But passing a bill to allow silencers is actually on the table? Now? This week?
I'm guessing this won't pass because the public will rise up and smite them, but even during the coverage of the mass shooting in Vegas, Republicans were defending their bill to allow silencers to become legal. This little tidbit from this morning's Washington Post made the hair on the back of my neck stand up...
Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-S.C.), the bill’s sponsor, said in an interview Monday that the silencer provision would have had little bearing on the events in Las Vegas — pointing to media reports that the shooter may have had more than a dozen firearms, some of which may have been illegal.
“He’s already breaking the law shooting an automatic weapon that wasn’t registered, so what’s going to stop him, had he chosen to shoot a suppressed weapon, to do that?” Duncan said. “The thing is, and the thing he probably realized is, it doesn’t make any difference — it’s still loud.”
If it doesn't stop every killer in every situation then what's the point, am I right? The president's spokesperson also brought up the strict gun laws in Chicago, which I always point out is a stupid point. It's illegal in Chicago. It's not illegal in the rest of the state or in Indiana. That's why gun laws don't work here. It takes a ten minute car ride to score legal guns.
The rest of the world thinks we're crazy, and they are correct.
Jimmy Kimmel talks about the shooting in his home town of Vegas...
