How gun control got lost in the impeachment drama

For a time, gun control was arguably the most important issue of 2019, including on the campaign trail when Beto O’Rourke called for a mandatory buyback program. But that was before the impeachment inquiry. Chris Cillizza explains what’s changed.

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55 comments

  1. LOL in the leaked Audi yesterday your boss literally said I think the gun control isn’t being talked about enough due to impeachment and here you guys are 😂😂😂😂😂😂

    1. yup they are doing nothing but having meetings on damage control now over veritas videos of their boss and thats great, make them panic, i wish i could have been in the meeting with the cnn CEO’s when they had a talk with the boss,

    1. Jonathan Pasch. Just a beta male on the left. It’s a requirement to sound as if you have your balls in a vice grip.

    1. @Pat Orsban lmao well at least I went to college and learned not just follow orders! You’re the dumbs fuks who dont even have a brain! That’s why the country is to shits! Lmao fuk out here with that right wing propaganda. Btw I didn’t copy and paste. You can type it down. Idiots

    1. @Yasmani Bravo Oops, I forgot there’s a few slow & narrow minded folks here! CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW???? FAKE NEWS BAD!!!!!

  2. What happened to gun control? You forgot to release more skewed polls claiming 90 percent of Americans want more “gun control” 😆 Maybe ask Zuker what happened to it?

    1. @Greta Thunderhogg Tell that to the people whose homes are under water from rising sea levels. Or to the thousands of dead due to the increase in the number and power of hurricanes and typhoons. Like the dead in our protectorate Puerto Rico, the first ally tRump abandoned.

    2. @peter blood LoL. Just like Al’Gore’s and Obama’s sinking, high carbon footprint, sea-level Mansions?

    3. @peter blood Spongebob and Squidwards homes are under the sea, but not from global warming. You’re confusing CNN with the Cartoon Network again.

    4. @peter blood bloody dck ….. Libtards are failing miserably. NRA and Trump are getting stronger. Impeachment has already failed.

    5. There’s no such thing as a real poll more

      Trump fakes its polls

      Fox news fakes it’s polls

      CNN fakes it’s polls

      Every party fakes it’s polls

    1. @1776 and to distract from the Barr Durham investigation. “Oh, sorry! We can’t report on FISA abuse or corrupt FBI election interference. There’s an impeachment inquiry we must obsess over.”

    1. @effawefweafawefwefwfqwWQEWEFEYHTYKJYUKUT You’re a traitor, plain and simple. America also isn’t the fattest country, haven’t been for a while, but I guess your leftist brainwashing machine didn’t let you in on that. You commie filth all swing the same, boy. You can have on opinion, nobody said you can’t, but you don’t get to push that opinion into action because you’re not American. It isn’t rocket science. Don’t worry, boy. We’re coming, and you soft handed soy boy fucks can’t stop what you’ve brought down upon your own heads. Again, see you soon.

    2. @effawefweafawefwefwfqwWQEWEFEYHTYKJYUKUT If you’re Irish, why do you have an African name? I would guess Nigerian?

  3. How it got lost is your boss ordered you not to talk about it, and instead push his narrative. Project Veritas just disproved your lies, Chris.

    1. Lmao and the Murdock’s are pushing out truths? Fuk out here nothing but a right wing bullshit. Impeachment is comming

    2. @Yasmani Bravo At LEAST Fox has anchors on both sides if the isle. Zucker would never hire a conservative host. CNN pushed the collusion delusion for over 2 years. Fox had it right a long time ago.

    1. @druu jenkins People are finally realizing that CNN is a fictitious propaganda machine that is led by a radical leftist. Lie after lie, day after day. They won’t stop because they know there’s so many easily manipulated sheep that cannot think for themselves.

  4. Dems flip flop to whatever is trending and never accomplish anything. Example: 3 years ago Trump said DACA will be done by Friday. Pelosi and Schumer flaked. Today, no deal.

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