The Emerging Deal On Gun Violence: Is It Enough?
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🗓️ 14 June 2022
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The package includes measures to enhance background checks for gun buyers under 21, incentivize states to pass so-called "red flag laws," and fund school safety and mental health initiatives. Is it enough? We put that question to Gabby Giffords, a former congresswoman who was injured in a 2011 shooting. Since then, Giffords has dedicated her life to calling for action on gun control, co-founding Giffords, an advocacy group that promotes gun safety. The group's executive director, Peter Ambler, also spoke to NPR.
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| 0:00.0 | Out of president. Senator Texas lawmakers are calling it the first deal of its kind in 30 years a |
| 0:08.2 | bipartisan agreement on gun violence most often you hear people say do something |
| 0:14.5 | Well, they don't give you a lot of guidance on what that something looks like and when you begin to dig down into the details |
| 0:20.6 | You find out that there's not a lot of consensus about what that something should look like |
| 0:26.1 | Republican Senator John Cornyn of Texas speaking on the Senate floor on Monday a deal was not easy |
| 0:32.3 | He said but he and nine other Republican senators now support a package of gun related measures |
| 0:39.1 | Ten Republicans an important number that means a final bill could potentially garner the 60 votes necessary to overcome a filibuster |
| 0:47.6 | In the agreement funding for mental health and school safety resources |
| 0:51.6 | Expanded background checks for buyers under 21 and money to encourage states to pass so-called red flag laws |
| 0:59.5 | But now comes the even more difficult task of trying to agree on legislative text to actually implement those |
| 1:06.9 | principles and that's what we're working on this week my hope is |
| 1:11.4 | That we can complete that job at in the next few days |
| 1:15.5 | Hopefully by the end of the week so that the bill will be available for all senators indeed all the world |
| 1:20.7 | To read if all goes according to plan Cornyn signaled the bill could be ready for a vote on the Senate floor next week |
| 1:28.0 | I'm hoping that 10 Republicans supporting the bill is not a ceiling, but is the floor |
| 1:33.7 | Consider this a bipartisan agreement on gun control is not a fully done deal |
| 1:39.1 | But lawmakers are closer than they have been in a very long time. Will that deal be enough? |
| 1:44.3 | Coming up I put that question to former Congresswoman and longtime advocate for gun control Gabby Giffords from NPR |
| 1:52.1 | I'm Mary Louise Kelly. It is Tuesday June 14th |
| 2:06.6 | It's consider this from NPR |
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