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. 

>>6
I see what you are saying, but I still don't see how removing consequences for a person's actions is the right way to go. 

The only reason people do anything in the world today (if they are rational people) is because they know some consequence, or result will come of it that they will find favorable. 

Economically speaking, the right wing rewards good, responsible behavior, and I see absolutely nothing wrong with that. 

I think, generally, every person should pull his weight in society, and that they should be held accountable and take responsibility for their own actions. 

Since you think an environment of a certain kind will create certain responses from people, surely you would think that a more or less capitalist society, in which, in an economic sense, the consequences of a person's actions will bring them to certain conclusions, that people will then be motivated to produce, and become fruitful, responsible members of society, no?

Socialism would seem to remove these factors, and make people less accountable for their actions.  This would remove the stimulation to be responsible people.