Since Sandy Hook, the nation has experienced more than 3,500 mass shootings, according to the Gun Violence Archive.
Giffords — a former Democratic lawmaker who still had difficulty speaking after being shot in the head in 2011 during an event in her Arizona district — was equal parts furious and devastated as she watched 46 of her former colleagues, including five Democratic senators, vote against the gun-control measure informally known as Manchin-Toomey.
, a nonprofit organization that tracks gun violence and defines a mass shooting as an incident in which four or more people are killed or injured.The shootings have touched nearly every imaginable slice of American life: A Black church in Charleston, S.C. . A government-funded nonprofit center in San Bernardino, Calif. . A gay nightclub in Orlando . A country music festival in Las Vegas . A high school in Parkland, Fla. . A synagogue in Pittsburgh .
Returning from Buffalo in the aftermath of the latest massacre, Biden said there was “not much on executive action” that he could carry out on gun control and, referring to the 1994 assault weapons ban, said, “I’ve got to convince the Congress that we should go back to what I passed years ago.”He also acknowledged the political head winds he was still facing, nearly a decade after Sandy Hook.
By mid-January, Biden produced a comprehensive road map for combating gun violence, and Obama announced 23 executive actions — including directing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to research the causes of gun violence; launching a nationwide responsible gun ownership campaign; providing law enforcement, first responders, and school officials with proper training for active shooter situations; and launching a national discussion about mental health.
But after other pro-gun groups, such as Gun Owners of America, came out against the measure, so, too, did the NRA.“From a policy standpoint, the thing became very diluted in order to get Manchin and Toomey to support it, but the upside was that it was, and nothing had been done on guns for so long and so getting anything done would have been a victory over the NRA,” Fallon said. “It would have been symbolic, in that it would have opened the door to do something on guns going forward.
Manchin and Biden did speak on the phone throughout the process, with Biden sharing lessons he learned helping pass the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act in 1993 and the ban on assault weapons in 1994. In the end, the measure was defeated 54-46 in April 2013, with only four Republicans — Toomey included — ultimately supporting the bill.
Much of the Democratic ire was reserved for Heitkamp, who had recently been elected and did not have to run again until 2018. Murphy — who, as the junior senator from Connecticut, views gun control as a passion project — said that in the decade after Sandy Hook, talk of federal action to prevent gun violence has bubbled up periodically, usually after another particularly devastating mass shooting.
“What happened is the Zelensky call became public, and those negotiations never started back up once we were on a fast track towards impeachment,” Murphy said. The following week, in a meeting with Democratic and Republican lawmakers, Trump bucked the NRA, calling for “comprehensive” gun legislation. He warned fellow Republicans that they can’t be “petrified” of the powerful gun group and at one point suggested, “Take the guns first, go through due process second.
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