.SpeakerPelosi said the House will take up gun measures next week in response to several recent mass shootings, including one at a Uvalde, Texas, elementary school that left at least 19 children and two adults dead.
Pelosi said Thursday the House will vote next week on the Protecting Our Children Act, a series of legislation the House Judiciary Committee considered Thursday that proponents said will reduce gun violence as bipartisan negotiations on gun legislation continue in the Senate.Although the House will likely pass the measures, they have little chance of passing the Senate, where Democratic leadership would need 10 Republican votes to send any bills to President Joe Biden’s desk.
The Protecting Our Children Act would raise the required purchasing age for semi-automatic weapons from 18 to 21 and ban high-capacity magazines and bump stocks for civilian use, as well as other new restrictions. Rep. Eric Swalwell argued that Congress should pass the legislation because “good guys with guns are outgunned by bad guys that we’ve given guns.”
Lawmakers also sparred on arguments about the scope of the Second Amendment, with Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee citing the late Justice Antonin Scalia, who once wrote that"like most rights, the right secured by the Second Amendment is not unlimited." Scalia, whose jurisprudence is held in high regard by many conservatives, wrote that the protections offered by the Second Amendment are “not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose.
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