Democrats accused their Republican counterparts of blocking legislation that would protect children at school from mass shootings, while GOP lawmakers insisted that further limits on gun ownership would not have stopped the Nashville attack or others like it.And while Democrats still don’t have the votes yet to advance an assault-style weapons ban, they have relied on occasionally misleading rhetoric to push for one anyway.“[We’ve had] more school shootings than days in the year so far in 2023.
That means, for example, that a gang-related shooting near a school during which a bullet strikes a sidewalk on a weekend, with no students present, would still count toward the total number of school shootings for the year. When analyses exclude 18- and 19-year-olds from the statistics, motor vehicle accidents remain the leading cause of death for children.
At least 3 children are dead in another school shooting. Yet the GOP-led Judiciary Committee is passing a resolution tomorrow to make it easier for mass shooters to obtain pistol stabilizing braces. They must cancel this hearing now. But the Biden administration’s ATF recently made a rule that would reclassify any pistol with such a brace as a short-barreled rifle, which would trigger requirements for gun owners to register their firearm with the government or face criminal penalties.
— Kirsten Gillibrand March 28, 2023 Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is certainly not alone in characterizing the widely used and ill-defined category of assault-style weapons as a leading threat to the public.
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