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And this needs to happen on DU too.
I was screaming at the radio news this morning demanding they "SAY 'REPUBLICAN'" when they were reporting on the PA State House vote of 111 - 87 AGAINST a bill banning assault-style rifles and any other semi-automatic weapons in the state.
SAY THEIR NAME - REPUBLICANS.
Pa. House votes against taking up gun bill after Texas school shooting
By Associated Press May 25, 2022
An effort by Democratic lawmakers in Pennsylvania to ban owning, selling or making high-capacity, semi-automatic firearms went nowhere Wednesday as state House Republicans again displayed their firm opposition to gun restriction proposals. The state House of Representatives voted 111-87 against the effort by Democratic Rep. Danielle Friel Otten of Chester County to take up the bill after Majority Leader Kerry Benninghoff argued it should have to go through a committee first.
The bill has spent more than a year in the Judiciary Committee, where Chairman Rob Kauffman, R-Franklin, has bottled up most proposals to regulate or restrict firearms. During floor debate, Otten said the massacre of 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas on Tuesday created a “moral obligation to act, today, before this happens one more time.”
Minority Leader Joanna McClinton, D-Philadelphia, listed communities across Pennsylvania that have recently been the site of gun violence. The bill would not apply retroactively and result in people losing firearms they already lawfully bought, McClinton said.
Benninghoff, R-Centre, responded that because of the “magnitude” of the proposal it “needs to be vetted through the committee process” so that lawmakers can “get it right.”
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https://whyy.org/articles/pa-house-votes-against-taking-up-gun-bill-after-texas-school-shooting/
By Associated Press May 25, 2022
An effort by Democratic lawmakers in Pennsylvania to ban owning, selling or making high-capacity, semi-automatic firearms went nowhere Wednesday as state House Republicans again displayed their firm opposition to gun restriction proposals. The state House of Representatives voted 111-87 against the effort by Democratic Rep. Danielle Friel Otten of Chester County to take up the bill after Majority Leader Kerry Benninghoff argued it should have to go through a committee first.
The bill has spent more than a year in the Judiciary Committee, where Chairman Rob Kauffman, R-Franklin, has bottled up most proposals to regulate or restrict firearms. During floor debate, Otten said the massacre of 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas on Tuesday created a “moral obligation to act, today, before this happens one more time.”
Minority Leader Joanna McClinton, D-Philadelphia, listed communities across Pennsylvania that have recently been the site of gun violence. The bill would not apply retroactively and result in people losing firearms they already lawfully bought, McClinton said.
Benninghoff, R-Centre, responded that because of the “magnitude” of the proposal it “needs to be vetted through the committee process” so that lawmakers can “get it right.”
(snip)
https://whyy.org/articles/pa-house-votes-against-taking-up-gun-bill-after-texas-school-shooting/
These JACKASSES say - "it needs to go through a Committee" while it IS in the damn Committee and sits with nothing done with it.
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