This week certainly had its fair share of political drama, and none was so pathetic as the Great Democratic House Sit-In of 2016.
Lawmakers sat on the House floor like Millennials searching for a safe space…in the name of what? Well, nothing, really. Zero was accomplished during their 26-hour “demonstration”. Nonetheless, we are supposed to think they are the brave ones. Guns are evil, or didn’t you know? Gun owners buy guns like the AR-15 to “do bad things”, as Senator Jean Shaheen asserted.
But what’s interesting about the epic sit-in is that the participants who stomped their feet this week consisted of more than two dozen gun owners. FOX News reports:
… it has emerged that 26 of those Democratic lawmakers are gun owners themselves.
Heat Street examined 2013 USA Today data on congressional firearm ownership, finding that in addition to the 26 gun owners, there were 12 more congressional Democrats who did not answer if they owned a firearm or not.
Here’s the full list of Democratic gun owners who participated in the sit-in:
Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick
Rep. Bennie Thompson
Rep. Dina Titus
Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger
Rep. Jared Huffman
Rep. Jim Cooper
Rep. Jim Costa
Rep. John Carney
Rep. John Garamendi
Rep. Keith Ellison
Rep. Mike Thompson
Rep. Peter DeFazio
Rep. Peter Welch
Rep. Rick Nolan
Rep. Ron Kind
Rep. Steve Cohen
Rep. Tim Ryan
Sen. Gary Peters
Sen. Harry Reid
Sen. Mark Warner
Sen. Martin Heinrich
Sen. Patrick Leahy
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse
Sen. Tammy Baldwin
Sen. Tim Kaine
Sen. Tom Carper
Where were these bold crusaders’ guns during the sit-in? Were they left at their residences with no supervision? Was anyone hurt by these weapons, which they would like us to believe have minds of their own?
We may never know.
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