Jamie Raskin, a Maryland Democrat, said mass shootings did not start with Buffalo. “It is obscene, one mass shooting after another.” “As we sit here, there are multiple shots near Racine, Wisconsin,” said Rep. The amendment would require the attorney general to submit a report to the House and Senate Judiciary committees and to collect “the demographic data of persons who were determined to be ineligible to purchase a firearm based on a background check performed by the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, including race, ethnicity, national origin, sex, gender, age, disability, average annual income, and English language proficiency, if available.” Wisconsin shootingĮven while House members fought over gun control, more gun violence broke out in Wisconsin, where five people were shot while attending a funeral. Only one was accepted, by Republican Rep. Republicans submitted 10 amendments to the bill. Cohen added that assault weapons, which are typically used in mass shootings, were banned from 1994 until the law expired in 2004. He said all the provisions in the bill should be law today. They criticized Democrats for rushing to pass legislation.
Republicans on the committee raised repeated objections to the bill, blaming mental health problems and a lack of “family values” as the reasons for the recent mass shootings. The House gun control package would raise the age of purchasing semiautomatic rifles from 18 to 21, create new requirements for storing guns in a home with children, prevent gun trafficking, require all firearms to be traceable and close the loophole on bump stocks, devices that increase the rate of fire of semiautomatic weapons, among other things. While the legislation is expected to pass a Democrat-controlled House, it’s unlikely to advance in the evenly divided Senate, where a small bipartisan group of senators is discussing more limited measures. It’s expected to be on the House floor next week. 7910, known as the Protecting Our Kids Act, is made up of eight bills related to gun control, all first introduced in 2021 by Democratic lawmakers. House Judiciary Committee passed a gun control package on a party-line vote, 25-19, following a heated all-day markup called on an emergency basis by Democrats after the recent spate of gun violence. ‘Protecting Our Kids Act’Īt the same time Biden spoke at the White House, the U.S. “It must end.”įirearm related injuries are now the leading cause of death for children and adolescents in the United States, according to the New England Journal of Medicine. “The gun industry special protections are outrageous,” Biden said. He also expressed his support for laws that would safely store guns in homes where children live, and for an end to the liability shield that prevents civil lawsuits from being brought against gun manufacturers. And if Congress could not agree to ban them, Biden said the age to purchase an assault weapon should be raised from 18 to 21. Another mass shooting at a hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Wednesday night left four dead.īiden said Congress should ban assault weapons, like the ones used in the recent mass shootings. Ten days later, an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, was attacked by an 18-year-old man armed with a rifle and 19 children and two teachers were killed. The plea came after a White supremacist killed 10 Black people at a supermarket in a predominantly Black neighborhood in Buffalo, New York, on May 14. “How much more carnage are we willing to accept?” This is about protecting children,” Biden said. “This isn’t about taking away anyone’s rights. WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden called on Congress to pass gun control legislation in a speech at the White House Thursday evening, following mass shootings in New York, Texas and Oklahoma during the last three weeks.
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