Posted on 11/11/2018 2:58:08 PM PST by Kaslin
Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi (D – CA12) went out to smooth her path toward becoming Speaker of the House by seeking friendly territory and sitting down with Chris Cuomo on CNN Thursday night. When asked what her plans were if she took back the gavel, she had plenty to share, but one of her top priorities is supposedly new gun control legislation. While not specifically invoking the Thousands Oaks shooting, she made it clear that she was indirectly referencing it as she described the sort of legislation she had in mind. (Washington Times)
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said passing stricter gun control laws will be a “priority” in the new Democrat-controlled House.
“There is bipartisan legislation to have common sense background checks to prevent guns going into the wrong hands,” the California Democrat told CNN’s Chris Cuomo Thursday night.
“This will be a priority for us in the next Congress,” Mrs. Pelosi added.
Her comments came a day after a gunman fatally shot 12 people with a Glock handgun at a bar hosting a college country music night in Thousands Oaks, California.
So she’s going to be focused on universal background checks and expanded capacity magazines. In other words, nothing that we haven’t been hearing about for the past decade. Surprisingly missing from her to-do list was the so-called “assault rifle” ban.
Of course, if Democrats want to point to Thousand Oaks, they immediately weaken most of their own arguments. We once again saw a shooter who had passed all of his background checks and purchased his firearm legally. Also, rather than a rifle, he pulled off the attack with a single .45 caliber handgun. For the record, he did have a magazine with more capacity than California law allows, but considering the fact that he had time to stop in the middle of his assault to post things on social media, he clearly had plenty of time to swap out magazines even if he’d had a smaller one.
There’s certainly an argument to be made about whether or not he should have been flagged for screening due to mental illness and erratic behavior. The shooter apparently was suffering from PTSD and had acted brashly (though without any gun violence) in the past. But the fact is that officials had already been alerted to his behavior and still given him a pass. It’s also worth noting that “red flag” laws covering such people raise other disturbing issues.
Of course, except for the possibility of some changes to background checks, most of this conversation is simply window dressing anyway. If Pelosi wants to guide the Democrats toward new gun control legislation in the House, they’ll still have to get it past a GOP majority in the Senate and then somehow convince Donald Trump to sign it. Good luck with that.
This interview raises a couple of other questions as well. For one thing, Nancy Pelosi seems awfully confident that she’ll be the Speaker next year. In fact, she told Cuomo she was “100 percent confident” she would be getting the gavel back. Does she know something this far in advance that we can’t confirm? I mean, it wouldn’t be any surprise if she winds up being Speaker. She retains a lot of support from the establishment Democrats. But the new class includes a lot of younger socialists who ran on a pledge not to support her. She may win, but she might wind up needing the help that President Trump offered after all.
Maybe she needs to first team up with broward county the ones who propped up Obama’s social justice programs that murdered their children
They will send a bunch of Socialist stuff to the Senate. knowing full well it won’t pass. It’s going to be a bunch of red meat Kubaki Theater for leftist followers to droll and protest over after the Senate buries it
The Republican Party is pretty much dead and there is no real alternative.
If he would have been on board with MAGA from Day One, Pelosi and House Democrats would be starting from scratch.
In fact, they may have not even won back the House.
They won because Dems used pre-existing conditions on healthcare to scare a lot of Republicans into accepting it to. Had Obamacare been fully repealed and market forces implemented in healthcare (with Medicaid/Medicare turned over to the states), this argument would have been moot.
Republicans hold office, Democrats hold power. Watch the Dems use every Constitutional procedure to wield it.
Not if they get away with “recounting” themselves into a majority in the Senate.
That is your opinion, Nuff said
FMCDH Nancy. FMCDH.
The local Gunshop in Thousand Oaks has been doing a brisk business since the shooting.
Isn’t murder a crime? How will taking away guns stop people from committing murder? It will only make it easier for criminals!
Great news , this is the type of votes the Conor lamb types
need to take
I will too.
I’ll be visiting a shooting range ASAP.
Four more mysterious recounts or impeachment of sitting Senators and it goes Dem majority. Wow.
The problem is large capacity bans and universal background checks are popular to the uniformed. The universal background check is the most important because once they get there any gun sold after that date if the purchaser doesn’t have when they come to confiscate will be in a heap of trouble.
Bill O’Reilly reminded us last week that when the Dems talk about “gun control” they really want “gun bans.” But know it sounds too aggressive and controversial to talk about openly. He is right.
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Yes, Nancy your eyes follow movement well with your index fingers pointing ahead. And you hardly every drool on your dress lately. You are going to be Madame Speaker.
Working on gun control? This is nothing new.
Diane Feinstein has been working on gun confiscation for 23 years. But, if it happens they will quickly run out of gun confiscators.
“If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States, for an outright ban picking up every one of them up...Mr. and Mrs. America turn ‘em all in I would have done it. I could not do it. The votes were not there.”
February 5th, 1995. Diane Feinstein on 60 Minutes
It will give Democrats something useless to do to keep them out of the way. Time to renew the NRA membership.
In an ideal world McConnell could spite Fancy Nancy and go ahead and pass what he has on his desk right now before Fancy gets put in charge.
And then, go back to business as usual and not pass anything Fancy sends him.
Registration preceeds confiscation.
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