A bipartisan group of senators announced an agreement had been reached — though in principle only — on new legislation meant to address the country's ongoing gun violence, including the recent Uvalde elementary school shooting.
, before that; and many more -- had increased the urgency of some kind of proposal, lawmakers involved have said.
Sens. Richard Blumenthal, Sheldon Whitehouse, and Chris Murphy, attend a rally outside the U.S. Capitol to demand the Senate take action on gun safety in the wake of the Robb Elementary School shooting in Texas, outside the Capitol in Washington, May 26, 2022.A more specific timeline remained unclear and previous such deals show it could be weeks before a draft law is ready, as was the case with the infrastructure package passed last year.
"In a less broken society, we would be able to require background checks every single time someone wants to buy a gun, and we would ban assault rifles outright. But if even one life is saved or one attempted mass shooting is prevented because of these regulations, we believe that it is worth fighting for," March for Our Lives co-founder David Hogg, who was a student at the Stoneman Douglas High School mass shooting in 2018, said in a statement.Former Arizona Rep.
"It's inconceivable to me that we have not passed significant federal legislation trying to address the tragedy of gun violence in this nation," Murphy told ABC "This Week" co-anchor Jonathan Karl in late May. "The pace of everyday gun violence has dramatically escalated over the past two years."
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