Comedian Amy Schumer Calls for More Gun Control

U.S. actress and comedian Amy Schumer has teamed up with her cousin, Senator Charles Schumer, to call for stricter gun control laws. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) in Manhattan on Monday to announce their initiative to fight mass shootings in America. Chuck Schumer, to discuss new legislation to combat gun violence Monday. “I’ve had death threats and a lot of hate directed toward me”, she said.

“Two lives were tragically lost and others injured, and I’ve thought about these victims each day since the tragedy”, she said.

Amy Schumer is the senator’s cousin. He said in addition to his proposed legislation, he will also call on Congress to preserve mental health funding and substance abuse programs. “Unless something is done and done soon, risky people will continue to get their hands on guns and we know what happens when they do”.

Shooter John Houser opened fire on July, killing Jillian Johnson, 33 and Mayci Breaux, 21, and injuring nine others. “I just wanted to go down to Louisiana, and then I was raging”. 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 critics scoff and say, ‘there is no way to stop mad people from doing insane things.’ They’re wrong”. Schumer has pushed for tighter gun laws for decades, authoring the 1993 Brady Bill and working to pass the a criminal background check improvement act. We should take people owning guns as seriously as we take people driving cars, at the very least. The two have also listed a three-point approach to eliminate such shootings through background checks and mental health funding.

“Don’t worry I’m on it”, Schumer wrote in a tweet to Clements.

The Schumers said Dylan Roof, the suspect in the Charleston mass shooting earlier this year, passed a background check only because of loopholes in the current system.