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The National Rifle Association explained its unusual absence ‘‘out of respect for the families and as a matter of common decency'' after Friday's shooting that left 20 children dead, all ages 6 or 7.
The move came as Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) told House Republicans at a closed-door conference they needed to “have a discussion on guns,” while the National Rifle Association spoke out for the first time since 20 schoolchildren were killed by a lone gunman in a crime that shocked the nation.
“We are resolved in our caucus that the time to act is now,” Larson, who got emotional speaking about the shootings, said. “And that we know that taking no action, is to be complicit to a future event.”
House Democrats are huddling today to develop gun control laws, starting with a ban on “assault weapons” and “assault clips,” the chairman of a new gun control task force said today.
“This is not a war on guns,” Rep. Mike Thompson, D-Calif., who will chair the Democratic task force, said today. “[O]ur communities and our neighborhoods and our society receive no benefit from military-type assault weapons on the street or assault clips in the hands of anyone.” Thompson emphasized that they're “not going to try and take law-abiding citizens' guns away from them.”
Co-owner Victor Titoni said a surge in sales is fairly typical amid the talk of tougher gun control laws that inevitably follows a mass shooting, in this case one that left 28 dead, 20 of them children, in Newtown, Conn., last week.
In response to the elementary school shooting last week in Newtown, Conn., U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, will be leading a new task force in Congress that will examine potential changes in federal gun laws.
The move follows calls from Congressional Democrats to tighten restrictions on guns. U.S. Rep. John Larson, D-Conn., announced the formation of the task force to Democrats in the House of Representatives, the news website Politico reported Tuesday.
Rep. Mike Thompson and a bipartisan group of 29 Senators and Representatives sent a letter to President Obama Wednesday calling for Master Limited Partnerships and Real Estate Investment Trusts to be a priority in the federal government's "all of the above" energy strategy. The letter was led by the lead sponsors of the bipartisan Master Limited Partnerships Parity Act: U.S. Senators Chris Coons (D-Del.) and Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), and U.S. Representatives Ted Poe (R-TX-02), Mike Thompson (D-CA-01) and Peter Welch (D-VT-AL). The legislation, H.R. 6437 and S.
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