Former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge, who served as secretary of Homeland Security under President George W. Bush, criticized Democrats for trying to pass gun control measures after the mass shooting in Orlando, The Hill reported.
“You kind of wonder what kind of glasses some of the Democrats are wearing as they look at that horrible tragedy,” Ridge said on “The Cats Roundtable” radio show with John Catsimatidis.
Following the massacre at the nightclub in Orlando that left 49 dead and 53 injured, some House Democrats, led by Rep. John Lewis of Georgia and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi held a sit-in on the chamber floor—replete with a catered buffet—to push for a vote on gun reform, more through media attention than by parliamentary means. After a Senate filibuster, several pieces of gun control legislation were rejected by the Senate, including a bill that would ban those on terrorist watchlists from buying guns.
Ridge calls that request reasonable but said it wouldn’t have prevented the attacks in Orlando.
“The notion that somehow gun control would have eliminated that is just an absolute disconnect,” he said.
