Bipartisan Safer Communities Act advances 64 to 34 in the Senate

Be interesting to see what happens to Cornryn

So is Murkowski. She just doesn’t know it yet. :wink:

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Admire the optimism.

This will do nothing.

Uvalde had all the updated security and it was defeated by lazy humans leaving doors open.

Focus should be on enforcement of existing laws.

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Here is where the Red Flag laws are heading. Big payday for lawyers also.

Note the ambiguous SAFETY CONCERNS.

While Fraport claimed that the authority was looking to “find something, anything” to unlawfully terminate the lease, the authority in its filing stated that the operator should have known that it was coming.

“In its motion, Fraport paints an unreal picture of ACAA swooping in with police officers to evict Fraport suddenly. In fact, the parties have been engaged in discussions and written correspondence for more than nine months regarding ACAA’s concerns with Fraport’s numerous defaults under the agreement,” it argued.

The authority stated that it had sent a notice of default in September 2021 after Fraport failed to rectify multiple breaches, including several involving safety. Several other such letters followed over the next four months, including one in January in which the authority threatened to file a lawsuit against the operator, according to the memorandum.

Obviously if the safety concerns were worthwhile then we would be offered the details.

Always beware the adjectives and ambiguity.

Nope.

Think about it. All these shootings happen at lightly defended soft targets.

None of this stuff happens in inner city schools, which are defended to the teeth including metal detectors.

None of this stuff happens at court houses, state legislatures, city council meetings…hell, I went through heavier security getting to a college football game (Syracuse vs Wake Forrest) then you will find in most schools. I was patted down, wanded…about the only thing they didn’t do was put me through a ‘porn machine’.

Christ, here in NYS we have ‘red flag laws’, and they did not stop the ■■■■■■■■ in Buffalo who was scouting locations from here to Lake Erie, and posting about it on facebook.

If it hasn’t been proven to work before, what makes anyone think it’s going to work now?

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That will be abused to no end. You will never get them back either.

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:+1: :clap: :clap: :clap:

New information just doesn’t penetrate the talking points.

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Is propping doors open the exact same as leaving them open?

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It is. Worse actually IMO.

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Mitch McConnell voted yes?!?! Damn. With that I’m shocked Barrasso didn’t as he’s kept on a short leash

Is kicking away the rock that was propping the door open and pulling the door shut behind you the same as leaving it open?

It is if you don’t check to make sure it is locked.

The door could not be locked from the inside. Completely inexplicable yes, but a fact nonetheless.

Cloture invoked 65 to 34. There will be a final procedural vote to send the bill back to the House of Representatives. 15 Republicans voted yes on cloture.

YEAs —65

Baldwin (D-WI)
Bennet (D-CO)
Blumenthal (D-CT)
Blunt (R-MO)
Booker (D-NJ)
Brown (D-OH)
Burr (R-NC)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Capito (R-WV)
Cardin (D-MD)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Cassidy (R-LA)
Collins (R-ME)
Coons (D-DE)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Cortez Masto (D-NV)
Duckworth (D-IL)
Durbin (D-IL)
Ernst (R-IA)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Graham (R-SC)
Hassan (D-NH)
Heinrich (D-NM)
Hickenlooper (D-CO)
Hirono (D-HI)
Kaine (D-VA)
Kelly (D-AZ)
King (I-ME)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Leahy (D-VT)
Lujan (D-NM)
Manchin (D-WV)
Markey (D-MA)
McConnell (R-KY)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Merkley (D-OR)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Murphy (D-CT)
Murray (D-WA)
Ossoff (D-GA)
Padilla (D-CA)
Peters (D-MI)
Portman (R-OH)
Reed (D-RI)
Romney (R-UT)
Rosen (D-NV)
Sanders (I-VT)
Schatz (D-HI)
Schumer (D-NY)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Sinema (D-AZ)
Smith (D-MN)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Tester (D-MT)
Tillis (R-NC)
Toomey (R-PA)

Van Hollen (D-MD)
Warner (D-VA)
Warnock (D-GA)
Warren (D-MA)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wyden (D-OR)
Young (R-IN)

NAYs —34

Barrasso (R-WY)
Blackburn (R-TN)
Boozman (R-AR)
Braun (R-IN)
Cotton (R-AR)
Crapo (R-ID)
Cruz (R-TX)
Daines (R-MT)
Fischer (R-NE)
Grassley (R-IA)
Hagerty (R-TN)
Hawley (R-MO)
Hoeven (R-ND)
Hyde-Smith (R-MS)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Johnson (R-WI)
Kennedy (R-LA)
Lankford (R-OK)
Lee (R-UT)
Lummis (R-WY)
Marshall (R-KS)
Moran (R-KS)
Paul (R-KY)
Risch (R-ID)
Rounds (R-SD)
Rubio (R-FL)
Sasse (R-NE)
Scott (R-FL)
Scott (R-SC)
Shelby (R-AL)
Sullivan (R-AK)
Thune (R-SD)
Tuberville (R-AL)
Wicker (R-MS)

Not Voting - 1

Cramer (R-ND)

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Almost like adults are entitled to all of their rights once they become adults. Like I said before, if you want that, you have to change the age of majority. Which also means they can’t vote.

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And the complaint moves from propping a door open to checking to see if it locked behind her.

How do you check a door made to open from the inside even when it’s locked from the outside?

That’s only if you hold that voting is a right. A lot of people around here have argued that it’s a privilege.

Maybe she should have followed the school rules and used the door she was suppose too. Just think if she had followed the rules have many lives would have been saved that day.
The shooter was the cause of the deaths but she failed at her job of keeping him out and her students safe.