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This year, the Connecticut Democrat, sounding even more desperate, tried political candor: "I wish it didn't feel like Groundhog Day - but one day it won't," Mr. Murphy insisted after the Las Vegas gun rampage left 58 dead and many more wounded last month. "There's no great social change movement in this country that didn't have failures before it had success," he said of his perennial proposal, perennially rejected, for tighter background checks on gun buyers.
The FBI's background-check system is missing millions of records of criminal convictions, mental illness diagnoses and other flags that would keep guns out of potentially dangerous hands, a gap that contributed to the shooting deaths of 26 people in a Texas church this week. Experts who study the data say government agencies responsible for maintaining such records have long failed to forward them into federal databases used for gun background checks - systemic breakdowns that have lingered for decades as officials decided they were too costly and time-consuming to fix.
Investigators work at the scene of a deadly shooting at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, Sunday Nov. 5, 2017. A man opened fire inside of the church in the small South Texas community... .
Members of the FBI walk next to the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs after a fatal shooting, Sunday, Nov. 5, 2017, in Sutherland Springs, Texas.( When Speaker of the House Paul Ryan posted a message on Twitter after Sunday's church shooting in Texas , he got quite the backlash. The responses slammed the Republican from Wisconsin, essentially saying thoughts and prayers are not enough and calling for action on gun control.
Democratic attorneys general from 17 states are calling on Congress to abandon legislation backed by the National Rifle Association that would allow concealed-carry gun permits issued in one state to be valid in all states. The top prosecutors from states including New York, Pennsylvania, Iowa and California sent a letter to congressional leaders in both parties on Sunday warning that federal reciprocity proposals being debated on Capitol Hill "will lead to the death of police officers and civilians, the proliferation of gun traffickers, and acts of terrorism and other mass violence."
A former NPR CEO decided to take a year off from work to surround himself with conservatives, Trump supporters, and Evangelical christians - groups he admittedly only "knew through Jerry Falwell and the movie Foot Loose." In turn, he found a group of people deeply engaged in caring for others, a justifiable dissatisfaction for the mainstream media, and even developed a sense of appreciation for guns.
Bewildered by US Congress's apathy on mass shootings, Why US Congress will not pass gun laws, Myanmar's openness to a Rohingya return is the first step, Saudi Arabia's female driving ban lift is a smokescreen, Catalonia crackdown is democracy's slow death Rifles line a wall above in front of people standing in a gun shop in Seattle. The slaying of five dozen people at a Las Vegas music festival did little to change American opinion about the nation's gun laws, and the country is divided over whether restricting firearms would reduce the number of such mass shootings or homicides, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
In advance of debate on tax reform and the federal budget, Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer is asking fellow Democrats to stay aloof from debate over gun control despite efforts by gun control advocates that the party needs to take action in the wake of the Las Vegas massacre. This comes despite urging from gun control groups for Democrats to take a stand in favor of controls on gun purchases, such as expanded background checks and bans on silencers.
I love these "Republican identity crisis" polls, especially when it's not clear which wing of the party is suffering an identity crisis. Case in point: That Cato poll from a few days ago about GOPers wanting to strip flag-burners of their citizenship horrified conservatarians like me.
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A bipartisan pair of House members has introduced a ban on the bump stock devices used to speed up the rate of fire of semi-automatic weapons - an accessory used by the Las Vegas shooter last week. The bill, from Reps.
If you strip away legal protections for rights valued by millions of Americans, you're just going to make them angry to no good end. It's always been true, as gun restrictionists have repeatedly promised, that " nobody's going to take your guns away ."
NRA Spokesperson Dana Loesch slammed members of Saturday Night Live who called for stricter gun control and accused them of inciting class warfare, Monday on "Fox and Friends." "They have the luxury of being able to tell everyone else to disarm because it's class warfare," Loesch said.
Seeking momentum for gun restrictions, Sen. Dianne Feinstein on Sunday said only broader legislation would be effective in outlawing "bump stocks" such as the the device used by the Las Vegas gunman. But the National Rifle Association urged more limited regulations that stopped short of a ban.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a leading gun control advocate, said Sunday no law could have stopped the Las Vegas gunman, Stephen Paddock. "No, he passed background checks registering for handguns and other weapons on multiple occasions," Feinstein told CBS's "Face the Nation."
The Las Vegas shooter was certainly well armed, but not well regulated. The massive firepower he accumulated in his Mandalay Bay hotel suite included over twenty rifles and other guns.
The National Rifle Association is opposing a ban on "bump stocks" like the device used by the Las Vegas gunman to turn semi-automatic weapons into rapid-fire guns, stressing its support for more limited regulations. The powerful lobby last week surprised many gun control advocates by embracing possible restrictions on the bump stock devices in the wake of the shootings that killed more than 50 people and injured 500, prompting bipartisan support in Congress for regulating or banning bump stocks.
Texas Agricultural Commissioner Sid Miller is considering what a reader regards as drastic measures to reduce the feral hog population in the state. He says the measures are not necessary.
The debate over bump stocks on guns heated up in Washington and across the country this week, after a gunman used the device to open fire on thousands of concert goers on the Las Vegas strip last Sunday, killing 58 people and leaving hundreds of other injured. A bump stock is a device that can be used to simulate automatic gunfire with a semi-automatic weapon, by harnessing a semi-automatic rifle's recoil to increase its rate of fire.
The National Rifle Association and other gun rights groups spent millions of dollars on the 2016 elections - primarily to elect President Donald Trump and six Republican senators in battleground states. Largely because South Carolina is controlled by Republicans who rarely face competitive races, and because gun control efforts largely are stymied even at the Statehouse level, the gun lobby sees little need to heavily invest in South Carolina elections.