In August, after a pair of mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, a credible effort was mobilized to pass some sort of meaningful gun legislation.
Three U.S. senators, including a Republican, co-wrote an op-ed on Tuesday calling on President Donald Trump to resume talks on gun control, claiming they"nearly had a deal" with the president on a bipartisan proposal to expand background checks.
Invoking a recent spate of mass shootings in California, New Jersey and Oklahoma, the op-ed notes that moderate gun reform is one of the few issues its authors of varying political affiliations can agree. Indeed, universal background checks have the support of upwards of 90 percent of the American public, many polls find. It is one of the few proposals that often garners the support of gun owners and NRA members too.
Senator Lindsey Graham, the powerful Republican chairman of the Judiciary Committee, even introduced a bill with his Democratic colleague that would incentivize red flag legislation at the state level. In addition, reporting suggested that a well-placed phone call from National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre to the president may have helped hold the line against further concessions, even to a bipartisan congressional audience.
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