house passes gun bill 2022: House passes sweeping gun reform package
Brave families who have lived through the pain, horror and heartbreak of gun violence pleaded with lawmakers on Capitol Hill for tighter gun control.
The US lower house then bows to pressure, and passes ‘Protecting Our Kids Act’ gun legislation package.
The US House of Representatives has passed the “Protecting Our Kids Act” 223-to-204 on Wednesday. The gun legislation package includes several proposals including the restriction of sales of large-capacity ammunition magazines and raising the minimum age for the purchase of certain firearms.
The landmark bill is being seen as a “symbolic” gesture as the measure will face difficulties in the senate, Bloomberg and The New York Times report.
In other news, a Uvalde, Texas, pediatrician describes the horror of seeing the elementary school children’s bodies ‘ripped apart’
Two children whose bodies had been pulverized by bullets fired at them, decapitated, whose flesh had been ripped apart,” he said.
US House passes gun sale ban bill but doomed to fail in Senate https://t.co/Mhapl7I5aQ
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) June 9, 2022
The US House passes a package of gun legislation, a mostly symbolic action that ultimately will be set aside for whatever compromise plan emerges from bipartisan negotiations in the Senate https://t.co/JAlE0AEvFE
— Bloomberg (@business) June 9, 2022
Matthew McConaughey, a native of Uvalde, Texas, made a passionate plea for gun reform at Tuesday's White House press briefing. https://t.co/18S9ndAc0S pic.twitter.com/WCvs4xrJyG
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) June 9, 2022
Responding to a recent wave of mass shootings, the House of Representatives passed a bill raising the age to purchase semiautomatic rifles to 21, requiring safe firearms storage, while seeking to crack down on illicit firearm trafficking.https://t.co/C2mOUh737z
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) June 9, 2022
The House voted to bar the sale of semiautomatic weapons to people under the age of 21 and ban the sale of large-capacity magazines, as parents of victims and survivors of mass shootings made wrenching appeals for Congress to act on gun violence. https://t.co/FXgyeaOf3I pic.twitter.com/gnTe6n0qyR
— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 9, 2022
Dr. Roy Guerrero, a pediatrician in Uvalde, Texas, described to Congress the horrors he saw in an emergency room after the massacre, including children "pulverized" and "decapitated" by bullets.
— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 8, 2022
"Those mothers' cries, I will never get out of my head." https://t.co/nesUOoDBE2
BREAKING: Mexican President López Obrador humiliates Sen. Ted Cruz at a press conference by accusing him of being an NRA stooge and playing the infamous video of Cruz fleeing from a reporter when asked about the Uvalde school shooting. RT TO THANK PRESIDENT OBRADOR!
— Occupy Democrats (@OccupyDemocrats) June 8, 2022
If our government can’t do anything after 19 kids are slaughtered and several decapitated it’s time to change who’s in government.
— David Hogg ☮️ (@davidhogg111) June 9, 2022
Two children “pulverized” and “decapitated” by gunshot wounds in Uvalde, says the pediatrician who treated them. Those poor children, their poor families. I’m sick to my stomach.
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) June 8, 2022
“Two children, whose bodies had been pulverized by the bullets fired at them, decapitated, whose flesh had ripped apart, that the only clue as to their identities were the blood-spattered cartoon clothes still clinging to them.” @RonnyJacksonTX pic.twitter.com/BzEqA0McyD
— Pete Souza (@PeteSouza) June 9, 2022
Some days doing this work is especially hard. After hearing that kids were decapitated this is one of those days. I’m so angry and heartbroken.
— David Hogg ☮️ (@davidhogg111) June 9, 2022
The obscene destruction wreaked by the AR-15 in the Uvalde shooting "decapitated" some of the children, and Republicans were completely unmoved by that.
— BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ (@mmpadellan) June 9, 2022
Disgusting.
19 children several decapitated what the hell is wrong with us. Imagine if that was your kid. It could be.
— David Hogg ☮️ (@davidhogg111) June 9, 2022
Don’t wait to act on this before it impacts you