In what might be characterized as an exercise in the art of the possible, a bipartisan group of senators led by John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Chris Murphy, D-Conn., have spent the past few days focused on a limited set of new policies targeting gun violence.
They’re still in the earliest phases of brainstorming, but three broad areas are showing promise: incentivizing states to pass red flag laws, updates to school safety protocols, and possibly some narrow changes to background checks.
“We don’t have to end the epidemic of gun violence in this nation with one piece of legislation, right?” Murphy said at an event this week. “What we need to do is break this logjam — but break this logjam with a piece of legislation that’s going to save lives, not a piece of legislation that is just going to check boxes.”
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