I haven’t seen one person say that everything should stay the same after the Uvalde, Texas, mass shooting that took the lives of young children. Everyone wants to have some sort of change, and it’s definitely time for that change. The surface began to show solutions, which are both achievable and realistic.
The cacophony of “do something” was heard by Republicans. My colleague Jeff Charles shared that they quickly codified the Federal School Safety Clearinghouse into law. It’s a database of information established by the Trump administration that provides faculty, parents, and students resources on how to improve school safety, and comes with grants from both federal and state governments to make these changes happen.
The decision to report as Charles Schumer, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer was no surprise.
After Johnson requested unanimous consent, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D.NY) rejected the proposal. “Hardening schools would’ve done nothing to prevent this shooting. In fact, there were guards and police officers already at the school yesterday when the shooter showed up,” Schumer insisted. “More guns won’t protect our children.”
It’s a blatantly dishonest take seeing as how codifying the program doesn’t necessarily add more guns, it adds resources for schools to improve safety measures within the school in a myriad of ways, especially for low-income schools.
Schumer decided to put the bill alongside the Democrat’s proposed “Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act” under the full knowledge that Republicans would never vote for it. When Republicans didn’t vote for it he could then say that it’s Republicans who are actually at fault for nothing being done.
But there’s a reason Republicans didn’t vote for this act, and it’s because Schumer’s bill is just the “Disinformation Governance Board” 2.0. According to The Hill, Missouri senator Josh Hawley said it very well.
GOP uses the proposal to compare the establishment of offices at the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice to combat domestic terrorist acts to the disinformation board that was recently suspended by the Biden administration.
“It sounds terrible,” Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) of the House-passed bill, predicting it won’t get 10 Republicans in the Senate.
“It’s like the disinformation board on steroids. Another way to look at is the Patriot Act for American citizens,” he added, referring to the law passed immediately after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that expanded the government’s power to monitor phone and email conversations and collect bank records.
Schumer and Democrats play politics. More lives are at stake for each game they play. Although schools can be strengthened and made safer, Democrats are more busy giving media talks to create the impression that Republicans oppose efforts to make this country safer.
They aren’t. Democrats are trying to Trojan Horse their ridiculous ministry of truth and Republicans aren’t having it. If they made the public aware of the real intent behind the Democrats’ actions, then the majority would be against it. But their media pals will keep the truth from them. Instead, they’ll serve up the narrative that Republicans don’t care about the people, and sadly many will buy it.
Democrats feel desperate as the midterms approach. So desperate, in fact, that they’ll happily toss real solutions that keep children safer out in order to create a flimsy talking point.
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