The gun debate is a mess and Trump isn't helping

[pbmus]

No one knows what, if anything, Congress is going to be able to do on guns. If there was tepid optimism going into the week that the Senate would be able to quickly pass a bipartisan, NRA-backed bill that strengthens the existing background check system, it was quickly replaced by the chaos that now erupts every time Congress tries to address something difficult.

Between the lines: The confusion and lack of a clear direction on the Hill mirrors the White House. President Trump has been all over the place since the Parkland shooting, and congressional Republicans are either not taking him seriously or unwilling to embrace many of the gun control policies he's floated.

https://www.axios.com/the-gun-debate-is-a-mess-and-trump-1519691662-0febde4c-038d-47d5-8589-455ca723427f.html

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Honestly,did you expect

anything of substance from the Orange Idiot? The Coward in Chief is in this for the money and Fame and nothing else.

[gratuitous]

2. Keep the pressure on

This is a marathon, not a sprint. The NRA and the GOA didn't get themselves entrenched in Congress overnight, and getting these blood-thirsty maniacs out of the corridors of power isn't going to happen all at once, either.

When "safe" Congress critters start losing elections because of their blind fealty to the death merchants, the rest of them will get the message.