In his opening prayer Tuesday, Senate Chaplain Barry C. Black delivered a rare and pointed plea for lawmakers to take action a day after a shooter killed six people at a private Christian school in Nashville. “We must move beyond thoughts and prayers.”
of President Donald Trump. During the latter, Black asked God to “remind our senators that they alone are accountable to you for their conduct … that they can’t ignore you and get away with it, for we always reap what we sow.
“I really get angry when I see people trying to politicize it for their own personal agenda, especially when we don’t even know the facts,” Scalise told reporters Tuesday. “It just seems like on the other side, all [Democrats] want to do is take guns away from law-abiding citizens before they even know the facts … and that’s not the answer, by the way.”
Shortly afterward, in a subsequent news conference, House Democrats renewed their calls for “meaningful gun safety legislation.”We must give families the peace of mind to send their kids to school, not fearing for their lives,” Rep. Pete Aguilar told reporters. “But we need reasonable Republicans to come to the table to make this happen. It’s an outrage that we can’t find a handful of Republicans [who] are willing to put people over extremism on the far right.
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