Federal Gun Restrictions Are Likely Doomed in the Senate

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🗓️ 25 May 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

A mass shooting at a Texas elementary school has many Americans again asking what can be done about gun violence. But in the face of broad Republican opposition in the Senate, there's likely no path forward for new restrictions.

Also, two Trump-endorsed candidates failed to unseat incumbent Republicans in Georgia's primary elections. That doesn't mean the GOP can discount Trump's influence.

This episode: White House correspondent Scott Detrow, congressional correspondent Susan Davis, national political correspondent Mara Liasson, and senior political editor and correspondent, Domenico Montanaro.

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0:00.0	It's the NPR Politics Podcast.
0:05.5	I'm Scott Detro.
0:06.5	I cover the White House.
0:07.7	It is 137 Eastern on Wednesday, May 25.
0:11.6	And you've all de Texas at least 19 children are dead, along with two adults.
0:17.1	All of the kids were in the same fourth grade classroom.
0:20.6	It's another terrible moment in what feels like an endless horrifying string of mass shootings
0:25.6	in the United States, including the recent Buffalo shootings.
0:29.6	This night, immediately after he returned from Japan, President Biden responded.
0:34.0	The idea that an 18 year old kid can walk into a gun store and buy two assault weapons.
0:40.5	It's just wrong.
0:44.0	What in God's name do you need to solve before accepting kill someone?
0:49.7	Do you aren't running through the forest with Kevlar Veson for God's sake?
0:54.8	It's just sick.
0:57.5	Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy, a Democrat who was in Newtown Connecticut the day of the
1:01.8	2012 Sandy Hook shootings, and has made tougher gun laws a central goal of his time in the
1:06.7	Senate, was equally forceful from the Senate floor.
1:10.1	What are we doing?
1:13.8	Just days after a shooter walked into a grocery store to gun down African and American patrons,
1:21.0	we have another Sandy Hook on our hands.
1:24.7	What are we doing?
1:27.8	There have been more mass shootings than days in the year.
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