GOP in Congress isn't fighting crime; it's arming it

By Griffin Dix / For Progressive Perspectives

In early March, President Biden signed a $460 million spending bill that funded about half of the federal government and averted a government shutdown. But before Republicans agreed to support the spending bills, they demanded budget cuts to the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) by 6 percent and 7 percent, respectively.

In addition to nullifying existing firearm regulations, the bill makes it even more difficult for officials to enforce gun laws.

That’s why Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., voted against it. The specific reason he gave for his opposition was the “terrible new gun policy rider that significantly rolls back the firearms background check system” buried in the bill. It allows veterans who were barred from buying guns by the Department of Veterans Affairs, for mental health reasons, to purchase them.

“This provision,” Murphy said, “could result in 20,000 new seriously mentally ill individuals being able to buy guns each year [and] will be a death sentence for many.”

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The NRA demands a human sacrifice.