Senate Republicans blow off Trump's call for major gun legislation
Posted on AllSides March 1st, 2018
From The Left
Donald Trump on Wednesday: Let's do comprehensive gun law reform. Senate Republicans: Yeah, no. Not a chance. Though congressional Republicans were reasonably polite about what must have been a slow-rolling nightmare for them (“Did he just berate us for being afraid of the NRA? Did he just say he was open to an assault weapons ban? Did he just advocate police taking people’s guns without due process? What is even happening?”) they also made it clear that virtually none of what Trump called for has a snowball’s chance: