This is probably the best news I can bring you today. Both Democrat and Republican gun control proposals in the Senate just failed to get 60 votes:
THE HILL – Senators rejected dueling proposals on blocking suspected terrorists from being able to buy a gun Monday, approximately a week after the worst mass shooting in U.S. history.
Both proposals from Sens. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) fell short of getting the 60 votes needed to move forward. Senators also rejected two background check measures — also offered as amendments to a Commerce, Justice and Science bill — earlier Monday.
Senators voted 53-47 on a measure from Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) that would have allowed the attorney general to delay suspected terrorists from obtaining a gun for up to 72 hours to give the Justice Department time to investigate the prospective buyers and secure a court order stop the transfer.
Any person investigated for possible terrorist ties within the past five years could be delayed from acquiring a firearm. The provision was added after gunman Omar Mateen — previously on a federal watchlist — killed 49 people in a packed gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla.
Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin (W.Va.) and Joe Donnelly (Ind.) voted for Cornyn’s proposal while GOP Sens. Susan Collins (Maine), Jeff Flake (Ariz.) and Mark Kirk (Ill.) voted against it.
Instead Democrats largely backed a counteroffer from Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), which also failed in a 47-53 vote with 60 votes needed to move forward.
Feinstein’s proposal would allow the attorney general to block the sale of a gun or explosive if there’s a “reasonable suspicion” an individual has or will be involved in a terrorist attack. It would allow the attorney general to block the sale of a gun to anyone under a terror investigation in the past five years.
Republicans argue the Democratic measure is too broad and would harm Americans who aren’t tied to terrorism.
The three days of due process for someone on the watch list wasn’t that bad. But because Democrats only want to take more guns away, they aren’t interested in due process.
Meanwhile the real issue of jihad control, as Michelle Malkin calls it, isn’t even being debated.