Will Senate Democrats’ Talk-A-Thon Get Movement On Gun Legislation?

After a 15 hour long filibuster by the Democrats in the United States Senate, Republicans have finally agreed to hold their votes on tighter gun control measures.

The slaughter in Florida and an attention-grabbing filibuster in the Senate did little to break the election-year stalemate in Congress over guns Thursday, with both sides unwilling to budge and Republicans standing firm against any new legislation opposed by the National Rifle Association.

They ended their speeches before dawn, citing a Republican pledge to hold votes soon on measures to expand background checks on gun buyers and to prevent people on U.S. terrorism watch lists from buying guns.

The senator behind the 15-hour gun control “filibuster” on the Senate floor this week after the Orlando shooting is already looking beyond Monday’s scheduled vote on a series of gun control amendments that are expected to fail. Feinstein’s bill would alert authorities when anyone who’d been on a watch list in the past five years tried to buy a weapon, but would not automatically bar the sale. Republicans, including Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-West Virginia) back Texas Senator John Cornyn’s legislation. We can show Republicans that we reject their obstructionism and unwillingness to work across the aisle by voting them out and voting in Democrats that get it.

If Senate Republicans refuse once again to pass commonsense gun reform, there’s only one solution.

“He is going to meet with the NRA”.

Whether it’s shootings fueled by racism, rage against women, homophobia, extremist ideologies, or severe mental illness, I shudder to think what it says about us as a nation if we don’t even attempt to make a good faith effort to end this carnage. Senator Dianne Feinstein, top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said the ban would apply to “known or suspected terrorists”.

“The American people find it ridiculous that in response to an ISIS terror attack, the Democrats go on high dudgeon that we’ve got to restrict the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens”, Cruz said. He had been told the two issues would be called for a vote, but their fate remains uncertain. This was after an incredibly emotional, long-ranging discussion of why progress on gun control has been so slow in the wake of so many horrific shootings like the one that happened in Orlando over the weekend.

In the House, Himes and other Democrats were unable to force Speaker Ryan and the Republican leadership to take any action.

Murphy, whose personal outrage at gun violence was heightened by the murder of schoolchildren at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., in December 2012, claimed victory shortly before 2 a.m. Thursday when he announced an agreement between McConnell and the Democratic leader, Sen. During a two-hour private mourning session with families and friends of the victims at an arena, Mr Obama said, “they pleaded that we do more to stop” gun violence.

“Those people will vote against any candidate, even if they agree with that candidate on other issues, if the candidate proposes any kind of gun safety measure”.

What concerns Corker, especially, are two dueling approaches on how to handle gun purchasers who appear on the federal terror watch lists. At this point there’s no sign either can get the 60 votes needed, however. The Republican senators’ plan only allows the government to block a gun sale only if it can provide proof that the prospective buyer “has committed, or will commit, an act of terrorism”. It was revealed that the person behind the shooting, Omar Mateen, was on the FBI’s watch-list but was nevertheless able to purchase the gun that he used in the shooting.

Gun control has always been a bitterly divisive topic in the United States.

The gun control issue is deeply divisive and there have been no major restrictions passed since 1994, when Congress imposed a ban on semi-automatic assault weapons. The almost 10,000 gun homicides a year represent a death toll greater than in many civil wars.

Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., said Thursday that he and Sen.