{"id":1908514,"date":"2023-04-01T16:40:39","date_gmt":"2023-04-01T20:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-house-democrat-demands-vote-on-gun-control-legislation-immediately\/"},"modified":"2023-04-01T16:48:30","modified_gmt":"2023-04-01T20:48:30","slug":"top-house-democrat-demands-vote-on-gun-control-legislation-immediately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-house-democrat-demands-vote-on-gun-control-legislation-immediately\/","title":{"rendered":"Top House Democrat Demands Vote on Gun Control Legislation \u2018Immediately\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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%2Ftop-house-democrat-demands-vote-on-gun-control-legislation-immediately%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=1908514&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-->\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<p>Following President Joe Biden&#8217;s appeal to support his &#8216;assault&#8217; weapons ban after the Nashville shooting, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) has demanded an \u201cimmediate\u201d vote on gun control legislation by the Republican-led House. Jeffries called for common sense gun curbs, including Biden\u2019s \u201cassault\u201d weapons ban and universal background checks, in a letter to House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.).<\/p>\n<p>He specifically called on McCarthy to bring for a vote the Bipartisan Background Checks Act and the Assault Weapons Ban, both of which passed the House under Democrat control in the last Congress but failed in the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>The President has reiterated his call to ban &#8220;assault&#8221; weapons following the Nashville shooting. Data from the Gun Violence Archive shows that the Nashville incident was the latest in 130 mass shooting incidents so far this year.<\/p>\n<p>In response to Biden and Jeffries&#8217; appeal for gun curbs, McCarthy noted that legislation alone can\u2019t solve the problem, and there needs to be a severe conversation about dealing with mental illness in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Many Republicans see Biden&#8217;s call for an \u201cassault\u201d weapons ban as a part of a Democrat agenda to restrict gun ownership, and prefer tighter school security and mental health resources for combating shootings.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>Additional Gun Curbs<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) has demanded that the Republican-led House vote on gun control legislation \u201cimmediately,\u201d building on pleas by President Joe Biden in the aftermath of the Nashville shooting for Congress to support his \u201cassault\u201d weapons ban. Jeffries made his appeal in a March 31 letter to House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":1908515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[4154,4201,4912,7012,3653,8213,4762,4474],"class_list":["post-1908514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-control","tag-demands","tag-democrat","tag-gun","tag-house","tag-immediately","tag-legislation","tag-vote"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908514","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\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1908514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1908515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1908514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1908514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1908514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}