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Bipartisan group of senators announce agreement on gun control
By HatetheSwamp
June 12, 2022 10:01 am
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A bipartisan group of senators announced an agreement on principle for gun safety legislation Sunday, which includes "needed mental health resources, improves school safety and support for students, and helps ensure dangerous criminals and those who are adjudicated as mentally ill can't purchase weapons," they said in a statement.

Notably, the announcement includes the support of 10 Republican senators, which would give the proposal enough support to overcome the Senate filibuster. The agreement is significant given how divided lawmakers have been over the gun issue, but the actual legislative text is not yet written.
The proposal includes support for state crisis intervention orders, funding for school safety resources, an enhanced review process for buyers under the age of 21 and penalties for straw purchasing.

Critically, the legislation includes a so-called red flag provision, with the government providing "resources to states and tribes to create and administer laws that help ensure deadly weapons are kept out of the hands of individuals whom a court has determined to be a significant danger to themselves or others," according to the release. The proposal would also include "major investments to increase access to mental health and suicide prevention programs; and other support services available in the community, including crisis and trauma intervention and recovery."

The group on the release includes Republican Sens. John Cornyn of Texas, Thom Tillis and Richard Burr of North Carolina, Roy Blunt of Missouri, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Susan Collins of Maine, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Rob Portman of Ohio, Mitt Romney of Utah and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania.


This is encouraging and, considering who some of these GOPs are, it seems as if there's nothing so radical that it could fail to survive a Court challenge.


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Comments on "Bipartisan group of senators announce agreement on gun control":

  1. by Curt_Anderson on June 12, 2022 10:23 am
    It's better than nothing. The mental health funding probably won't make much difference in regards to gun deaths, but it could help with the homeless crisis.


  2. by HatetheSwamp on June 13, 2022 4:00 am

    Curt,

    Assuming that the First and Second Amendments have meaning, what more would you propose?


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