Kim Kardashian slams Senate for gun inaction

Kim Kardashian on Tuesday slammed the Senate for failing to pass gun control measures following last week’s mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida.

All but a combined total of around 2,800 people on those lists are foreigners, who are mostly unable to purchase firearms in the U.S. It also included some protections for anyone wrongly placed on the no-fly list.

“Our goal is simple and straightforward”.

Majority leader and Kentucky Republican Mitch McConnell said the Orlando shootings showed that the best way to prevent extremists’ attacks in the U.S. was to defeat them overseas. “Surely the terrorist attacks in San Bernardino [California] and Orlando that took so many lives are a call for compromise, a plea for bipartisan action”.

Graham told reporters earlier Tuesday that the NRA should balance the inconvenience of a legitimate gun-buyer being on the no-buy list with the likelihood of someone on the list buying a gun and killing people.

Five Democrats and four Republicans: it’s rare to see such a bipartisan press conference in the Senate, especially on an issue as volatile as gun safety.

Minority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, accused Republicans of being pawns of America’s most powerful gun rights lobbying group. “It’s a slippery slope when an American citizen is denied a constitutional right, without forcing the government to come forward with some evidence on the front end” that a person should be prohibited from buying guns, he said.

We now have serious bipartisan talks going on. “ISIL is not the JV [junior varsity] team”, McConnell said, using an acronym for Islamic State. “It’s not contained. And we need to defeat it overseas if we want to prevent more terrorist tragedies here at home”.

On Monday, the Senate rejected rival Democratic and Republican proposals for keeping guns from known and suspected terrorists.

“If the NRA and their lapdogs in the Senate thought moms would feel dispirited and back down, they are sorely mistaken”, Watts told reporters in a teleconference. Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire and Jeff Flake of Arizona and Democratic Sens. “She said she is really working on it”, Boxer said. “Gun control won’t stop terrorism. However, I think we can all agree that we do not want terrorists to purchase firearms”.

Kardashian has not shied away from politics and has been vocal on the issue of gun control in the past. “Finding a bipartisan compromise to vote for will be important for these GOP senators in the fall”. Democratic Party bills called for expanded background checks and banning anyone on a terrorist watch list from buying a gun.

Both proposals-one from each party-on blocking gun sales to suspected terrorists failed, as did measures from both parties that would have expanded background checks, including one proposed by Murphy that would require background checks for all gun sales, including private ones and ones at gun shows. “Once the gun’s sold, you can’t fix that”. “That’s another discussion for another day”.

Senate approval is far from assured, according to the measure’s sponsors. Official portrait obtained from Office of Senator Susan Collins. Such a deal might anger their most loyal voters, NRA-backing conservatives and pro-gun-control liberals, and shield the other side from negative campaign ads. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. He said the White House and Justice Department are looking at Collins’ proposal and if it would have a positive effect, “that’s likely something we would be able to support”.