Here’s what gun control advocates and legislators will do next
The fight for sane gun laws continues.
Click here for reuse options!Gun-control and pro-LGBT rights groups are planning a grassroots lobbying campaign to put pressure on senators and House members at home to pass something before the election. They say there’s strong political momentum in the wake of the shooting spree that left 49 people dead at a popular gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida.
“I think Republicans will get an earful when they go home they’re going to want to make something happen when they get back,” said Josh Horwitz, executive director of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence. “I’ve done this for 27 years. I’ve never heard the outrage I’m hearing about this.”
Democrats and Republicans agree suspected terrorists should not be allowed to obtain weapons but they can’t agree on how to craft legislation so as not to deprive people of their Second Amendment rights without due process.
[Maine Senator Susan] Collins and her allies want to create a 14-day period to appeal decisions denying firearms transactions with the proviso that people who are wrongfully blocked from buying a gun would have their legal fees reimbursed.
Republicans led by Senate GOP Whip John Cornyn (R-Texas) want to set up a three-day period during which the attorney general could delay a gun purchase. Stopping a transaction any longer would require a court order, under his proposal.
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Mike June 25th, 2016 at 10:51
The only way we’ll ever have gun control in this country is when people arm themselves and start shooting elected officials (and no, I’m not advocating violence) Nothing matters to the ruling class unless it directly affects them or their donors…
The dems are as bad as the R’s on this issue…Within hours of the Orlando shooting I was inundated with Email requests from dem house members begging for money….and what do they do…a stupid childish sit in that crumbles in 26 hours…pathetic…
Neither party is really on our side here folks….these people are more concerned with protecting the rights of suspected terrorists than the safety of the American public….
I’m at the point where I say fk everybody …
eyelashviper June 25th, 2016 at 11:58
The grass roots efforts can work. Movements have a way of becoming powerful from the ground up, as in the civil rights, etc.
If more states begin enacting actual gun control laws, things will change.
amersham1046 June 25th, 2016 at 21:08
Sorry folks , Good Republican members of Congress do not bow down to special interest groups (wink wink , nudge nudge)