Wasn't it 9 Volt who wondered why the Republicans did not go along with the i***tic Democratic Party Line for more gun laws? Perhaps the reason is as in the meme. The anti gun laws we have now are not working. Criminals do not obey laws and yet the Democrats insist, Just One More Law, will make things right.

The Uvalde school shooter had already shot his grandmother in the face, was bringing a semi auto rifle onto school property, a Gun Free Zone, against the law to even have a firearm near the place. He was planning on k*****g children. These are all CRIMES. Everything the shooter did was Against previously enacted LAWS. Yet he murdered those poor children and adults.

Something to think about: How on earth can the Democrats think ANOTHER law would have worked to save those children?

Dennis

silly-flowe didn't read the article.

" ... The House Select Committee investigating Donald Trump is an Article I body and cannot prosecute anyone. What you can do is hire investigators and prosecutors to help gather the elements of a criminal complaint and, if you are successful and want it, submit to the Department of Justice a suggested charge, along with the evidence needed to prosecute that charge.

Staff attorneys are the building blocks of any committee, the legal engineers who make it work effectively. The Select Committee hired Tim Heaphy as its main staff attorney to act as investigator-prosecutor. Heaphy is a seasoned former federal prosecutor who specialized in complex RICO cases. Another former federal prosecutor, Glenn Kirschner, a legal analyst for MSNBC, knows Heaphy and his former job. Kirschner believes that the Committee (which has several former prosecutors) hired Heaphy to help prove all the elements necessary to prosecute a RICO case against Trump and his team, including Navarro, Flynn, Bannon and more.(see vid. below)

RICO charges can be a bit of a conundrum even for law students. It’s definitely a niche “in-baseball” charge, notoriously used against organized crime organizations. And how many times did we read and comment that Trump was running his White House like an organized crime operation? Loyalty to the family, to the Don, above all else?

Wiki provides a quick and simple definition of the elements of a RICO charge:

Under RICO, a person who has committed “at least two acts of organized crime activity” drawn from a list of 35 offenses within a 10-year period can be charged with extortion if such acts are related in one of the four specified ways to an “enterprise”. Those found guilty of racketeering can be fined up to $25,000 and sentenced to 20 years in prison on the racketeering charge. In addition, the mobster must forfeit all ill-gotten gains and interests in any business gained through a pattern of “mobster activity.”

Obviously, the devil in the details lies in finding at least two of the 35 listed crimes, showing that they are related in at least one of four specific ways to an organization that fits the legal definition of a business. Heaphy specializes in collecting the clean and clear evidence needed for each element in the prosecution of a RICO case. Kirschner says the evidence that came to light at the first hearing fits the pattern expected in a sophisticated criminal complaint filed in federal district court, and the evidence presented to the public (and the Justice Department) will satisfy each element. ..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59eCABUR3LY&t=1s

... and why don't you want to see these RICO degenerates prosecuted?