Democrat Sen. Chris Murphy floats cutting funds to police that fail to enforce gun laws
last week told reporters that he would seek a ban on assault weapons before the new Congress convenes after the first of the year, saying he was “sick and tired of these shootings.”
“The idea we still allow semiautomatic weapons to be purchased is sick. It’s just sick. It has no, no social redeeming value. Zero. None. Not a single, solitary rationale for it except profit for the gun manufacturers,” Biden said as he visited first-responders at the Nantucket Fire Department on Thanksgiving Day in Massachusetts.
Flowers at a memorial outside an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, Co., in the wake of a mass shooting that killed five people on Nov. 19.But Murphy said he doesn’t think there are 60 votes in the Senate to pass a ban on assault weapons. “I’m glad that President Biden is gonna be pushing us to take a vote on an assault weapons ban,” he said on CNN.
“The House has already passed it. It’s sitting in front of the Senate. Does it have 60 votes in the Senate right now? Probably not. But let’s see if we can try to get that number as close to 60 as possible. If we don’t have the votes, then we’ll talk to [Senate Majority Leader Chuck] Schumer and maybe come back next year, with maybe an additional senator, and see if we can do better,” he said.
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