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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4i6o-aDB9Z_EVBs_OpF_rWCVyfWtrSI7DIypbgarRKXnVCBUXlCezrAecaQsPxyIPRzjaYih2z8RVTPLyK0KO9sUi7KCVrl8YisyQ406GlVbItkcG0LxJpK_Dgztv-JisOQ3exJcDaPk/s1600/2nd+Amendment_01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4i6o-aDB9Z_EVBs_OpF_rWCVyfWtrSI7DIypbgarRKXnVCBUXlCezrAecaQsPxyIPRzjaYih2z8RVTPLyK0KO9sUi7KCVrl8YisyQ406GlVbItkcG0LxJpK_Dgztv-JisOQ3exJcDaPk/s320/2nd+Amendment_01.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">WASHINGTON — The Senate on Monday failed to advance four separate measures aimed at curbing gun sales, the latest display of congressional inaction after a mass shooting.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Eight days after a gunman claiming allegiance to the Islamic State killed 49 people in an Orlando, Fla., nightclub, the Senate deadlocked, largely along party lines, on amendments to block people on the federal terrorism watch list from buying guns and to close loopholes in background check laws. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Partisanship and the power of the gun lobby played a large role in the amendments’ failure. Democrats structured their bills in a way that was almost certain to repel Republicans, while Republicans responded with bills equally distasteful to Democrats.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Democrats vowed to hammer Republicans during the campaign this fall.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCq92aOMYXR7wmXKI8WiUrouLr2I3BCBXm2iCuJ80fbruLo78UTNKUZfMVIcANUe0FN99VWC_OuV-tlHfzQL__cL9meiXs2QH2g0gvt4UPnEQoL4aKDDTH0ImDMRHDVyNjrK3Rtr3uyQ4/s1600/2nd+Amendment_02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCq92aOMYXR7wmXKI8WiUrouLr2I3BCBXm2iCuJ80fbruLo78UTNKUZfMVIcANUe0FN99VWC_OuV-tlHfzQL__cL9meiXs2QH2g0gvt4UPnEQoL4aKDDTH0ImDMRHDVyNjrK3Rtr3uyQ4/s320/2nd+Amendment_02.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Our constituents see a disturbing pattern of inaction,” Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the Democratic leader, said on the Senate floor on Monday. “Sadly, our efforts are blocked by the Republican Congress, who take their marching orders from the National Rifle Association.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Senator Dianne Feinstein of California, the highest-ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, introduced one of the failed measures, which could have prevented anyone on the federal terrorism watch list and other terrorist databases from buying firearms or explosives. Democrats <a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/congress/article48047225.html" target="_blank">tried unsuccessfully</a> to pass the measure after the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/03/us/san-bernardino-shooting.html" target="_blank">shooting in San Bernardino, Calif.</a>, in December.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Obama administration, which has been pushing for a variety of new gun control legislation, vowed to press on.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“The view of the administration is that the American people should be engaged in the debate,” Josh Earnest, the White House press secretary, said on Monday. “So the fact that this is something that is being actively debated and considered in the Senate does represent incremental progress.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRhHbe9inlChwpPEkhHXz9TwosmrakLnltSyug1_HGjT8ZNCtHEkAnr-wczJ21DkKGyX1fgBliO4m7bDvBP6aGTva-oGOhwtYhKNhMhrGb4GJv-U0lgtKGBn_pEz9mTmzdHU0TetFjvEE/s1600/2nd+Amendment_03.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRhHbe9inlChwpPEkhHXz9TwosmrakLnltSyug1_HGjT8ZNCtHEkAnr-wczJ21DkKGyX1fgBliO4m7bDvBP6aGTva-oGOhwtYhKNhMhrGb4GJv-U0lgtKGBn_pEz9mTmzdHU0TetFjvEE/s320/2nd+Amendment_03.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Donald J. Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, has largely supported the positions of most Republicans, who want to preserve gun rights. Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee, has made her support for gun control a central tenet of her campaign.<br /><br />The Senate measures seemed doomed almost as soon as they were offered. After the Sandy Hook massacre, a bipartisan background check measure failed, even though Democrats controlled the Senate. Democrats, now in the minority, replaced that measure with the amendment sponsored by Mr. Murphy, which would have expanded background checks to all gun sales except loans and gifts between family members. Republicans said it was too broad. And even Senator Jon Tester of Montana, the chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, voted against it.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/21/us/politics/gun-vote-senate.html?_r=0" target="_blank">Click here to read the full article</a></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Source: The New York Times, June 20, 2016</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">- Report an error, an omission:<a href="mailto:deathpenaltynews@gmail.com" target="_blank"> deathpenaltynews@gmail.com</a></span> <span style="font-size: small;"> </span> <span style="font-size: small;"> - Follow us on <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/WebDPN/" target="_blank">Facebook</a> </b>and <b><a href="https://twitter.com/WebDPN" target="_blank">Twitter</a></b></span></div>

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