While I share my colleagues’ conviction that Congress must find effective ways to prevent violence, promote public safety, and protect life, today’s bill is not a solution on any of these fronts.
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Yesterday, House Democrats introduced legislation to impose background checks on all gun sales and most gun transfers.https://www.rollcall.com/news/congress/house-democrats-target-private-gun-sellers-new-background-checks-bill …
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Recent shootings reflect failures not of existing policy—background checks are already in place and working across the board—but failures in its implementation.
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This legislation shows us that they are less interested in adopting solutions to prevent mass violence than in promoting gun control.
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To be clear, the task before us is to identify solutions that actually save lives.
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If Democrats want to come to the table that is set to address America’s mental health crisis & the human factors contributing to mass violence, they’ll find that their colleagues across the aisle have been here working on real solutions for some time. They’re welcome to join us.
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And what is the problem with that? No a dam thing I can see about it.
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What is wrong with background checks before someone can purchase something that takes lives?
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Good for them.
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If Dems are so interested in making our streets, schools and churches safer from gun violence, why do Gangs still have their guns? They want to hinder or remove guns from law abiding citizens, but not the Gangs..where is the policy to go after Gang Guns?
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