Ron Conway pledges to oust senators who rejected background checks
blog.sfgate.com
Epic quote from Ron: "We will employ the most sophisticated social media campaign ever to remove them from office."
blog.sfgate.com
http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/the-so-called-gun-show...
"Under the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act—which created the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS)—all federal firearms licensees are required to conduct a background check for all firearms transactions, even if they sell the firearm at a gun show. This is to make sure that the gun isn’t being sold to a person who is prohibited from purchasing a gun under Section 922(g) or (n) of Title 18 of the United States Code, which would include convicted felons, people who have been adjudicated to be severely mentally ill, and people who have been convicted of a domestic violence offense."
Also, keep in mind even if you passed all the stronger gun control laws exactly none of them would've prevented any of the current mass shootings, including the Aurora and Newtown incidents. If you want to stop these, you should start with addressing the mental health issue, instead of trying to tighten gun laws.
54 senators voted for the amendment, and 46 against, not the other way around. Is it too much to ask to proofread the first paragraph of your article before publishing it?
The amendment failed to be added because it needed 60 votes total, not because a simple majority voted it down.
More here: http://m.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/04/for-the-lo...
Sure it does, if enough people upvote it.
I flagged it.
Great. Flagging and ignoring is the right way to deal with a story you don't think belongs. Fueling a meta-debate about the so-called poisonous story probably isn't.
... threads like this one are poison for HN.
Care to elaborate? I think the meta-commentary about whether something belongs on the front page is far less germane. Just watch as this comment thread devolves into a pointless back-and-forth about the guidelines.
On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.