Posted on 01/08/2019 5:33:25 PM PST by yesthatjallen
House Democrats unveiled legislation on Tuesday to require universal background checks for gun purchases as one of their first moves in a newly empowered majority.
The bill’s introduction came eight years to the day after the deadly shooting rampage that nearly killed former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), who since then has become one of the nation’s most prominent advocates for tougher gun laws.
Democrats touted the bill as a significant shift from eight years of GOP rule in the House, a period when the nation experienced the deadliest incidents of gun violence in its history but saw zero action on the issue from the lower chamber.
House Democrats unveiled legislation on Tuesday to require universal background checks for gun purchases as one of their first moves in a newly empowered majority.
The bill’s introduction came eight years to the day after the deadly shooting rampage that nearly killed former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), who since then has become one of the nation’s most prominent advocates for tougher gun laws.
Democrats touted the bill as a significant shift from eight years of GOP rule in the House, a period when the nation experienced the deadliest incidents of gun violence in its history but saw zero action on the issue from the lower chamber.
Still, the decision by Democratic leaders to make gun control a priority in the new House majority’s first days in office shows how much the party has changed on the issue.
In 2007, House Democrats spent the first days of their majority voting on bills to raise the minimum wage, adopt national security proposals from the 9/11 Commission, offer student loan relief, grant funding for stem cell research and lower prescription drug costs.
Gun control was viewed as a third rail that could put vulnerable lawmakers in a tough spot. Indeed, when some Democrats requested a hearing on background checks in 2010, they were refused.
But legislation to expand background checks for gun sales now has virtually universal backing in the Democratic caucus, even among more moderate members. That shift is a reflection of overwhelming public support for the issue, which has only grown as a string of deadly mass shootings has grabbed headlines in recent years, sparked a national outcry and created a new army of advocates clamoring for tougher gun restrictions, including students affected by mass shootings at schools.
Some newly elected Democrats in competitive districts even actively ran on gun control, like Rep. Lucy McBath (D-Ga.), who became an activist after losing her son to gun violence. McBath won a suburban Atlanta district President Trump narrowly carried in 2016.
“This bill is further proof that gun safety is no longer the third rail of American politics,” said John Feinblatt, president of Everytown for Gun Safety.
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Just Nazis being Nazis.
We will get two years of virtue signaling from the dem house, but nothing that will pass as law.
Time to remind the Democrats that gun control is a loosing agenda.
ESAD, gun grabbing demon rats.
You democrap scumbags are the enemy of the American people and normal citizens in this country are well aware of this fact.
They don’t want to take your guns. They just want to ‘control’ them.
Gun owner: no, I didn't sell it, I gave it to him. No check required.
We need to be on our knees, thanking God every day, that republicans (such as they are) held the Senate. And while we’re down on the floor, praying that Trump will be re-elected, and we’ll regain control of the whole of Congress.
Seems like much ado about nothing. Just going through the exercises for when they get the Senate back and someone besides Trump in the White House.
Will they require background checks for guns smuggled over the southern un-fenced border?
And what are they promising in return? And when their promises turn out to be lies, so that we can hold them accountable.
“Time to remind the Democrats that gun control is a loosing agenda.”
From the article: That shift is a reflection of overwhelming public support for the issue, which has only grown as a string of deadly mass shootings.
A non-fact editorial comment in this report.
I must be living in a bubble as I don’t see “overwhelming public support” for more gun control.
[I must be living in a bubble as I don’t see “overwhelming public support” for more gun control.]
Exactly. Its called driving a narrative.
universal background checks = gun registration
common sense gun control = confiscation
Gun Control
Any “Public Servant” that has ever made any deliberate false statements during the course of their professional duties or to the citizenry, Shall be prohibited from possessing or using any firearm or ammunition
See Boulder, Colorado
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