With the country reeling from three mass shootings in the last three weeks, President Biden called on Congress to deliver “common-sense” reforms to curb gun violence, during a rare prime-time address from the White House. A man prays at a memorial for the victims of a mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)“The fact that the majority of the Senate Republicans don’t want any of these proposals even to be debated or come up for a vote, I find unconscionable,” he said. My friends, what the hell are you waiting for?”Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, the top Republican on the committee, said no one wants to see another tragedy or relive another mass shooting. (Ian Maule/Tulsa World via AP)Murphy, a fierce gun safety advocate, expressed a willingness to accept “incremental change” in a bipartisan deal to reform the nation’s gun laws.

Source: Los Angeles Times June 03, 2022 14:58 UTC