Senate GOP blocks domestic terrorism bill, gun policy debate
A bipartisan group of senators is trying to find a compromise on gun legislation. That's after Democrats’ first attempt at responding to the back-to-back mass shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde, Texas, failed Thursday in the Senate.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats' first attempt at responding to the back-to-back mass shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde, Texas,failed in the Senate Thursday as Republicans blocked a domestic terrorism bill that would have opened debate on difficult questions surrounding hate crimes and gun safety.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. tried to nudge Republicans into taking up a domestic terrorism bill that had cleared the House quickly last week after mass shootings at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, and a church in Southern California targeting people of color. He said it could become the basis for negotiation.
But the vote failed along party lines, raising fresh doubts about the possibility of robust debate, let alone eventual compromise, on gun safety measures. The final vote was 47-47, short of the 60 needed to take up the bill. All Republicans voted against it.
"None of us are under any illusions this will be easy," Schumer said ahead of the vote.
Republicans pushing laws that take away women's rights to their own bodies, criminalising care for trans kids. All while fighting to the very death to ensure no meaningful gun control never happens.
America is a failed state.
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