The idea that the Democrats are going to push for gun control after winning control of both chambers of Congress in the midterms is a forgone conclusion. We know it's going to happen, and we know what the wishlist is.
But, it's always nice to have confirmation.
And leave it to Rep. Jaimie Raskin to provide that confirmation.
The Baltimore Banner is reporting that Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-Maryland) is planning to push gun control measures if he is appointed to chair the House Judiciary Committee.
The Banner says Raskin acknowledged he would “try to close gun-sale loopholes,” and also look at legislation requiring background checks on private gun sales, same as they are now required for retail sales.
While he’s doing that, he hinted at pursuing the impeachment of President Donald Trump.
Many in the Second Amendment community contend that background checks amount to a form of gun registration. Raskin is well known for introducing permit-to-purchase legislation in 2025, which activists also believe is backdoor gun registration. It was the second time they tried to get the legislation passed.
The purchase permit would apply to handguns only, at least in the 2025 version.
Historically, Raskin has been a staunch anti-gunner, supporting universal background checks, bans on so-called “assault weapons,” and he has been endorsed by the gun prohibition lobby.
Nothing about this is surprising, but it's also a colossal mistake.
I don't say that just because I'm pro-gun and have my own internal biases. That might play something of a factor, but Raskin and his fellow Democrats are ignoring something important. They're ignoring why people turned out for Democrats in the first place.
See, the nation is divided three different ways. You have the Left, the Right, and everyone else. The battle is typically for those people in the middle, and those are also the same people who have been hurting financially for years now. They elected Trump, at least in part, to fix that after years of inflation under Biden. The Iran War has driven up gas prices, though, which drives up the cost of everything else since it's all on a truck at some point, and so voters wanted something different.
They don't care about the far left agenda, as we saw in a number of referendums that had nothing at all to do with guns. The near-universal rejections of transgender athletes in women's sports, for example, tell us that the far-left narrative isn't what anyone voted for. They just wanted to pay less for the things they need.
Raskin is ready to push a gun control agenda that no one actually wants except for his leftist allies, and he wants to do it with perhaps one of the more controversial ways to do it. Further, his previous attempt tells us that he only wants this for handguns, rather than the evil murder-death-kill assault weapons, which kind of betrays the double-speak, if you ask me.
Luckily, all of this would have to somehow survive a veto by President Trump, and while he's shown in the past he's willing to negotiate, I don't think he's interested in playing nice this time around. After all, why work with Raskin and Democrats when they've already vowed to impeach him?
But I hope every voter sees this and recognizes that this is the exact same playbook they used in Virginia, which is the same playbook I told people they'd try this time around, too.
I want lower gas prices, too. I just knew better than to believe Democrats would do anything about that.