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DEMOCRATS SIT-IN ON HOUSE FLOOR FOR GUN CONTROL

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They didn't get their way, so they're going to literally sit and whine about it, or, as Reason pointed out up front in this article's title, "Democrats sit-in for Secret Lists and Maybe Even a Police State":

Details are scarce. Vox.com reports that House Democrats would like to force a vote the way Senate Democrats did through a filibuster. The Senate voted on four gun bills on Monday night, with all four failing. The most egregious wanted to deny the right to bear arms for anyone who was put on the federal government's terror watch list, a list the federal government can put any American on without even the pretext of due process.

But there do not appear to be any bills similar to the ones in the Senate that have actually been submitted to the House. I called the DC office of Rep. Lewis to ask for which legislation the sit-in was intended but was told there was no "specific" legislation but rather a push to get some kind of vote. After asking a follow-up, the person who picked up the phone told me he did not speak for the office and gave me the contact information for Lewis' communications director, who has not responded*.

We had a vote, and all four gun control bills were shot down. That's how Congress works. Do these people not realize how their own jobs are supposed to work? (That last question was actually rhetorical).

What a bunch of petulant toddlers… they're just going to force a vote? On what?


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