Anonymous ID: e683ca May 25, 2022, 7:51 a.m. No.16338698   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9078 >>9081 >>9187

Murphy pleads with GOP for a gun deal as Texas school shooting grips America

 

In the first minutes following a Texas gunman’s slaughter of at least 19 children and at least one teacher, many Democrats said they were resigned to continued inaction on guns. Not Chris Murphy.

 

The Connecticut senator, whose gun safety advocacy was kindled by an elementary school shooting in his state 10 years ago, asked his colleagues pointedly in an impassioned floor speech just after the killings: “We have another Sandy Hook on our hands. What are we doing?” As he left the floor, Murphy said he wasn’t there to needle his GOP colleagues or force them to reject legislation to make a political point.

 

Instead, he was begging them to come to the table for a deal: “I know I have Republican partners. I know there’s 10 Republicans that will vote for something under the right circumstances, with the right leadership.”

 

“I don’t understand why people here think we are powerless,” Murphy said. “I am so willing to bend over backwards to find compromise.”

 

Murphy reached out to Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) to extend his condolences on Tuesday afternoon; the duo has worked in the past on gun legislation. And Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) said he wants to reopen talks about gun safety legislation. Yet Murphy stands out in his caucus with his enduring interest in finding a path to a new gun bill, however small-scale it may seem.

 

He joined the Senate shortly after a man shot and killed 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary in his home state, a tragedy that sparked Congress’ last truly serious effort to pass gun safety legislation. Roughly nine years ago, most Republicans and a handful of Democrats blocked that bipartisan bid to expand background checks.

 

In the years since, there have been on-and-off discussions about gun safety as more and more mass shooters kill people in the United States. Then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said in 2019 that background checks and red flag laws would be “front and center” for Congress after a pair of deadly shootings that year, but the chamber took no action.

 

More at: https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/24/murphy-forges-ahead-on-gun-talks-with-gop-after-texas-shooting-00034951

Anonymous ID: e683ca May 25, 2022, 9:13 a.m. No.16339122   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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It's true! There is that scene where the little boy finds the gun and the grandfather tells him what "you hold in your hand you hold in your heart". Amish are big hunters and gun owners