{"id":22171,"date":"2020-07-16T11:35:23","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T15:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=22171"},"modified":"2020-07-16T11:35:23","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T15:35:23","slug":"republican-political-theater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=22171","title":{"rendered":"Republican Political Theater"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Assembly Codes Committee<\/a> will meet tomorrow morning at 9:00am.<\/p>\n

In an annual event several of the (useless) Republicans<\/a> have asked their pro-gun bills be on the agenda for discussion: A-1755<\/a><\/strong>, A-2487<\/a><\/strong>, A-4428<\/a><\/strong>, A-4496<\/a><\/strong>, A-5376<\/a><\/strong> and A-5440<\/a><\/strong>. They’re not the least bit serious about any of them. This is nothing more than cheap political theater so that they can go home to their districts and say they’re standing up for 2A.<\/p>\n

If Republicans really wanted to stand up for the Second Amendment<\/a> there are two things they would be doing right now:<\/p>\n

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  1. Elected representatives and party officials would be all over in the media talking up the failure of the state’s gun control laws and demanding restoration of our civil rights and implementation of right-to-carry.<\/li>\n
  2. Assembly Republicans would make Motions for Discharge<\/em> on the chamber floor for their bills.\u00a0 This is an attempt to bypass Codes and bring bills up directly for a full house vote.\u00a0 This is what antigun advocates did for years in the Senate<\/a> when the Republicans<\/a> were in charge. It won’t work as the Democrat Majority<\/a> would vote along party lines to block it.\u00a0 What is would do is force the antis to publicly defend their position in the face of increased shootings across the state<\/a> and the obvious failure of Governor Cuomo’s SAFE Act<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Republicans won’t do either of these.\u00a0 While they may be personally pro-gun, they lack the intellectual and intestinal fortitude to defend their beliefs.\u00a0 If they cannot do that there is no reason to vote for them.<\/p>\n

    Committee proceedings will be streamed live here<\/a>.<\/p>\n