It is stunning to me that they rejected that Grassley bill pretty much just to spite the Republicans for being able to say they did anything at all.

The number of people, not just on here, but on both sides, who seem to think that giving up 4th Amendment rights makes any of us safer is more frightening and chilling to me than just about anything else. It’s like they don’t even see how they could ever end up on the wrong side of that. Or maybe they don’t care, I…

Democrats have been pushing Republicans to consider a gun control vote, last week executing an eight-hour-long filibuster. Thus far Republicans, some of whom are definitely NRA-influenced, have resisted. On Monday, the Senate blocked a total of four gun control proposals.