WASHINGTON — Democratic lawmakers are responding to the deadly Florida school shooting with calls for expanded background checks. They also want to create a committee to examine gun violence.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi says, “We hope that we will have more than a moment of silence.”
Yet attempts to pass stricter gun laws have gone nowhere in recent years.
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