Posted on 07/28/2022 9:02:36 AM PDT by lowbridge
As was pre-ordained, the House Judiciary Committee passed HR 1808 on to the full House of Representatives yesterday. The bill moved on after a party-line vote which was preceded by some of the most entertaining debate and testimony in recent memory. And by entertaining, we mean in a facepalmingly sardonic, end-of-the-empire kinda way.
As was noted yesterday in a piece by the Outdoor Wire’s Jim Shepherd, this is all an exercise in election year kabuki. Democrats don’t really want to run on $5-a-gallon gas, 9% inflation, and scarce baby food this November. They know damn well that, particularly after passing the Cornyn-Murphy gun control bill, the Senate has zero appetite for diving in for more gun control four months before an election.
That’s why the hearings on this new bill, as well as their attempt to kill the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, are doomed legislatively. As Politico reports, Nancy Pelosi is having trouble wrangling all of her own troops to vote for this thing so close to November. But they’re trying because the bill would give them something “positive” to run on with their hard core anti-gun base as the midterms draw closer.
So committee Dems, under the able leadership of noted firearms expert Chairman Jerry Nadler, took the opportunity yesterday to rail against individual firearm ownership and the horrors that rain down upon a society that allows civilians to own “weapons of war” while tossing out sound bites and scoring some rhetorical points…or so they thought.
What the committee’s Dems actually did was display a jaw-dropping level of stupidity, ignorance, misinformation, and outright lies that was nothing if not revealing.
(Excerpt) Read more at thetruthaboutguns.com ...
The guns in Parkland, Buffalo, El Paso, didn’t come from Mexico. They came from the US, and the shooters were inspired by racist, anti-black, anti-immigrant manifestos that rhyme with GOP talking points.....David Hogg.
Weren’t 2 of the 3 Hispanics? One a Latinx cross dresser LBGTQOFKANDOGLAEHDOAZ? And the 3rd guy an ‘all over the place, somewhat left wing anarchist’ who stated that he hated Conservatives, or something to that effect? I guess, since I’m not an Ivy League guy, I’m missing the GOP connections here.
The bill got pulled for now. Rumors of not having the votes. Which means infighting among the dems.
CC
Southern Dems will balk bigtime..........................
Theater. Bad enough that people that know nothing about guns are trying to make laws conceding guns. We have people that know nothing about anything making laws concerning everything.
Thanks for posting this. Lots of good material at the link to archive and circulate on the intarwebz when next these Democrat fools run for office.
It plays to their base (who are crazy), but any sane “independent” will be instantly warned that their mild “common sense” proposals merely mask a bloodthirsty desire to totally disarm the American public.
Dennis Prager, himself a liberal of the old school, has said “Conservatives want people to see what Liberals are saying”, since they so often reveal their bad intentions and foolishness. Make ‘em famous!
Sounds like the ghost of Tom Foley has been whispering in their ears.
Well Put!
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