“If you want to keep talking about gun control-you’re going to have the people on the right and the people on the left-not budging, continuing to yell and scream past each other and at each other from afar”, said Reichert who instead wants to talk about adding funding to law enforcement programs such as “Project Safe Neighborhood”.
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“The overwhelming majority of Americans want action to keep guns out of the hands of suspected terrorists and criminals”, Pelosi said during a press conference on the front steps of the Capitol on Wednesday.
“In order to make progress in America as we continue to march toward a more flawless union, you need peaceful agitation to precede legislation”, said Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of NY.
Shock over the Dallas shootings, the second major gun attack to rock the United States in less than a month, overshadowed the gun debate in the U.S. House of Representatives, where lawmakers have fought over three rival measures since the June 12 mass shootings at a gay nightclub in Orlando. The suspect said he was upset at white people. “This does not discount our support for law enforcement across the country”.
Texas Democrat Marc Veasey, who represents parts of Dallas, said Friday was the saddest day he’s experienced as a member of Congress.
Veasey expressed his appreciation for law enforcement, but also called for systematic changes to ensure that kids like his 10-year-old son won’t grow up and have to worry about being killed for no reason.
It also appears that calls for cooling tensions will not end bitter differences over whether racism is a problem contributing to violence in America, particularly involving police.
Some Republicans said the racial racial undertones of the shootings should not be ignored. “No cop, no prosecutor, judge or jury should stand up for a cop who kills an innocent person in cold blood”. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), speaking in Florida, said in reference to Castile.
“When we look at this Congress, we can do nothing but conclude that they are co-conspirators in the devaluation of the lives of men and women of color”, he said. But Butterfield turned down a reporter’s suggestion that the events in Dallas should change CBC members’ feelings about the group.
“Those protests were nonviolent”. Sheila Jackson Lee of Houston, Beto O’Rourke of El Paso, and Joaquin Castro of San Antonio. “We are a nation of laws”.
“We must learn to live together as brothers and sisters”. “We did not offer any violence”. “If not, we will perish as foes”. “We bear that responsibility if we don’t act”.
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Democratic leaders echoed the sentiment – and the effort to mourn the Dallas tragedy without putting the protest movement at fault.
