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Three freshmen members of Congress who no one in their right mind will ever accuse of being courageous are Kim Schier (New Dem-WA), Elaine Luria (New Dem-VA) and Colin Allred (D-TX). Schrier's district is 72.3% suburban, the rest being about equally urban and rural. Luria's is over 95% urban and suburban; just 4.5% rural. And Allred's is 100% urban and suburban-- no rural precincts at all.

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed a resolution declaring the National Rifle Association as a "domestic terrorist organization". San Francisco is the headquarters of a real domestic terror organization called Antifa.

Domestic Terrorism by Nancy OhanianDave Cicilline introduced his assault weapons sales ban on February 15 with lots of co-sponsors-- but not enough co-sponsors to pass it. Months went by and the only new co-sponsor was Susie Lee (New Dem-NV) in March. And then the NRA/GOP massacres in Gilroy, El Paso and Dayton. The bill, which had been written off as dead, suddenly came alive again, much to Pelosi's distress.

Want to know why there is no ban on the sales of assault weapons? You're looking at itWhen David Cicilline (D-RI) introduced his sales ban on assault weapons, H.R. 1296 on February 15, dozens and dozens of Democrats-- but no Republicans-- signed on as cosponsors.

When Blue Dogs and Republicans Get Together, Only Bad Can Come Of ItAmericans love bipartisanship. When Long Island Republican Peter King signed on as the first Republican cosponsor of the bill to ban the sale of assault weapons, he may have been the only Republican to do so-- but he was joining Tom Suozzi, a Democrat in the Long Island district just north of his.

by NoahNot only can Moscow Mitch McTraitor see Russia from his bank account, he can see the NRA in his living room and his home office. God knows what we'd find in his basement but would you go down there? I bet the whole atmosphere of the $enate Majority Leader's home is mega-disturbing.

We had townies where I went to school, working class white people who hated that the potato fields had been plowed under, replaced by a sprawling university the changed the complexion of their rural county inexorably. They were always pissed off and sometimes that would result in violence.

Bipartisanship by Nancy OhanianThe poll NBC and the Wall Street Journal released yesterday measured "feelings" towards several politicians. One thing that is super-clear is that Trump's in big trouble. The American voting public doesn't think, at this moment at least, that he deserves a second term.

Colorado Senator Cory Gardner is widely considered the most vulnerable Republican up for reelection. And there are currently 13 Democrats-- of all stripes-- running for the nomination to take him on. The elephant in the room is that former Governor Frackenlooper has just dropped out of his dismally failed presidential run and-- encouraged by Chuck Schumer-- is about to announce for the Senate seat, into which he expects to waltz.

Yesterday, Rachel Bade reported that the House Judiciary Committee "will return to DC on Sept. 4 at 10 a.m. to markup gun bills banning high capacity ammunition magazines; instituting red flags and anti-hate legislation. The panel will hold a hearing on an assault weapons ban later in the month.