Are the Second Amendment "rights" of Americans really being "threatened" - or is this complaint just another gimmick to get the right-wing, reactionary base "fired up" for 2012?

Yup !

Stick- schumer may be using the same logic as Ryan, in that you have to start somewhere.(-:

Munster. Re read the past posts carefully. Dont graze thru them. Think with your brain what they say. Quit trying to think how much you love Barry and Biden and concentrate on the words. It is in there. In a nutshell. If you pass the backround check, are not some ranting raving maniac with a crimminal record, you can get any fire arm that you are willing to pay for.!! The AR's have increased in price. Does that clear it up or were you thinking about Biden getting out of the shower when you read that??

Well you have to make up your mind , are they easy to get or not ????

So, I'm an elitist now? Free, you have clearly gone insane!

Mod, since you at least show a rational viewpoint,explain HOW these proposed bills protect anyone? Criminals ignored the laws as they exist, is passing more restrictive laws on law abiding gun owners going to change that constant?

I've never bought a gun that there wasn't a background check done. I've gone through more intense background checks, both in the military and civilian life. So just where does the insanity end?

Have you read the absolute lunacy of a background check law Schumer is offering? Law abiding folks aren't doing anything wrong, the criminals are!

Munster said "What your going to see gomer is these obstructing republicans shown the door out ! Regular working people have now seen this idiotic anti-labor, anti-woman,anti-people anti-minority agenda and they dont like it !The point is theres alot more regular people than there is you elitist so guess what ?? Obama's president again isnt he !!" Ditto that. I see where the nra wants to negotiate some influence on the senate bill. The nra is conducting business with practices that parallel the union influence controversy around political policies. The number of members that are for background checks is significant. That, may be having 'a second look' effect in their positioning.

What your going to see gomer is these obstructing republicans shown the door out ! Regular working people have now seen this idiotic anti-labor, anti-woman,anti-people anti-minority agenda and they dont like it !The point is theres alot more regular people than there is you elitist so guess what ?? Obama's president again isnt he !!

Let's just see how it comes out bubba, they can "talk" all they want. I'll bet you this much, IF they succeed you'll see 1996 all over again in 2014, with a bunch of idiot liberals having to seek new employment! WE sent your idiots home before, WE'Ll do it again!

IF these proposed laws made any sense, you'd get folks from both parties supporting them. You can't even talk all the liberals into supporting them. I guess some of them actually want re-elected in 2014.

For Feinstein's bill to even hit the Senate floor for a vote, Reid would have to allow it. He ain't looking like he's willing to end his Senate career. In case you forgot, that bill has to pass the House too before Barry gets it to sign.

You're naïve enough to think a conservative majority will pass that? I guess my earlier assessment of you is right!

Again he's not disarming you only restricting assault weapons !! And just what happens in 1 yr 8 months ?

(Quoted from oneill) "Well Bob, if you're not going to do it, I guess I'll have to ... Some of today's "pretend patriots" might want to look at what is happening in Egypt ..."

Yeah, oneill, Egypt's getting $250,000,000 of US taxpayer's money in foreign aid and a hearty shipment of jets and tanks WHILE OR FEARLESS LEADER WORKS ON PROJECTS LIKE DISARMING THE AMERICAN PUBLIC.

One year and eight months from now, I hope YOU and your kind "finally get it"!

You dips cry before your hurt !! Six months from now you finally get it ! There are and will be plenty of weapons that are legal to " protect yourself " with !

No free, the only reason you and the anti-gun crowd uses the term is because it scares the uninformed American. It's exactly your aim, to make a semi-auto rifle sound "scary."

Having a bayonet lug doesn't make them more deadly. Neither does a flash suppressor. An adjustable stock doesn't either.

You could buy a car that looked like the "muscle cars" of our youth with a 6 cylinder motor. You could add chrome wheels and traction bars to that plain Jane car, but it didn't make them run faster. They just looked like their bigger motor brothers and sisters.

Got any more lame claims?

MUNSTERMORON.

Munster, you dont NEED a computer either. You are dangerous and irresponsible with it.!!! I wouldn't dare waving the muzzle of a gun around anywhere, crowded street or the woods but you like to wave that "no one needs an assault rifle" thing around until some one gets hurt with it.!!!

THERE YOU HAVE IT, FOLKS! When we need to know the "facts" about what we need, we can always turn to self-appointed Freedom Advocates, like Munster.

Woulda , coulda , shoulda , dont mean crap ! Fact is no civilian needs an assault rifle !!

I have told you, Munster (and other reality-challenged inidividuals) that Lanza could have done the same damage with two seven-shot .357 magnums (old-fashioned wheelguns) with two pre-loaded speed-loaders (total of 28 shots).

The idiot that went in the Colorado theater, armed with an AR-15, stuffed with a piece-of-crap 100 round drum magazine, probably did more damage with the handguns and pump-shotgun he brought along AFTER his 'vicious AR-15' semi-automatic jammed, BECAUSE it was in the hands of a puffed up IDIOT. One skilled CCW holder, in that theater, may have brought "Brainlesse's" shot at glory to an end quickly but, OH NO!, people (like you, I'm sure) want rooms full of people across this country to remain defenseless.

BUT, HEY! Who am I talking to here? Mr. Munster, who's name is all over most topics on these threads. I can't fathom WHY our government invests in Super-computers when they could. more cheaply, ask MR. MUNSTER.

NOT MY DEFINITION but wiki's construction features similar to those of military firearms. That covers AK's and AR's ! Sorry you guys cant hanle fact and truth , but thats typical for you lo-info reoublicans !