The Alexandria Baseball Attack Is The 154th Mass Shooting This Year

"That's not for today's discussion, but we worry about this every day for all of our citizens".

Granted, the governor said, "This is not what today is about" concerning gun control-and he just should have left it there. House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) was shot, along with a staffer to Rep. Roger Williams (R-TX) and two Capitol police officers. "I have a carry permit", he said to WKBW (Channel 7). News outlets will ponder the sad statistics (as of today, there have been 154 mass shootings in 165 days) and Virginia's lax gun laws, which require no background checks, no licensing or registration nor permits required for handguns. Because I had previously spent the better part of a year writing investigative stories on gaps in gun laws, my bosses quickly summoned me back to the office.

Gross said that despite the House vote, the measure "is not going anywhere in the Senate".

McAuliffe's remarks on Wednesday drew swift criticism from Republicans.

"And that's the fool's errand that the governor wants to send people on so frequently is thinking that you can do something to keep them from getting guns, passing some law", Van Cleave says.

All of this begs the question: if not the Sandy Hook shooting, which claimed the lives of first graders, if not an attack on their own party, at practice for a congressional baseball game, what exactly will it take for the GOP to acknowledge that America has a very real, and very serious gun problem? "Not a day for politics".

Because members of Congress were there.

"If you are taking away their guns, you are taking away their only protection", Scalise told the New Orleans Times-Picayune as the bill was under debate.

A House subcommittee had been scheduled to discuss a controversial proposal to ease regulations of gun silencers on Wednesday, but the hearing was cancelled in the wake of the shooting.

Given the U.S.'s status as the gun violence capital of the developed world, acts of political violence have a much bigger reach in the news than random acts of violence do. Giffords said in a statement that she was "heartbroken" for Scalise and the other victims.

Indeed, Frum was mostly correct in stating citizens don't need a license to purchase a gun in Virginia, however, a permit to hide carry a firearm is required.

A group connected to the Newtown, Connecticut, school massacre said the latest shooting showed that "more conversations are needed".

I was as surprised as anyone when gun control became a pivot point in the Democratic Presidential primary.

"We stand in solidarity and unity with those injured in this horrific attack and hope for their speedy recovery", said HRC President Chad Griffin.