Posted March 4, 2019 1:00 pm by Comments

By Tom Knighton

AP Photo/Lynne Sladky

With Democrats pushing through their universal background check bill, H.R. 8, they appear convinced they’re passing legislation that matters. They’ve couched their rhetoric in the drapings of working to combat mass shootings.

However, in an op-ed, Congressman Richard Hudson (R-NC) disagrees.

We all share the same goal to end gun violence in this country. But in the course of this debate, House Democrats say they want to “do something” to end gun violence and anyone who disagrees with their policies doesn’t care. That’s simply not true.

I know that in my heart that folks on both sides of the aisle care about the victims of gun violence and the children in this country.

It’s a shame that in their rush to “do something”– anything – Democrats have made this critical debate a partisan show. Last week, my Democrat colleagues rushed to pass two partisan pieces of legislation that would have done nothing to stop some of the most prominent mass shootings in recent memory. H.R. 8 would not have stopped Newtown. H.R. 8 would not have stopped Parkland. It would not have stopped Las Vegas, or Sutherland Springs, or San Bernardino or many other tragedies. But the proponents of …Read the Rest

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