Schumer Calls For Trump To Cave On Guns Despite Impeachment Talk

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Posted September 30, 2019 8:30 am by Comments

By Tom Knighton

President Donald Trump was ready to roll on guns. We were expecting him to announce a deal any day and to watch the mechanism of government shift into gear. Here at Bearing Arms, we were standing by to write stories about various aspects of the deal, argue about whether they would work or not, and to cover the political debate.

I think everyone was pretty well convinced that Trump was going to push for some degree of gun control and both sides were readying for battle.

Then House Democrats got distracted by a shiny object called “impeachment.” They started in on trying to remove the president from office, thus negating any interest he had in working with them on much of anything, at least for now.

Sen. Chuck Schumer, however, thinks Trump should give Democrats precisely what they want despite the impeachment talk.

New York Sen. Chuck Schumer on Sunday challenged President Trump to “prove he still can govern” by working with Congress on enacting universal background checks even while undergoing an impeachment inquiry.

“The best way President Trump can prove that he still can govern is universal background checks,” Schumer said. “That’s where governing begins.”

The senator’s press conference came after House …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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