the not-so-sweet 16

In one of the United States' most lopsided gun votes in the nation's recent history, there was broad, bi-partisan support for a recent pro-gun bill in the Senate. 

Of the entire senate, a measly 16 Senators voted against Senator Vitter's legislation to prohibit the usage of taxpayer funds from the Homeland Security Appropriations Bill to be used for the purpose of confiscating lawfully owned guns in the event of an emergency, such as what occurred in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. 

They were all democrats: 

Akaka (D-HI)
Boxer (D-CA)
Clinton (D-NY)
Dodd (D-CT)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Harkin (D-IA)
Inouye (D-HI)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Levin (D-MI)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Reed (D-RI)
Sarbanes (D-MD)
Schumer (D-NY)

Of all times to confiscate weapons, though they are all bad, the period directly after a disaster with widespread lawlessness when self-defense is most crucial, is most certainly one of the worst to choose.  These 16 democrats stuck with their anti-gun, anti-2nd amendment convictions and voted against this legislation. 

All OTHER 28 democrats in the senate, joined by every one of the 55 republicans voted for this common sense legislation. 

>>27 Unfortunately, equality is a birthright and in such a case marriage for all is not a formal thing, considering it is part of the entire HGBT cause
>>26 Bush has done bad things except Iraq - his tax cuts were useless, misaimed and are probably a way to create such a crisis for health care and Soc. Sec. that the nation would clamor for a solution. A solution of the more nihilistic sort, that the conservatives and the rich would love to provide. Poverty increases under Bush, and all that black ink started turning red thanks to his poor economic competence. Then there's Katrina, the super highway right through the country, the state of the constitution and let's not forget how he harmed development in the third world by banning funding for all charity organisations that provide condoms and abortions.
>>28 >>29 You are both right, and I assure you my view of guns have softened a lot lately. Now I am not afraid of the guns but rather what a priority it is for some and how they are ready to support a constitution-hating evangelical just for them. You can't call yourself a libertarian and vote Bush simultaneously.