Virginia's Democratic governor on Tuesday called for a special legislative ...
- Virginia’s Democratic governor on Tuesday called for a special legislative session to consider new gun control laws following a massacre of 12 people, but a top Republican lawmaker immediately pushed back on a plan he called “hasty and suspect.”
“It is wrong, it is outrageous, it is unforgivable to turn our municipal centers, our schools, our churches and synagogues and mosques, into battlefields,” he said at a news conference, four days after a Virginia Beach city engineer shot dead 12 people at a municipal building.Virginia House of Delegates Speaker Kirk Cox, a Republican, called the governor’s move “hasty and suspect” in a statement in which he said he was opposed to restrictions on gun ownership for people not convicted of crimes.
Northam said he would propose universal background checks, a ban on some assault-style rifles and to reinstate a law that restricted Virginians from buying more than one gun a month. He also wants to require people to report lost and stolen guns and to expand local authority to regulate guns, including in government buildings.
Police tape frames a sign at one of the entrances to the municipal government complex where a shooting incident occurred in Virginia Beach, Virginia, U.S. June 1, 2019. REUTERS/Jonathan Drake
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