Universal Background Checks Fail: Blame Liberals
Perhaps the fallout from the travesty -- and shame, as President Obama called it -- of the failure to expand universal background checks will finally wake up those progressives who stay home during most elections, or maybe turn up only every four years.
Progressives who don't vote leave us with leaders who don't represent the majority.
(The Root) -- When President Obama said, "This was a pretty shameful day in Washington," after the Senate defeated a bill that would have expanded background checks for those purchasing firearms, he expressed the sentiments of many Americans, perhaps up to 90 percent of them. That's the number of Americans that polls show support universal background checks on gun purchasers, but apparently that number is not high enough to convince 60 members of the Senate to support expanding those b
