Democrats will introduce a measure Wednesday to boost research into gun violence, but it has little hope of support in the Republican-controlled House.
., said he didn’t see anything else that Congress could do on the issue, dismissing calls to expand background checks and Biden’s plea to ban assault weapons.Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer on Tuesday also did not commit to putting an assault weapons ban on the Senate floor, saying he was seeking the votes for the legislation.
Still, it is unlikely the Markey-Slotkin proposal would be taken up by the Republican House majority, whose members spent Tuesday criticizing Democrats for what they deemed politicization of the issue. “My hope would be that we start having those conversations as we move forward because again, this individual — I’m not going to get into the politics of the transgender issue — was on a number of levels crying out for help, and nobody did anything,” he said. Police on Tuesday said the shooter, 28-year-old Audrey Hale, had been receiving treatment for “an emotional disorder” and hid several weapons from Hale’s parents before opening fire.
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