Facing yet another gut-wrenching mass school shooting, Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer and his fellow Senate Democrats signaled Wednesday that they are open to further negotiations with Republicans over potential gun-control legislation.
In his first extended remarks on the horror in Uvalde, Tex. — where an 18-year-old gunman killed 19 children and two adults in an elementary school — Schumer castigated Republicans for their repeated inaction after mass shootings dating back more than a decade, but said Democrats had no choice but to try again.
Schumer did not rule out holding those votes eventually. Speaking Wednesday, he acknowledged that some Democrats “want to see this body vote quickly so the American people can know which side each senator is on.” Both of those bills attracted only limited Republican support in the House and neither has anywhere near the 10 GOP Senate votes necessary for passage under the Senate’s filibuster rule.
Sen. Thom Tillis , who was involved in the 2019 negotiations, said the red-flag proposals he has seen constitute “overreach.” The bill has bipartisan support, but its effect is limited: It would expand a Secret Service threat assessment program to focus on school violence. Blumenthal and multiple other Democrats said they were open to any proposal that would show substantive action to keep guns out of the hands of would-be killers.
But other Democrats said they still wanted to put Republicans on the record on a variety of issues related to mass acts of gun violence.
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