The Washington Post notes that it wasn’t just expanded background checks that were voted down in the Senate yesterday. Every single new gun control amendment failed to pass.
First Read: “Yesterday, even the most uncontroversial piece of gun legislation — a
trafficking bill with NRA support — went down. Senate Majority Leader
Harry Reid wouldn’t get cloture on the final bill, and he may pull the
whole package from the floor as soon as today.”
Michael Tomasky says that, years from now, “we’ll look back on yesterday as the moment when the gun lobby overreached–and laid the groundwork for its own undoing.”
