“There’s blood on the hands of members of Congress who are going to do nothing again,” says ChrisMurphyCT. “Even if a law can’t stop every murder, the moral signal that we’re sending by passing something significant has an effect in and of itself”
Contemplating the landscape after the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, and their powerlessness, the mood among Congressional Democrats is bleak. “Everyone I’ve talked to feels pretty low,” a Democratic congressional staffer told me. Without a shift in power in the Senate and a new president in the Oval Office, this person added, “Nothing will ever change.
The goal, sources explained, is to highlight the proud Kentucky obstructionist’s inaction. “If the Senate is not willing to take up something that has 90% approval among the American people, then we are not going to make progress with this Senate. So this is a test, will they take this up?” Congressmantold me. “I look at background checks as like the floor.
After the caucus call on Monday afternoon, Pelosi wrote in a Dear Colleague letter, “The House stands ready to return to pass legislation, if the Senate sends us back an amended bipartisan bill or if other legislation is ready for House action.… Public sentiment is in favor of gun violence prevention. The American people must weigh in with the Congress and the President,” she wrote.
“Senator McConnell doesn‘t want the gun debate on the floor of the Senate because he knows his members will be put between their constituents and the weakening gun lobby. And the gun lobby and the Republican Party have been intertwined and intermingled for decades. It’s a long process to untie the Republican Party from the gun lobby,” Murphy said. “Instinctively, many Republicans know that it's a horrible long-term political bet for them to remain blindly loyal to the gun lobby.
Still, lacking presidential buy-in or pressure, with McConnell running things in the Senate, any bills that might clear the Democratic-led House would likely be dead on arrival in the upper chamber and would amount to little more than a messaging tactic. With 2020 looming and the Senate majority being the lynchpin in any Democratic plan to govern effectively post-Trump, however, there is an argument that it would be worth it.
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