First of all, why are Democrats pushing common-sense gun legislation they know Republicans will block?
To put Republicans on record as opposing it, of course. After all, this is an election year, and voters have a right to know what they’re voting for.
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX; photo at right) doesn’t like that. He said, “I don’t think that it’s very effective for the children to have people on the other side of the aisle come in and accuse Republicans of being complicit in murder and that we put our right to kill over others’ right to live.”
I gather the Democrats didn’t actually say that, in those exact words, because he added, “to infer by rhetorical supposed questions, who are you here for, we must be here for the gunman, is an outrage.”
“How dare you. You think we don’t have hearts?” he added. Well, that is the mother of rhetorical questions.
So let’s try to answer it: No.