Monday, April 29, 2013

Gun Debate PT2

Are you ready for part 2 on the gun debate.

The first time it was voted on it was shot (excuse the pun) down.

CBS
The bipartisan Manchin-Toomey amendment, a background check expansion devised by Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., Pat Toomey, R-Pa., and a handful of other lawmakers, earned only 54 votes, falling six votes short of the 60-vote threshold. Vice President Joe Biden, who led the Obama administration's months-long lobbying effort on behalf of stronger gun laws, presided over the vote.

A Gallup poll shows 43 percent say the economy and jobs are the top issues facing our country. Gun control comes in near the bottom of the list, with only 4 percent

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