For decades, federal gun safety legislation spurred by mass shootings has come and vanished in Washington despite pleas from victims, their families and poll after poll showing most Americans support some form of gun control.
Failures have been blamed on the National Rifle Association, fervent Second Amendment activists and opportunistic politicians fearful of offending the powerful gun lobbies and their gun-owning constituents.
Now, with a president in office who once succeeded in banning assault weapons, Democrats holding gavels in Congress, the NRA in financial shambles and the U.S. House disciplining a member who once claimed school shootings could be hoaxes, the political climate in Washington appears to be warming to doing more than talking about gun safety.
Authoritarianism in the form of Dems will silence you
Fox News’s Rupert Murdoch accepted an award this week and spoke to the problems his network faces. CNN and other Democrat media are attempting to destroy his network.
“For those of us in media, there’s a real challenge to confront: a wave of censorship that seeks to silence conversation, to stifle debate, to ultimately stop individuals and societies from realizing their potential. This rigidly enforced conformity, aided and abetted by so-called social media, is a straitjacket on sensibility. Too many people have fought too hard in too many places for freedom of speech to be suppressed by this awful woke orthodoxy.”
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