One is dead, the other is a zombie idea: Firearms regulation bill and Charles Grassley's lie.

Firearm regulation bills in the Senate failed to get 60 votes to overcome a filibuster, to go to a vote.  Where to start?  Well, there's Senator Charles Grassley with his fat lie:

"The real way to fight gun crimes, is to prosecute criminals."  -- Senator (R-IA) Charles Grassley.

I suppose the equivalent therefore, is that we don't need laws to regulate the purchase of drugs, radioactive technology, or viruses that may be used for biological warfare.  We just need to prosecute those who use them illegally, right?

I don't think anyone would doubt that in a hypothetical, deregulating things that could be used to kill lots of people easily, would result in more terrorism, not less.

Oh well.

The bill -- the Manchin-Toomey Compromise -- was really bad, anyway.  I'd probably vote against it, for all of its doublespeak.  Rather than tighten some laws, it perversely expanded the ability of people to buy guns by circumventing local laws -- in effect it was neutering recently passed Colorado and Connecticut firearm regulation laws.