The 16 RINOs That Voted for Anti-Gun Bill That DOESN’T EXIST!

-By Warner Todd Huston

There are sixteen Republican senators that need to be eliminated. These are the sixteen reputed Republicans that voted for the Democrat’s gun ban bill. It is bad enough these anti-Constitution Republicans joined the extreme left in this endeavor, of course, but even worse they all voted for a bill that doesn’t even exist.

The GOP’s sold-out sixteen voted to shelve a filibuster and allow the anti-Second Amendment bill to go through based on their understanding of the Toomey/Manchin compromise, but the problem here is that there isn’t any bill to debate. Why? Because the neither Toomey nor Manchin have written one yet.

Before we go on, here are the sixteen Republicans that stand against the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution (and the office phone numbers).

Lindsey Graham (SC) (202) 224-5972
Lamar Alexander (TN) (202) 224-4944
Kelly Ayotte (NH) (202) 224-3324
Richard Burr (NC) (202) 224-3154
Saxby Chambliss (GA) (202) 224-3521
John McCain (AZ) (202) 224-2235
Tom Coburn (OK) (202) 224-5754
Susan Collins (ME) (202) 224-2523
Bob Corker (TN) (202) 224-3344
Jeff Flake (AZ) (202) 224-4521
John Hoeven (ND) (202) 224-2551
Johnny Isakson (GA) (202) 224-3643
Dean Heller (NV) (202) 224-6244
Mark Kirk (IL) (202) 224-2854
Pat Toomey (PA) (202) 224-4254
Roger Wicker (MS) (202) 224-6253

Earlier in the day, before the sold-out sixteen cast their votes against the Constitution, Senator’s Mike Lee (R, UT) and Ted Cruz (R, TX) put out a joint statement that got to the nub of the matter.

This morning the Senate will vote on the motion to proceed to the firearms bill (S.649). It is expected that the Toomey-Manchin provision announced yesterday will replace the current language regarding background checks. Yet, as of this morning, not a single senator has been provided the legislative language of this provision. Because the background-check measure is the centerpiece of this legislation it is critical that we know what is in the bill before we vote on it. The American people expect more and deserve better.

Unfortunately, the effort to push through legislation that no one had read highlights one of the primary reasons we announced our intention to force a 60 vote threshold. We believe the abuse of the process is how the rights of Americans are systematically eroded and we will continue to do everything in our power to prevent it.

Everyone keeps saying that there is a Toomey/Manchin compromise bill, but there really isn’t, exactly. None that has been fully presented, anyway.

So, why are Senators voting on something that they have never seen and one that doesn’t even exist in final form? Is it too much now-a-days to expect our elected officials to actually have legislation before them when they start voting?

There is another scary thing about this Toomey/Manchin compromise. There may be a provision that allows your private doctor to have a hand in taking your guns away from you without any due process and without your knowledge.

One report on the compromise bill from a source on the inside in one of the Senator’s offices says that there is a provision that allows private doctors to put patient’s names on the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) without ever informing the patient.

This would allow the government to swoop down on unsuspecting patients/citizens and forcibly take all their guns away because a doctor claimed they were mentally ill in some shadowy, unspecified way.

Notice, that there is no due process here at all. On just the say of one person we could have our Second Amendment rights taken from us. This person doesn’t have to be an expert in anything specific, doesn’t have to have any proof, doesn’t have to have more than their own opinion about the mental status of a patient and, worse, doesn’t have to confer with that patient.

This is the equivalent of a totalitarian government’s snitch program where neighbors are encouraged to rat out neighbors who they don’t think are sufficiently in thrall to the state.

This could also prevent people from even going to doctors for fear of physicians being a government snitch.

Now, you might scoff at this saying, “How do YOU know, you haven’t seen the bill!” I’ll grant you that. And yet… and yet the sold-out sixteen voted on this thing even though they didn’t see it, either. If this provision is in there, then the sold-out sixteen actually voted to violate due process and sumarily take away our Second Amendment rights without legal recourse.

Is that what they want to be known for?

**UPDATE**

Senator Manchin finally put out the language of his compromise bill out after the Senate voted based on his proposal.

You can see it here.
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer. He has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and before that he wrote articles on U.S. history for several small American magazines. His political columns are featured on many websites such as Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com, BigHollywood.com, and BigJournalism.com, as well as RightWingNews.com, RightPundits.com, CanadaFreePress.com, StoptheACLU.com, AmericanDaily.com, among many, many others. Mr. Huston is also endlessly amused that one of his articles formed the basis of an article in Germany’s Der Spiegel Magazine in 2008.

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