A proposed amendment to extend gun background checks failed in the Senate on Wednesday in a 54-46 vote.
The Morning Joe Panel – including Time’s Mark Halperin, former Gov. Howard Dean (D-VT), and the Huffington Post’s Sam Stein – discussed the vote yesterday with Morning Joe host, Joe Scarborough a former GOP legislator himself.
The show flashed images of the senators who voted down the proposed bill while Scarborough noted that 90 percent of Americans supported an even more extensive proposal for universal background checks. Scarborough went on to warn that the GOP is now facing “extinction” for opposing such an overwhelmingly popular bill with the American public noting:
“You don’t ignore 90 percent of what the voting population wants when you’re talking about the safety of Americans, of our families, of our communities, of our schools. The safety that we feel when we send our kids to malls, to churches, to college…
I just want to be clear. I said this party is heading towards extinction. Talking about the 2013 version of the Republican Party. A new Republican Party, though, is going to come in its place. This sort of extremism is going to be called out by the 90%. We’re the 90% and we are going to win. This is just the first battle.”
You can watch the segement below courtesy of MSNBC:
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