Republicans pass school safety. Gun control to come later

So the House of Representatives has passed a School Safety Bill apparently without the Fix NICS portion. But also without Concealed Carry Reciprocity. So the Democrats have won since I don't think they really wanted to pass gun control so much as prevent the passage of Concealed Carry Reciprocity.

But don't start celebrating just yet.  According to National Review's Mairead McArdle:

Senator Orrin Hatch (R., Utah) has proposed a similar bill pending in the upper chamber. Republicans are waiting on an actual gun-control bill until they are sure the Senate can pass it, however.

You can depend on the Republicans (read Stupid Party) to sell out the base every time. And retiring Republicans are the worst kind, because they no longer have to pretend to push for their constituents, they can no become full on elitists. After all, who else are we gonna vote for?

They don't seem to take into account that we don't have to vote for the Democrap...er...I mean Democrat, that we can withhold our vote and ensure they don't get re-elected.  There are other measures we can take such as running another candidate against the Republican sellouts.

Here's the truth:  If reducing crimes, including school shootings, is the purpose, then gun control is emphatically NOT the solution.  NICS doesn't stop people from getting guns, and closing the supposed loopholes in NICS will not do anymore.  Oh, of course it will keep many people from obtaining guns LEGALLY, but nothing that stop them from obtaining them ILLEGALLY.  After all, people obtain illegal drugs all the time.  Banning certain guns, or even banning them all will also not stop crime.  Nor will making the manufacture of guns illegal help.  Why?  Because just as drugs can be smuggled into the country, so can guns, and since we are talking about illegal, why not grenade launchers, rocket launchers and other heavy duty weapons that figure so prominently in Hollywood movies, but never in real life.  Indeed, I can not think of a single gun control proposal that has been advanced over the last 45 years that would have solved, or even helped reduce the gun crime problem.

So, if gun control doesn't reduce crimes, what can be the purpose of it?  There is a sizable population of people in this country who believe that Marxism in some form is a better way of life than the form embedded in our Constitution.  Living a life of freedom and individual responsibility is more demanding that life where everything is decided for you.  In our Constitutional system, you can not blame anybody for your failures but yourself.  Too many want instead to find scapegoats in amorphous society. These are the people that totalitarian wannabes like Chuck Shumer manipulate with the help of billionaires like George Soros and Michael Bloomberg.  The totalitarian Left wants to take away your guns so they can impose even more drastic controls than they already do.  Their target is not the criminals but the law abiding.  For it is only those who try obeying the law that will be impacted by gun control.

And the Republicans?  I suspect they just want to keep their places at the table.  They don't care about yoou and me, They don't care about our ability to defend ourselves from the thugs they keep sending out to commit more crimes.  And they certainly don't care about the Constitution.  That is the unfortunate thing.