Senators Push Gun Bill
Senate negotiators on Tuesday reached a long-awaited deal on a bipartisan gun safety bill to take firearms away from dangerous people and provide billions of dollars in new mental health funding.
The legislation represents a rare moment of bipartisan agreement on the charged issues of gun violence and gun control, breaking nearly 30 years of stalemate on those issues.
The bill does not ban assault-style rifles or high-capacity magazines or significantly expand background-check requirements for gun purchases, reforms that were top Democratic priorities a decade ago.
But it does give states more resources to take guns away from dangerous individuals, even if they haven’t been convicted of a crime, and provides billions of dollars in funding for mental health treatment.
Lawmakers who crafted the legislation say their goal from the start was to prevent mass shootings, such as the mass-casualty events that left 10 people dead at a Buffalo supermarket and 21 dead at the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.
“I want to make sure we actually do something useful, something that is capable of becoming a law, something that will have the potential to save lives,” Sen. John Cornyn (Texas), the lead Republican negotiator said on the Senate floor Tuesday.
“I’m happy to report as a result of the hard work of a number of senators in this chamber that we’ve made some serious progress,” he said.
Senators and staff worked through the weekend and said Tuesday afternoon they had resolved all their outstanding disagreements, giving Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) a good chance of passing a bill before the July 4 recess.
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Senators hail ‘bipartisan breakthrough’ on gun safety legislation
I was just passing by, and had to stop and add my note of disgust at the Republican Senators who caved to pressure and helped take yet again a tiny piece of our rights away from us. It matters not that we had the SCOTUS hand down a ruling that strengthens our 2nd amendment rights. We all know that the left will continue to fight and make it just as hard to avail themselves of the rights, for those who live in the socialist, I mean Democrat controlled, oh, I guess they are the same thing, states.
They did it with Heller and also with McDonald. Reading some of the text from the actual ruling handed down, it is apparent that Justice Thomas was in particular adamant that the states follow the Supreme Court’s ruling this time. It is my hope that this ruling accomplishes everything that is possible for it to do. It is my fear that like any other ruling that the left doesn’t like, it will be ignored, as we have already seen, from the comments from the DOJ, saying that they “disagree” with the ruling.
The best thing that Justice Thomas wrote, in my own opinion, in writing for the majority, was that the two step test for reviewing a case was thrown out, and that only one test was to be used in determining the legality of a gun law. Does the law fall within the scope of conduct protected by the second amendment. Period, end of sentence, exclamation point. Lower courts have been adding a second test, which was, basically, did the government have a better reason to disallow the legality of that activity, and in most cases that we can think of, the answer is always yes, and the plaintiff was over ruled, and the gun law stayed in effect. At least now, if the 2nd amendment says it is a protected thing, be it the right to carry a gun for protection ,or the right to own the same type of weapon that is in common use, etc, then the courts cannot step in and stop that right based on the thought that the government doesn’t like it and so it can just say no. If you have the right to something that the 2nd amendment protects, then you have that right, and it theoretically should not be infringed.
Time will of course tell just how that works out.