The news conference was also attended by leaders of the gay and Muslim communities who condemned the Orlando shooting, but did not take a position on the pending gun control bills. Dianne Feinstein that would ban gun sales to suspected terrosists.
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Federal law already prohibits those convicted of a felony from buying or possessing a gun. I just hope that the leadership in Congress will finally agree that enough is enough.
There’s another important takeaway, beyond the suggestion that Republicans appear to be more effective in enacting state laws following mass shootings.
Grayson is campaigning to replace GOP Sen. He had a government-approved security guard license with a contractor for the Department of Homeland Security. He said it does not provide enough due process for those included because they are on terror watch lists, and that the Orlando shooter wasn’t now listed and so it wouldn’t have prevented Sunday’s massacre.
Across the country on Saturday and Sunday, from California to NY – in 21 states – Americans died from gunshot wounds with numbing regularity, as they always do.
The slaughter has raised questions about U.S. counterterror strategy – the Federal Bureau of Investigation said it had investigated Mateen but cleared him of extremist ties.
The National Rifle Association contends that the AR-15 is popular among ordinary, law-abiding gun owners because it is “customizable, adaptable, reliable and accurate and can be used in sport shooting, hunting and self-defense”.
Chris W. Cox, executive director of the NRA Institute for Legislative Action, said renewed calls for gun control are “a transparent head-fake (that) should scare every American, because it will do NOTHING to prevent the next attack that we all know is coming”.
“At the same time, it’s really simple”, Billoo said.
The identities of those in the database are not made public, but state and local law enforcement officials can run the names of those stopped and arrested against the list.
“The point is that if we have self-radicalized individuals in this country, then they are going to be very hard oftentimes to find ahead of time”, he said. And how easy it is for them to obtain weapons is, in some cases, going to make a difference as to whether they’re able to carry out attacks like this or not.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton criticized Republicans for rejecting a Democratic amendment that would have “block [ed] suspected terrorists from buying guns who are on the no-fly list”.
“Everybody could hear him talking to 911, saying that the reason why he is doing this is because he wants America to stop bombing his country”, recounted another survivor, Patience Carter.
“If you’re convicted of even a misdemeanor hate crime, what makes you think they won’t do it to someone else or kill someone else?” The victim’s mother, Gola White, said Jessica was the third child she’s lost to gun violence.
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At least to some degree, the answer to that question is the NRA, which spent a record $3.6 million a year ago lobbying the federal government in opposition to gun control measures, according to data reported by the Center for Responsive Politics. In a MSNBC interview earlier, she said: “Now that we’re seeing terrorists use these assault weapons, that has to be part of the debate”. The owner of The Gun Range, in Springfield, says it’s an unfortunate wake-up call for all Americans.
