(#4891) The Senate passed an incremental gun bill last night

      Yesterday was different in one way, the Senate passed this modest gun reform bill with all 50 democrats and 15 republican votes yes votes, which means that 35 republican senators voted no or didn't vote. Now it isn't anything to trumpet to the world about but it is a small step in the correct direction. Small by all means, but it some particular instances it will save some lives. That is the key, saving lives. I and so many others like me had hoped for a more expansive gun bill that had far more restrictions to ownership but again republicans are not going against their donors on this.
     Today, actually right now, a set of procedural votes in the House is taking place to get to a final vote later today to pass the Senate bill in the House and get it to Joe Biden's desk for his signature. From what it looks like right now in the early voting on procedures the House republicans are voting no on the bill which is what their leadership, such as it may be called, had asked them to do. It is insane to me, much like the conservative not supreme court ruling on New York and it's gun law from yesterday, that anyone would be against this very watered down bill to help stop mass shootings in our public at large.
     There has to be a reckoning on the political spectrum for those who keep obstructing common sense and logically reasoned solutions to our problems here in US of A. Now I see that the conservative not supreme court has overturned Roe v. Wade. This conservative court and the republicans in Congress must be held to account for their willful destruction of life and liberty through a strategy of undermining democracy. As we saw yesterday in the House Committee on the attack on our Capitol, the republican party is moving full bore to destroy our democracy while using what is left of it to consolidate power. I am just so determined now to do everything in my power to end the rule of republicans as best I can and hopefully the rest of we patriots to democracy will do as well.