Following 15-Hour Filibuster, Republicans Agree to Vote on Gun Control Measures

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And so he did, standing on the floor without yielding his position for almost 15 hours, only stopping his steady recounting of gun violence research long enough to entertain questions from the senators who joined him in the fight to pass legislation that he says would make it harder for would-be assailants to perpetrate crimes like this week’s massacre of predominantly LGBTQ Latinx and Black patrons at an Orlando nightclub. Cory Booker, D-N.J., at an emotional news conference where Democrats joined family members of people killed in recent mass shootings.

In this photo taken June 14, 2016, Sen. Chris Murphy that lasted through much of the night.

The two men fighting for Coats’ senate seat in the fall, U.S. Rep. Todd Young (R-9th) and former democratic U.S. Rep. Baron Hill also weighed in on gun control in light of the filibuster.

“Gun control, except when there is a horrific incident as there was in Orlando, and in Sandy Hook and Colorado, and other places, it always ranks fifth or sixth, or seventh, or eighth or lower in a list of issues people care about”.

“Let’s be honest. The Senate was not going to debate these measures, had no plans to talk about ending gun violence this week on the floor of the Senate”, Murphy said. It is unlikely that those amendments will pass. Standing alongside a photograph of a beaming six-year-old in a Superman t-shirt, Murphy described him as someone who “loved to cuddle”, and “loved seeing the moon”-someone with an “infectious” laugh who idolized and loved Anne Marie Murphy, his special education teacher at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Because I think everybody ought to be in agreement in principle”, Toomey said on the Senate floor Wednesday”. “Trying and trying and trying to do the right thing is ultimately just as important as getting the outcome in the end”.

Following attacks including the mass shooting in Orlando on Sunday that killed 49 at a gay nightclub, Trump has argued that deaths could have been prevented if private citizens had been armed and able to shoot back. “I’m also someone who believes it’s reasonable for all of us to consider smart and responsible ways to reduce gun violence”.

“I can’t tell you how many times I have penned the words, “You are in my thoughts and prayers” and spoken the words, ‘You are in my heart, in my thoughts, and in my prayers, ‘” Baldwin said. “I can’t tell you how hard it is to look into the eyes of the families of those little boys and girls who were killed in Sandy Hook and tell them that, nearly four years later, we’ve done nothing, nothing at all”, he said.

This is one of few issues on which he agrees with Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, who has said “if you’re too unsafe to get on a plane, you are too risky to buy a gun in America”.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Sen.

Cornyn said he expects a measure he sponsored will be among GOP legislation offered for consideration.

Slate has a comprehensive live blog of yesterday’s filibuster accessible here.

Democrats renewed their call to action after Sen. Like Murphy, Booker did not sit down for the full 15 hours.

The Orlando shooter, Omar Mateen, had been on a government watch list at one point when he was being investigated by federal authorities in 2013 and 2014, but was not on it at the time of his weapons purchase. But he was pulled from that database when that investigation was closed 10 months later. John Cornyn of Texas that would allow the government to delay a gun sale to a suspected terrorist for 72 hours, but require prosecutors to go to court to show probable cause to block the sale permanently, doesn’t go far enough. She characterized her proposal as a continuation of gun control efforts she’d begun after becoming mayor of San Francisco in 1978 following the slayings of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk.

In an attempt at compromise, Pennsylvania Sen.