Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and comedian Amy Schumer, who are cousins, have partnered to create a new push for more sensible gun control laws, reported CBS News.
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“We’re here to say enough is enough“, the senator said in a press conference with his famous cousin in New York on Monday. “We will not simply sit again and permit mass shootings to grow to be commonplace…”
They cited the recent shooting in a Louisiana movie theater that killed two women and injured nine others during a screening of the movie “Trainwreck” starring Amy Schumer.
The comedienne joined her cousin, Senator Chuck Schumer, as he unveiled a set of proposals to beef up background checks on gun buyers. And sticks. You are going to lose money if you don’t do this.
“These shootings have got to stop-I don’t know how else to say it”, she said during the conference, holding back tears.
In her letter, Clements wrote that she wants to shut down ideologies that contribute to the harassment of women online, as well as combat “anti-feminism and anti-women ideals, the over-idolization of firearms and fetishization of what they stand for, and the easy access to guns”. Schumer is putting forward in Congress “sensible” measures. “Unless something is done and done soon, risky people will continue to get their hands on guns”, she said.
South Carolina Rep.: Removing Confederate flag matters, but what about guns? In addition, Sen. Schumer called for the Justice Department to survey states to find out which have the best standards for involuntary commitment to mental health facilities.
Third, Schumer and Schumer referred to as on Congress to completely fund psychological well being and substance abuse packages. The senator noted that the senator is now considering cutting $159 million in federal funding that helps treat the mentally ill. In response to the mass shooting in Lafayette, Sen. “These are not extreme ideas”, Schumer said.
Guns are blamed for around 32,000 deaths a year in the United States, a majority of them acts of suicide, and by some estimates there is nearly one gun for every man, woman and child in the country. “There are such a lot of killings, so many unnecessary killings, that day-after-day the motion grows”, he stated. “We know what can happen when they do.” said Amy Schumer.
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“Ladies are all the time beneath nice menace of violence, simply statistically”, she continued.
