proposal which was announced just a few minutes ago. press release was sent out by senator chris murphy s office. he is the senator that has been leading this effort for almost ten years now since the sandy hook shooting. he says a group, a bipartisan group, ten republican and ten democratic senators have come to a resolution, an agreement in principle on this proposal. i will read a couple of the details that are included in this proposal to you now. one thing is incentives for states to implement those red flag laws that would allow weapons to be taken away from people deemed to be a danger to themselves or others. enhanced background checks for people between ages of 18 and 21. one source tells our team that a new system will be set up for this age group that does not exist for any other age group in the u.s.. it would require gun sellers to check with local law enforcement before being allowed to sell a firearm to that age group. as well as more funding for school securit
that session? i think we should try. if we re not going to try to get it to the president s desk, like he called for, it will certainly fail, but i was surprised as the viewers when we got bills across the finish line as well. this is the thing. there is really not a lot of muscle memory for politicians even champions on this issue to actually fight, and as i look back, at the election we just had, when voters returned the gun violence prevention majority in the senate and voters in key states like wisconsin, colorado, and pennsylvania, said that they would prefer candidates who support gun violence prevention, when you saw that great poll out just a couple of days ago, young latinos say that gun violence prevention is an absolute priority for them. there isn t any reason that our elected officials, when they make us promises to fight for this issue in their campaign,
do not think we are going to see people backing away from this. and you can be sure that for us as a movement, this is about folks listening to the american people. the most significant part of this for me is that the gun industry has had a stranglehold on actions to save lives, for really 30 years at the federal level in the united states senate. voter said in 2018 in 2020, we have had enough. they elected a gun violence prevention majority to the house of representatives. and our issue, the gun violence prevention movement, this is a huge day for us and for common sense change to end the epidemic of gun violence. so i am very excited about it. and iowa as well. we ll be disappointed to you this way. based on what you are talking about, how it has taken forever today for congress to get here, are you at all words that what will happen now is republicans will say, we have done something about gun violence, we don t want to revisit this?
how much worse is this going to are we going to let this get where the nra continues to buy of off our politicians and even when we do get a gun violence prevention majority in the house and the senate we have two senators that stand in the way that are literally allowing our children, our parents, our friends, our families to die every single day? what really enrages me, joy, is i m on right now, you know, talking about what happened in a community that i ve never been to and i can t speak for in any way, of course. but unfortunately, we all know the cycle as americans. and why do we continue why do we have the opportunity to do something here? there is not a single person in this country, liberal, democrat, you know, conservative, whatever it may be, that should not be calling, writing, tweeting or any you know, or anything else to the white house right now demanding that president biden uses his power as the executive to create a national
stood between the american people and the elimination of our second amendment rights has been conservatives in congress willing to fight for those rights. chris, you re fighting the good fight on gun safety. the president sounds like he s doing the fight right after the claims because we re all in the same situation emotionally. then he gets up with that hand in the air, this oath-taking with the nra. it s almost like the new testament. he literally puts his hand up like jesus in the scriptural paintings. he knows those guys never change their tune. that s his belief, certainly. and the nra has demonstrated historically that they can be a powerful force. i don t think he s gotten the memo. he talks about the fact that the nra is not as powerful as it once was. he must recognize that in 2018 we have a gun violence prevention majority in the house of representatives. not by accident. all of the gun violence prevention groups outspent the