GREEN BAY, WI (Wisconsin Radio Network) – US Senator Tammy Baldwin addressed the recent shootings in El Paso and Dayton during her stop in Marathon County Monday morning, saying she would be all for a special session focused on gun control reforms:
“I would leave in a moments notice if I believed that we could get something done.”
She says if the President is serious about Monday morning’s tweet regarding universal background checks then finding middle ground is a real possibility
“We have loopholes where there are sales and exchanges that are not subject to background checks and we should close that and I agree if that was what was tweeted this morning that shows an opening for corporation.
It’s unclear if a special session for gun reforms will happen during the current recess. Baldwin made her comments while touring a Marathon County ginseng farm to discuss the impact of the recent trade war with China.
In a tweet Monday, Senator Ron Johnson tweeted. “I appreciate@POTUS‘ comments this morning condemning the violent extremism that led to this weekend’s horrific domestic terror mass shootings. We must remain committed to tenaciously rooting these cancers out of our society.”
He also tweeted. “For years, we have experienced a coarsening of our culture, and have been witnessing what Sen. Patrick Moynihan accurately termed “defining deviancy down.” While there are no quick fixes guaranteed to prevent future tragedies, there are effective, bipartisan actions we can take.”
Governor Tony Evers is calling for action from the Republican legislature to enact gun control laws. Evers says there’s wide support from the public to keep guns out of the hands of those that shouldn’t have them.
“Universal background checks, expanding that to cover every sale of a weapon, is something that the majority of the people of Wisconsin believe in.”
Evers says mass shootings like the one in Middleton last year and at the Sikh temple several years ago show that the issue is one that isn’t avoiding the Badger State.
“The bottom line is our legislature has avoided this issue totally, so whether there’s a special session or not, we need to know that the other side is going to take this issue seriously.”
