{"id":82785,"date":"2018-11-10T14:21:15","date_gmt":"2018-11-10T18:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=82785"},"modified":"2018-11-10T14:21:15","modified_gmt":"2018-11-10T18:21:15","slug":"democrats-plan-to-pursue-most-aggressive-gun-control-legislation-in-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=82785","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Plan to Pursue Most Aggressive Gun-Control Legislation in Decades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/gun-grabber-e1541873403722.jpg\" alt=\"gun grabbers\" \/> Georgia Democrat Lucy McBath, the highest-profile gun-control advocate on the ballot Tuesday, defeated GOP Rep. Karen Handel. Photo: DUSTIN CHAMBERS for The Wall Street Journal<br \/>\n<strong>Focus spurred by an incoming class of lawmakers with \u2018F\u2019 NRA ratings who campaigned on the issue.<\/strong><br \/>\nBy Reid J. Epstein<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Democrats say they will pass the most aggressive gun-control legislation in decades when they become the House majority in January, plans they renewed this week in the aftermath of a mass killing in a California bar.<\/p>\n<p>Their efforts will be spurred by an incoming class of pro-gun-control lawmakers who scored big in Tuesday\u2019s midterm elections, although any measure would likely meet stiff resistance in the GOP-controlled Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats ousted at least 15 House Republicans with \u201cA\u201d National Rifle Association ratings, while the candidates elected to replace them all scored an \u201cF\u201d NRA rating.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis new majority is not going to be afraid of our shadow,\u201d said Mike Thompson, a California Democrat who is chairman of the House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force. \u201cWe know that we\u2019ve been elected to do a job, and we\u2019re going to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Thompson, who represents a district in the Napa Valley north of San Francisco, said he plans to introduce legislation mandating universal background checks in the opening weeks of the new Congress.<\/p>\n<p>The gun-control movement\u2019s evolution was evident this week following news that a dozen people had been killed Thursday at a country music bar in Thousand Oaks, Calif.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here come the ghouls, dancing in the blood of innocents. But this should surprise no one, and they&#8217;re a couple things the gun grabbers will have to overcome- the Senate and the President.<\/p>\n<p>This is all show and bluster.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/democrats-plan-to-pursue-most-aggressive-gun-control-legislation-in-decades-1541791440\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a> but take your blood pressure meds first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia Democrat Lucy McBath, the highest-profile gun-control advocate on the ballot Tuesday, defeated GOP Rep. Karen &hellip; <a title=\"Democrats Plan to Pursue Most Aggressive Gun-Control Legislation in Decades\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=82785\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Democrats Plan to Pursue Most Aggressive Gun-Control Legislation in Decades<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-your-tax-dollars-at-work","category-gun-grabbing-fascists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}