House Speaker Mike Johnson said Saturday he believes Republicans have the votes to launch a formal impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.
“I believe we will,” Johnson told Fox News of a GOP-led impeachment inquiry. “I suspect no Democrats will assist in this effort, but they should.”
Johnson added Republicans “have a duty to do this” and “we cannot stop the process.”
Republican leadership and key GOP committee chairs on Friday made the case for why they believe an inquiry vote is necessary, arguing it would strengthen their legal standing in court and accusing the White House of “stonewalling” their probe into the president and his son’s foreign business dealings – a claim the White House has forcefully rebutted.
Johnson, appearing alongside House GOP conference chair Elise Stefanik, claimed the inquiry wouldn’t be used as a partisan political tool.
Every day we see another mass shooting in the US, and this is what these idiots are working on.
I’m not American, but have had a great interest in Malcolm Gladwell’s Revisionist History podcast and his dive into America’s past and current issues with gun violence. In the last episode I listened to, he interviewed several trauma surgeons, and they said they would likely not see a dent in gunshot victims arriving to trauma centres if mass shootings were to end tomorrow.
That, and the gun violence epidemic has been masked by improvements to trauma care. Essentially, gunshot wound treatment has improved so much that the reduction in murder rate can be significantly attributed to that. If victims survive, the crime is classified as aggravated assault and separate stats aren’t even kept by PDs for the number of people shot versus other weapons. So, there’s actually very poor to no available information on the prevalence of gun violence if the people who were shot survive.
You do realize that mass shootings are categorized on how many are shot and not how many dies. Let’s not also get into the fact that gun violence is still gun violence regardless of the charge. You need to find a new podcast.
Calm down. I agree with you, I’m just saying mass shootings are only a small part of the gun violence issue, and would add that it’s unlikely that government intervention would do much to impact overall instances of bullet contact, as many of the firearms are already unlawfully obtained in the first place.