NOW – U.S. House has voted to increase the minimum age for buying semi-automatic weapons to 21.
10 Republicans voted in favor. pic.twitter.com/Cnj9Qp9j3q
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) June 8, 2022
We would not have had our success in passing lifesaving gun policies this evening without Lucy McBath turning her promise to Jordan into purpose for all America’s children. She inspires us to #EndGunViolence. -NP pic.twitter.com/RnQfkbGkoT
— Nancy Pelosi (@TeamPelosi) June 9, 2022
Lifesaving! No guns, no corpses!
Obviously, this isn’t going to go through in the Senate.
But it’s still a pretty scary thing to have it sail through the House like this. It would be good for the midterms but… I’m not super into the whole voting thing anyway.
The House passed a wide-ranging gun control bill Wednesday in response to recent mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas, that would raise the age limit for purchasing a semi-automatic rifle and prohibit the sale of ammunition magazines with a capacity of more than 15 rounds.
The legislation passed by a mostly party-line vote of 223-204. It has almost no chance of becoming law as the Senate pursues negotiations focused on improving mental health programs, bolstering school security and enhancing background checks. But the House bill does allow Democratic lawmakers a chance to frame for voters in November where they stand on policies that polls show are widely supported.
“We can’t save every life, but my God, shouldn’t we try? America we hear you and today in the House we are taking the action you are demanding,” said Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-Texas. “Take note of who is with you and who is not.”
The push comes after a House committee heard wrenching testimony from recent shooting victims and family members, including from 11-year-old girl Miah Cerrillo, who covered herself with a dead classmate’s blood to avoid being shot at the Uvalde elementary school.
The seemingly never-ending cycle of mass shootings in the United States has rarely stirred Congress to act. But the shooting of 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde has revived efforts in a way that has lawmakers from both parties talking about the need to respond.
“It’s sickening, it’s sickening that our children are forced to live in this constant fear,” said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.
Pelosi said the House vote would “make history by making progress.” But it’s unclear where the House measure will go after Wednesday’s vote, given that Republicans were adamant in their opposition.
“The answer is not to destroy the Second Amendment, but that is exactly where the Democrats want to go,” said Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio.
The work to find common ground is mostly taking place in the Senate, where support from 10 Republicans will be needed to get a bill signed into law. Nearly a dozen Democratic and Republican senators met privately for an hour Wednesday in hopes of reaching a framework for compromise legislation by week’s end. Participants said more conversations were needed about a plan that is expected to propose modest steps.
In the Senate, Ted Cruz, who is disgusting, fat, and ugly, is trying to push for the expansion of NICS, which is also clearly a violation of “shall not infringe.” But the entire GOP strategy with everything is “let’s try to do something that is just a little bit less bad than what the Democrats are trying to do.”
I’m going to again shill this thing I wrote a couple weeks ago after the Uvalde shooting: Just Answer the Question, Ted: Why Do These Mass Shootings Only Happen in America?
If the GOP cared about protecting the Second Amendment, they would respond to these mass shootings with the proper response: “this is a country of 350 million people, and sometimes bad things happen.”
Mass shootings are not a crisis. Fentanyl is a crisis. Mass shootings are extremely rare events that just happen to be a lot sexier than hundreds of thousands of people dying of fentanyl, or hundreds of millions of people’s lives being destroyed by obesity, divorce, abortion, and all of these other social diseases that no one even bothers to talk about – or, in recent years, actively promote.
Obviously, death is bad, but the likelihood of you or a loved one being the victim of some MK Ultra lunatic in a grocery store or a school is effectively zero. Everyone knows someone who died from the vax, everyone knows someone who died from fentanyl, everyone knows a lot of people who have had their lives destroyed by divorce.
And how about that inflation, huh? How’s that going for the average American?
That should be the GOP response: to go on the offensive, call out the Democrats for using these mass shootings as a distraction from real problems that statistically have a real chance of affecting the lives of the average person.
They should also go on the attack against the feds and call for a comprehensive inquiry into what traits are shared by the various shooters. Ideally, someone would just go out on the Senate floor and start talking about CIA mind control experiments and the fact that these weird shootings fit so neatly into the Democrat agenda. If the Democrats were put in a position where they had to defend blocking an investigation into the cause of mass shootings, that would be a massive win.
They need to stop playing these stupid games. Ted Cruz needs to resign. This man is posing as the #1 anti-gun control activist while calling for gun control. NICS is gun control.
The Constitution doesn’t stutter: any single person in the United States has an inalienable right to walk into any gun store in any city or town in America and buy any gun they want with cash and not a single question asked. Period. Furthermore: manufacturers should not be compelled to put serial numbers on any part of a gun, and if the manufacturer decides for whatever reason that they want to do that, any citizen should have a right to file it off.
On the issue of gun control, just as with every other issue involving our rights, the GOP are negotiating with terrorists and they are losing, badly.
Makes no sense as one if someone is insane and a horrible human at 18 they will be at 21 also
— Kyle moose (@mooserocka331) June 8, 2022
You get to start paying taxes and can become indebted for the next 40 years!
— John Johnson 🏴 (@JohnJoh75621687) June 8, 2022
And draft age
— Blahblahblatnik (@blahblahblatnik) June 8, 2022
— Mz.KimPossible1776 (@real_miss_kim) June 8, 2022
this is the way
— Ben Hen (@bhbuckwheat) June 8, 2022
What if an 18 year old identifies as 21? “Don’t misdate my age”
— Jesse The Grouch (@JuanCon76462556) June 8, 2022