The Democratic House speaker released a relatively caustic statement after her Senate colleagues, enabled through four Democratic votes, sidelined the bill.
However, one recent defeat, of a bill that would outlaw most sales and transfers of so-called assault weapons, has highlighted emerging reluctance among some within the party to pursue the most contentious reforms.
"The Democratic platform last fall was very clear. Limiting access to weapons of war used in mass murder was a key part of that platform," Speaker Eileen Filler-Corn said in a statement, referring to HB 961, the assault weapons ban."The House of Delegates delivered on our promise to take action to keep those weapons off our streets. To call [the] vote by the Senate Judiciary Committee a disappointment would be an understatement.
The decision to remove that measure from consideration was met with unanimous approval from the committee's Democrats. When the time came for a vote in committee to consider that measure, the Republican majority opted to dismiss it. Democratic Senators John Edwards, Creigh Deeds and Chap Petersen voted with their Democratic colleagues against sidelining the bill.
Democrats outside the committee expressed frustration with their colleagues' vote and confusion about the events leading up to Monday, even if they suspected it would to some extent be a forgone conclusion. Reflecting on why the House sent the bill over when it was almost certainly a doomed venture is another major point of contention. Petersen suggested that the House forced his hand by requiring his recorded vote at this point in the process.
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