WASHINGTON — A group of moms is utterly committed to urging Congress to get moo-ving on gun control.
Gun violence claimed the lives of seven American children and teens per day in 2010, according to the New England Journal of Medicine. Yet gun-control legislation remains at a standstill in Congress.
The Senate shot down the Manchin-Toomey background-check bill in April, and the House has yet to take up any gun-control proposals this year. Ninety percent of Americans say they would support such a law, but Republicans and NRA members say it would infringe on their Second Amendment rights.
An aide to Sen. Joseph Manchin (D-W.Va.) said Tuesday there’s no telling when the bill could resurface on the Senate floor.