Senator Ron Johnson should be in jail. He wanted to hand-deliver fake electors votes to Mike Pence. That’s something I didn’t know. Good job Jan 6th hearings.
Senate negotiators reached a bipartisan gun safety bill to take firearms away from dangerous people and provide billions of dollars in new mental health and ER/Trauma units in schools.
The bill does not ban assault-style rifles or high-capacity magazines or significantly expand background-check requirements for gun purchases. Oh well. All hail glorious bipartisanship. Here is Coons on twitter:
Progress. After years working to address the scourge of gun violence in America, we now have a bipartisan bill that I believe will save help lives. I hope my colleagues will join me in voting for and swiftly enacting this important step forward into law.
It still needs to pass. We’ll see. In the meantime let’s cheer this as the thin edge of the wedge and a first step to taking away all guns from everybody. If this bill does nothing and goes nowhere, at least that will annoy the fuck out of the right people.