Marie Gluesenkemp Perez, Washington representative from District 3 who narrowly won her seat by a thin 1% margin against Joe Kent, recently voted against legislation that would repeal President Joe Biden’s pistol brace ban.
Before summarizing the passing of House Joint resolution 44 and why it is important, here is some additional information.
Congressional resolutions are the least attractive types of news anyone addicted to television can come across. When looking up and reading text, there is no footage from a helicopter flying over a crime scene. There are no flashing lights, no sound bytes from bystanders crying over an injured or lost loved one. When many tune in to watch TV news, the emotion of a tragic event is there to indulge in with the appropriate neuro-chemical shock supplied by sound bytes and serious imagery.
And hence, this is how most citizens who watch news experience the violence reported on weekly in Democrat run cities. Often involving gangs, heists, and drugs in gun-controlled zones and neighborhoods where coincidentally police have also been defunded heavily. To the unsuspecting mainstream news viewer, this shapes and pushes the “gun” as the problem. It is a constant drumbeat.
The result of this coordination of real crime events and skillfully produced mainstream news? A percentage of the population is now absolutely certain that removing the citizen’s access to firearms will improve the problem.
So that is why we also have poorly formed ideas on the role of government on this matter: TV news reporting on gun violence minus necessary factual context. Tighter gun control laws are passed by Democrat majorities sold as an easy fix. What uninformed, low information voters do not realize is gun control is the low hanging fruit, used as bait.
Fortunately, there are representatives in Congress who understand the end game behind the movement to regulate guns and are diligently working to protect our Second Amendment rights. Our Constitution provides the people the legal outline in how to constantly refine or even eliminate laws that are harmful (and unconstitutional) to the citizenry.
One such opportunity to refine and correct is House Joint resolution 44: Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives relating to “Factoring Criteria for Firearms with Attached ‘Stabilizing Braces.’”
The stabilizing brace for hand guns gives elderly and veterans with injuries an assistive add-on to their firearm that actually helps them defend themselves, their loved ones, and homes from the increasing crime in Democrat run cities.
The text of the resolution goes on to say, “Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that Congress disapproves the rule submitted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives relating to “Factoring Criteria for Firearms with Attached ‘Stabilizing Braces’” (ATF final rule 2021R–08F), and such rule shall have no force or effect. Passed the House of Representatives June 13, 2023.”
Matt Garland,
Battle Ground
