Right now, a lot of Americans have their minds focused on a lot of things besides politics. Investments are crashing, a deadly disease is infecting our very neighborhoods, and many people technically have jobs, they’re just not allowed to go to work because they’re considered non-critical. It’s a bad time and a lot of people are focused on that.

It’s really pretty understandable.

The truth is, we saw this pandemic coming well before the World Health Organization declared it as such on March 11.

So Georgia Democrat Rep. Hank Johnson doesn’t get a pass on trying to pull this while people are distracted elsewhere.

As you can see from all of this, what we have here is basically a single bill that pushes forward with everything the Democrats have been harping on these past couple of years. Everything from red flag orders to gun purchase licensing.

The bill currently has 18 cosponsors, which isn’t as many as one might think for something like this, which raises questions about whether this actually goes too far for the current crop of Democrats. It just might.

While Democrats generally love them some assault weapon bans and things of that sort, they know gun licensing isn’t a winning position for them. A lot of people are uncomfortable going that far. While many support various limits on the Second Amendment, they feel that requiring a license to purchase a gun goes beyond just limits and essentially makes the Second Amendment null and void.

For many of us, that’s a distinction we don’t really get. The amendment says it “shall not be infringed” and yet it is, so why do they balk at one more infringement?

That’s not how many normally anti-gun people see it. They figure that so long as you have a firearm available for purchase, your right isn’t really infringed. Yes, it’s a BS argument, but that’s how they see it.

Licensing, however, changes that. As such, they can’t back it.

But wouldn’t a long-time congressman like Johnson know better? Probably not. He’s been alive longer than he’s been in Congress and he didn’t realize that Guam wouldn’t actually tip over, so there’s that.

Still, I can’t help but feel like this was meant to fly under the radar during this difficult time. After all, most eyes are on the pandemic gripping our nation.

On behalf of the state of Georgia, I’d like to apologize for this dipstick. He isn’t my rep, so I can’t vote him out, but I’m still sorry we inflicted him on the rest of the nation.