Nothing Happened. That's the Problem.

What happened? Why did Republican-controlled Congress fail to fulfill one of President Trump’s signature campaign promises? [More]

"One"?

Anybody see a wall?

Why are national reciprocity and hearing protection dying on the vine? I might ask how many gun owners put continuous heat on their representatives and senators. How many gave incentive to the worthy few with campaign support? Hell, a more cynical me might ask how many don't even know who their representatives or senators are, or how many disparage voting as the useless windmill tilting of "cucks," followed by an anonymous "Molon Labe!" display of keyboard commitment and valor.

I could also point to the GOP turncoats who still won. What incentive does that give them or the party to change? Or to those that lost because they doused any remaining fire in the bellies of a critical mass of constituents...

The Senate is the swamp. They won't make any substantive changes in the balance of power unless there's a credible "or else" attached to a demand. And the House is filled with the shell-shocked, many falling for the manipulative and ubiquitous lie that the elections were a rejection of "Trumpism," and that their continued survival depends on sounding and acting more like Democrats.

A more fundamental question comes to mind: What are these "permits" to be reciprocated of which everyone speaks? Anybody think that won't come back to bite them as Democrats take over more and more, "thanks" to the greatest threat facing gun owners that most don't even acknowledge, let alone do anything about except deny with non sequiturs or dismiss with the phony "single issue" argument?

Even without that, we're already on track for more due-process denying "red flag laws," a "bump stock" ban and more.  One more "gun-free zone" shooting with an "AR-15" after the Democrats take over the House and guess what's next.

[Via Dave Licht]