It’s almost like the Dems are trying to exploit the Naval Yard massacre.
WASHINGTON — House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said on Tuesday that he expects the tragic shooting at the Navy Yard will renew the debate around gun control, although he was pessimistic about prospects for passing new restrictions.
“I’m sure that it will renew the discussions about access to weapons that can be used to kill a lot of people quickly,” he said at a breakfast discussion hosted by Politico’s Morning Money.
“In almost every one of these instances [of mass shootings], we’ve seen the perpetrators be people who individuals thought were unstable,” said Hoyer on Tuesday. “In this case, apparently this guy was prone to violence. He had apparently shot the tires out of a neighbor’s vehicle. He’d shot through the ceiling of another neighbor. He was given a general discharge from the Navy. So there was no doubt that this was somebody who had a record of instability and certainly should have been, I think, subject to closer scrutiny, particularly in access to the facilities at the Navy Yard.”