http://thehill.com/regulation/administration/221326-holder-lists-thwarted-gun-control-push-among-biggest-failures
Holder: Gun control among biggest failures
By Benjamin Goad - 10/20/14 06:07 PM EDT
Outgoing Attorney Gen. Eric Holder on Monday listed the Obama administration’s inability to enact more stringent gun control regulations as among the biggest failures of his tenure, saying the matter “weighs heavily” on his mind.
“I think the inability to pass reasonable gun safety laws after the Newtown massacre is something that weighs heavily on my mind,” Holder said during an interview aired on CNN.
Long-sought measures requiring background checks for all commercial gun sales and banning assault weapons and large capacity ammunition appeared to have traction following the December 2012 elementary school massacre in Newtown, Conn.
A re-elected President Obama announced their passage as a top second-term priority, and congressional Democrats rallied behind a flurry of gun control bills.
All failed, with the most crushing defeat coming in April of last year, when a bipartisan amendment mandating universal background checks fell six votes short of passage in a Senate controlled by Democrats.
In lieu of congressional action, Obama announced nearly two-dozen executive actions aimed at tamping down on gun violence, addressing mental health issues and keeping guns out of the wrong hands.
Holder’s Justice Department spearheaded the implementation of many measures, and the White House has since claimed progress on each of the items. But Holder, citing polls showing that the vast majority of Americans support the legislation that was beat back, lamented the loss for proponents of stronger restrictions.
“And the thought that we could not translate that horror into reasonable — I mean, really reasonable gun safety measures that were supported by the vast majority of the American people is for me something that I take personally as a failure,” he said, “and something that I think we as a society should take as a failure, a glaring failure, that I hope will ultimately be rectified.”
i understand wanting your guns and shit, but why the fuck are americans against background checks?
Eric Holder can suck fat dick.
If he thinks that gun control is his biggest failure then he is even more delusional than I thought. 
shaqitup - i understand wanting your guns and shit, but why the fuck are americans against background checks?Background checks already happen.
cooper367 - Eric Holder can suck fat dick.Fucking this
PatriarchyManifest -shaqitup - i understand wanting your guns and shit, but why the fuck are americans against background checks?Background checks already happen.
my bad, i barely read the thing tbh.
That guy will go down as one of the biggest pieces of shit ever.
Using the extreme statistical anomaly of Newtown to justify ANY legislation is inane & by definition "unreasonable".
cooper367 - Eric Holder can suck fat dick.This X 10
I would think any of the dozen of his scandals and covering up evidence thereof would be a bigger fail.
I guess in his mind, representatives voting and representing the people is a giant fail.
Eric Holder doesn't mention the thousands of urban youths killed each year, only the lilly white kids of Newtown.
Eric Holder doesn't like black people
shaqitup -On new guns. They want it on ALL guns.PatriarchyManifest -shaqitup - i understand wanting your guns and shit, but why the fuck are americans against background checks?Background checks already happen.
my bad, i barely read the thing tbh.
Person to person sale.
Which can't really happen..logistically.
So it will restrict gun sales.
Then if NICS goes down. Like it does a lot. 0% guns can be sold.
So way to freeze gun sales.
Also it can create a registry.
Which is things governments that want to control people do.
Originally the background checks on new guns was OKed because of the person to person -no need for one- exception.
Now years later they want to remove it too.
Good example of why we never can compromise on these type things. Always a stepping stone.
And fuck Holder.
You'd think "gun control" would mean Not arming Mexican drug cartels, so they can kill our border patrol agents with our own weapons ???
A commie ranting about a socialist. Big whoop
MikeMinx - You'd think "gun control" would mean Not arming Mexican drug cartels, so they can kill our border patrol agents with our own weapons ???
This. He doesn't want Americans to own guns but he has no problem selling guns to mexican cartels. What a fucktard.
angryinch -Fucktards don't get away with shit like that. The man is either a genius or the tool of a genius.MikeMinx - You'd think "gun control" would mean Not arming Mexican drug cartels, so they can kill our border patrol agents with our own weapons ???
This. He doesn't want Americans to own guns but he has no problem selling guns to mexican cartels. What a fucktard.
MikeMinx - You'd think "gun control" would mean Not arming Mexican drug cartels, so they can kill our border patrol agents with our own weapons ???And then ignoring gun shop owners who called ATF to let them know something was wrong- here in Az.
Then he tells them to keep selling them.
But they aren't cool with a law abiding citizen have 11 bullets in a handgun.
Fuck him
MikeMinx - You'd think "gun control" would mean Not arming Mexican drug cartels, so they can kill our border patrol agents with our own weapons ???
Or sending ISIS some crates of brand new rifles
shaqitup - i understand wanting your guns and shit, but why the fuck are americans against background checks?where the hell do you get your info. I live in a very conservative state and I have to do a background check everytime I buy a gun. liberal lies