Senators In Washington See A Chance For New Gun Legislation



Senator Chris Murphy led a bipartisan group of nine senators to work on a path forward for gun legislation with hopes to have a bill to propose after the Memorial Day recess. Uvalde’s Republican representative Tony Gonzales is pressing for legislation that would make schools tougher targets for mass shootings. While Congress is divided, a new poll shows 88 percent of those surveyed support mandatory background checks on all gun sales.

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44 comments

  1. It is inconceivable the Democrates are breaking our laws by allowing illegal border crossings, allowing these people to bring their drugs into our country which causes 90% of the murders and deaths in this country. Their just using this Texas incident to try and take our gun rights or ability to protect ourselves away from us. If they was really concerned about human life in this country of which their not, they would shut that border off and stop the inflow of these drugs, same old "dog and pony show", can you say corrupt politicians.

  2. America let's collectively vote gun legislation and vote these pro gun politicians OUT OF OFFICE!
    We together can do it for a brighter tomorrow and for our future generations!

  3. Gun control would not have prevented this and the shooting in Buffalo, NY has the strictest gun laws in the nation yet it still happened has the shooter was able to buy an gun that was already banned in that state in the state of NY and pass a background test. The shooter in TX also passed a background test and had no history of mental illness and no criminal history. So he was able to buy a gun. Instead of blaming the NRA we need to make the local police department fully accountable for their failure. So please tell me how is this the NRA'S fault??????? Stop thinking we live in LALA land and live in safe clouds we do not.

  4. Look a tragedy time to exploit it for personal and party gain's,

  5. Hi 
    Its really sad to hear the comments of politicians that are afraid to be themselves on finding solutions to this problem ( 18 year old with war weapons ), because of loosing power ( from corporate bribes and political employment ).
    But it is more sad to hear the media trying to entertain or expose the BS solutions that they offer.
    It is very clear the corruption that the corporate lobbyist create.
    We need to create a limit on corporate donations ,a threshold that divides a donation from bribery.
    This will be a great start to clean up the souls of politicians that have lost there minds for bribery greed .
    Its just a though . Please work on it
    Fern

  6. Senators Once Again Wade Through The Shed Blood Of The 18 Latest Children Murdered With Weapons Of Mass Destruction In Their School!!!..Senators Searching For An Answer!!!!..The Answer Is As Clear As The Noses On Their Faces!!!..This Is Not A Difficult Problem To Solve!!!..In Fact President Bill Clinton Banned The Sale Of Weapons Of Mass Destruction During His Time In Office & Statistics Showed Positive Results!!!..Now President Bill Clinton Is More Well Known For Having An Affair Than Saving Lives Of Innocent Children!!!!…Greg Abbott Ted Cruz And John Cornyn Are The Most Politically Powerful People In The State Of Texas!!!..THEY MESSED WITH TEXAS!!!!!..I Thought That Was Something TEXAS Gave You The BOOT For!!!!.???.I Guess That's Simply Fictional BS!!!!!..A Teenager Who Couldn't Buy Beer Bought Weapons To Murder Children & Teachers & Now Senators Are Sitting Around Wondering What They Could Possibly Do To Stop The #1 Cause Of Death For American Children!!!!..WE Should Be Crossing The Border Into Canada With Our Children Begging For Asylum To Protect Them From Being Murdered By Weapons Of Mass Destruction For Sale Like Candy Bars At A Bodega!!!…#SCREAMBLOODYMURDER

  7. Democrap commies see a chance to take away your guns…which has nothing to do with solving the problem.

  8. Just a note here on massacres and victim count.
    Rank 1. Paddock in Las Vegas 60 dead
    Rank 2. Christchurch NZ mosques shooter 50 dead
    Rank 3. Orlando nightclub shooter 49 dead
    Rank 4. Port Arthur Australia shooter 35 dead
    The second and fourth highest victim death count were both done by Australians.
    The 2nd largest death count was done in 2019 long after firearms ban and with AR style rifles, and the shooter was Australian Queensland licensed.
     @Marc La Galle  Firearms ban did not succeed, but by subtlety more from the actual timeline of Australia with murder by firearms, if anything, firearms murder in Australia has increased in the more than 100 years of records BUT the main point is that 1/3 of murder in Australia over that 100 years has always been method "hands fists feet" along with near a third "knives" and a portion "blunt instrument" , in over 100 years, statistically firearms each year and inclusive Port Arthur year the statistic is actually NEGLIGEABLE numbers by firearms to specifically target to treat as problem , too with suicide per year all that time.
    What Prime Minister John Howard did and announced to Australia and the world in 1996 is probably one of the hugest political frauds ever committed as a swindle in history!
    Firearms murder have never reached 20 percent of the method of murder except one or two particular years in over 100 years of records.

  9. We have an innovative idea coming! You have right to bear arms safely with our system. Get ready mom's + Christ cares!

  10. School shootings only happen in America.

    27 school shootings so far this year is 5 each month with 2 extra and it's only May.

    You understand why the rest of world think Americans are Stupid like Trump !

    American parents protest at school meetings about? A: 27 school shootings this year B: Masks.

  11. Produce a list of republican private schools worldwide and air them to every deranged lunatic. Where do Cruz daughters attend school?

  12. It is just a credit check and mental health assessment. It should have always been as this and 18 year old, we ought to check on their mental health. But than too, we know guns are bought and sold on the street and private organizations. But when purchasing a gun of any sort mental health ought to be checked in a store, maybe it will cut down some of this. This is heartbreaking to all following the news. My deepest sympathy and condolences to all affected by this horrific news. People deserve to be angry and expressing their concerns without being sworn at, called down and ganged upon.

  13. Despicable Biden regime spends 40+ billion on Hunter's kickbacks in Ukraine, while failing to provide basic safety in American schools or provide American babies with baby formula.

  14. Yeah…have fun with that

  15. No one saw this coming. 🥸

  16. You expect me to just give my gun? What if i say no? Youll shoot me? Jail me? Now what does that sound like people?

    Id rather be shot then let em take what belongs to me

  17. Imagine 1 exit. 2 gunman.
    1 inside, the other at the doorway.

    These men are brainless I swear! GET THEM OUT OF OFFICE NOW

  18. The police stop gun owners from protecting their kids

  19. Yes people are running from your cities because your policies are so popular. Democrats have all the answers, and the house, and the senate, the presidency, the worst approval rating.

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  21. "Since 1789 the Senate has expelled only 15 members. Of that number, 14 were expelled during the Civil War for supporting the Confederacy."

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  23. Democrates f up a great country

  24. We want to punish law-abiding Americans for what criminals do.
    -The Democrat party

  25. wow im 60 years old and this is the first time ive heard about this problem somebody really should do something somewhere somehow it seem as if this just came out of nowhere maybe its tbose violent video game or all those violent movies yeah that rock n roll….anyways this is a really really really really….really really ….im not kidding here ….really really big problem its 8 reallys big soon it could be 9 or 10

  26. Dead kids is just the price we have to pay so pudgy old guys can play pretend soldier on the weekends.
    How dare you put the wellbeing of children ahead of the paranoid fantasies of drug-addled old men!?!

  27. Meanwhile thousands die in Chicago that has the toughest gun laws in the nation…

  28. 0:49
    Is that all he said to that elaborated question?
    If not, I wonder what he would've said if he just asked the simple question:

    "Why does this only happen in your country?"

  29. MANDATORY GUN CHECKS…would not have stopped the Uvalde attack

  30. Never let a horror go to waste..Rahm Emanuel

  31. This is just sick. The way the democrats have to latch onto every tragedy and try and get votes that way because they can't get a vote otherwise. Sick cowards just like how Hillary lied to the fbi. Cowardly. Like Joe having the media cover for his laptop scandal story. Just cowardly people. This is what happens when your leaders are such cowards.

  32. Republicans are trying to impress their internal, delusional world on Reality. That is the definition of psychosis.

  33. Who let the guy walk, knowing that he was suffering from a reported mental fidget..? The stain in rule killed those children..

  34. Disgusting that they are using a massacre to go after guns. Mental health is greater today based on so many bad moves by this recent administration but that isn't even mentioned. Not by Joe Biden and especially not the liberal media that only covers up and pushes Biden's propaganda !!!!

  35. Instead of giving Ukraine $40 billion dollars, how about securing all of our schools before the next massacre ?

  36. Of course we're not dealing with political representatives who are so corrupt to the core they would use taxpayer money and the nation's arsenal to arm insurgent forces against the United States of America are we? Neah