Democrats are calling on their Republican colleagues to help them pass some kind of sensible gun control measure after 19 children and two children were killed at Robb Elementary School in Texas.
Chris Murphy of Connecticut has pleaded with Republicans to pass measures supported by the majority of Americans, such as universal background checks, but Republicans have signaled an unwillingness to do so.
Cramer told The New York Times that he would suffer if he supported gun control legislation.
He told the newspaper that most would probably throw him out of office.
The biggest roadblock for Democrats is the Senate, where they don't have the 60 votes needed to pass new gun restrictions, including a red flag law which allows police to temporarily seize guns from individuals who are a threat to themselves or others.
A Morning Consult/Politico poll conducted immediately after the Uvalde shooting showed that 65 percent of respondents supported additional gun control in the country, while 28 percent were against it.
In the same poll, a staggering 88 percent of respondents supported background checks on gun sales, with 73 percent of respondents endorsing the position.
Republicans have remained unmoved despite surveys showing near-universal support for these measures.
GOP senators, who largely hail from deeply conservative states where gun ownership is popular, have resisted any laws which could be perceived as encroaching on the constitutional right to own firearms.
The Democrats lost control of the House of Representatives for 12 years after they passed a national assault weapons ban in 1994.
Democrats have been unable to restore the ban since it expired in 2004.
John Barrasso, the chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, told The Times that GOP lawmakers were opposed to new regulations because they didn't want to intrude on the rights of everyday Americans.
He told the newspaper that they don't want to take away the rights of law-abiding citizens.
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