Some nonsense from The Hill:
“Democratic gun reformers are giving President Obama a pass as they push support for tougher gun laws …”
Like they have a choice in the matter. It is blindingly obvious that there aren’t the votes in either the House or Senate to pass anything on the antis agenda. Advocates even admit that in the article:
“… [Rep. Mike Quigley] is quick to note that there hasn’t been a single House hearing on guns since he arrived on Capitol Hill more than three years ago. Indeed, when he requested such a hearing in the last Congress when Democrats controlled the chamber, party leaders rebuffed him. “I never thought the issue would get to this point where we can’t even have a conversation,” he said …”
So, how exactly are the antis giving Obama a pass on the issue? That makes it sound as if the antis have a lot more power than they really do and are doing the President a favor by letting him slide so he can focus on other things:
“… Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-N.Y.), Congress’s loudest voice for tougher gun laws, also declined to poke Obama on the issue, suggesting the president is focused on things like the economy that resonate with a much greater number of voters. “I do believe the President of the United States … believes in what we believe in,” she said this week. “But there are other things that, right now, [are] on everybody else’s plate.” …”
What crap. They just cannot admit that the gun control is a fringe issue and that there isn’t the political will to move the agenda.
They have a paranoid obsession that certain inanimate objects are inherently evil, and therefore must be utterly banned with the strictest laws and the most draconian enforcement possible. Yet, they call themselves “Liberals”, for some unknown reason, and are ever astonished that their neurotic-bordering-on-psychotic view puts them on the political fringe. They’ve been out of touch with reality.