Another seventeen people are dead and I'm done. My heart goes out to the victims and their families in #Parkland, including the one who did the shooting and his family.
But, I am done. (1/7)
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I am done with hollow platitudes that do nothing to stop violence against us, our children, our families, and our communities. I am done with allowing the NRA to set the agenda for gun access without any input from victims, their families, and law enforcement. (2/7)
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I am done with the NRA putting the hunting groups in an unwinnable situation that requires they support the gun lobbies regardless of the clear need for action. (3/7) Here is what I will do when elected:
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I will sponsor legislation to allow the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to perform research on gun violence as it relates to public health. I will work to implement their findings. (4/7)
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I will sponsor legislation to require background checks to be mandatory for all gun sales, closing the gun show loophole. (5/7)
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I will sponsor legislation to require agencies to regularly update the databases used for background checks. Currently, reporting agencies see this duty as voluntary. (6/7)
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Making the cultural changes for how we use guns will be difficult, but the problem is not intractable. Mass shootings are a problem we can solve through bipartisan effort. (7/7)
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