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Kabuki for the cameras. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) On Wednesday, the U.S. House of Representatives voted on a raft of gun control proposals, narrowly passing them all, mostly along party lines . Anyone with any knowledge of the U.S. political system knows that these bills will be effectively dead on arrival in the Senate, and have just about zero chance of becoming law. Well, most of them.
While the reasons for passing these bills are complex, the main motivation is that Democrats, who narrowly control the House, want something they can take home and use in a re-election fight this year. So, if you think about it, the whole thing was an exercise on virtue signaling meant to gather support from people who largely already agree with these policies. None of this was meant to make any real impact on “gun violence.”
Another thing Wednesday’s votes did was expose what the Democrat coalition really is. The Democrat party ostensibly stands for the social rights of women, racial minorities, the LGBT community, and other groups who historically didn’t get a fair shake. They like to tell us that they stand against things that would be harmful to those groups, and expect their votes in return. They want us to think that they’re utterly opposed to government policies and law enforcement actions that disproportionately affect marginalized groups. But gun control doesn’t fit that narrative. We don’t have to go all the way back to Jim Crow (the origin of most U.S. gun laws) to show that gun control hurts the very people Democrats claim they stand for. We can start with modern laws that are portrayed as “fair” on the surface. Take, for instance, the NICS background check system . . . I’m concerned the NICS background check for gun purchases produces a disproportionate […]
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