Trump Says Making Schools, Children Safer to Be 'Top Priority'
A day after another school shooting massacre, Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley indicated he’s willing to discuss new gun measures as Democrats begged him Thursday to take up the issue.
"What are we going to do? How many school shootings do we need in a given year?" Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein said, turning to Grassley at a committee meeting. "I’m here to say, Mr. chairman please, let’s take some action, we cannot see this continue on."
Grassley told Feinstein -- a longtime advocate of tougher gun measures -- that he planned even before the shooting to sit down with her and Senator John Cornyn of Texas to "see what sort of an agreement we can reach on legislation."
"It’s just very hard to sit here year after year and do nothing," said Feinstein of California. Seventeen people were killed at a Florida high school Wednesday by a shooter armed with an assault-style weapon.
She urged Grassley, an Iowa Republican, to pass a bipartisan bill to upgrade the existing background check system, as well as her proposal to ban bump stocks used to make weapons fire more rapidly. Both were proposed last year following massacres in Las Vegas and a Texas church but have gone nowhere in Congress.
Both ideas have had support from Republicans and are more limited and targeted than previous efforts to create a universal background check system for gun sales or to ban certain weapons.
The background check bill is sponsored by Cornyn, the No. 2 Senate Republican, and Senator Chris Murphy, a Democrat, who has been a fiery advocate of gun control in the years after the Sandy Hook massacre in his home state of Connecticut.
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Trump: "Tackle the difficult issue of Mental Health"
If you want to buy a gun you're crazy, background check FAILED? The Cornyn plan.
Yes the shooter had mental health issues and so do most of them, but focusing on that avoids the real issue, how did he obtain the weapon/s? A nineteen year old kid can buy an assault style rifle, this is crazy. No one objects to guns being in the hands of responsible adults but no one under 25 in the general community can be considered responsible without supervision. Why is this so hard?
Yes the shooter had mental health issues and so do most of them, but focusing on that avoids the real issue, how did he obtain the weapon/s? A nineteen year old kid can buy an assault style rifle, this is crazy. No one objects to guns being in the hands of responsible adults but no one under 25 in the general community can be considered responsible without supervision.
Not far enough,but a good first step. I say we pass the "no one under 25 can buy a gun" law,and then wait until the next shooting when it involves someone older,like the Vega shooter,and amend the law to read "No one under 125 years old can buy a gun"! (extreme sarcasm)
Do you shitheads NEVER learn? You are like little emotional bitches having hissy-fits. Try thinking with your mind for once,instead of your tv remote control!
Owning guns is a right. Maybe we should make it illegal to buy a gun if you are going to shoot up a school.
That is so obvious,how could I have missed it? It covers all the "warm and comfortable" Dim spots,it's a law that punishes people for doing something THEY have no interest in doing,and it solves no problems at all,other than to make their legs warm as the piss runs down it at the thought of having the power to tell someone else what they can and can't do.
