The Senate likely won’t immediately take up gun legislation after a mass shooting that killed 19 elementary school students and two teachers, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N. Y.) said on Wednesday. Schumer said he hoped to work with Republicans to gain support for a compromise gun control measure, even though he acknowledged such an effort is all but doomed.
“I believe that accountability votes are important,” Schumer said in a floor speech. “But, sadly, this isn’t a case of the American people not knowing where their senators stand. They know. They know because my Republican colleagues are perfectly clear on this issue.” Republicans, as Schumer suggested, would block any gun measure. It would need 60 votes — Democrats only have 50 members in the Senate, not all of whom would necessarily support a gun bill. The GOP overwhelmingly opposes nearly all gun restrictions.
Still, Schumer could bring a bill to the floor if he wanted — except doing so could make life difficult for some of his members, too. A vote on gun control measures could divide his Democratic caucus and expose vulnerable members up for reelection this fall. There’s also the matter of a previously scheduled two-week recess. Many senators — including Democrats — have plans to travel abroad on congressional fact-finding trips. The earliest the Senate could hold a vote on guns is Saturday, which would spoil those plans.
Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) said Democrats shouldn’t take the blame for GOP intransigence on gun control. “If the Republicans would actually break their addiction to the gun lobby … we would stay till midnight, night after night, to pass it,” Brown said. “Don’t put that on [Democratic] leadership as if, oh, the Democrats are leaving town.”
Does the FAR RIGHT have endless supplies of Tots and Pears to go around for every single mass shooting?
Well, the Far-Right Radicals soon as they hear the words gun control, they get scared President Biden is going to ban guns or the Right to Bare Arms, they just don't get care this is why the Far-Right Radical votes against gun control makes no sense?
They can keep their tots and pears. If they really want to help, they can donate money for funeral expenses and get off their ass to help facilitate counseling now see how many of them pull up in times of crisis.
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