Amy Schumer talks gun control
Schumer has satirized the easy access to guns compared to birth control in America on her sketch comedy show Inside Amy Schumer.
Actor and comedian Amy Schumer and Sen.
Schumer said she felt compelled to act, and backed proposals that would introduce a new background check system to make it harder for people with mental health or a history of violence to obtain guns.
“Preventing unsafe people from getting guns is very possible”, said the 34-year-old. Let’s hope she’s right.
As a part of the legislation, states which submit all necessary records into the background check system would receive monetary rewards, while those that did not would be given penalties.
“These are my first public comments on gun violence, but they won’t be my last”, Amy Schumer told the press Monday. “We know what can happen when they do”.
According to the Associated Press, the legislative plan from Sen. “There is a way to stop them”, the actress said.
While watching Amy Schumer’s movie “Trainwreck” at the Grand 16 Theatre, John Russell Houser allegedly stood up and starting shooting, killing two women, and injuring nine others, The Wrap reported. Charles Schumer. He was calling Amy Schumer, a comedian known for her raunchy humor, to see if she would partner with him to push for tighter gun laws.
On the new anti-gun approach, both Schumers are planning to call upon the Department of Justice to assure that recommendations are made available to states in how to handle “involuntary mental-health commitments”.
“We never know why people choose to do these things”, she continued, “but, sadly, we always find out how, how the shooter got their gun”.
The senator said the country can not “just sit back and allow mass shootings to become commonplace in the United States”.
After the July 23 shooting at a movie theater in Lafayette during a screening of her new movie “Trainwreck“, Schumer responded by taking matters into her own hands.