New Gun Control Measures Set To Be Announced Today By The Senate

Highlights:

https://www.axios.com/2022/06/12/senators-reach-gun-safety-deal

Details: The proposal includes an under 21 enhanced review process, which means buyers under 21 will be required to undergo an investigative period to review juvenile and mental health records, including checks with state databases and local law enforcement. The deal also:

• Clarifies the definition of a "federally licensed firearms dealer": Cracks down on criminals who illegally evade licensing requirements.
• Penalizes straw purchasing: Cracks down on criminals who illegally straw purchase and traffic guns.
• Supports state crisis intervention orders: Provides resources to states to create and administer laws that help ensure deadly weapons are kept out of the hands of individuals whom a court has determined to be a significant danger to themselves or others.
• Invests in children and family mental health services: Major investments to increase access to mental health and suicide prevention programs.
• Protections for victims of domestic violence: Convicted domestic violence abusers and individuals subject to domestic violence restraining orders will be included in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.
• Funding for school-based mental health and supportive services: Invests in programs to expand mental health and supportive services in schools, including: early identification and intervention programs and school based mental health and wrap-around services.
• Funding for school safety resources: Invests in programs to help institute safety measures in and around primary and secondary schools, support school violence prevention efforts and provide training to school personnel and students.
• Invests in telehealth resources: Invests in programs that increase access to mental and behavioral health services for youth and families in crisis via telehealth.

 

Baby steps. Even then, all but one of our NRA blood money Texas politicians voted against these baby steps towards what we really need to do in gun reform. When the time comes I hope they all get voted out.

 

That's a step in the right direction.

 

sounds like lunatic control more than gun control

 

That's a good start.

 

No teeth. This is like a joke.

 

That's so disgusting when the majority of the GOP doesn't want any gun reform. It's like a mob with them and the NRA as their mafia boss. We've had ten more mass shootings yesterday and today. This is ridiculous!

 

It shouldn’t be this hard. There is no way we should be choosing our “right” to buy unregulated AR-15s over the safety of our children in schools.

I just don’t get it.

 

We should repeal the 2nd Amendment and set rules for a modern society, that is what the author of the constitution Thomas Jefferson recommended.

DD

 

Honestly, I think some of them would prefer sticking to their gun money and say if their teacher was packing an assault rifle then their kid might have been saved. Lauren Boebert, Ted Cruz, and Greg Abbott come to mind in that scenario.

 

And my money is on all 10 of these Republicans getting primaried by an NRA funded mega nutcase.

I fear too that there is a setup coming where some meaningless bill is passed and the next time there is a shooting in unison the Republicans and FOX will go in full gear screaming “See!!! It’s not the guns!!” And saying the Dems failed you… vote R and we’ll sic John Wayne on the bad guys.

Still… gotta sign it into law and just make an effort to message what it is and what it is not.

 

No Assault weapons ban, No expanded background checks, and no raising of purchase age. Fail.

 

guess again

 

This proposed bill certainly doesn't go far enough but it is something and given the opposition we need to do something. The problem with issues like this is that legislative inertia builds up so that it becomes harder to make even mild change. At the sametime the attitude that unless it stops all incidences it shouldn't be passed.

I will repeat again. Even if we stopped the sale of all firearms tomorrow there will still be mass shootings. Given how many weapons are out there already. Like any large problem though taking the first few steps is necessary. It's like being morbidly obese. No diet will cause you to lose all the weight quickly but if you're unwilling to take even mild steps like cutting back on drinking soda you will never lose weight.

 

Just to note from the 10 Republicans that are supporting this 4 are not running again and 6 are not up for reelection. And no surprise but some Republicans are already lining up to heavily oppose it including against the members of their own party.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/12/us/gun-deal-democrats.html
"The agreement still has to be turned into legislation, and failure to agree on the terminology and the exact reach of some of the provisions could prove difficult and still imperil the deal. Gun rights groups and legislative opponents are also certain to raise the alarm and attempt to build opposition to it.

“Even this proposal could be achieved only because the potential political backlash for the Republicans directly involved is limited. Four of the 10 Republicans who are backing the proposal — Senators Roy Blunt of Missouri, Rob Portman of Ohio, Richard M. Burr of North Carolina and Patrick J. Toomey of Pennsylvania — are retiring, and may never face voters again. None of the other six Republicans who signed on to the compromise is on the ballot in November.
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But the fact that Republicans engaged to the level that they did showed that they were hearing from voters at home about the epidemic of mass shootings after the horrific episode in Uvalde, Texas, to a greater extent than they have in the past.
I will vote against the Biden-Schumer gun confiscation legislation, which includes red flag gun confiscation that violates the Second Amendment rights of my constituents,” Representative Mary Miller, Republican of Illinois, declared in on Twitter on Sunday, soon after the framework was disclosed.

Representative Lauren Boebert, the right-wing Republican from Colorado who has made gun rights her calling card, circulated the names of the 10 G.O.P. senators backing the deal on Twitter, calling it a “list of Senate RINOS,” using the acronym for “Republican in name only.”"

 

I also suspect this bill will have a hard time passing the House especially given that a House Bill already passed with much greater measures. There is some hope that a compromise can come out of House Senate negotiations but I doubt it given how much opposition there was just getting these passed. It won't surprise me at all if there are many in the House who oppose this bill. Like so many issues I would still encourage them to pass this.

Doing nothing is worse than doing little.