Posted on 08/08/2019 2:56:13 PM PDT by rarestia
Orlando and Tampa's mayors are among the more than 200 city leaders calling for the Senate to return to the Capitol and act on gun safety legislation in the wake of two mass shootings in one weekend.
The letter was sent to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and the Democratic leader, Chuck Schumer, from the U.S. Conference of Mayors on Thursday.
Spectrum News confirmed that Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer is one of the 214 mayors who signed the letter. Tampa Mayor Jane Castor and St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman also signed the letter.
"Our nation can no longer wait for our federal government to take the actions necessary to prevent people who should not have access to firearms from being able to purchase them," the mayors say in the letter, which was prompted by the back-to-back mass shootings in Texas and Ohio last weekend that left 31 people dead.
Many of the mayors who signed the letter are from cities and towns where mass shootings have occurred:
"Now more than ever, we need to work across party lines to find real solutions and make meaningful change," Dyer said in an email to Spectrum News.
"On behalf of The United States Conference of Mayors, we urge you to immediately call the Senate back to Washington to take action on bipartisan gun safety legislation," the letter reads. "The tragic events in El Paso and Dayton this weekend are just the latest reminders that our nation can no longer wait for our federal government to take the actions necessary to prevent people who should not have access to firearms from being able to purchase them."
McConnell has resisted pressure to recall Senators from congressional recess.
Republican lawmakers have been working toward more modest gun control measures, including a proposal from Florida Sen. Marco Rubio that would allow friends and family to get authorities to keep guns away from people deemed a threat to themselves or other people. Other senators are considering changes to background checks.
"Gun safety." That's the new way of slanting this. Yes, let's tilt at the "gun safety" windmill, because the "gun control" windmill doesn't turn. Yet when we propose national reciprocity or mental health reforms, there's a dull thud in the room as the left's collective jaws hit the floor.
They don't want to address the real problem. They never do, and I'm really tired of the wall-to-wall media coverage every damn time these events happen. The media is feeding this beast. They bear the burden and the responsibility.
Since when are guns “unsafe”, you politician nitwits? Guns are inanimate objects. It is that some lunatics and other unstable idiots misuse and abuse guns. Using the logic that comes from their clogged brains, I guess you could say that sulphuric acid is “unsafe”. Given that it is unsafe...don’t drink it. Stop abusing guns NOW!!!
Prevent all ‘rats from owning guns.
Especially antifa and muzzie 18 to 30 y.o. types.
That would go a long way.
Dear Mayors:
Fix the potholes. Make sure everyone has water. Shut your pieholes.
God blamed Cain, not the rock.
Like shut up. That's something.
Dear Senate,
Here you go...
ALWAYS Keep The Gun Pointed In A Safe Direction
ALWAYS Keep Your Finger Off The Trigger Until Ready To Shoot
ALWAYS Keep The Gun Unloaded Until Ready To Use
Your welcome.
Amazing how they can’t stay and work on the nation’s
business but want to go back in session to take away
our rights.
Self declared enemies list of people seeking more power on the bodies of victims often killed by crazies set off by the Democrat and media inflaming every event to turn the US into a centralized authoritarian police state.
Orlando and Tampa’s mayors are among the more than 200 city leaders calling for the Senate to return to the Capitol and act on gun safety legislation...
This is what happens when leftists infiltrate the masses.
Their goal is to totally and completely disarm the American public. This includes knives and any other object that can be construed as a weapon. With the exception of Government Agents/Agencies Have you forgotten all the ammunition ordered by the obama administration for various Government Agencies?
Leftist mayors ask politicians to return to DC to work on Leftist legislation to outlaw American freedoms in response to Leftist attacks.
Their Agent Provocateurs did their bidding now they’re seeking the reward.
Only tyrants punish the innocent for the actions of terrorists.
We're going to legislate so that the non-criminals have no guns and that will stop the violence? Right. /s It will be about as effective as legislating away the use of drugs.
Never let a good crisis go to waste...
Across party lines = proglibs AND RINOs.
Of course that is not really separate parties because that line is pretty blurry.
"Meaningful change" to what?
Destruction of our rights and government's nose a little further into all citizens personal business?
I'm not feeling the excitement...
I am also seeing this trend of "200 city leaders" or "300 scientists" or a lot of doctors "calling for the Senate" or the President to do somthing they want done.
They are all just a pack of proglibs trying to push everyone around to get their way even though most normal American Citizens do not want what they are "calling for" at all.
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NO! Do not give the rats special session. Imagine the MSM orgy.
Enforce federal, state and local gun control laws already on the books and introduce safe gun handling education to high schools
And you’re pretty much good to go
#3a: But ALWAYS know that the gun is loaded
The only way gun safety will work is if the gov’t assigns an FBI agent to each and every gun owner to ensure they don’t use their guns inappropriately.
No I haven’t. I remember the Department of Education being on that list.
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