Tawar -Tawar Senate reached an agreement on Tuesday with a Bipartisan weapons bill, which had the potential to fiddle at the end of the weekend at an additional package but it was important that would stand as a Congress response to mass shooting in Texas and New York who shook the nation.
MPs released the 80 pages of the nine days after agreeing to the framework for the plan and 29 years after the last Congress imposed the launch of a large firearm. This cleaned the initial procedural obstacle of 64-34, with 14 Republicans joining all 48 Democrats and two independent allies in choosing yes. It strongly supports predictions by the majority leader of the Chuck Schumer Senate, D-N.Y., From the approval of this weekend. Part by the Democratic DPR can follow quickly.
Although the Republican party blocks the louder restrictions sought by Democrats, Accord marks the breakthrough of the election year on the problem that pitted the weapons and rural GOP voters who are loyal to supporters of urban -centered firearms. That makes it one of the most incendiary cultural warforers in politics and sensitive voices for some parliamentary members, especially Republican parties that may alienate themselves.
The law will strengthen the background examination for the youngest firearm buyer, it requires more sellers to conduct a background check and receive punishment for the smuggling of weapons. This will also withdraw money to the state and community to improve school safety and mental health initiatives.
The assistant estimates that the action will cost around $ 15 billion, who is senator Chris Murphy from Connecticut, bargaining -Democratic bargaining, said it would be paid in full.
Prohibition for romantic partners with history of violence
Completing the last obstacle that postponed the agreement, the bill would forbid a romantic couple who were punished for domestic violence and not marry their victims from getting firearms. Abuse of the convicted person who is married, lives together or has children with victims they have been prohibited from having weapons.
This compromise prohibits weapons for someone who has a “current or new dating relationship with the victim.” ‘Which is defined in part as one of the people “who has or newly has a serious relationship that is sustainable from a romantic or intimate nature.” The ability of the perpetrators to have weapons can be restored after five years if they do not commit other serious crimes.
Red-flag gun laws
In other late disputes, the bill will give $ 750 million to 19 states and the Columbia district which has the law of “red flag” so it is easier to take firearms for a while from people who are decided to be dangerous, and to other states with Violence Prevention Program. Countries with states with states with states with states with states with states with states with states with states with states with states with states with states with states with states with states with states with states with states with states with countries Part with state with state with state with state with state with state with state with state with state with state with state. The “red flag” law that receives funds must have a legal process for weapons owners to fight the removal of firearms.
Momentum in the congress to law weapons has a rapidly reduced history after mass shooting. MPs are scheduled to start recess July 4 two weeks this weekend.
Lacking Biden’s proposals
This law does not have a much stronger proposal supported by President Joe Biden and Democrats has pushed not successful for years, slipping by the GOP opposition. This includes prohibiting the type of attack type weapon or increasing the minimum age to buy it, prohibit high -capacity magazines and requires a background check for almost all weapons sales.
But after 10 black buyers were killed last month in Buffalo, New York, and 19 children and two teachers died a few days later in Uvalde, Texas, Democrats and some Republican decided that this time, the steps measured were preferred than the reaction The usual congress of such horror – Gridlock.
Mr Murphy said that after Buffalo and Uvalde, “I saw the level of fear on the faces of parents and children I spoken to that I had never seen before.” He said his colleagues also experience anxiety among voters “Not only for the safety of their children, but also fear about the government’s ability to rise up to now and do something, and do something meaningful.”
This bill, said Mr. Murphy, will “save thousands of lives.” Before entering the senate, the district of his house included Newtown, Connecticut, of which 20 children and six staff members were killed in the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Top Gop Bargainer Senator John Cornyn from Texas said about the pact, “Some people think it’s too far, others think it’s not far enough. And I understand. That’s compromise. “
But he added, “I believe that the same person who tells us to do something send us a clear message, to do what we can to keep our children and our community safe. I am sure this law moves us in a positive direction. “
In a positive sign of his fate, the leader of the MCconnell Mitch Match Senate, R-Ky., Voined his support, calling it “Package of common sense from popular steps that will help make this terrible incident less likely while fully upholding the rights of the two laws of two laws of the two laws Second Law, Second Law, Second Law, Second Law, Second, Second, Secondly, both laws are both citizens. “
National Rifle Association opposes bill
The National Rifle Association, which has spent several decades thwarted the law control law, stated opposition. “It fails at every level. There is no little to actually overcome the crime of violence when opening the door for unnecessary burdens on the implementation of the freedom of the second amendment by the owner of weapons who obey the law, “said the weapons lobby group.
It seems that the majority of the Republican parties – especially in the DPR – will oppose the law.
Underline members of the GOP MPs reaction that supports the pact that will be faced from the hardest voters, the delegation mocks Mr. Cornyn at the Republic of the State Convention in Houston Saturday when he described the proposal.
In another measure of the conservative sentiment, Senator Josh Hawley from Missouri, a potential candidate for Republican 2024, tweeted that the bill “ignored the wave of national crime & chips left with the basic rights of citizens who obeyed the law.” Senator Tom Cotton, R-ARK., The possibility of challenger to the White House, said he would “limit the freedom of the law who obeyed the law and put too much strength in the hands of politicians and political officials.”
This size will require at least 10 GOP sounds to reach the main bill 60 sounds that are often needed in the 50-50 senate. Mr. Cornyn told reporters that he expected at least 10 GOP votes for the action.
What is uncertain is whether the passage will mark the beginning of a slow but gradual action to curb weapons violence, or high water mark on this problem. Until Buffalo and Uvalde, the mass murder parade that was numb – at the location including elementary and secondary schools, houses of worship, military facilities, bars and strips of Las Vegas – only produced deadlock in Washington.
“Thirty years old, murder after murder, suicide after suicide, mass shooting after mass shooting, the congress did nothing,” Murphy said. “This week we have the opportunity to violate the 30-year period with a bill that changes our law into the way that will save thousands of lives. “
Background checks
The bill will require that federal background examination for buyers of weapons aged 18 to 20 including examination of adolescent buyers. It can add up to seven more days to the current three -day limit on the background examination.
The suspects in the shooting of Buffalo and Uvalde are both 18 years old, a profile that matches many new mass shooters.
There will be hundreds of millions of dollars to expand the health center of community behavior, telemedic visits for mental specialists and train the first respondents to deal with people with mental health problems. More than $ 2 billion will be given to employ and train staff for school mental health services, including $ 300 million to improve school safety.
The congress banned firearms type attacks in 1993 in a ban that ended after a decade, the last law that swept the law that discussed weapons violence.
