"We need our police, we need our law enforcement, and there has to be accountability in place for us all to be safe," Assistant Pastor Andre Dukes said.
conversation along the lines we re talking about? have people who have unenrolled from the nra i learned to shoot when i was seven years old under an nra program at the ymca camp. it was an organization that taught young people how to respect guns and how to be safe with a firearm. and its mission has changed. and so you don t support the nra and i wouldn t support them unless they changed. that does not change the fact that there are millions of gun owners who are responsible gun owners around the country who cory booker he names guns by names or their characteristics of guns he owns. you have this sicko who took a gun against other human beings. rick, you didn t buy your gun presumably in the back of a truck at a gun show. yet we debate over and over again. those are loopholes. i would support a universal background check.
order statute that takes guns away from people who may be indicating they re going to take lives as possibly this shooter did because he was a fired employee, and other measures like a safe storage law, ethan s law, named after a young man, ethan song, who was accidentally killed at a friend s home when they were playing with guns. there s no single solution and no single state can do it because guns cross state lines. and that s why a national federal approach is necessary. but congress has been complicit by its inaction, and we know also there will be the opportunity. the house of representatives have passed a universal background check law that the senate has not taken up. it must. i appreciate what you re saying about the state level versus the federal level. what do you say to the constituent who looks at connecticut or maryland or new york and has given up hope