Impeachment inquiry possibly interfering with gun control

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Impeachment inquiry possibly interfering with gun control

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Unfortunity the interference is only temporary, as anti gunners continue to push their deception that gun control laws are the answer to gun crime.

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LAS VEGAS — After back-to-back mass shootings in Ohio and Texas this summer, gun control burst back on the scene as a major political issue for Democrats. Now it risks taking a back seat as impeachment fever overtakes Washington.

Gun control advocates are determined to prevent that from happening.

Ten White House hopefuls will be in Las Vegas for a forum on gun policy on Wednesday, almost two years to the day after a gunman killed 58 people at a country music festival on the Las Vegas Strip in the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history. The event is being hosted by MSNBC, March for Our Lives and Giffords, the advocacy organization set up by former Arizona congresswoman Gabby Giffords, who was shot and gravely wounded during a constituent meeting in 2011.


The forum is an effort to keep gun violence front and center of the debate and gives 2020 presidential candidates a chance to showcase their plans to combat the epidemic. Polls show that a majority of Americans favor stricter gun laws, while even more support specific proposals like universal background checks. But negotiations between President Donald Trump's administration and lawmakers have halted over background checks legislation, an effort that faced long odds even before the impeachment inquiry began.

"Impeachment sucks everything out of the room. Certainly it's the focus of Trump's attention," said Jack Citrin, a professor emeritus of political science at the University of California-Berkeley. "If you need to reach some kind of bipartisan agreement and one party is determined to throw the president out of office, rightly or wrongly, it's a little hard to see how that builds the kind of goodwill that's necessary on this or any other issue."
and this is the kind of nonsense being taught in higher education. :( Yes you could "make the argument that" just as you could argue anything, but it's not a high crime or misdemeanor.
One expert said he doesn't see a downside for O'Rourke or any of his fellow presidential candidates to talk about impeachment alongside other issues like gun control.

"If (O'Rourke) is pointing out that because of impeachment, the president has decided not to work at all on an issue that involves people's lives, he could make the argument if he wanted that this is itself an impeachable offense," said Michael Green, a history professor at the University of Las Vegas-Nevada focused on state and national politics. "If you are trying to get your base, your base probably does not mind the idea of impeachment."
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Re: Impeachment inquiry possibly interfering with gun contro

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Would it surprise anyone if they sneak in some compromise bill during all the Ukraine noise? Perhaps marking a cessation of hostilities?
During separate comments that were made at a reception in New York City after the United Nations General Assembly, Trump also made clear that he was on a war footing.
“We’re at war. These people are sick, they’re sick and nobody’s called it out like I do. I don’t understand, people are afraid to call it out, they are afraid to say that the press is crooked, we have a crooked press, we have a dishonest media,” said Trump.
He's trying so HARD to Other the Stateists. Trying to flip the Mentally Unfit Eugenics card on them. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. Are we not entertained by this WWE 24-hour main event?
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