Multiple mass shootings in recent weeks have led to calls for Congress to act on gun reforms, with both chambers taking different approaches on how to address the problem legislatively.
Following the May 14 shooting at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket that left 10 dead, the Uvalde, Texas, school massacre on May 24 that resulted in the death of 19 children and two teachers, and the five killed in a shooting at a Tulsa, Oklahoma, medical facility on June 1, Democrats in the lower chamber are pushing for substantial policy changes that are likely to be met with pushback in the Senate.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi asserted that the House would take up legislation to ban assault weapons during a gun control rally in San Francisco on Wednesday. “Absolutely not,” the GOP Twitter account for the House Judiciary Committee tweeted in response to Pelosi’s calls to pass an assault weapons ban. Shortly after the Texas shooting, Sen. Ted Cruz told CNN, “Inevitably, when there’s a murderer of this kind, you see politicians try to politicize it, you see Democrats and a lot of folks in the media whose immediate solution is to try to restrict the constitutional rights of law-abiding citizens.
“Sens. Murphy, Sinema, Tillis, and I had a very constructive conversation about the best response to the horrific events in Uvalde last week. We’ve asked our staff to continue to work together to address some of the details that we hope to be able to discuss at some point soon,” he said.
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