{"id":4449,"date":"2016-06-21T12:53:55","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T04:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/06\/21\/a-week-after-orlando-shooting-four-gun-control-bills-fail-in-u-s-senate\/"},"modified":"2016-06-21T12:53:55","modified_gmt":"2016-06-21T04:53:55","slug":"a-week-after-orlando-shooting-four-gun-control-bills-fail-in-u-s-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/06\/21\/a-week-after-orlando-shooting-four-gun-control-bills-fail-in-u-s-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"A week after Orlando shooting, four gun control bills fail in U.S. Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Https%3a%2f%2fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2fuploads%2fcard%2fimage%2f122174%2fa2093a5e8ea74898ad1ead475f5fc949\" src=\"http:\/\/i.amz.mshcdn.com\/KxysPA5Jw1VyaCRK2GSJ6WUDbGE=\/575x323\/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fimage%2F122174%2Fa2093a5e8ea74898ad1ead475f5fc949.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=A+week+after+Orlando+shooting%2C+four+gun+control+bills+fail+in+U.S.+Senate&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F06%2F20%2Fsenate-gridlock-gun-control%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F06%2F20%2Fsenate-gridlock-gun-control%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>One week after the <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/06\/12\/shooting-orlando-pulse\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">deadly Orlando shooting<\/a> that killed 49 people and injured dozens of others, partisan gridlock in the U.S. Senate led to the failure of four separate gun bills in one day \u2014 leading to plenty of frustration and anger on social media.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/06\/14\/democrat-representatives-walk-out-moment-of-silence-orlando\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">House Democrats decry &#8216;faux concern&#8217; of Orlando moment of silence<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The four competing plans were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">A proposal by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) that would block most gun sales to members of the country&#8217;s terror watch list.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">A counter-proposal to Feinstein&#8217;s bill by\u00a0Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) that would block the sale of guns to a member of the terror watch list\u00a0only if prosecutors could convince a judge within three days that the would-be buyer was involved in terrorism. Cornyn&#8217;s bill was backed by the National Rifle Association (NRA).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">A proposal by Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), who <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/06\/16\/senator-chris-murphy-sandy-hook-filibuster-orlando-vote\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">led last week&#8217;s Democratic filibuster<\/a>, that\u00a0would have widely expanded the requirement for background checks, even to many private gun transactions, leaving few loopholes.\u00a0<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/06\/20\/senate-gridlock-gun-control\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/us-senate\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Us Senate<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/gun-control\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Gun Control<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/world\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">World<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/us\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Us<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/pLYP5zWi4FA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One week after the deadly Orlando shooting that killed 49 people and injured dozens of others, partisan gridlock in the U.S. Senate led to the failure of four separate gun bills in one day \u2014 leading to plenty of frustration &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/06\/21\/a-week-after-orlando-shooting-four-gun-control-bills-fail-in-u-s-senate\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[866,865,3436,1112],"class_list":["post-4449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-gun-control","tag-us","tag-us-senate","tag-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}