{"id":1496361,"date":"2022-05-29T11:44:40","date_gmt":"2022-05-29T15:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1496361"},"modified":"2022-05-29T11:44:50","modified_gmt":"2022-05-29T15:44:50","slug":"cory-booker-im-under-no-illusion-that-major-gun-control-laws-will-pass-after-uvalde-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cory-booker-im-under-no-illusion-that-major-gun-control-laws-will-pass-after-uvalde-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"Cory Booker: \u2018I\u2019m Under No Illusion\u2019 That Major Gun Control Laws Will Pass After Uvalde Shooting"},"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\">32<\/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%2Fcory-booker-im-under-no-illusion-that-major-gun-control-laws-will-pass-after-uvalde-shooting%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=1496361&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--><p>New Jersey Democratic Senator Cory Booker said he was not hopeful that any major gun control legislation would be passed in the wake of recent mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on NBC\u2019s \u201cMeet the Press\u201d on Sunday, Booker said he supported whatever changes could be agreed upon at the federal level but was \u201cunder no illusion\u201d that substantive changes would be made until a greater national movement emerged and pro-gun politicians were voted out of office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhatever we can get done, if it saves a life it\u2019s worth doing, and so my colleagues who are entering the bipartisan talks, I fully support that,\u201d Booker said. \u201cBut I\u2019m under no illusion that we are going to do the things that need to be done, that the majority of Americans overwhelmingly support, Republican and Democrat, that can create significant safety.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI return again and again, to how change is made in America,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>Booker pointed to the example of the 1963 bombing of a church in Birmingham, Alabama, where four young girls were killed in one of the pivotal moments of the civil rights movement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe nation rallied, movement continued until we demanded change, and it was made,\u201d Booker said. \u201cAnd people who did not make the change\u2026paid at the polls. Until that happens, we are going to see at best incremental change. But as far as a federal level, I\u2019m not that hopeful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not a one-move solution,\u201d Booker continued. \u201cThere must be many things done\u2026But I am sorry. We are at a point in this nation where we are going to have to mobilize a greater movement\u2026 Until the redemptive power of the love for all of our children is greater than the destructive power of the love of our guns, and money, and power, until that redemptive love of our children turns into action, then nothing is gonna change.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Jersey Democratic Senator Cory Booker said he was not hopeful that any major gun control legislation would be passed in the wake of recent mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas. Speaking on NBC\u2019s \u201cMeet the Press\u201d on Sunday, Booker said he supported whatever changes could be agreed upon at the federal &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":1496376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1496361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1496361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1496376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1496361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1496361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1496361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}