42 PM
The NRA should blow Biden away. There! I SAID IT!
Warner Todd Huston on January 10, 2013 at 12:48 PM
My! My! Look who is included on the BIG GOVERNMENT “gun control” task force.
http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/01/biden-gun-task-force-member-has-son-convicted-of-planning-school-mass-murder/
The stench of hypocrisy cloaking this power grab and undermining of the Second Amendment guarantees is appalling.
onlineanalyst on January 10, 2013 at 12:52 PM
All a distraction to keep the economy out of the news and the far left base firmly under wing.
MechanicalBill on January 10, 2013 at 12:55 PM
I just upgraded to a lifetime membership.
I doubt they can get anything through the house, but Zero’s ability to muck things up through regulation is a real threat to our ability to purchase firearms, ammunition, reloading components, and accessories.
stvnscott on January 10, 2013 at 12:56 PM
Rebar on January 10, 2013 at 12:58 PM
onlineanalyst on January 10, 2013 at 12:52 PM
Kinda wondering where the kid got the weapon.
apostic on January 10, 2013 at 12:59 PM
Colbyjack on January 10, 2013 at 12:59 PM
I think that one goes to BobMbx on January 10, 2013 at 12:22 PM , too.
apostic on January 10, 2013 at 1:00 PM
Yeah? Well I’d like to see a concrete budget proposal from the Senate today. And one from the fool at the nation’s helm. But wish in one hand and something in the other and all that stuff…
Big John on January 10, 2013 at 1:08 PM
Colbyjack on January 10, 2013 at 12:28 PM
That is something everyone should consider. Just remember that there are also other organizations you can support. They’ve banded together to fight this tyranny:
Also remember to celebrate gun appreciation day 1/19/2013:
Colbyjack on January 10, 2013 at 1:12 PM
Dang, beat me to it. I’m having trouble getting the buttons at the bottom of the page to be visible. The Hot Air logo link is sitting on top the bottom comments and the post box.
Big John on January 10, 2013 at 1:14 PM
I have that problem too in the Headline threads. I emailed them about it weeks ago, but it did no good.
juliesa on January 10, 2013 at 1:27 PM
Heh. Reality catches up with satire.
apostic on January 10, 2013 at 1:33 PM
I have the same problem & have written to Hot Air…no response.
I think with pre-election Hot Air’s experiment with Facebook commenting (what a bad joke), they broke the thing and do not know how to fix it.
albill on January 10, 2013 at 1:35 PM
[Rebar on January 10, 2013 at 12:58 PM]
Not to pick you you, Rebar, but that’s not a provision protecting the right to keep and bear arms, as Brietbart asserts. It’s a provision stating the Secretary of HHS has no authority to promulgate regulations requiring doctors to collect patient info on guns or to create a registry of that info.
It’s nice to see that the federal government might foresee the inefficiency of each and every department collecting the information or keeping a registry and it’s good to see that Reid might have been concerned that not having it might scotch passage of Obamacare, or that Executive branch might attempt to implement the collection and registration before the timing is ripe, but it doesn’t protect the right.
Heck, this provision doesn’t even protect the right of the people to accuse the Dems or Reid of hypocrisy.
Dusty on January 10, 2013 at 1:50 PM
How about a “Save Our Mexican Neighbors and Disarm Mexican Drug Cartels Act”. Impeach and Convict Obama of Murder. Impeach and Convict Holder of Murder. G-damn those two for violating our gun laws.
trl on January 10, 2013 at 1:53 PM
The thing with the NRA is that they’re awfully susceptible to proposals that contain the phrase “…by an NRA-certified instructor.” Let’s not assume they’re more on our side than their own.
PersonFromPorlock on January 10, 2013 at 2:20 PM