A Michigan Democrat tried passing a safe storage law following a school shooting in her district in 2021. Now she responds to another mass shooting in her district.
daunting the task is. but i think looking at some of the extremely popular things that were not in the last gun bill, you know, ages for assault rifles, license and permitting requirements, it feels like small ball, but you know, something has to be done and ult s better to make progress along the edges than to do nothing. frank, people are sometimes surprised to hear that law enforcement are some of the most, biggest proponents of some kind of meaningful reform when it comes to gun legislation in this country, just because of the fact, they are on the very tip of the spear of having to deal with mass shootings. and we see it time and time again, and yet nothing gets done. why do you think there is such a rejection in this country politically and legislaively to do something that across the spectrum people want to see done? right, you have you have professional law enforcement organizations and leaders saying emphatically, they want less guns on the street. they want more ability
bill like a george floyd bill, but i want to get something over the line. again in a harder congress, i don t want to create too high expectations but we are looking at smaller measures, not as comprehensive of a bill. the reality is like we did with the gun bill. i was really proud to be a part of that with led by chris murphy to help get in more resources for community violence intervention. it s a bill that wasn t as far as people who believe we should have universal background checks or a ban on assault weapons. it made america safer. we have to do that in the realm of policing now as well. i know that you are optimistic about this because this is near and dear to your heart, but realistically, considering the makeup of the house and senate right now and the pushback that you are getting from republicans, kaitlin pointed out, just sort of stoic and sitting there. no reaction when the president is talking about this. do you really believe something
of voting for trump. i think it s really important for there to be few people that we identify, that we can work with in a bipartisan matter. if you remember many of the pieces of legislation that we have moved in a slim majority in the last congress, a lot of them had bipartisanship support, whether it was the bipartisan gun bill, whether it was the infrastructure legislation. there were a lot of moments where we had that, and i think the president asking for that moving forward, it s going to be really important for anything to get done in the house. and of course he is going to be talking about police reform as well. and i want to get to that. but an email just came out that i want to give you a chance to respond to. because your republican colleagues are fundraising off your removal from the house foreign affairs committee. the republican congresswoman brian mast of florida just sent out an email with the subject line we just banned ilhan omar. the email says she is a rabid
well, i mean, listen, people snap all over the world, right? america isn t the only place with people whose brains are breaking. we are not the country with more mental illness than other countries. in this country we have a fetisi z ation of pep weaponry and easy of access to the tools of mass murder that people have moments of mental crisis and have easy access to weapons. other countries just don t allow that. so i m all for spending more on mental health, in fact, the gun bill we passed last year put 50 billion additional dollars into mental health. i never thought we would solve our gun violence problem without tightening up our gun laws because america just doesn t have a bigger mental illness problem. we are just the only country with all these gun murders. when you look at a few of the shootings in the past few days, dance studio in monterey park, a school in iowa, workplace in