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GOP lawmaker calls for universal background checks, raising legal age for gun purchases
The Hill ^ | 08/05/19 | Rebecca Klar

Posted on 08/05/2019 2:58:28 PM PDT by yesthatjallen

A Republican congressman from Illinois is calling for universal background checks and raising the legal age to purchase guns following the weekend's back-to-back mass shootings.

Rep. Adam Kinzinger wrote an op-ed published on Medium advocating for the gun reform legislation Monday, in the wake of two in less than 48 hours in Texas and Ohio that killed a combined total for more than 30 people.

“After every shooting, the conversation runs like a broken record with some who believe banning all guns is the answer, while others advocate for arming more and more people to protect against these dangers,” Kinzinger wrote. “Meanwhile, those of us not in those two mindsets are left feeling helpless, frustrated, and at a loss. We have a gun violence epidemic, and to address it, we need to change some laws and change some hearts.”

Kinzinger said universal background checks “might create a slight inconvenience to some, but will not restrict the rights of those who are eligible to purchase.”

The Democratic-controlled House passed a universal background check bill in February. Kinzinger was not one of the eight Republicans who voted for the bill.

The bill has not been voted on in Senate. Following the weekend’s mass shootings, many Democrats called on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to bring the Senate back in for a special session during the month-long recess to vote on the bill.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Illinois; US: Kentucky; US: Ohio; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; adamkinzinger; banglist; civilwar; dayton; defense; elpaso; guncontrol; illinois; kentucky; mitchmcconnell; nra; ohio; politicalviolence; secondamendment; security; texas
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To: yesthatjallen

HEAR THIS, Uniparty hacks: I will NOT comply with your “universal,” transgalactic, whatever background checks that amount to a ban on private gun sales. We have the right to keep and bear arms, and that means being able to buy and sell them. Who has guns is NONE of the government’s business.


41 posted on 08/05/2019 3:44:01 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Enjoy the decline of the American empire.)
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To: TaxPayer2000

“And which one of these mass murderers would have qualified for such a distinction?”

The one who had a ‘kill list’ for the boys in his high school and a ‘rape list’ for the girls...I’d go for a little observation and therapy for that guy. And I’d look for patches of recently disturbed earth near/next to where he lived too...


42 posted on 08/05/2019 3:46:46 PM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: yesthatjallen

Raise the legal voting age back to 21. Too many fools voting for other fools.


43 posted on 08/05/2019 3:47:07 PM PDT by rfp1234 (NBC: Putting the TURD in Saturday.)
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To: Chainmail
Once the Democrats have the "Universal Background Check" as law, the 2nd Amendment is gone.

Right. They can't implement that with registering every firearm with the FedGov.

44 posted on 08/05/2019 3:47:44 PM PDT by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Because that will stop Criminals from attaining Black Market and Stolen Firearms. Oh wait.

Last time I checked Murder was a Felony, therefore there should be absolutely no Murders in this Country.


45 posted on 08/05/2019 3:48:07 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Socialism is a gateway Ideology.)
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To: Black Agnes

Okay, you want to put everyone that has made such lists in an asylum for 50 years...How long do the girls that played: “Date, Marry, Kill” get?


46 posted on 08/05/2019 3:52:54 PM PDT by TaxPayer2000 (The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government...)
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To: yesthatjallen

I will go to my grave defending shall not be infringed. The left knows they can win when I die. Wake up America or forget America as founded.


47 posted on 08/05/2019 3:54:24 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: yesthatjallen

They already have background checks. And in Florida they have a three day waiting period.


48 posted on 08/05/2019 3:56:36 PM PDT by sport
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To: Chainmail
It will give them absolute control over who can purchase and possess forearms and the net will get tighter every year that goes by.

When forearms are outlawed, only criminals will have them.

49 posted on 08/05/2019 3:57:21 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (AOC: The brain of a tea bisquit)
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To: yesthatjallen

None of this would have prevented either of these killings.


50 posted on 08/05/2019 4:07:55 PM PDT by Hattie
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To: yesthatjallen

Voting by leftist idiots is just as dangerous. If the age to buy a firearm is raised, so should the age to vote.


51 posted on 08/05/2019 4:08:11 PM PDT by fwdude
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To: Skywise

Kinzinger is a RINO, and always has been. He’ll support whatever Dem gun-grab is introduced.


52 posted on 08/05/2019 4:37:35 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: Brilliant
"We’ve already got background checks for the most part."

Yes - but they still can't control private sales or gifts. But that's the last door to be shut.

They envision that even passing a weapon down to your children will require background checks and approval by the municipal, county, state and federal governments.

Then they will make it so that even getting a speeding ticket - or a nasty neighbor says mean things about you - you not only won't be able to buy a weapon but those you do have can be taken from you.

Our rights won't have been infringed - they'll just cease to exist.

53 posted on 08/05/2019 4:41:29 PM PDT by Chainmail (Remember that half the people you meet are below average intelligence)
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To: FlyFisher
”Great point. Mind if I borrow it?”

Thanks. Please, borrow at will.

54 posted on 08/05/2019 4:44:21 PM PDT by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.`)
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To: yesthatjallen

No.


55 posted on 08/05/2019 4:46:36 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: All

Notice how easily they flipped the attacks away from their favored illegal alien lawbreakers and onto law abiding gunowners and white people.


56 posted on 08/05/2019 4:46:45 PM PDT by Luke21 (Vote, vote, vote doesn't work, work, work.)
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To: Chainmail

It will be a swat team behind every ‘Gladys Kravitz’.


57 posted on 08/05/2019 4:47:51 PM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: yesthatjallen

Kinziger is a NeverTrump douche bag.

L


58 posted on 08/05/2019 4:48:41 PM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: yesthatjallen

The Hill is a neo-Nazi propaganda website and shouldn’t be allowed on FR. Everything it publishes is complete BS.

And no, we don’t need to read these leftist pigs to discover what the left thinks.


59 posted on 08/05/2019 4:56:48 PM PDT by sergeantdave (Teach a man to fish and he'll steal your gear and sell it)
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To: yesthatjallen
A Republican congressman from Illinois is calling for universal background checks and raising the legal age to purchase guns

Uh.. congressman.. 53 shot, 7 dead in shootings last weekend in Chicago...

60 posted on 08/05/2019 4:58:16 PM PDT by VideoDoctor
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