Sen. Bob Casey calls for tougher gun laws after Las Vegas shooting

The bill was introduced in the previous Congress in 2015, but was not brought up for a vote even after Democrats staged a sit-in on the House floor past year demanding a vote.

The political discussion after mass shootings tends to follow a familiar script, with Democrats calling for gun restrictions and Republicans responding by saying Democrats are too quick to politicize tragedies and defending gun rights.

The public has been divided on gun control, largely along party lines, according to an August NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. “People are certainly paying attention to guns now and that will mean that hopefully people will realize that Congress is going in the wrong direction with this bill”. That’s compared to 38 percent who anxious the government would go too far in the same survey in 1995.

“With each new tragedy that occurs, those who stand in the way of legislation to address our country’s gun violence epidemic are increasingly culpable for its continuation”, he said. “To my colleagues: your cowardice to act can not be whitewashed by thoughts and prayers”, he tweeted. “When that time comes for those conversations to take place, then I think we need to look at things that may actually have that real impact”.

Congressman Earl Blumenauer called for new gun control legislation Monday, hours after a gunman opened fire at a Las Vegas casino, killing 58 and wounding at least 515. He was a member of the House in 2012, and the Sandy Hook massacre took place in his district at the time. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., in a statement.

Given those votes, any background check or gun control bill faces an uphill and unlikely path forward in a GOP-controlled Congress.

Some other areas of seeming agreement: 68 percent told Pew they favor a ban on assault-style weapons, while 64 percent favor banning high-capacity magazines that hold more than 10 rounds.

“Yet again, we are watching in horror as another American community is torn apart by the awful devastation wrought by a gunman”, he said.

In New York, Governor Andrew Cuomo has ordered all flags to be flown at half-staff until Friday in honor of the victims. “And that starts with laws that help prevent guns, especially the most risky guns, from falling into the wrong hands”.

That sort of willingness to talk politics in the immediate aftermath of these mass casualty shooting events is a huge change since Newtown.

Many supporters of gun reform dismissed politicians’ “thoughts and prayers” as inadequate.

The provision, the Hearing Protection Act, included in a larger bipartisan legislative package called the Sportsmen Heritage and Recreational Enhancement Act, would remove gun noise suppressors, or silencers, from the list of items regulated under the National Firearms Act of 1934, making them substantially easier to buy. But with the 60-vote threshold in the Senate, Democrats can likely prevent both from clearing Congress and getting signed into law.

But after years of inaction on guns, Democrats on Monday seemed to have run out of patience.

As one of his first actions in office, President Trump overturned an Obama-era regulation that had not yet gone into effect that was aimed at limiting gun access from certain people adjudicated mentally ill.

There is little question that the bill, strongly supported by the National Rifle Association, will pass in the Republican-majority House. Hudson said the bill would allow gun owners to “travel freely between states without worrying about conflicting state codes or onerous civil suits”. But no votes on either bill were scheduled as of Monday.

In the House, Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi renewed a call – which she has made after other incidents of gun violence – for Congress to look at ways to stop gun violence.

Nevada’s two USA senators, Republican Dean Heller and Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto, on Monday both issued statements offering prayers to victims and thanks to first responders, but neither mentioned anything about gun laws.