address making a new plea yet again for gun action. telling congress in the wake of more mass shootings, enough is enough. more kids and on duty cops killed by guns. more kids than soldiers killed by guns. for god s sake, how much more carnage are we willing to accept? how many more innocent american lives must be taken before we say enough? enough. this time we have to take the time to do something. this time, it is time for the senate to do something. among the president s demands to congress, either ban assault weapons or raise the minimum purchase age to 21 years old. fact is, many of these proposals have no realistic chance of passage. there is little to no gop support for them. that s exactly right. even after what happened this week, and last. the president s speech comes as democrats on a house committee did pass a string of proposals and got in a fiery debate with a republican colleague, small bipartisan group of senators is still working behind the scenes, but
guns. no major federal legislation has passed congress on guns since then. nothing. the executive order, bump stocks, but no major change from congress. what do you make of that? well, we have to keep we have to keep on fighting, we have to keep on putting pressure. and so i think that we need to keep on planning, keep on marching, keep on writing to our politicians, to make sure they really get this issue done, and we need to keep using our platforms for good, and we need to keep meeting, we need to keep being willing to elevate the stuff that we are already doing, to make sure our politicians pass the pass major pieces of legislation that can really help this country. i was struck in reading your piece, you said, look, people invoke my grandfather s name day
have been very supportive of you speaking out publicly. i would like your reaction to this, what president biden said in his address to the nation last night. let s listen. guns are the number one killer of children in the united states of america. number one killer. more than car accidents, more than cancer. over the last two decades, more school aged children have died from guns than on duty police officers and active duty military combined. think about that. you re a child, he s talking about children. and you re a loud voice in this fight. what are your thoughts this morning? my thoughts this morning, especially on that speech, is that i think that it is important for the world to really see and listen to these stats. my next question is, okay, like, all these stats are important,
he urged congress to take action. he listed several specific measures that he would like to see. first among which is this assault weapons ban that president biden worked on back in the 1990s, lapsed in 2004 and he would like that to come back. but he made clear he knows that s not going to happen and he said at a minimum then congress should limit increase the minimum age to purchase those weapons to 21. we see him talking about expanding background checks, creating safe storage requirements that would make people who don t lock up their guns properly liable for anything that happens with them. he talked about national red flag laws, repealing the liability shield for gun manufacturers and also expanding mental health services for students in particular. all of these things are things president biden would like to see, but few of them are likely to actually pass through congress. these bipartisan negotiations that are taking place, they re looking at a really narrow set of issues, b
address making a new plea yet again for gun action. telling congress in the wake of more mass shootings, enough is enough. more kids and on duty cops killed by guns. more kids than soldiers killed by guns. for god s sake, how much more carnage are we willing to accept? how many more innocent american lives must be taken before we say enough? enough. this time we have to take the time to do something. this time, it is time for the senate to do something. among the president s demands to congress, either ban assault weapons or raise the minimum purchase age to 21 years old. fact is, many of these proposals have no realistic chance of passage. there is little to no gop support for them. that s exactly right. even after what happened this week, and last.