[caption id=”attachment_138341″ align=”aligncenter” width=”4896″] Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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Even though he is in the twilight of his Senate career, Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is looking to pass a major gun control bill that will expand background checks for gun purchases.
The Hill reported that Reid is looking to use the recent massacre in Charleston to advance gun control.
“The United States is the only advanced country where this type of mass violence occurs. Let’s do something. We can expand, for example, background checks…We should support not giving guns to people who are mentally ill and felons,” Reid said on the Senate floor Tuesday.
“I understand the definition of insanity is continuing to do the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result, and that’s what we’re doing,” he continued.
Despite Reid’s demands, his fellow Democrats admit there is almost no chance of new gun control measures passing the Republican-led Congress.
But Reid claims that without his legislation, “We will be here again.”
“Our hearts will be broken again, and we’re going to have to ask ourselves how we allowed another senseless tragedy to take place while we stand by doing nothing.”
