Less than three weeks after the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, the gun debate in the United States is heading back to its usual place in American politics, the back burner.
“President Trump appears to be backing away from potential support for gun background check legislation, according to White House aides, congressional leaders and gun advocates”
On August 7 as he headed to El Paso and Dayton to witness first hand the carnage, Donald Trump mentioned
Meanwhile, this past Sunday Trump has changed his tune stating, “people don’t realize we have very strong background checks right now.”
Not that moving away from the gun debate or any debate relating to what happened in El Paso and Dayton — aside from video games, that’s just fucking stupid — is completely on Trump or exclusive to the current POTUS. Its how things are done in the United States with the top-down government control.
Take the GOP talking point of mental health. How many GOP lawmakers are willing to make mental health care more affordable and accessible to Americans? Probably not a whole lot, if any considering like the NRA, Big Pharma has a huge influence on politics when it comes to Washington.
And on that same token, Democrats shouldn’t get away with being compassionate in this sense either. I mean during the first round of democratic debates only Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and Bill de Blasio raised their hands and meant it when they said they would give up private insurance companies for a government-run program. Meanwhile, the rest on the stage (including Kamala Harris who tried to pull a fast one on the American voting public) are much more interested in appeasing the big pharmaceutical and insurance companies.
And as far as white supremacy goes… Donald Trump was much more interested in labeling anti-fascists as domestic terrorists than neo-fascists and white supremacists groups like the Proud Boys and American Guard.
Not to mention, Mitch McConnell was completely un interested to call the Senate back from their one of many yearly recesses to address any of these issues.
