{"id":1564437,"date":"2022-07-21T10:04:34","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T14:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1564437"},"modified":"2022-07-21T10:04:55","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T14:04:55","slug":"house-begins-debate-on-firearms-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-begins-debate-on-firearms-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"House begins debate on firearms ban"},"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\">12<\/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%2Fhouse-begins-debate-on-firearms-ban%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=1564437&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 id=\"attachment_2728948\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2728948\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2728948\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/AP22201587152599.jpg\" alt=\"Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee use charts to press their defense of the Second Amendment during a markup on the Assault Weapons Ban of 2021, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, July 20, 2022. (AP Photo\/J. Scott Applewhite)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/AP22201587152599.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/AP22201587152599-315x210-1.jpg 315w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/AP22201587152599-655x437-1.jpg 655w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/AP22201587152599-768x512-1.jpg 768w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2728948\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee use charts to press their defense of the Second Amendment during a markup on the Assault Weapons Ban of 2021, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, July 20, 2022. (AP Photo\/J. Scott Applewhite)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN NEWSROOM<br \/>UPDATED 6:59 AM PT \u2013 Thursday, July 21, 2022<\/h5>\n<p>The House Judiciary Committee began the debate over which weapons American citizens are allowed to keep and own. During a hearing on Wednesday, House lawmakers went back and forth with each other over how to prevent future mass shootings.<\/p>\n<p>Democrat lawmakers such as Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.) called for a ban on so-called assault weapons while claiming the ability to own them only results in more people being killed. This came after the CDC claimed that gun violence was the leading cause of death for children, despite many critics pointing out a flaw in their analysis. It appears they don\u2019t discriminate between different age groups.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u201cImagine how much we could get accomplished if we clung to the desire to protect our children and communities as tightly as some of my colleagues cling to their rifles,\u201d stated Cicilline. \u201cThere are more guns than people in this country, more mass shootings than days in the year. This is a uniquely American problem and assault weapons only magnify the epidemic.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>However, GOP Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) pushed back on this claim by citing a 2019 statistic, which pointed to knives as the leading cause of most homicides with blunt objects such as clubs and hammers coming in second.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u201cIn 2019 there were 1,476 homicides by knife, there were 364 homicides by rifle,\u201d he noted. \u201cBlunt objects actually, clubs, hammers, etcetera accounted for more homicides than the rifles. Personal weapons, hands, fist, feet accounted for 600 homicides versus the 360 somewhat homicides by rifle.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"art\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udc40\ud83d\udc40\ud83d\udc40 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VgcaXzzS93\">https:\/\/t.co\/VgcaXzzS93<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 House Judiciary GOP (@JudiciaryGOP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JudiciaryGOP\/status\/1550110319032279044?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 21, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Additionally, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) pushed further and argued an assault weapons ban would be ineffective at reducing violent crime. He pointed to a congressional study, which concluded that weapons prohibited under the 1994 assault weapons ban were used in only a small fraction of gun homicides.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u201cNot only would this legislation strip Americans of their rights, but it would do nothing to make our community safer,\u201d stated the Ohio lawmaker. \u201cWe know that because Democrats tried it before. They tried with the quote \u2018assault weapons ban\u2019 in 1994 and guess what? That ban was found to be ineffective in reducing violent crime. A congressionally-mandated study concluded that the banned guns were never used in more than a modest fraction of all gun murders for the 1994 ban.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Democrats want to take your guns. Everyone&#8217;s guns. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rQAUgFTjiQ\">pic.twitter.com\/rQAUgFTjiQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jim_Jordan\/status\/1549931187359162368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 21, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In the meantime, the panel will continue to discuss a possible assault weapons ban for the House to vote on. Even if the bill passes in the lower chamber, it\u2019s unlikely to survive a vote in the Senate.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/june-migrant-encounters-highest-number-recorded-in-one-month\/\">June Migrant Encounters Highest Number Recorded In One Month<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee use charts to press their defense of the Second Amendment during a markup on the Assault Weapons Ban of 2021, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, July 20, 2022. (AP Photo\/J. Scott Applewhite) OAN NEWSROOMUPDATED 6:59 AM PT \u2013 Thursday, July 21, 2022 The House Judiciary Committee began the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"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-1564437","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\/1564437","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\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1564437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564437\/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=1564437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1564437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1564437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}