GOP Senator Says Political Power Is More Important Than Gun Safety

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

While the Senate may be drawing up a framework for new gun control legislation, one Republican senator made it clear on where his priorities stand on Tuesday afternoon.

“I think we’re more interested in the red wave than we are in red flags, quite honestly,” Sen. Kevin Cramer of North Dakota said after learning of the framework, according to Igor Bobic of HuffPost.

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Even Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Tuesday that he was “comfortable” with the framework that a group of 20 of his colleagues announced over the weekend. The Kentucky senator said he’d back the resulting legislation as long as it “ends up reflecting what the framework indicates.”

Besides making stricter background checks for gun buyers under 21 and funding mental health services and school security, it also would offer incentives for states to pass red-flag laws, as Florida did after the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Red-flag laws permit family members, police officers, and doctors to ask a judge to confiscate a person’s firearms if they believe them to be a threat to themselves or others. Nineteen states and the District of Columbia currently have these laws on the books.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/gop-senator-says-political-power-205229018.html

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. He wants all of us gone, NO MATTER what that takes.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

2. And the right of a gun owner to kill others

vastly outweighs anyone's right to stay alive. I mean, isn't that obvious?

[kacekwl]

3. These are the people

we are "negotiating" with about gun safety. No wonder this so called legislation is completely toothless.