Mitch McConnell: Gun control will have to be solved at the local level

By Emma Ayers

Published July 3, 2018 8:43pm ET

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Mitch McConnell: Gun control will have to be solved at the local level — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., conveyed a real sense of hopelessness over federal legislation that can stop school shootings during an address he gave to community leaders in Danville, Ky. “I don’t think at the federal level there’s much that we can do other than appropriate funds,” McConnell said on Tuesday, according to a […]

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., conveyed a real sense of hopelessness over federal legislation that can stop school shootings during an address he gave to community leaders in Danville, Ky.

“I don’t think at the federal level there’s much that we can do other than appropriate funds,” McConnell said on Tuesday, according to a report in the Lexington Herald-Leader.

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