Fetterman Calls for Assault Weapons Ban After July 4th Parade Massacre

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Fetterman Calls for Assault Weapons Ban After July 4th Parade Massacre

The Democratic candidate for Pennsylvania's open U.S. Senate seat also demanded the prosecution of "gun dealers whose weapons routinely wind up at crime scenes."

JAKE JOHNSON

July 5, 2022

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/07/05/fetterman-calls-assault-weapons-ban-after-july-4th-parade-massacre

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"Gisele and I are heartbroken for the victims of these shootings and their families," Fetterman said in a statement. "We wish both law enforcement officers who were injured in the Philadelphia shooting a safe and quick recovery."

"Democrats in the Senate need to scrap the filibuster and immediately pass common-sense reform."

"There is a sad irony about our country experiencing multiple mass shootings on a day that is meant to celebrate its greatness and our freedom," said Fetterman, who is taking on millionaire television personality Mehmet Oz in the race for Pennsylvania's open U.S. Senate seat, a critical race for Democrats as they seek to keep and expand their narrow majority in the upper chamber.

“The unfortunate reality is that yesterday's shooting was not an outlier," said the Democratic candidate, who is currently serving as Pennsylvania's lieutenant governor. "Just several weekends ago in Philadelphia, three people were killed and 12 were shot in one of the city's most vibrant areas, which is a stark reminder that no one and nowhere is immune to gun violence. And while these shootings receive national attention, they pale in comparison to the relentless gun violence afflicting people in their neighborhoods every day."

"We cannot and must not become numb to this ever-increasing gun violence," he continued. "Washington needs to act and take on the NRA by shutting down and prosecuting gun dealers whose weapons routinely wind up at crime scenes. Democrats in the Senate need to scrap the filibuster and immediately pass common-sense reform like universal background checks for all gun sales and a ban on military-grade assault weapons and high capacity magazines."

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[Beachnutt]

1. This young lady was shot and if the bullet were to have gone one half inch to the left

she would have no brain or face, we have to stop this gun bullshit.
https://mobile.twitter.com/h4ndcrushed/status/1544000280995438592

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2. No words.

[thatdemguy]

3. Problem with this is it is all blow hard now

They could have done something when they had control, they could have done something. But now with the wording used in the New York Scotus case they know they cant do anything stop certain types of guns. The scotus case not only said subjective rules for carry permits are not okay they stated all kinds of guns are protected.

“Just as the First Amendment

protects modern forms of communications, and the Fourth
Amendment applies to modern forms of search, the Second
Amendment extends, prima facie, to all instruments that

constitute bearable arms, even those that were not in exist-
ence at the time of the founding.” Ibid. (citations omitted).

Thus, even though the Second Amendment’s definition of
“arms” is fixed according to its historical understanding,

that general definition covers modern instruments that fa-
cilitate armed self-defense. Cf. Caetano v. Massachusetts,

[NJCher]

4. there's a way around everything

Bullet surcharge, anyone?

Required insurance, like we do for cars??

And that's just for starters.