Senate Democrats to Unveil Sweeping Gun Control Legislation

However, this time he spoke much more candidly about his anger and frustration, furthering the honesty and forthrightness that he has been building in his second term. John Cornyn of Texas, the No. 2 Republican leader, pushed legislation Thursday to give families, courts and law enforcement better tools to deal with mentally ill people.

Supposing that guns are the problem – and, again, they’re not – they are not going anywhere anytime soon.

“Guns are incredibly lethal”, he said.

On Monday, an 11-year-old Tennessee boy allegedly shot and killed an 8-year-old girl with his father’s 12-gauge shotgun because she wouldn’t let him play with his puppy. A knife wound is about eight times less likely, for instance, to take a life than a gunshot wound. It is functionally indistinguishable from any other semiautomatic rifle. “Everyone realized it would be hugely politically controversial”, said one individual, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private discussions. “That’s what background checks do, and having been through the background check process myself on numerous occasions, I know it is not an unreasonable burden on responsible law-abiding gun owners”.

Tweet something calm, measured, and thoughtful about gun control-like the tweet I wrote on October 1 after hearing about the 142nd school shooting and 986th mass shooting since Sandy Hook-and your feed fills up with furious tweets from outraged gun humpers.

It also calls for “shutting down the illegal pipeline of guns”, specifically straw purchasing – where one person buys a firearm for someone not legally allowed to. These laws prevented about a few dozen homicides a year, according to those studies. A background check is only needed if you buy a gun in a store. To turn the tide, supporters of gun control must act, too.

Gage Skidmore / WikipediaYesterday on Facebook, Ben Carson, the retired neurosurgeon who is seeking the Republican presidential nomination, addressed the question of whether last week’s massacre in Oregon had changed his position on the Second Amendment.

Last week’s shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon, left 10 people dead.

In each of these attacks-and many more that could be listed-the gunman or gunwoman (Las Vegas) passed a background check to acquire the weapon they used to take innocent lives. While Americans are split down the middle on gun control, the facts don’t necessarily line up in its support. Authorities said the shooter, Christopher Harper-Mercer, killed himself after he was wounded by police. There are three “no” votes on background checks with tough re-election races in swing states next year: Kelly Ayotte in New Hampshire, Ron Johnson in Wisconsin and Rob Portman in Ohio.

Leveraging on the distrust many conservatives have for the government, the NRA has persistently pushed the message that any attempt at gun control is but a step down the slippery slope towards gun confiscation.

Coming from a liberal but rural state where hunting is very popular, Sanders has opposed numerous gun restrictions that Clinton and other Democrats tend to support.

It’s a market-based way to ensure that firearms owners embrace the duty of ownership along with the right, while also providing compensation for those who are harmed by gun-related accident and abuse. In 1996, the CDC was banned from doing research into gun violence, so we don’t even know the source of the crisis. The United States does have the highest rate of gun murder among major developed countries.

It could be that where fewer people own firearms, more people are willing to support gun-control legislation. But in fact, the proliferation of campus-carry, stand your ground and “guns everywhere” laws is a grave threat to our freedom. The president said we have become numb to these events.