Hey terrorists, stay home. As you can see we can kill ourselves just fine. Too much fertilizer and guns. Damn. Drink up Last Days.

I wonder if the GOP, Tea Party, NRA, Big Oil, Big Coal, Koch Brothers, and the Extreme Right, ad nauseum could open fire on each other.
Would we get our country back--what's left of it?

@auntie grizelda "what's LEFT of it?" - no pun intended?

The extreme right's version of 2+2 is so out there that it's science fiction insane. You can't even reason with them anymore. They will actually start talking in gibberish almost. I don't understand why they are so mad about it - and I don't mean "mad" as in "angry". I mean it as in the Mad Hatter.

Every rational person, firearm owner or not, does not have an issue with a background check, if indeed that is all it is.

Keep telling yourselves this all comes from the extreme right, but there were a lot of actual progressives against this bill too. It must be nice to cocoon yourselves into a nice bubble of righteous neoliberal indignation. I only thought that level of superficality, deliberate ignorance, and hype was possible by...the far right, before this.

Facts: The bill required use all of the Federal form 4473. It's easily available online for verification. The second part of that form requires reporting the type and serial number of the firearm. This gets filed permanently by the Feds. Just because you cannot call it a "registry" and limit the retention by the state, does not mean it cannot function as one for the Feds, or the State. You don't need that information to do a background check.

An actual amendment that removed using all of form 4473 was introduced by neocon Sen. Colburn, and Reid would not allow it to be voted upon. Despite the source, that was the one that would have helped that bill actually pass.

Keep telling yourselves otherwise, it won't help pass anything if it ever comes up for a vote again. In fact, you blew the best chance ever for putting in a "modest" piece of legislation in decades on the subject.

And if you have not figured it out by now, you never will. Obama is not your corner for anything that really counts.

@3 happy time: LOL! Oh, good grief, Charlie Brown, I didn't see the unintended pun!
You're right, though---the wingnuts are dangerously--and criminally--- insane, and too many good, innocent people are getting senselessly killed.
I hope we get our country and the world back again before it's all a desolate, corporate-destroyed wasteland out of "Oblivion".
Is it me, or does Tom Cruise seem totally lost, too?

@4: Okay, but I'll still vote progressive-center over a Rethug.
That's just me. A lot of Democrats were disgusted
that the background check bill did not pass through
Washington State and Federal Legislation, while GOP members,
including Rodney "Flip-flop" Tom the Republic-rat,
gleefully sat and literally gave the NRA a blow job on a
silver platter.

They shot down background checks? The hell for? I'm pro-gun myself and I don't have the slightest problem with that requirement!