'I don't know why it's taken 251 mass shootings now this year for people to start waking up,' Christina Huelsman said.
"I don't know why it's taken 251 mass shootings now this year for people to start waking up," she said."Even then, [McConnell] is pushing it off until September ... I think the longer we wait, he thinks people might just forget. But I'm not gonna forget and I know millions of others aren't forgetting, and who knows, we could wake up tomorrow and another thing could be happening.
"The time is not simply for reflection," Democratic Representative Steny Hoyer of Maryland, the House majority leader,as he and other Democrats met with victims of mass shootings in Washington."The time is not for a moment of silence. The time for the Senate is to act. The time is to listen to the American people."
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell attends a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing for Kenneth Charles Canterbury Jr. and judicial nominees on July 31 in Washington, D.C.he is supportive of going a step further, saying that he wants to expand background checks for people attempting to purchase guns. But many are skeptical that the president will push hard to make such a reform, and Democrats argue that it would not do nearly enough to address the problem.
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