Robert ReichResearchers have estimated that if we still had a federal assault weapons ban, we would see 70% fewer mass shooting deaths.
S-E-V-E-N-T-Y PERCENT.
Reinstating it should be a no-brainer.
Thelonious08One more obvious thing that Pelosi couldn't get done in 15 years in power.
calling her "the most effective speaker" is a sick joke.
Dingus Sr@thelonious08 @rbreich Wow, if only she'd have snapped her fingers and made it so.
People who don't understand how congress works make statements like the one you made.
People who do, don't.
It's very easy to make excuses.
People like you lower expectations so much
that our quality of life constantly declines.
Other House Speakers have gotten tons of shit done. Some have significantly changed our country according to their own desires.
Pelosi walks away having let the Cons win on every front for well over a decade.
After the House passed an assault weapons ban in July of 2022, what specifically should #Pelosi have done to push that through the Senate?
So you're saying she did something about this giant DEADLY problem 15 years after she became Leader?
That alone is proof that she's useless.
Oh so #Pelosi did something after all and now you want to move the goalposts and assert that it wasn't soon enough?
Just to recap: You replied to a general comment about reinstating the assault weapon ban by bashing #Pelosi specifically for not making it happen when a ban passed the house under her leadership.
15 years late
and you're bragging about that.
WOW. I've seen some pathetic excuse-making for Nancy, but you win the prize.
(also Pelosi *did* lots of stuff. She went to France. She toured Africa. She sipped wine in Napa. What I said was that she didn't get anything done. Zero accomplishments.)
but she's gone now.
You don't have to make excuses for her anymore.
Currently we have an urgent need to honestly address everything we did wrong in the last 15 years, and start doing the opposite.
Pelosi-style leadership utterly failed.
It's time for big change.