Krauthammer's Take: Democrat Sit-In a 'PR Stunt'

Charles Krauthammer claims that the Democrats’ sit-in is nothing but a PR stunt for the upcoming election:

Look, the speaker gave the answer inadvertently. Of course it’s a PR stunt, and it was a successful one. 

The whole idea was not to pass legislation, the same way the legislation is not intended to decrease these incidents, or to decrease the violence caused by guns in the country. Everybody understands it’s not going to have that effect: It never does. And it would not have affected the Orlando massacre.

This is all about the election and this is all about appealing on this issue. And as we heard the Congressman say, it’s about making it simple. ‘Keep the guns out of the hands of terrorists.’ If it were that simple, there’d be a simple answer. There isn’t.

This is opportunism by Democrats who think, perhaps they’re right, that the pendulum has swung on the gun issue. It swung against them in the 90s when they lost the house in the Gingrich revolution. President Clinton stayed away from guns for a long time. And now it appears that it might be successful, so they’re back to trying it as an issue for their side again.