Impeachment Mess Only Short-Term Disruption To House’s Gun Grab

By Tom Knighton

The Democrat-controlled House has pushed a lot of gun control since they took office last year. None of it goes anywhere because the Senate has no interesting pretty much any of it, but they keep pushing it.

Yet the month of August saw four high-profile mass shootings, three of which were all within a single week (Gilroy, El Paso, and Dayton). It shifted things around so much that it looked like at least some gun control measures were going to pass. We already knew the House was willing, but President Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell seemed willing as well. It was all but a done deal.

Then the talk of impeachment reared its head again and sidelined all of that. After all, why should Trump work with people who were actively trying to remove him from office?

Well, Nancy Pelosi wants to make it clear that they’re not backing down on gun control in the least.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in brief remarks alongside Rep. Adam Schiff, told reporters that Democrats were bound and determined to pass gun control legislation, regardless of how long it takes, regardless of what else is taking place in the political world, regardless …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms