GOP Rep. Spends House Hearing on Gun Violence Waving Around Guns Republicans Think Are More Important Than Children’s Lives

The House Judiciary Committee met Thursday to go through a package of gun control legislation that Democrats are hoping to pass (and which will of course be voted down in the Senate). How did the proceedings go? About exactly as everyone expected, if everyone expected House Republicans to trot out bad-faith arguments for why stricter gun laws won’t solve America’s mass-shooting problem, claim to deeply care about children despite robust evidence to the contrary, and, in the case of one elected official, brandish a bunch of actual guns in his colleague’s faces over a video chat. Yes, Florida representative Greg… Read Full Article