Senate Republicans and Democrats reach background checks deal

[Old Man Svensson]

No matter how little, it's still progress, which is more than I expected of the useless twits in Washington on this issue. I would have preferred to see background checks universally extended - all they are is a minor inconvenience to a good person, after all - but I'll take what I can get.

[Old Man Svensson]

AkSaber, tell me something: what reason at all is there to oppose this measure when it does literally nothing to keep good people from owning firearms? And I don't mean the stock bulls**t "RAR UNLIMITED FREEDOM RAAAAAR" argument libertarians use in response to literally everything that would never, under any circumstances, actually work in real life. I'm talking a legitimate, thought-out reason.

[Old Man Svensson]

NRA opposes the deal, continues to be a joke.

Dickless lunatics, just as Carlin put on the records in years past.

[Old Man Svensson]

NRA opposes the deal, continues to be a joke.

Remember they nominally support background checks...

I mean seriously, these guys don't actually give a crap about gun owners. The only people they actually strive to defend are gun sellers - and they want to make sure they are able to sell to any criminal.

So far as I've read, the deal also closes the gun show loophole, which I'm sure is what the NRA can't stand, and is also the best thing in this half-baby step. The NRA doesn't care about how many dead kids we have, so long as we keep selling more, more, more guns.

Guns don't kill people, people kill people!

Well, in fairness, that is what it all comes down to in the end. The NRA just happens to be completely deluded when it comes to how they want to deal with the issue.

[Old Man Svensson]

I'm now in a war on Twitter being called a liberal for saying that it's ridiculous to think the 2nd Amendment should be interpreted 100% literally... what a bunch of wackjobs.

I think it's time for someone to switch parties. The Right is getting far too absurd for you.