Nancy Mace blasts GOP for ‘not offering any type of solution to reduce gun violence’
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Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) took on her own party for failing to propose solutions for curtailing the epidemic of gun violence occurring throughout the nation.
“We’ve not learned anything from the midterm elections if we’re going to sit here on our hands silently, not offering any type of solution to reduce gun violence in our country. And it’s not about gun control,” Mace said on Fox News Sunday.
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Over recent weeks, there have been multiple mass shootings, including one that left five dead at a Louisville bank, the Covenant school shooting, which left three children and three adults dead, and most recently, a shooting in which four people were killed at a birthday party in Alabama.
The congresswoman argued that there are plenty of solutions “besides offering prayers and silence.” She cited efforts to bolster background checks as an example.
“We have all these databases at the federal and state level that are all over the place. There’s not one piece of software where you can merge all that information together to know in 60 seconds whether or not this is a bad guy trying to buy a gun,” Mace suggested. “It doesn’t have to be complicated, but we need to show leadership.”
Mace also recalled how she and her children were a “mile away down the road” from a mass shooting in South Carolina that transpired on Good Friday.
“I’m a constitutional conservative, but I’ll tell you, Shannon, about a week ago, my kids and I were a mile away from a mass shooting in South Carolina where six people were shot. We saw the immediate aftermath,” Mace recalled. “They said, ‘Hey, Mommy, where is the Amber Alert to let us know that we’re near a mass shooting and maybe we should have taken cover.'”
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Mace is no stranger to bucking her party, particularly on hot-button social matters. She recently joined some progressives in urging the Biden administration to ignore a Texas court ruling freezing approval for a pill used to induce abortions.
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During the interview, Mace described herself as a “pro-life legislator” who favors “15 to 20 weeks” of gestational restrictions on abortion.
“Republicans haven’t won the majority — the popular vote — in years when it comes to the presidency, and that’s something we need to work on and do better. And this is an issue that we can win on,” Mace added, referring to firearms.