Democrats Tanked Gun Control To Up Their Election Chances
Senate Republicans agreed to vote on four gun control proposals—two
offered by Democrats and two offered by Republicans. The Democratic
proposals included Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s bill linking
a terrorism watch list to a gun sales ban. On the Republican side, Sen.
John Cornyn also offered legislation that would link a terrorism watch
list to a gun sales ban, but his version added due process protections
for Americans who are put on the list. The other two proposals expanded
the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, although the
Republican version did not go as far as the Democratic version. For a
brief moment it seemed as if the Senate would take some kind of action.
Rather than agree to the incremental gun control measures Republicans
proposed, the Democrats chose to pass no gun control legislation at
all. At some point after loudly demanding legislation for more than a
week, Senate Democrats decided it would be better for their reelection
prospects that no gun control bills pass the Senate during the election
season. Their decision was hypocritical, unprincipled, and pure
politics.
Republicans were willing to link the terrorism watch list to a gun
sales ban, as Democrats have demanded. The price of agreement was
due-process protections for Americans placed on the list. But apparently
due process is too much for the Democrats . . . . . . . . ___________________
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In Orlando on Thursday, President Obama again called on Congress to do something about these mass public shootings. But the dirty secret about the four different bills that the Senate will vote on Monday is that everyone knows that none of them would have stopped the Orlando massacre. Indeed, none of the bills would have stopped any of the mass public shootings since at least 2000.
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