国际英语资讯:Yearender: Americans facing mass shooting milestone in 2019 with no progress in gun control_时事

国际英语资讯:Yearender: Americans facing mass shooting milestone in 2019 with no progress in gun control

However, Taylor saw the problem with more complicated roots. He also pointed out that there is only a very small segment of U.S. society that appears more susceptible to extremist rhetoric and acts out on it. Although it's difficult to completely stop it, public vigilance and education can really help to mitigate it.

NO PROGRESS

The nearly daily drumbeat of news reports detailing shootings have stoked emotional and heated debates on how to end the carnage -- from enacting stricter gun laws to banning certain types of weapons. However, little progress has been made in the legislation concerning gun control.

"There is a fairly simple political play at work here. Senate majority leader (Mitch) McConnell will not schedule votes on gun control proposals unless the White House is willing to say the President could endorse them," said Clay Ramsay, a researcher at the University of Maryland.

"Whenever horrific events drive the issue forward, the White House stirs the pot on various partial gun control ideas. When the issue has less attention, the White House withdraws," Ramsay added.

Attorney General William Barr said in November that that efforts in Washington to pass gun legislation in the wake of a spate of deadly mass shootings the past summer have been derailed because of the impeachment proceedings in Congress.

"Right now it does not appear that things in Washington are amenable to those kinds of negotiations and compromises," Barr said at an event in Memphis, Tennessee. "Unfortunately, our discussions on the legislative aspects of this have been sidetracked because of the impeachment process on the Hill, and so we are going forward with all the operational steps that we can take that do not require legislative action."