GOP lawmaker calls for Ryan to bring up gun safety legislation

[demmiblue]

Source: The Hill

Rep. Carlos Curbelo (R-Fla.) is calling on Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) to allow the chamber to immediately consider gun safety legislation, citing President Trump's professed support for such measures.

Curbelo tweeted that Ryan "should immediately allow the House to consider common sense gun safety proposals" that the Florida Republican has advocated, including raising the purchasing age of long guns to 21 and banning bump stocks, among other items.

Link to tweet

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/house/375216-gop-lawmaker-calls-for-ryan-to-bring-up-gun-safety-legislation

[duforsure]

1. He can't

He's owned by Putin and trump now. He will never introduce a bill banning assault weapons, and the NRA and Putin has him in their pocket to make sure he doesn't.

[beachbum bob]

2. Curbelo must see he is in trouble for re-election, only republicans that see a

job loss are asking for any gun bill debate now....

I believe we have reach the point that we can break the NRA stanglehold on america. We have to take the fight to them on every level.

hard hitting TV ads need get going

[True Blue American]

3. Yes!

We need to expose them over and over.

Ridicule that Good guy with a gun. That sure did not work in this last one.

The God guy with the gun stood outside.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

4. avoiding the issue

The problem is not the age limit on purchasing "long guns"; it's the legal availability of rapid-fire weapons and high capacity weapons.

Curbelo's support for measures that do not address the problem is not "common sense", but rather distraction.

I have a .22 bolt-action, single shot rifle and a 20 ga. bolt-action shotgun. Both of my children were taught to use them safely by the time they were 10 years old. A person would be very hard pressed to pull off a mass shooting with these guns, which were designed for hunting, not mass murder. This anecdote is not an isolated case. GOPers claiming to support raising the age limit know that it will do nothing to keep weapons of war out of the hands of anyone.