Posted on 03/06/2018 5:28:36 AM PST by Flick Lives
Alabamians are ready for more gun control.
At least that’s what their Democratic Sen. Doug Jones said.
Jones wants tighter background checks for gun sales and to raise the age requirement to purchase a gun from 18 to 21, and he thinks Alabamians are on the same page.
“People in Alabama love their guns, but they also love their children,” Jones told CNN Friday at an event at Birmingham’s Civil Rights Institute sponsored by the Faith and Politics Institute, NOLA.com reported. “And they like to be safe in theaters, and they like to be safe in churches, and I think there is common ground.”
Lawmakers are considering a host of proposals in the latest round of talks surrounding mass shootings after a 19-year-old gunman killed 17 people at a high school in Parkland, Florida, in February.
A Democrat from a deeply red state, Jones has his eye fixed on the middle of the political spectrum and hopes the gun debate can be a harbinger of greater bipartisan efforts on other issues.
(Excerpt) Read more at rollcall.com ...
Sessions. The gift that keeps on giving. Like clap.
Jones knows he’s a one term Senator. Good luck with gun control in the South. Even here in North Florida, we’re not Miami...
Sessions does a lot of goofy things, but he didn’t tell people down there to toss the last election.
sarc/
Now if we could just get some politician and "media" control.
Trump should have left Sessions in the Senate, where slowing things down to a crawl is a virtue ...
Jeff Sessions was Pres. Trump’s biggest mistake.
Hahahahah!
ONLY question that should be asked:
“And how would this/these provisions have stopped XYZ (shooting/from shooting-up)?”
Else, it’s all smoke-n-mirrors to suppress yet another inalienable Right.
Hey! Guess what?
The “establishment’s” latest democrat selection is for more gun control. Who would have thought? Wow. And here we were, thinking he was a conservative democrat, right? /sarcasm
The turtle’s RINO-GROPElites (deliberately) bought us another real Senator, didn’t they?
Not Trump’s fault.
Alabama should have been a slam dunk for Rs.
Blame the R voters who sat home because they were too gullible to fall for a media narrative against Moore.
The current background checks don’t work because Lefties refuse to report people who should be prohibited, so the answer is more stringent background checks on the law-abiding?
You break it, you bought it Alabama.
He’s not even a full 6-year guy. He has to run again in Nov 2020. They won’t run Roy Moore again, so Jones has to face a totally different type of candidate. By taking this position, he only cements his chances to winning down to zero.
Jones was finished the day he was elected. The GOP will run someone against him in 2020 that is a solid conservative with no baggage and he will lose by 40% plus.
Ruh-Roh.......He just got Bubba woke......................and Rick...................
If Bradley Byrne runs he will beat the living crap out of Jones.
Recent school shootings in the US
By Madeline Farber, Zoe Szathmary | Fox News
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Florida. Authorities have identified the suspect as 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz.
Salvador B. Castro Middle School, California. A 12-year-old girl was taken into custody after police said the loaded gun she brought to Salvador B. Castro Middle School in Los Angeles accidentally discharged on Feb. 1, shooting a 15-year-old boy in the head and a 15-year-old girl in the wrist.
Marshall County High School, Kentucky. A shooter opened fire at Marshall County High School in Benton, Ky., on Jan. 23, killing two people. Suspected shooter Gabriel Ross Parker, 15, was arraigned on Feb. 16, according to Kentucky State Police.
Italy High School, Texas. A 15-year-old girl was hurt in a Jan. 22 shooting at Italy High School in Italy, Texas. A 16-year-old male student was taken into custody, Ellis County police told Fox News.
Aztec High School, New Mexico. Gunman William Atchison, 21, disguised himself as a student to get inside Aztec High School in Aztec, N.M., on Dec. 7, 2017, according to authorities.
Rancho Tehama Elementary School, California. The gunman, who was later identified as Kevin Neal, 44, rammed a car into the gates of Rancho Tehama Elementary School and shot at its portable classrooms.
Mattoon High School, Illinois. A male student shot and injured a fellow student at a central Illinois high school on Sept. 20, 2017. The shooting unfolded in Mattoon High School’s cafeteria around 11:30 a.m., officials said at the time. (Other stories identify shooter as a 15-year-old but name withheld.)
Freeman High School, Washington. A 15-year-old student opened fire on fellow classmates at a Washington state high school on Sept. 13, 2017, killing one, investigators said. Caleb Sharpe, the suspected gunman, said the student who died had bullied him.
North Park Elementary School, California. A special needs teacher and a child, 8, were killed in what police said was a murder-suicide at North Park Elementary School in San Bernardino, California. Police said Cedric Anderson (identified in other stories as 53) walked into the school on April 10, 2017, and shot his estranged wife, Karen Elaine Smith.
Liberty-Salem High School, Ohio. Two high school students were injured after a fellow student allegedly fired a shotgun inside Liberty-Salem High School in Ohio on Jan. 20, 2017. Ely Serna, the accused gunman, was 17 at the time of the shooting but is being tried as an adult in Champaign County court.
Thanks Jeff, Mitch, Paul and all the idiots who failed to support Roy Moore.
Where are those morons who said this freak
would have to be more conservative?
Sessions before a Congressional hearing:
Question: “Senator, do you believe the accusations against candidate Moore?”
Sessions: “I see no reason not to believe them.”
Sessions said that under oath after the supposed victims kept silent for 38 years. I kid you not.
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