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?
#2. To: paraclete, hoplophobia, fear of inanimate objects (#1)
the real issue, how did he obtain the weapon/s? A nineteen year old kid can buy an assault style rifle, this is crazy.
You don't get living in a formerly free country like America once was.
Kids took their guns to school with them so that they could go hunting on the way home. It's NOT the guns dummy! It's more to do with the schools and nanny state gov. The kid never learned responsibility, he was adopted, supposedly suffered from "emotional fragility", and was on psych drugs.
You don't get living in a formerly free country like America once was.
Oh I get it, when I was a teenager I used to carry a hair trigger .22 rifle in my golf bag to shoot crows, we had a real crow problem on that golf course. Of course you couldn't do it today.
That is entirely different to allowing a kid to have a semi automatic rifle. I was glad when our gun laws changed to automatic rifles were banned, no mass shootings of any consequence since, just a few crims popping each other off.
