Prominent Democrats plan on Thursday to begin ramping up calls for stronger gun control at the start of a new push to use their strengthened voice in Washington to make progress on an issue that bitterly divides America.
US senators Chris Murphy and Richard Blumenthal, who represent Connecticut, where 20 children and six school staff were gunned down at Sandy Hook elementary school in December 2012, will lead demands for fresh action.
And the newly empowered Democratic majority in the House of Representatives is expected to introduce sweeping legislation to impose background checks on all gun sales as one of the first priorities in the incoming Congress of 2019, in an aggressive new strategy according to a report this week in Mother Jones.
On Thursday Murphy and Blumenthal will be joined on Capitol Hill by a number of House Democrats and a clutch of leading anti-gun violence advocacy groups, shooting survivors and the bereaved, calling for change.
The event will follow the annual national vigil for all victims of gun violence at St Mark’s episcopal church just off Pennsylvania Avenue, close to the Capitol.
US senators Chris Murphy and Richard Blumenthal, who represent Connecticut, where 20 children and six school staff were gunned down at Sandy Hook elementary school in December 2012, will lead demands for fresh action.
And the newly empowered Democratic majority in the House of Representatives is expected to introduce sweeping legislation to impose background checks on all gun sales as one of the first priorities in the incoming Congress of 2019, in an aggressive new strategy according to a report this week in Mother Jones.
On Thursday Murphy and Blumenthal will be joined on Capitol Hill by a number of House Democrats and a clutch of leading anti-gun violence advocacy groups, shooting survivors and the bereaved, calling for change.
The event will follow the annual national vigil for all victims of gun violence at St Mark’s episcopal church just off Pennsylvania Avenue, close to the Capitol.
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