US senators vow to obstruct gun limits

Several US Republican lawmakers have threatened to block an upcoming Senate debate on gun control legislation, provoking a harsh reaction by the body’s Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid, who described the move as shameful.

According to the Washington Post, invoking the emotional national response to the shooting massacre of 20 first-grade children at Sandy Hook Elementary School in the state of Connecticut last December, the top lawmaker from the state of Nevada emphasized that Republican obstructionism would be viewed as an insult to the families of the slain pupils, rejecting the move as shameful and against the will of most Americans.
Reid said, “The least Republicans owe the parents of these 20 little babies who are murdered at Sandy Hook is a thoughtful debate about whether stronger laws could have saved their little girls and boys”.
The development came as the US Senate began Monday its formal debate on legislation to limit gun violence following a two-week spring recess.