House Democrats are relaunching a long-shot effort to transform gun safety in the United States by putting pressure on the Republican majority to enact an assault weapons ban that faces opposition even within their own ranks.
It is also timed with June being Gun Violence Awareness Month, which was established in 2015, and saw two mass shootings occurred one year apart at a South Carolina church in Charleston in 2015 and an Orlando nightclub in 2016.
But the legislation failed to include key priorities that Democrats have long championed and faced internal party divisions that prevented it from successfully passing through a Congress that they controlled, including those being put forth via discharge petition. Democrats filed the discharge petitions in committees in May with the intentionality of collecting signatures by June. Rep. Maxwell Frost , who represents the district where the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting occurred in Orlando, has been credited by fellow Democrats for also helping the task force convince colleagues within the caucus to support the discharge petitions.Democrats would need five Republicans to sign onto any of the petitions to force a vote on the House floor.
Taking on the herculean pursuit of enacting an assault weapons ban into law is personal for McBath. Her 17-year-old son, Jordan Davis, was killed after being confronted by Michael Dunn for playing loud music in a parked car at a Jacksonville, Fla., gas station in 2012. Dunn, who said he felt threatened, fired several shots into the car, killing Davis. He was convicted of first-degree murder two years later and sentenced to life without parole.
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