GUN CONTROL: Dem Senator on CBS Face The Nation Calls for Gun Control Following CA Rampage

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Senator Richard Blumenthal said on Sunday he wanted to revive gun control legislation rejected by Congress in the wake of the 2012 Newtown, Connecticut, school massacre, saying it could have helped prevent this weekend’s deadly California shooting spree.

Blumenthal, a Democrat from Connecticut, said on CBS’s “Face the Nation” program the legislation, which failed last year, could be revised to emphasize the mental condition of potential gun buyers.

“Obviously, not every kind of gun violence is going to be prevented by laws out of Washington,” he said.

“But at least we can make a start and I am going to urge that we bring back those bills, maybe reconfigure them, center on mental health, which is a point where we can agree that we need more resources to make the country healthier and to make sure that these kinds of horrific, insane, mad occurrences are stopped.

“And the Congress will be complicit if we fail in that,” he said.

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