Chuck Schumer tells Dems in midterms two-step not to expect vote on guns; blue-checks are peeved

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Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) railed on the Senate floor Wednesday, demanding Republicans escape the embrace of the NRA while telling his fellow Democrats he would not put forth gun control measures after the Buffalo and Uvalde shootings because they wouldn’t get enough votes to pass.

Instead, he opted to wait for Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and other members of his caucus to negotiate a bipartisan compromise on a gun control measure that could muster 60 votes to avoid a filibuster. His base immediately turned on him for refusing to bring gun control bills to the floor. The blue-check crowd was incensed by it.

“There are some who want this body to quickly vote on sensible gun safety legislation, legislation supported by the vast majority of Americans,” Schumer proclaimed.”They want to see this body vote quickly so the American people can know which side each senator is on … I’m sympathetic to that, and I believe that accountability votes are important.”

He went on to blame Republicans stating that they would oppose gun control reforms, ranting about how they opposed proposals to expand background checks, ban assault-style weapons, and prohibit high-capacity magazines following the Sandy Hook massacre.

If the slaughter of schoolchildren can’t convince Republicans to buck the NRA, what can we do?” he asserted. “Sadly, this isn’t a case of the American people now knowing where their senators stand. They know. They know because my Republican colleagues are perfectly clear on this issue. Crystal clear.”

“Republicans don’t pretend that they support sensible gun safety legislation. They don’t pretend to be moved by the fact that 90 percent of Americans, regardless of party, support something as common sense as background checks, that the vast majority of gun owners support the background checks bill,” Schumer continued.


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In effect, the Democratic leader opted to use the issue as a GOTV measure.

“Americans can cast their vote in November for senators or members of Congress that reflect how he or she stands with guns,” he stated. “In the meantime, my Republican colleagues can work with us now. I know this is a slim prospect, very slim, all too slim. We’ve been burnt so many times before. But this is so important.”

“I have such a firm belief, taught to me by my late father … that if you do the right thing and persist, justice will eventually prevail. But you got to keep persisting, and we will,” Schumer vowed.

“Democrats have been trying to work hard with Republicans, Sen. Murphy, Sen. Manchin, on legislation that will eventually pass and become law,” he predicted. “The other side has refused. There are so many options available to us. So many ideas. We just need some brave Republicans to stand before history and yell stop.”

He grandstanded by stating that Americans are sick of mass shootings in an effort to push his gun control agenda and at one point went out of his way trying to shame Republicans by asking them what if it were their child who died in a mass shooting.

Predictably, anger poured in from the left over Schumer’s refusal to go after gun control by equivocating on the issue while muttering over the midterms:

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7 thoughts on “Chuck Schumer tells Dems in midterms two-step not to expect vote on guns; blue-checks are peeved

  1. If the freakin idiot democrats are against the second amendment, take the guns away from the armed security for Democrats.

  2. We already have background checks performed by the FBI on every legal gun purchase. If you Dimocrats are looking to blame someone before the investigation has even really started and have ALL the facts?
    Blame the FBI, after all they are the ones that performed the background check.the red flags were already evident on his social media..
    Here’s another wild concept? How about enforcing the gun laws already on the books?
    Those actually work, but, the dimocrats don’t want to use them because it’s racist. Or maybe because then you would have to prosecute a protected sitting presidents son
    Who lied on ATF application and acquired
    A gun.
    So, the cry of “Do Something!” Doesn’t wash
    More laws about common sense doesn’t wash. If they were honest? (Never Happen”
    Just come right out and say we don’t want anyone to own a gun, only the police and government should have guns. Then you can’t put a fight and you go gently into the night……right off to your reeducation camp

  3. We can afford $40B for Ukraine but we can’t afford a secure environment for our children. Democrat pukes think more laws are the answer. Last I checked, going on a shooting rampage is against the law. Laws don’t stop the crazy or the criminal.

  4. Would the crazed, angry left agree to take 5 billion of the approved Ukraine money (most of which has nothing to do with Ukrainian freedom) and divert it to hardening schools?

    Thought not.

  5. Well, gee. Every time I have bought a gun at my local gun store and after filling out the required paperwork I pay for the gun. I then go home and wait for a phone call from the gun shop telling me the BACKGROUND CHECK came back approved. I then go back to the gun shop and pick up my purchase.
    When the police take a criminal off the streets those criminals CANNOT and should not be let out of jail. Sometimes the same day. That is absolutely ludicrous.

  6. Hey, Schmuckles, for crying out loud, IT’S NOT THE NRA.. It’s your stupid regulations making schools, churches, etc., into “gun-free zones” where criminals know damned well there’s nobody going to be shooting back. You say we need more laws, how about enforcing the laws we have already? How about the next time you baboons in Congress make a law, how about you specify the penalties for violation, and not at the judge’s discretion.😡

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