What reforms is Ryan referring to? Did I miss something?

[Arkansas Granny]

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Paul Ryan on Santa Fe shooting: "While we need to learn more about what took place here, it is urgent that we implement the reforms Congress recently passed to make schools safer and keep deadly weapons away from those who should not have them."

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What reforms did Congress recently pass? I try to keep up with the news, but I don't know what he's talking about.

[Bleacher Creature]

1. Corporate tax deductions for sending thoughts and prayers? NT

[Cha]

2. My Senator Brian Schatz on that..

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[Arkansas Granny]

4. What in the world is Ryan talking about then? I would have thought that any gun control

efforts would be all over the news, but besides arming teachers and giving students buckets of rocks I can't remember hearing or reading anything.

[Cha]

8. He's GasLighting and Lying like

the sociopath he is.

He knows the brainwashed will believe him and the "reporters" won't call him on it.

That's my take. Like Senator Schatz tweets.. they've done Nothing.

[AJT]

3. Arming everyone that promises they would be a "good guy with a gun"?

[strangedaysindeed]

5. Just another Repug gasbag

spouting whatever comes to his head.

he's on his way out the door, so he doesn't have to care about anything.

Oh, and those kids protesting his his lack of initiative, he just calls his buddies in law enforcement and has them hauled away like so much rubbish.

I grew up through the Nixon era, lived through Reagan and the Bushes, so you'd think I'd be desensitized by now, but nah, these people still make me want to Puke!

[GeorgeGist]

11. Hear, hear!

I with you all the way

[JHB]

6. They passed gas...

...which, was "reformed" from their previous meal.

Naturally, he's still full of other by-products of that process.

The Republican base will simply accept that they've done something (which doesn't involve gun control, natch) and the evil scheming "Dumbocrats" are twarting because they hate 'Murica.

[Arkansas Granny]

7. Ok, I've been searching and I think this is what he's talking about.

1. They voted to strengthen existing background checks: The most recent change to background checks came in 1993, when Congress instituted a federal background check system. But gun-control advocates say that that system is understaffed and underfunded, and there are ways to get around it by buying a gun at largely unregulated gun shows or online.

Enter a bipartisan bill that doesn't expand background checks, but does require state and federal agencies to add people's criminal records into the system in a modest effort to make it more expansive.

2. They opened the door to federal funding for gun violence research: For 20 years, federal government research on gun violence has more or less been prohibited. As my colleagues William Wan and Sean Sullivan point out, there was never an explicit ban, but in 1996, Congress supported a gun-lobby priority to say that no funds from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention “may be used to advocate or promote gun control.” That had a chilling effect on all federal funding related to guns.

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3. They are moving to ban bump stocks: Actually, this isn't Congress's doing. Even though there's bipartisan support to ban the device that can make a legal semiautomatic weapon fire more like an illegal machine gun, Congress has left the decision-making to the federal agency that regulates firearms. That agency is caught in red tape about what it can do without a new law from Congress. But on the eve of the March for our Lives, Trump tried to bust through that red tape and announced the Justice Department would propose banning bump stocks. But it's still a ways to go to actually ban them.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/the-fix/wp/2018/03/23/hey-marchers-heres-what-congress-just-did-on-guns-and-what-it-probably-wont-do-anytime-soon/

I suppose you could consider this a start, but it's mostly smoke and mirrors to make it look like they are actually doing something.

[grantcart]

9. This as much a start to getting something done as . . .

Tying your shoelaces is the beginning of a race.

[spanone]

10. it's a white house and republican congress 100% invested in Lies.

[moondust]

12. Arming all the kids?

That would be my guess as to the GOPNRA plan since it would mean lots and lots of gun sales. Amirite?

[Arkansas Granny]

13. Yeah, arm them with rocks.

This school district’s plan to stop shooters: Arming students with a bucket of rocks

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/grade-point/wp/2018/03/23/this-school-districts-plan-to-stop-shooters-a-bucket-of-rocks-for-students-to-throw-at-them/