In the early 1930s Mason Spencer, a state legislator from northeastern Louisiana, shot a male ivory-bill in a huge tract of virgin timber, known as the Singer Tract, along Louisiana's Tensas River and word went out to the ornithological community.
In February, Parliament shot down a bill to set up a special Kenyan court for perpetrators of the post-election violence, and in recent days, lawmakers have indicated that the votes are still not there.
There have been some setbacks: In May, the Tennessee state House shot down a bill that aimed to protect independent contractors (i.e. artists and staffers in the music industry) from sexual harassment.
In North Carolina, the House Rules Committee shot down a bill that would legalize medical marijuana in some instances and they did this after debating for just 20 minutes.
Manchin — whose support for gun rights is so strong that he once shot a copy of an environmental bill with a rifle in a campaign ad — said the massacre has made clear the need to consider new regulations.
Most Democrats aren't as deranged as Joe Manchin, the senator from West Virginia who literally shot a bullet through the House bill as a shameless bit of pandering to his state's powerful coal lobby, but the party has a growing track record of ducking action on global warming.
After the Newtown shooting, a bill to expand the use of background checks, which was backed by President Barack Obama and championed by MAIG, failed to win passage in Congress.
The city's delay in releasing the dash camera footage of the shooting spurred a bill currently being considered by the state senate that would require the expedited release of future video, barring a judge's order to hold it.
WASHINGTON — During his first run for the Senate in 2010, Joe Manchin III, the Democrat from West Virginia, took aim — literally — at a climate change bill, shooting a bullet through it in a television ad.
In an era in which abortion doctors still get shot, the bill might as well be called the Open Season on Doctors Act.
