It will be embarrassing for the Senate to do nothing, said a top GOP senator.
John Cornyn is a Republican.
Cornyn said another failure would make people think we can't get things done.
It would be embarrassing for the Senate to fail to pass any legislation addressing gun violence after the recent series of mass shootings, according to Republican Senator John Cornyn.
The Texas lawmaker said that it would feed the narrative that we can't get things done in the public interest. I believe we can get a bipartisan deal done.
If lawmakers fail to respond, it will be embarrassing. A man killed at least four people in Oklahoma.
McConnell asked Cornyn to lead the negotiations with Senate Democrats. Many of the proposals President Joe Biden laid out during his prime-time address on Thursday night will be much less sweeping if a deal is reached.
Cornyn said that he is not talking about restricting the rights of law-abiding citizens under the Second Amendment. It's clear that a renewed federal ban on assault weapons or limits on high-capacity magazines are not likely to become law. There are at least 10 Senate Republicans and every single Senate Democrat who need to support a deal.
There is a sense that something needs to be done.
Biden used the word "enough" 12 times and "something" 10 times during his speech. The president said he wouldn't accept a failure on the federal level.
"After Sandy Hook, after Charleston, afterOrlando, after Las Vegas, nothing has changed," Biden said. That cannot be true this time.
Lawmakers focus on policies like "red flag" laws, which allow authorities to temporarily seize a person's firearms if they pose an immediate threat to themselves or others. Several GOP senators have told Insider that they support red flag laws.
There is a question of whether lawmakers would pass a nationwide red flag law or if they would just create financial incentives for more states to pass their own.
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