“I think that we take what we can get right now, considering it is much more than what we thought we were going to get,” said Rodolfo Rosales, a state director with the Texas branch of the League of United Latin American Citizens. “But make no mistake,” he said, “we still need a lot more gun control.” He added that “it’s not going to bring back the lives of those babies, but it is a start.”Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller of San Antonio, who has prayed with the families of victims and who pushed for tightening gun laws soon after the shooting, said in a statement on Sunday that the agreement was encouraging. “The framework, as it has been outlined, should receive broad support from elected officials and the public,” he said, adding that “everything that can advance peace in our midst has to be pursued.” He also praised Senator John Cornyn of Texas, a Republican, for working with Democrats and said compromises like this can help unify the country. In Orlando on Sunday — the sixth anniversary of the Pulse nightclub shooting — Ricardo Negron, 33, a voting rights activist and survivor of that attack, said that he was of two minds about the potential deal on gun safety measures.

Source: New York Times June 13, 2022 00:20 UTC