The latest: Republicans remove detectors installed outside House floor after Jan. 6

[ificandream]

Last edited Tue Jan 3, 2023, 02:50 PM - Edit history (1)

Source: Washington Post/By Eugene Scott

Republican officials have removed the metal detectors that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) had installed after the Jan 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Metal detectors were put in place outside the House floor after a violent mob entered the U.S. Capitol — with many of them carrying weapons — to overturn the 2020 presidential election. All lawmakers and staffers were required to walk through the metal detectors before entering the House chamber.

Guns and other weapons were already banned from the chamber, but many Democrats were concerned about their safety and possible links between GOP lawmakers and staffers with those who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6.

Some Democrats were already anxious about the potential for guns on the House floor after Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo..) campaigned promising to remain armed as she worked on Capitol Hill. And former congressman Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) told a local paper after the attack that he had been armed when protesters stormed the Capitol.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/01/03/speaker-house-vote-mccarthy-new-congress/#link-K6DKUOJLZJBZPL2SHU3FC3NYJA

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They're fucking nuts. What's the point of this?

UPDATE: Is open carry even legal in D.C.?

[electric_blue68]

1. Damn Asshats!

[Lonestarblue]

2. Kowtowing to their gun crazy constituents.

[uncle ray]

6. I got a shiny nickel that says guns are still banned from the gallery

Rules for thee...

Edit, I should have said detectors still in place.

[bottomofthehill]

32. you are correct, they are.

[DBoon]

34. or a wink and a nod to any armed insurrectionists out there

[Bayard]

3. Step forward, MTG

This is all about you.

[Bev54]

4. Who makes that decision when there is no elected speaker?

And therefore their new members are not sworn in

[bluestarone]

10. My question as well.

[Quakerfriend]

30. Shouldn't Capital Police or Homeland Security

make these decisions?

[bottomofthehill]

31. House Rules

In the 117 Congress, the House Rules required screening. The Senate never put this rule in place, 1 building, 2 sets of rulers. When the 117 Congress ended, today at noon, the Rules for that Congress ended. The Republicans will not add that to their rule package in the beginning of the 118 Congress.

[Bev54]

33. Thanks for the explanation

[Marthe48]

5. Just to own the libs

They are nuts, they are stupid, they are dangerous and running amok.

[PatSeg]

17. Exactly

They make a childish game out of everything.

[Kennah]

7. GOOP House Speaker wannabes should settle this with trial by combat

[LudwigPastorius]

25. "twelve hundred Quatloos on the mouth breathers"

[SouthernDem4ever]

39. 1400 hundred!

LOL

[bucolic_frolic]

8. The point? Intimidation ./nt

[RussBLib]

14. most likely

they want to remind the Dems that they will fucking shoot them if the Dems get "too crazy"

Or they think they will look even better to their loony supporters.

[IronLionZion]

9. Are they planning to shoot each other?

[Mr. Evil]

11. Maybe,

in a fleeting sense of impending glory, Gaetz will shoot off his wee pee pee.

[DBoon]

35. it is still a bigger target than his brain

[dchill]

12. Feckless, reckless, violent jackals.

[cactusfractal]

13. It would be cool if...

...someone walked in and gave Republicans some late, high velocity Christmas presents?

Note that this message only refers to Christmas presents, so panties previously bunched can now be made less bunchy.

[Mawspam2]

43. Like snowballs...

...just to prove that 'global warming' is a myth.

[Richard D]

15. Starting a betting pool . . .

. . . how long till boebert or mtg shoot someone on the house floor?

[GenThePerservering]

16. It's just cheap political theatre

an eye roll is about all it merits.

[iluvtennis]

18. Rethugs taking away security measures at House chamber - What kind of sh*t is that?

[NullTuples]

19. Next step will be to un-ban guns from the chamber...

Enough of them want to be seen on TV openly carrying, it wouldn't surprise me if they started allowing gun on the floor. The trick from their point of view is to not allow them in the building via the entrances the public usually utilizes. Rules for thee, and all that...

[EnergizedLib]

20. Question

*If* Jefferies we’re to become Speaker, can he restore them, or would we have to wait until the next time we have the majority?

[randr]

21. No brainer where this will lead to

[hadEnuf]

22. Republicans know that a lunatic with a gun who gets in will likely not be looking for them.

And I think that's what they want. Hell, they've probably invited some lunatics already.

[Cha]

23. The Point is to show they're

Authoritarian ASSHOLES.

[LaMouffette]

24. The Democratic Representatives should bring in their own personal, armed security guards.

[twodogsbarking]

26. Did they give up trying to hang Mike Pence?

[Randomthought]

27. What next? Duels?

Old west style shoot outs?

[Joinfortmill]

28. We're in a dangerous place. All Jan 6ers must be indicted

[chowder66]

29. They know they are safe because they feed their trolls and direct them on where to attack.

[live love laugh]

36. "What's the point of this?" Terrorism.

[Martin68]

37. We can only hope that the the person shot is a GOP Representative.

[Rebl2]

38. No surprise there

Dangerous though for themselves and others

[SouthernDem4ever]

40. boebert and green are just inviting their stalkers in

by removing those detectors.

[OverBurn]

41. Maybe one of the idiot repukes will accidentally shoot their leg or something.

[Rhiannon12866]

42. In case there's another insurrection??

[Mawspam2]

44. Bet they put them back if Hakeem Jeffries...

...let it be known he was strappin'.