The Senate Judiciary Committee will study gun management measures at a listening to on Tuesday morning, within the wake of two mass shootings prior to now week that left at the very least 18 folks useless and created mounting stress for Congress to break a decades-long cycle of inaction on gun violence.
The listening to, scheduled by Senate Democrats earlier than the Boulder taking pictures, comes because the occasion had already begun advancing stricter gun management measures that face lengthy odds within the 50-50 chamber. House Democrats handed two payments this month aimed toward increasing and strengthening background checks for gun patrons, by making use of them to all gun patrons and lengthening the time the F.B.I. has to vet these flagged by the nationwide prompt examine system.
Democrats on the Judiciary Committee shortly signaled that the shootings had created a brand new sense of urgency on Capitol Hill to sort out a problem that has lengthy bedeviled Congress, the place a grim sample of anguish and outrage adopted by partisanship and paralysis has develop into the norm following mass shootings.
“Editing my opening statement for tomorrow’s hearing on gun violence only to look up & see the news reporting six killed by a gunman in Boulder,” Senator Richard Blumenthal, Democrat of Connecticut, wrote on Twitter earlier than the demise toll rose to 10. “How many more lives must be lost before we enact the gun violence prevention our country so desperately needs?”
