Tim Kaine’s Hometown Paper Rips Him Over Double Standard for the NRA

Democrat Sen. Tim Kaine's (Va.) hometown newspaper castigated him on Wednesday over his recent comments blaming the National Rifle Association for Congress not passing federal gun-control measures.

The Richmond Times-Dispatch editorial board published a rebuke of Kaine, suggesting that the senator's claim Sunday that the NRA "has basically been able to gridlock everything in Congress now for nearly decades" was hypocritical and made in bad faith.

Kaine has also said that his colleagues on Capitol Hill are "afraid of the NRA."

The Times-Dispatch editorial hit Kaine for suggesting that the majority of Congress wants to pass gun control but fails to act on legislation because of the pervasive influence of the NRA and other Second Amendment groups. This view, the newspaper argued, implies that Kaine's colleagues have no ideas of their own and only serve to do "the bidding" of their donors.

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