Cory Booker hits out at US’s ‘love of guns and money and power’

Fresno CA

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Senator Cory Booker sounded a pessimistic note on the US government’s ability and willingness to reform gun control laws in the country while appearing on a Sunday morning talk show. When pressed by NBC host Chuck Todd about some of the proposed solutions that have been floated in the days since a brutal mass shooting in Texas left 19 children and two teachers dead, the New Jersey senator acknowledged that none of these pieces of legislation, even if passed, would solve America’s gun problem. “The red flag law or the expanded background check wouldn’t have done anything,” Todd began. He then punctuated this point by stating that both the gunmen responsible in America’s two most recent mass shootings - in Buffalo, where an 18-year-old shot and killed 10 people and in Uvalde, where a man of the same age opened fire on a fourth-grade class and killed 21 people - “legally purchased everything they used”.