Chuck, Amy Schumer call for gun control changes
Amy Schumer’s star is on the rise.
Schumer said that there is one downside to vacationing with Lawrence, though: posing for photos with her. “In all the pictures I took of her, I look like her coach”, Schumer deadpanned, before debuting two of her personal snapshots.
The comic and actor Amy Schumer will team up with US senator Charles Schumer to call for greater gun control in the wake of the fatal shootings of two women at a screening of her film Trainwreck last month.
The movie on the screen that night was Trainwreck starring Amy Schumer.
Amy Schumer wrote a tweet this past weekend saying, “Don’t worry I’m on it. You’ll see”. The bill would reward states that submit all necessary records into a background check system and penalize states that do not. Sen.
“So we go to the Hamptons, and Jennifer and I have become friends”, Schumer said.
“I said, ‘Hi Amy, this is cousin Chuck, ‘” said Sen.
“We’re right here to say sufficient is sufficient”, the senator stated in a press convention together with his well-known cousin in New York on Monday.
The Schumers said they want to make sure guns don’t land in the hands of violent criminals, domestic abusers and the mentally ill.
“Two lives were tragically lost and others injured and I’ve thought about these victims each day since the tragedy”, the comic actress said, while refusing to say the name of the gunman who took his own life during the mass shooting. In a sketch on her Comedy Central show “Inside Amy Schumer” that aired in May, she satirized Americans’ easy access to guns by portraying a child being able to buy a firearm faster than a woman could legally buy birth control. The senator, in urging a national crackdown on selling firearms to anyone who may have mental health issues, has proposed a new law rewarding states for helping the drive to check the backgrounds of people trying to buy certain firearms. “But then I think f*** that”. “These shootings have got to stop”. The movie theater shooter reportedly obtained his gun legally. But as a female comedian with formidable clout in the industry, many wondered how she would use her platform to address such a hot-button issue.