{"id":1493979,"date":"2022-05-27T07:14:45","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T11:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1493979"},"modified":"2022-05-27T07:14:53","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T11:14:53","slug":"mcconnell-urges-republicans-to-work-with-democrats-on-gun-control-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mcconnell-urges-republicans-to-work-with-democrats-on-gun-control-legislation\/","title":{"rendered":"McConnell Urges Republicans to Work With Democrats on Gun Control Legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmcconnell-urges-republicans-to-work-with-democrats-on-gun-control-legislation%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1493979&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Senate Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Thursday \u201cencouraged\u201d Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) to work with Senate Democrats on gun control legislation in a reaction to the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas this week.<\/p>\n<p>McConnell specifically <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FoxReports\/status\/1529870269082480640\">requested<\/a> Cornyn to work with Sens. Chris Murphy (D-CT) and\u00a0Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) to\u00a0\u201cfind a consensus on some legislation to respond to the shooting in Texas,\u201d CNN reported.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve encouraged him to talk to Sen. Sinema, Sen. Murphy and others who are interested in trying to get an outcome that\u2019s directly related to the problem,\u201d McConnell <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FoxReports\/status\/1529872411771928578?s=20&#038;t=OgpO89fFZJuf5jQnOjt1Aw\">said<\/a> of Tuesday\u2019s mass school shooting. \u201cI am hopeful that we could come up with a bipartisan solution that\u2019s directly related to the facts of this awful massacre.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) told his Democrat colleagues on Wednesday he will push off a gun control vote until he believes there are enough votes to overcome the Senate\u2019s 60 vote threshold.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne nation under guns. That is simply heartbreaking \u2014 heartbreaking to think that this is the legacy that older generations are leaving behind for young Americans, one nation under guns,\u201d Schumer <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/uvalde-texas-mass-shooting-capitol-hill-gun-laws-cruz-gallego-murphy-schumer-164635742.html\">said<\/a> from the Senate floor.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Schumer also asked Murphy and Sinema to work with Republicans on limiting the Second Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to start having conversations again with colleagues on both sides of the aisle,\u201d Sinema <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/05\/25\/skeptical-schumer-bipartisan-gun-talks-senate-00035072\">told<\/a> reporters Wednesday. \u201cIf there is a chance for us to do something to help make it safer for kids in this country, we owe it to the country to do it for real, not just talking points.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text__paragraph\">Murphy told CNN Wednesday he believes universal background checks and <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/uvalde-texas-mass-shooting-capitol-hill-gun-laws-cruz-gallego-murphy-schumer-164635742.html\">banning<\/a> rifles should occur in the wake of Tuesday\u2019s shooting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVoters get to decide this. Ask your candidates this fall: \u2018Are you supportive of universal background checks? Do you think that 18-year-olds should have access to military-style assault weapons?\u2019 And if they say yes, if they support the current law and don\u2019t support reform, then don\u2019t send them back to Congress,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>McConnell\u2019s demand comes after 19 children and two adults were killed in a mass shooting at a Uvalde, Texas, elementary school on Tuesday. The shooter was 18 years of age and old enough to legally <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/05\/24\/report-texas-shooting-suspect-purchased-2-rifles-legally\/\">purchase<\/a> a firearm but broke several gun laws in the act.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Wendell Huseb\u00f8 on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WendellHusebo?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gettr.com\/user\/wendellhusebo\">Gettr<\/a>\u00a0@WendellHuseb\u00f8. He is the author of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Politics-Slave-Morality-Wendell-Husebo-ebook\/dp\/B08PPYQSDZ\">Politics of Slave Morality<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Thursday \u201cencouraged\u201d Sen. 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