“We the People: BETRAYED” By Brian Kieran — the consternation and recrimination of an Obama-era Democrat following on a small technical defeat in one small part of the gun control “debate”

“Forty-one Republican Senators ... prevent a law for background checks of gun buyers at gun shows. President Obama described it perfectly: 'We’ve been betrayed by liars and cowards. It’s shameful'.”  —   Whah !  Whah ! Whah !  Whah !  Cry baby, Obama !  

“Mayor Bloomberg characterized it accurately: ‘The children lost ... and the criminals won’.”  —   Whah !  Whah ! Whah !  Whah !  Cry baby, Bloomberg ! 

“If 45 senators ... are permitted to thwart the will of 90 percent of Americans who support background checks, then we have disgraced ourselves.”  —   Whah !  Whah ! Whah !  Whah !  Cry baby, Brian Keiran !    

All of the material quoted above appeared in Brian Kieran’s weekly column that appeared in the Home Reporter/Spectator earlier this week ( See “We the People: BETRAYED” by Brain Kieran, 4/23/13 [http://www.homereporternews.com/opinion/we-the-people-betrayed/article 854883a8-ac43-11e2-a7d6-001a4bcf887a.html]).


Obama, Bloomberg, Keiran and many Obama-era Democrats believe that “It is no infringement on the rights of a gun owner to insist on a reasonable background check before a gun purchase.” Let’s not get into the fact that there is a complete breakdown of syntax in that sentence; and let’s just say  —  it simply isn’t true.

Now, of course, I do admit —  all of that was, and continues to be, debatable.

Some sample of bodies somewhere in America have indicated to observers and spokespersons like Brian Keiran that there is a number like 90% of unidentified somebodies in an otherwise undescribed sample who expresses “the will of 90 percent of Americans who support background checks.”  Oddly, I know lots of people, and not one of them has expressed that to me  — ever — !  So please, excuse my incredulity.  Again, everything I just writ, except as to my incredulity — debatable.

These “90%” of  “Americans” certainly have not made anything like that expression in any way that Brian Keiran might call “debatable” or in debatable form; as in: “...this shameful refusal to debate a sensible measure to provide accountability for gun purchasers....”   Unless, of course, Brian describes “debate” in the same way that most of the Obama-era Democrats seem to define “debate” —  a neatly circumscribed talk, moderated by an Obama-era sycophant, followed by 100% agreement with whatever proposition Obama and/or the Obama-era surrogates have proposed.

Now, if we were going to have an unlimited debate on the issue of background checks for gun purchases, I might tell you what I really think....  Nah, I’d never do that.

Btw, how did  “Forty-one Republican Senators” get to a vote count of  “forty-five senators” ?