“Those are the facts of the situation”.
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“If we can’t pass this there’s truly a broken system up here”, said Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) both voted against two measures including one referred to as the “No Fly, No Buy” amendment which denies a gun sale to someone on the “no fly list”.
The US Senate on Monday defeated a string of gun control measures including one aimed at expanding background checks for individual gun sales, a blow to reform efforts in the wake of the Orlando massacre. In the Senate, 60 votes were required to advance each measure. In a statement, Rubio said he believes that the measure “struck the proper balance between addressing gaps in the law that could be exploited by terrorists, while taking care not to place new burdens on lawful gun owners”.
However, he added that “keeping guns from terrorists while protecting the due process rights of law-abiding citizens are not mutually exclusive”.
The New York Times noted that Democrats, who favour gun reforms, “were eager (after Orlando) to press their advantage and were not about to make it easy for Republicans”. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H.; Sen.
National Rifle Association vice president and CEO Wayne LaPierre said the government needs to focus on ISIS and not on gun control.
But every right has boundaries on it. The likelihood of someone being on this list and buying a gun to use it in a terrorist act to me is far greater than the likelihood of an innocent person being on this list.
Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said “We should all be addressing the real problem of radical Islamic terrorism but the Democrat leadership has taken their eyes off the ball and is trying to turn this tragedy into another debate about guns”. However, this bill would allow a judge to permanently block a purchase if the court determined probable cause that the individual is involved in terrorist activity.
Obama says on Twitter that the Senate failed the American people and that gun violence requires more than a moment of silence. Susan Collins, a moderate Republican from ME, could go to a vote this week, but it faces obstacles from the left and right in a paralyzed chamber, with two influential senators – a Republican and a Democrat – criticizing it Monday.
Democratic Senator Martin Heinrich, of New Mexico, who is supporting Collins, warned: “It’s very comfortable for us to sit in our respective corners and vote for something that we know isn’t going to change things”.
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“If you’re too unsafe to fly on a plane, you’re too risky to buy a firearm”, said Illinois Sen.
