Hard-charging Democrats’ strategy on gun control reflects limits of political change
By Mike DeBonis Mike DeBonis Congressional reporter covering the House of Representatives Email Bio Follow February 27 at 11:46 AM For six years, Rep. Mike Thompson’s job as House Democrats’ point man on combating gun violence amounted to stretches of obscurity punctuated by tragedy. As leader of the House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, he convened countless meetings of lawmakers, experts, advocates and victims, trying to build support for some kind — any kind — of gun control legislation.
” The politics began to shift in 2010, when the Republican midterm wave significantly thinned the ranks of moderate “blue dog” Democrats. A further shift came after the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre, in which a gunman killed 20 children and six adults and spurred some reliably pro-gun Democrats to split with the National Rifle Association for the first time.
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