{"id":1515711,"date":"2022-06-14T15:34:20","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T19:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1515711"},"modified":"2022-06-14T15:34:25","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T19:34:25","slug":"mitch-mcconnell-says-hes-comfortable-with-gun-control-package","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mitch-mcconnell-says-hes-comfortable-with-gun-control-package\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitch McConnell Says He\u2019s \u2018Comfortable\u2019 With Gun Control Package"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fmitch-mcconnell-says-hes-comfortable-with-gun-control-package%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=1515711&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<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\">\n<p>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is prepared to support the bipartisan gun control framework announced by 20 senators, he said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m comfortable with the framework, and if the legislation ends up reflecting what the framework indicates, I\u2019ll be supportive,\u201d McConnell said at a press conference held by Senate Republican leadership. The package was negotiated by two of his closest allies, Missouri Sen. and Republican Policy Committee chairman Roy Blunt, and Texas Sen. John Cornyn.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">LIVE: The Senate Republican leadership team speaks to the press. Join us. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wPwaxJY0KQ\">https:\/\/t.co\/wPwaxJY0KQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Senate Republicans (@SenateGOP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenateGOP\/status\/1536774897162149889?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 14, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The 20 senators <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/13\/ten-republicans-support-bipartisan-gun-control-proposal-framework\/\">announced<\/a> Sunday that they had agreed on nine provisions to be included in the package, although they did not release legislative text. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cornyn.senate.gov\/content\/news\/cornyn-bipartisan-senators-announce-agreement\">package<\/a> is centered on funding for state crisis intervention orders, commonly known as red-flag laws, which allow authorities to obtain court orders to seize guns of individuals \u201cdetermined to be a significant danger to themselves or others.\u201d Other provisions include funding for mental health services and school safety officers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe mental health component would be a big part of that,\u201d Blunt added. \u201cI think everybody in our conference, and I believe every member of the Senate, at some point has said that these problems at some fundamental level are the failure of the mental health delivery system.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/13\/ten-republicans-support-bipartisan-gun-control-proposal-framework\/\"><strong>(RELATED: Here Are The 10 Republicans Who Support The New Gun Control Proposal)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe also talked about school safety, we talked about the importance of having access to juvenile records for young gun buyers like the person at Uvalde, who on his eighteenth birthday, went to have a background check to buy a gun. And since you have no earlier records than 18 available, it\u2019s like that person was born that day. And of course he passed the background check because he has no background legally and officially no matter what his juco [juvenile corrections] record might have suggested.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McConnell\u2019s comment signal the likely success of the legislation in the Senate, since he is one of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/huddle\/2022\/06\/14\/text-will-be-the-test-dems-and-gop-agree-00039398\">several<\/a> Republicans not involved in the negotiations to announce tentative support. Support in the House of Representatives remains unclear. The lower chamber <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/08\/house-passes-bill-raising-age-for-semi-automatic-gun-ownership-to-21\/\">passed<\/a> a package mostly along <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/09\/republicans-democrats-upton-kinzinger-gun-control\/\">party lines<\/a>, and left-wing members have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/videos\/politics\/2022\/06\/12\/aoc-full.cnn\">claimed<\/a> that the Senate\u2019s proposal could discourage individuals from seeking mental healthcare.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is prepared to support the bipartisan gun control framework announced by 20 senators, he said Tuesday.\u201cI\u2019m comfortable with the framework, and if the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1515711","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\/1515711","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\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1515711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1515711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1515711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1515711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}