Senate Minority Leader McConnell says he has encouraged Sen. John Cornyn to sit down with Democrats to negotiate a legislative plan that would curtail mass shootings.
McConnell said Thursday that he had met with Cornyn, who flew back to Texas this week after a shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, west of San Antonio, leftMcConnell said in an interview on CNN that he had urged Cornyn to talk to Sens. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona and Chris Murphy of Connecticut, two Democrats who have called for bipartisan talks on gun safety legislation,"and others who are interested in trying to get an outcome that’s directly related to the problem.
Asked if the legislative solution that Republicans would welcome involves red flag laws, background checks or mental health access, McConnell declined to offer any specifics. He only said that the goal is to"come up with a proposal, if possible, that’s crafted to meet this particular problem." Democrats have warned that the issue of gun violence will be on the ballot in the midterm elections this fall.indicated overwhelming support for universal background checks.
They will break off into smaller working groups to focus on specific pieces of a potential package, negotiators said. It's unclear what the new bipartisan group will be able to accomplish, if anything.
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