“The time is now”, she said.
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U.S. actress and comedian Amy Schumer has teamed up with her cousin, Senator Charles Schumer, to call for stricter gun control laws.
The actress says “hate” directed at her is nothing new, especially as she has broached hot-button political issues in her comedy routines before. The legislation reportedly involves a “three-part plan” that “would reward states that submit comprehensive records into background check systems with funding and penalize the ones that do not”.
Police said 59-year-old John Russel Houser legally bought the.40-caliber semiautomatic handgun from a pawn shop which he used to kill two young women and wound nine other people. As for demanding change, Schumer added, “Don’t worry I’m on it. You’ll see”.
Amy Schumer speaks at a gun control press conference with Sen.
The July 23 shooting in Lafayette, Louisiana was the second in an American movie theater in four years, after the 2012 massacre in Aurora, Colorado during a screening of The Dark Knight Rises.
Amy Schumer Photo by Mario Santoro via Wikipedia ” Preventing unsafe people from getting guns is very possible”, the comedian said at a news conference. “I’m not sure why this man chose my movie to end these two attractive lives and hurt nine others, but it was very personal for me”.
“No one wants to live in a country where a felon, the mentally ill or other unsafe people can get their hands on a gun with such ease”, she told reporters.
Amy delivered an emotional speech with her cousin, Chuck, by her side to lament the events in Lafayette, Louisiana, where a crazed gunman shot eleven people, killing two, at the Grand 16 movie theater. Amy Schumer said today, “these are my first public comments on the issue of gun violence-I can promise you this: they will not be my last”.
The proposed legislation, as described later by the senator, would require states to report information to improve background checks, survey the states for best practices on involuntary commitment of the mentally ill and share that, and fund federal programs for mental-health and substance-abuse services. “When these sort of things happen we mourn, and then we get angry, and it’ll just make us fight harder”.
“I want to be proud of the way I’m living and what I stand for”, she said.
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