Post by: huntrights on March 22, 2013, 10:49:55 AM
ACTION ALERT: Ask Your Senator to Support the Lee Amendment
Please take action and pass this on to others.
Select the link below to take action; it only takes a couple of minutes at most.
Please take this simple action to help protect and defend your rights and freedoms!
Message from Gun Owners of America:
“Senator Lee to Offer Amendment Tonight to Ban Most Gun Control in the Senate
We realize it’s short notice, but we wanted to alert you that, later tonight, Senator Mike Lee of Utah intends to offer an amendment to the budget resolution that would prohibit any gun control legislation which does not have a 2/3 vote in the Senate.
We know, we know. We would prefer to prohibit any and all gun control, even if it had 100 votes.
But if the Lee amendment is passed, the practical effect will be that gun control can never again pass the Senate.
Given the Armageddon-like fight which we are now engaged in in the Senate, achieving a gun-control peace for the rest of our lifetimes would be a good thing.
ACTION: Contact your Senators. Ask them to vote for the Lee amendment which would require a 2/3 vote for the Senate to impose any gun control.
You may Click here to use The Action Center (http://capwiz.com/gunowners/issues/alert/?alertid=62536421 (http://capwiz.com/gunowners/issues/alert/?alertid=62536421)), or you can call your Senators since time is short. The number for the Senate is 202-224-3121.”
There is a sample message below; feel free to copy and paste, or edit to your own words.
Please vote for the Lee amendment to the budget resolution to prohibit the Senate from approving gun control bills without a 2/3 vote.
This would ensure careful consideration is given to any proposed gun control bills versus the flood of unjustified gun control bills we have seen over last few months. None of those bills will have any effect on criminals or their malevolent acts of violence. They serve only to burden law-abiding citizens with suffocating regulations that whittle away at our rights and freedoms.
The Lee amendment makes sense and should be passed. Voting against it would indicate you favor “mob rule” and not what is in the best interests of ALL the citizens of this great nation. I am asking that you take a stand to defend and protect our Constitution and Bill of Rights. Our Second Amendment and the associated rights and freedoms are under relentless attacks by anti-gun zealots; you know this to be true. There is no “common sense” associated with any of the gun control legislation that has been introduced. Please support the Lee amendment and bring some “common sense” into this opportunistic gun control fiasco.
Thank you
Post by: pianoman9701 on March 22, 2013, 11:26:13 AM
"Dear Senators Cantwell and Murray,
I am a voting constituent of Washington State, a veteran, a Hunter Education instructor, and a believer that our forefathers knew exactly what they were doing when they wrote the Constitution. It is important that if YOU pass legislation restricting law-abiding gun owners' rights, that more than a simple majority approve. Undermining our Bill of Rights is a slippery slope. YOU must make sure that if YOU impose restrictions on gun ownership, that a vast majority of the people want it.
Based on little more than fear and hysteria, too many attempts are being made to abridge our rights, and fewer and fewer Americans believe that should be done with the 2nd Amendment. According to Gallop, now only 43% of Americans favor any new gun laws.
Please support the Lee Amendment to the Budget resolution, which would require a 2/3s majority passage for any gun regulation legislation to pass the Senate. This is prudent and a super majority would ensure that the American people are behind it.
Thank you for your consideration of my comments and your service to our state."
Post by: Atroxus on March 22, 2013, 11:28:45 AM
Post by: csaaphill on March 24, 2013, 10:59:22 PM
Post by: Windwalker on March 24, 2013, 11:36:14 PM
Done :tup:
Post by: huntrights on March 25, 2013, 01:53:22 PM
Message from Gun Owners of America:
Feinstein Angry as Majority of the Senate Votes to Ban Gun Control
"Senate staffer says “gun grabbers were livid” and “DiFi was pissed”
On Friday, GOA asked you to contact your Senators and urge them to support the Lee amendment which would require Senators to muster 67 votes before adopting gun control legislation. You responded to the call, and the results were very encouraging.
The good news is that a majority of Senators supported the Lee amendment by a 50-49 vote. The bad news is, since the Senate rules requires 60 votes, the Lee amendment fell ten votes short.
Click here to see how your Senators voted on the Lee amendment.
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=113&session=1&vote=00087
Part of GOA’s strategy for defeating Harry Reid’s gun control bill (S. 649) has been to put Senators on record and force them to reveal where they stand on gun rights. Are they going to stand with us, or are they going to follow Obama down the road to further gun control restrictions and, therefore, require additional pressure from their constituents?
One high-level Senate staffer, commenting about the vote on the Lee amendment which took place at 4 a.m. Saturday morning, told GOA that, “The gun grabbers were livid when Senator Lee forced the vote. Mark Pryor looked nervous as hell, and DiFi [aka, Dianne Feinstein] was pissed.”
GOA’s strategy was realized twice Saturday when two key amendments were offered to the budget resolution — one amendment by Senator Lee, the other by Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK).
Six Democrats and all but one Republican (Mark Kirk of Illinois) voted in favor of the Lee Amendment which would make S. 649 impossible to pass. Again, this is because the Lee amendment would have required anti-gun Senators to muster 67 votes (rather than a simple majority of 51 votes) before gun control could be adopted.
There were six “Red State” Democrats who voted Against the Lee amendment — Senators Mark Begich (AK), Tim Johnson (SD), Tim Kaine (VA), Mary Landrieu (LA), Harry Reid (NV) and Mark Warner (VA). Gun owners in these states should be sure to voice their displeasure with these Senators.
The other provision — an anti-UN treaty amendment offered by Sen. Inhofe — passed by a 53-46 margin. 53 senators, including eight Democrats, voted for the Inhofe amendment to kill the UN Arms Trade Treaty — a treaty that would impose gun registration and possibly even ban handguns and semi-autos, while creating a microstamping requirement that would be technologically impossible to comply with. You can see how your Senators voted on the Inhofe amendment here.
Anti-gun Mary Landrieu and Harry Reid voted wrong on both amendments — and even refused to join the eight Democrats who oppose the UN Arms Trade Treaty. This treaty could be self-executing and could, without further legislation, force the U.S. to implement gun registration and bans on semi-autos and handguns.
Gun owners in Louisiana and Nevada, you have some homework to do — Mary Landrieu and Harry Reid need to hear from you!
GOA will keep you updated on the status of Harry Reid’s gun control bill (S. 649), which will be voted on right after the Easter recess."
Post by: pianoman9701 on March 25, 2013, 02:07:04 PM