“I can’t do anything except plead with the Congress to act reasonably.” President Joe Biden
According to the Pew Research Center, 2021: 53% of Americans favor stricter gun laws. Yet . . .
After Nashville school shooting, Nikki Haley tells voters she is against gun control legislation.
Tennessee GOP Rep. Tim Burchett told reporters that “laws don’t work” to curb gun violence.
Republican Tennessee Sen. Bill Hagerty refused to discuss calls to ban AR-15s after the Nashville shooting.
House Judiciary Chairman Ohio Republican Jim Jordan, “The Second Amendment is the Second Amendment. I believe in the Second Amendment and we shouldn’t penalize law-abiding American citizens.”
Republican House majority leader Steve Scalise, who survived a shooting at congressional baseball practice: “The first thing in any kind of tragedy I do is I pray.”
On the same day as the Nashville shooting, a federal judge approved a legal settlement lowering the minimum age to carry handguns without a permit in Tennessee from 21 to 18: Tennessee Governor Bill Lee: “We can’t control what they do.”
Connecticut Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal: “We need a fight in Congress, and I’m prepared to conduct that fight.”
People look at thousands of handguns as hundreds of dealers sell, show and buy guns at The Nation’s Gun Show at the Dulles Expo Center in Metropolitan Washington, D.C.. JABIN BOTSFORD/THE WASHINGTON POST/Getty Images
