Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) has decided to postpone any votes on gun safety legislation.
Schumer hoped to have the Senate vote on gun control proposals following the May 14 mass shooting at a Tops Friendly Markets store in Buffalo and yesterday's school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. However, the Senate Majority Leader told Democrats today not to expect votes on gun control anytime soon. (RELATED: Governor Orders Home Gun Confiscation Raids Without Due Process)
Instead, Schumer will rely on colleagues, like Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), to find a bipartisan solution with Republicans that would have a chance of overcoming a filibuster.
The Hill reports:
“There are some who want this body to quickly vote on sensible gun safety legislation, legislation supported by the vast majority of Americans,” he said. “They want to see this body vote quickly so the American people can know which side each senator is on …. I'm sympathetic to that, and I believe that accountability votes are important.”
But Schumer said he thought that bringing gun-control legislation in the immediate aftermath of Buffalo and Uvalde, where two lone shooters left a total of 31 people dead in the span of 10 days, would be fruitless because of staunch Republican opposition to such reforms.
Schumer's changing tune followed criticism from more moderate members of his caucus, like Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.), who expressed frustration with his proposals to reporters. (RELATED: Liberal Think Tank Recommends Dealing With ‘Root Causes' – Not Guns – to Combat ‘Gun Violence')
Hot Air's Ed Morrissey adds:
It's not just Manchin and Sinema that want to take more time to mull over the options. Jon Tester said he'd vote to open debate on a bill to expand background checks, but only if Schumer could reach some sort of compromise that would pass:
Manchin's not happy with the House bill, though, and might not vote to open debate:
The Texas shooter bought two rifles days before he gunned down 19 children and two teachers, according to multiple reports. Authorities found one discarded in his truck after it crashed outside the school. They retrieved the other next to his deceased body. Both were purchased legally.
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The Dems are a broken record looking to blame the honest law abiding citizen because of the actions of a nut case. If we followed the same logic, we should blame all the Democrats for the actions of the Bernie Sander’s supported who shot Steve Scalise and other Republicans at a softball field. Take that further to blame them all for ANTIFA and BLM rioters violence from 2020 onwards.
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Schumer is a Demonrat therefore a liar and even at that wouldn’t recognize real gun safety if slapped with it. The majority of the shootings going on in this country are their own Demonrat voters. You want safety start with them.
If any people are scared, it’s because our federal and in some cases state and local governments have spent the last two years making them that way. I just saw a guy yesterday driving his car by himself with his mask on. I only wear a mask at health facilities nowadays, they are the only ones requiring it. If people are afraid of people with guns, the government could do something about the thugs running our major democrat cities, it is still against existing laws already, but they just turn them loose. They could do something about the insanity which they have made worse with lockdowns and social isolation. Instead they wish to penalize law abiding citizens and infringe on their Constitutional rights.
Oh chuckie boy, can’t you stop the spin and just say you don’t nor never will have the votes?
One more note chuck, the “vast majority”of Americans don’t want more feel good, just because the midterms are nigh. Tell your liberal prosecutors and judges to enforce what we already have, and believe me, we have plenty. We will not comply anyway. You won’t even mention that hunter’s gun was a straw purchase, nor that obama and holder caused the deaths of hundreds.