So which gun "common sense" gun law would have prevented the shooting? BTW...Kerr should have concentrated on basketball yesterday. He has been a left wing activates since birth. When he speaks we know it what will be vomited out of his mouth.
Edit: I know, we should have smaller magazine sizes...oh wait...
that didn't work....We should make schools a gun free zone. Oh wait...they already are, and that didn't work...just like all the other laws the left wants to impose, but we are getting way off topic here. I am guessing there is a thread on this already started.
Another bill,
HR 8, the Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2021, would expand background checks for all firearm sales or transfers in the country. Currently, background checks are not required for gun sales and transfers by unlicensed and private sellers.
The legislation has bipartisan support, passing the House last year in a 227-203 vote. Eight Republicans supported the bill and one Democrat voted against it.
Asked Tuesday about this broader
House-passed background checks measure, Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia referenced his own, narrower effort in the Senate, saying, “If you can’t pass Manchin-Toomey, how are you going to get enough votes for anything?”
In 2013, Manchin and Republican Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania pushed a compromise bill that would have required background checks on all commercial sales of guns (including private sales at gun shows and all internet sales), but would have allowed for individuals to sell their firearms to family, friends and other acquaintances without background checks.
This failed under Senate filibuster rules, even though it had majority support. The vote was 54-46, with
four Republicans joining most Democrats in support. Then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid cast a “no” vote to secure the ability to bring the measure up again. Four other Democrats voted against the bill.
Manchin has continued to
push versions of that legislation in more recent years.
Republicans will argue that background checks chip away at gun rights and, ultimately, will take away guns. “You see Democrats and a lot of folks in the media whose immediate solution is to try to restrict the constitutional rights of law-abiding citizens,” Sen. Ted Cruz, a Texas Republican,
told reporters Tuesday.
The GOP will also argue that the bills would not stop every shooting. This is true. The specifics of each shooting are different. We still don’t know if any of this legislation would have stopped Tuesday’s shooter, identified by Texas officials as Salvador Ramos.
It's hard not to view Tuesday's shooting at a Texas elementary school, which left 19 children and two adults dead, as anything but a uniquely American tragedy.
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