House Democrats refused to let Steve Scalise testify at a gun violence hearing, knowing full well he would not toe the line to their agenda. The Daily Caller reports:
House Republican Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., said Wednesday that Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee refused to let him testify at a hearing on gun violence about his experience as a victim of the congressional baseball practice shooting two years ago. The move infuriated his fellow Republicans.
Scalise told Fox News that he found out over the weekend that Democrats had chosen not to allow his testimony at the hearing –“Preventing Gun Violence: A Call to Action” — something he said is a courtesy traditionally extended to any lawmaker who wishes to speak.
“I thought it outrageous that they want to try to silence this message, because in the end I’m still going to get my message out. They can’t silence this issue,” he said.
Scalise was shot and injured in June 2017. But despite his experience and perspective, he said that committee Democrats said he would not able to testify — although he could submit written testimony for the record, which he did.
This is a disgrace, and shows just how much Democrats are obsessed about their line of thinking.
He should hold a news conference and give his testimony to the public.
Right outside the hearing room, and stomp all over adam shiff – show up with a bull horn and play antifah games, shout shiftless down. Call them out. Better yet, identify, collect and bring as many people who have been saved by using a gun to fill the area and shout the Dems down. Make a scene and watch them scream. Get an accurate count. Make sure the NRA is not involved so that can;t be thrown out there. Don’t let them talk – turnabout is fair play. Let them cry about civility – then tell them to STFU.
We are going to have to get off our rearends and March at the capital for the communist Democrat Party to get our message if we’re gonna keep our guns, they plan on taking them up, thus bringing a shooting war.
So much for diversity of thought. When it comes to testimony before Democrat controlled committees there is censorship, their way or no way. Such hypocrites. Seems the swamp of self interest is deepest in the House of Representatives.
You hit the nail on the head….my thoughts exactly!
These Democrats are despicable. They do not want any reality to interfere with their feel-good, fantasy-world, politically motivated agenda. Unfortunately, we the people have to live in the real world, and the Democrats are threatening our safety by refusing to strengthen our Southern Border security and by restricting individual gun ownership. Democrats howled and fussed about the terrible crisis at the border until Trump proposed fixing the problem (build the wall), then Democrats decided there was no crisis. Democrats want to take away guns from private citizens, but all of them have armed security guards. What despicable, dangerous hypocrites these Democrats are!
You hit the nail on the head….my thoughts exactly!
A Department of Justice report shows that only seven percent of nearly 300,000 state and federal prisoners who possessed a firearm during their crime purchased the gun from a licensed firearm dealer.
• 10.1 percent obtained the gun by purchase or trade from a retail source. 7.5 percent from a gun store, 1.6 percent from a pawn shop, 0.4 percent from a flea market, and 0.8 percent from a gun show.
• 25.3 percent got the gun by purchasing, renting or borrowing it from a family friend, or receiving it as a gift.
• 43.2 percent obtained the firearm off the street or from an underground market source
The fact that about 90 percent of firearms possessed by prisoners during the commission of crimes were not purchased or traded at legal retail sources could be used to inform the debate over gun control efforts, which often target legal gun owners and purchasers by restricting the availability of guns from legal sources or by attempting to outlaw possession of certain types of guns.
The real agenda is to strip law abiding citizens of their 2nd amendment right, all through history Government gun confiscation leads to a tyrannical Government. Example HITLER.
AND Mao, AND Hugo Chavez, AND Lenin, and…and… and.
Athletes: Sporting Events are not the place to protest – that is your JOB for which you are well paid – rest of us would be fired in a second for similar behavior on the job.
• All of you received FREE College (no student loans), and most of you make more in a couple of seasons than your classmates do in their entire working life – so what is your problem
• Go to Chicago and other major inner-cities if you indeed want to make the difference – become a POSITIVE role model
Gun Violence – There are a lot of emotional arguments on both sides, so let’s break down the official numbers from the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention): New numbers are 38,000 deaths a year – 40,100 in car accidents (2017)
• 60% are suicides
• 33% are homicides – However 80% of them are gang related
• As we all know, it is not politically correct to discuss the prevailing Black-on-Black crime and Latin Gangs – Back population is 14%, however they represent more than 50% of the homicides
America does not have a gun problem. We have significant problems with education, culture, and socio-economics. How much does our culture of violence and lack of respect (self and authority) impact the younger generation
• Movies
• Video Games
Because of the impact of the Social Media, nobody dares to discuss any of these issues on a factual and rational basis – it is all based on the emotions and half-truths (or even total misinformation) – and when you combine that with 24/7 news cycle and sensationalized reporting, nothing meaningful gets resolved. It all depends where one gets their news – Facebook, Twitter etc.
Martin Luther King chastised his black community for nearly the same numbers of total crimes as you give above for homicides. He said that while they were 13% of the population, they committed (not were wrongly charged for) 50% of the crime.
The FBI stats match the % of homicides you have listed above.
Even with these numbers the Seattle Police Department was again chastised for “use of force” that was “disproportionally” against persons of color like it was all about discrimination. Folks you do not arrest elephants if the alligators do the crime. PC or not there are serious cultural problems in the black community that have nothing to do with their color–just their poverty, not only of money, but of culture itself.
Here’s the actual FBI stats: https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2016/crime-in-the-u.s.-2016/topic-pages/tables/table-21
It’s worse, though…black MALES are only 6.5% of the population, and commit 52.6% of all murders.
If it starts with a ‘D’ and is crooked, it’s bound to be the democrat party!!!
This is the way the DemocRATS do when they are in charge. Silence the opposition.
Guns are inanimate objects not capable of violence. Criminals are violent with whatever instrument they decide to use. We do not have a gun violence problem. We do have a criminal violence problem. Control criminals and what some see as “gun violence” disappears.
That is very well stated and 100% correct.
..control demorats- and most criminals disappear
100% correct.
All of you Anti-Gun Democrats better watch out for what you wish for because if America is ever invaded and we are Un-Armed the military may need all of us Americans to back them up and if we are all Un-Armed we would lose to either the Russians or the Chinees. The Second Amendment is the Back-up plane for the protection of all of the American Citizens as well as the Military. If you Democrats take away our 2nd Amendment rights we will not be there to save you.
Their all eating Ocrazio tarts in the house
while the socialist farts slip out.
Great
Old adage that the Democrats now in control of The House should remember. What goes around, comes around.
They will not. Politicians have even shorter memories than the people who hire them. The mere fact that they are discussing gun violence – liberal-speak for gun control – says they have forgotten the chainsaw massacres of 1994.