Democrats to honor sad anniversary in introducing gun background checks bill on Tuesday
Posted on AllSides January 5th, 2019
From The Left
Tuesday is January 8, the eighth anniversary of the shooting that nearly killed then-Rep. Gabby Giffords and did kill six people. And on Tuesday, House Democrats are introducing H.R. 8, a bill to require universal background checks for gun sales.
Giffords will join Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Mike Thompson,, the head of the House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, in introducing the bill. “Finally, with our new majority that ran on helping to prevent gun violence, we will introduce a bipartisan, universal background checks bill. We will hold...