WASHINGTON, D.C. -- In a hearing on gun violence prevention in the Senate's Judiciary Committee today, U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) blasted inaction on gun safety legislation in the wake of continuous mass shootings:
"There's something really wrong with a society that can't get things done where overwhelmingly the majority of people agree that we need to get it done," Booker said in the hearing. "Black men make up six percent of this nations' population, but we are more than half of all the victims of [gun] homicide each year."
"I'm tired of seeing sidewalk shrines to dead children in my community and in cities all across America and people doing nothing ... It's good to have a hearing ...but let's have some [Judiciary] Committee votes on the stuff that's bipartisan."
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Senator Booker has been a forceful advocate for common-sense gun safety laws during his time in the Senate. He is a cosponsor of a number of measures that would increase funding of gun violence prevention research, strengthen the current background check system, and ensure that weapons meant for the battlefield are kept off of America's streets. Specifically, he is a cosponsor of the Background Check Expansion Act, the Assault Weapons Ban of 2019, the Protecting Domestic Violence and Stalking Victims Act, the Gun Violence Prevention Research Act, the Keep Americans Safe Act, and the Extreme Risk Protection Order Act.