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Only "background checks" & “red flags”?? What meaningless horseshit!!

NOT ONE WORD about reinstating the assault weapons ban which worked well. Dems are the worst negotiators I’ve ever seen. Be bold or go home @SpeakerPelosi @RepJerryNadler
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@SpeakerPelosi @RepJerryNadler Only "background checks" & “red flags”?? What meaningless horseshit!!

NOT ONE WORD about reinstating the assault weapons ban which worked well. Dems are the worst negotiators I’ve ever seen. Be bold or go home @SpeakerPelosi @RepJerryNadler
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@SpeakerPelosi @RepJerryNadler Any idiot knows you start negotiations by scaring the shit out of Republicans that you will make the case to the public & get the assault weapons ban reinstated. You don't ask them what minimal fixes they will support. #BeBoldOrGoHome @SpeakerPelosi
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"We should soundly reject language coming out of the mouths of any of our leaders that feeds a climate of fear & hatred & normalizes racist sentiment;...
...leaders who demonize those who don't look like us, or suggest that other people, including immigrants, threaten our way of life, or refer to other people as sub-human, or imply that America belongs to just one certain type of people."- @BarackObama, a real President
“Hate thy neighbor!” - @realDonaldTrump, an illegitimate President.
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CALIFORNIA;
Of your 46 Dem House Reps, 22 are afraid of #ImpeachmentInquiry. The only thing to fear is fear itself. Call & tell them: Do your job!

#CA05 @RepThompson 202-225-3311
#CA07 @RepBera 202-225-5716
#CA09 @RepMcNerney 202-225-1947
#CA10 @RepJoshHarder 202-225-4540
CALIFORNIA;
Of your 46 Dem House Reps, 22 are afraid of #ImpeachmentInquiry. The only thing to fear is fear itself. Call & tell them: Do your job!

#CA12 @SpeakerPelosi 202-225-4965
#CA16 @RepJimCosta 202-225-3341
#CA17 @RepRoKhanna 202-225-2631
#CA18 @RepAnnaEshoo 202-225-8104
CALIFORNIA;
Of your 46 Dem House Reps, 22 are afraid of #ImpeachmentInquiry. The only thing to fear is fear itself. Call & tell them:Do your job!

#CA19 @RepZoeLofgren 202-225-3072
#CA20 @RepJimmyPanetta 202-225-2861
#CA21 @RepTJCox 202-225-4695
#CA24 @RepCarbajal 202-225-3601
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Puesto Loco™
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“To argue—like @SpeakerPelosi—that one first needs to assemble all possible facts before proceeding, is to profoundly misunderstand the nature of impeachment. An impeachment inquiry is the constitutional mechanism for doing this work, not its outcome”
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Building the "strongest possible case" is what an #ImpeachmentInquiry is for. In Oct, 1973 Judiciary Chair Rodino hired an “inquiry” staff of 100, including 44 lawyers to gather evidence. Committee didn't meet to discuss it until Feb, 1974.
“Nadler countered Pelosi's pushback by noting that polls showed limited support for removing Nixon from office when the House began impeachment hearings in 1973, but that public support for the effort grew as more evidence came out about his behavior.”
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John Hayward
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The big underlying problem with the mania for "background checks" and "red flags" is that the dataset of mass shooters is so tiny (thank God!) that meaningful inferences are hard to draw. Every attribute displayed by any of them is also displayed by countless harmless people.
This is true even if you factor in the vastly larger number of mass shooters the media prefers to ignore because they're not politically useful. Unfortunately, the hunger for a placebo is overwhelming at the moment - Something Must Be Done.
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Christopher Ingraham
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One of the more pernicious ideas permeating policy discussions is the notion that because Policy X won't completely solve Problem Y, there's no point in doing it.
You see this all the time in gun policy discussions.
"Shutting down 8chan wouldn't have stopped the shooter."
"A background check wouldn't have stopped the shooter."
"An assault weapons ban wouldn't have stopped the shooter."
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EDMOND, Okla. — The six Democratic candidates in #OK05 will take part in their first — and likely only — debate, beginning in a few minutes.
Organizers with the Edmond Democratic Women were expecting all six candidates to be here but Leona Kelley-Leonard is not. After some discussion, organizers have opted to begin the forum without her. There are about 75 people in attendance. #EDWForum
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@PaulSchmehl
Well, since you’re willing to discuss this in a civil manner, let me inform you. This will be a series of tweets that hopefully will educate you as to what’s really going on.

Charles Krauthammer (columnist), Disarm the Citizenry. But Not Yet, Washington Post, Apr. 5, 1996
We're going to have to take one step at a time, and the first step is necessarily -- given the political realities -- going to be very modest. . . .  [W]e'll have to start working again to strengthen that law, and then again to strengthen the next law, and maybe again and again.
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THREAD: Hey Shareblue Liberals, Stop Scapegoating Bernie Sanders for the Democratic Party’s Pathetic Failure to Pass Gun Control.

#MarchForOurLives
I know, its trendy these days for liberal pundits & beltway insiders to spin tidy little narratives shifting blame for the systemic problems we face to the feet of a single person;

Woah, America is Racist now: TRUMP

Mass Deportations: TRUMP

Ignoring Climate Change: TRUMP
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