of the issue. there is talk, big talk and plenty of proposals on the books in congress to change gun laws, but there are no actual plans for congress to pass them. cnn s phil mattingly spoke with two lawmakers who fall on different sides of the debate, both directly affected by gun violence. reporter: two lawmakers with personal experiences with gun violence on complete opposite sides of the gun debate. i urge my colleagues to vote yes on hr-8, the bipartisan background checks act of 2019. it is time. this is a bad gun control bill we ought to reject it. reporter: lucy mcbath s son was murdered in 2012. that and the fight for more restrictive gun laws is the reason she is in congress today. the fact that i am lehere ani ran on platform of gun violence
the bipartisan background checks act of 2019. it is time. this is a bad gun control bill, we ought to reject it. reporter: congresswoman lucy mcbath s son was killed in 2009. it s the reason she s in congress today. i ran on a platform of gun violence prevention, when people kept telling me don t do it, that s suicide, you can t win. the numbers aren t there. i wasn t the only one that ran on this platform. but this was my number one platform because it s the right thing to do. reporter: mcbath, a democrat notched an upset victory in november after six years of gun advocacy, in a campaign that didn t shy away from the issue. and in the end, i will always just be a mother on a mission. reporter: steven scalise, moments from death in 2017, after he and republican colleagues were targeted by a gunman at a congressional baseball practice. now both at the center of the
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through the track. john. this week, congress is expected to take up the first stand alone gun reform bill in almost two decades. hr 8, known as the bipartisan background checks act from unlicensed sellers, closing a gaping loophole. this is about as closest as you get in american politics. the quinnipiac poll a year ago showed 97% support for this. 98% of democrats and 98% of independents and republicans. but it was taken after the school massacre. support tends to spike after the attacks. the percentage of those saying guns is the most important issue tends to fade after. the gun lobby knows it and bet on it. it will probably pass the house and likely get stopped by the republican controlled senate. look at the mass shootings in
have the judiciary house committee approved two bills that would expand federal background checks for firearm purchases. i think it s the first time in something like 20 years we ve had anything move out of the house on gun reform so you guys did that. talk about why you guys have decided to stick with this activism one year on? you know, one thing i think is very important about the bipartisan background checks act of 2019 is the fact that they focused on the mental health aspect of gun violence something that was largely ignored. we with the onset of this movement we noticed that people mainly focused on be banning particular types of weapons, assault weapons, bump stocks and the sort, but i saw that as half of the equation. i thought it was absolutely absurd that we had to focus on, you know, what people were just thinking that assault weapons were the only issue when you read the headlines and they re tagged with lines like he was really stressed out, he was really angry, he