A pair of House Republicans on Sunday offered widely contrasting views of whether lawmakers should pursue changes to gun law in the wake of the elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
In an interview on “Fox News Sunday,” Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks said Americans feared losing their Second Amendment rights and that any changes to laws must not infringe on them.
It’s not clear what, if anything, motivated the shooter in Texas to kill young children.
Brooks’ comments marked a significant contrast from the position taken by Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger, who in interviews on CNN’s “State of the Union” and ABC’s “This Week” said his views on gun laws have evolved recently. The moderate Republican said among other changes he was open to raising the age to purchase long guns to 21.
“If you look at this shooting, you look at Buffalo, you look at Parkland and all these others, there are people taking these guns, these ARs, under the age of 21,” Kinzinger told CNN host Dana Bash. “Can we stop all of it? No. Can we mitigate it, certainly. And we should be doing that now.”
Asked whether he stilled opposed a ban on sales of the type of firearm used in many recent shooting, Kinzinger said he was open to it, depending on the specifics. But he was adamant that supporters of the Second Amendment such as himself should be coming to the table with “reasonable” solutions.
“My side’s not doing that. My side’s not coming forward with reasonable ways to defend an amendment that we think is very important,” Kinzinger said. “And so I’m looking at this going, fine, if people are going to put forward solutions about certifying maybe who can buy an assault weapon, I’m certainly open to that.”
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3/26/20
Germany and the Netherlands: Corona Virus: Germany and the Netherlands seem to fight off the virus better than most. Here’s why - by Rupert Steiner
The Netherlands and Germany both showed glimmers of hope in the battle
to combat coronavirus on Wednesday, as the numbers of cases in New York
rose rapidly.
Data from Germany shows just 0.4% of people who tested positive for the virus have passed away, much less than the 9.5% in Italy and 4.3% in France. In the Netherlands growth in transmissions of the virus have slowed significantly.
Giving evidence in front of the Dutch Parliament Jaap van Dissel, boss of the Netherlands National Institute of Health, said: “The exponential growth of the outbreak has in all probability been brought to a halt,” with the infection only being passed on at a rate of one infected person to another.
If proven, this would be a significant achievement. In some countries, the spread from one infected person has been to as many as five or more. In the U.S., the state of New York had 5,146 new cases
confirmed on Wednesday, and more than 30,000 have tested positive.
The low death rate in Germany has confounded experts, and it could be due to different causes. The possible explanation is that doctors aggressively screened citizens who were either fit or sick early on at the time they took the test, at a rate not seen in other countries, who only had the resources to test the very sick. This have skewed the compaarison with other countries, because those who were fit when tested and had caught the virus were more likely to suffer from a mild case and survive.
Germany also was more effective than most countries at tracking and tracing contacts of infected patients before the spread took hold, effectively containing it better than other countries.
Another more random theory is that the first Germans to contract the virus caught it mixing with other nationalities while skiing, which suggested that they were fit and active, and less likely to succumb to the disease.
Read more at: Germany and the Netherlands seem to fight off the virus better than most. Here’s why - MarketWatch
Data from Germany shows just 0.4% of people who tested positive for the virus have passed away, much less than the 9.5% in Italy and 4.3% in France. In the Netherlands growth in transmissions of the virus have slowed significantly.
Giving evidence in front of the Dutch Parliament Jaap van Dissel, boss of the Netherlands National Institute of Health, said: “The exponential growth of the outbreak has in all probability been brought to a halt,” with the infection only being passed on at a rate of one infected person to another.
If proven, this would be a significant achievement. In some countries, the spread from one infected person has been to as many as five or more. In the U.S., the state of New York had 5,146 new cases
confirmed on Wednesday, and more than 30,000 have tested positive.
The low death rate in Germany has confounded experts, and it could be due to different causes. The possible explanation is that doctors aggressively screened citizens who were either fit or sick early on at the time they took the test, at a rate not seen in other countries, who only had the resources to test the very sick. This have skewed the compaarison with other countries, because those who were fit when tested and had caught the virus were more likely to suffer from a mild case and survive.
Germany also was more effective than most countries at tracking and tracing contacts of infected patients before the spread took hold, effectively containing it better than other countries.
Another more random theory is that the first Germans to contract the virus caught it mixing with other nationalities while skiing, which suggested that they were fit and active, and less likely to succumb to the disease.
Read more at: Germany and the Netherlands seem to fight off the virus better than most. Here’s why - MarketWatch
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