Amy Schumer and her lesser known cousin getting involved with gun legislation.

[aikoaiko]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2015/08/03/amy-schumer-chuck-schumer-tackle-gun-violence/31048281/

Amy Schumer, Sen. Schumer tackle gun violence

After last month's tragic movie theater shooting at a screening of the Amy Schumer comedy Trainwreck, the actress is teaming up with New York Sen. Chuck Schumer for a new public initiative tackling gun violence.

Yes, the two are related — Schumer and Schumer are cousins.

Announced Monday, the initiative comes in the wake of a July movie theater shooting in Louisiana, which left three people dead and nine wounded after a gunman opened fire during a Trainwreck screening.

The plan will take a three-pronged approach to fighting mass shootings, focusing on background checks and mental health funding. Sen. Schumer will unveil legislation that rewards states with funding for submitting all necessary records into background-check systems and penalizes states that don't submit records.

Schumer and Schumer will also call on the Department of Justice to release information and make recommendations about how states handle "involuntary mental-health commitments," and plan to take their push to Congress, advocating for mental health and substance-abuse program funding.

The outlines of these approaches sound reasonable and I look forward to more details.

[Duckhunter935]

1. Seams reasonable

Hope some do not try and load it up with useless measures designed to inflame the issue. I am not holding my breath on that.

[Lee-Lee]

2. I'm a gun gal and all that is perfectly reasonable

States should have been properly updating NICS anyway. It's a failure of the system that they don't and get away with it.

One thing they should add is make NICS available to private sellers via something simple like a smartphone app.

[aikoaiko]

3. I agree. There are a lot of private sellers who would not sell if given the red light w/NICS

[petronius]

4. Good! Getting clear, accurate, and consistent info into NICS is

obviously essential for background checks to work, so helping/pushing states to get it done is a positive. Plus, it seems like there is some variation in how mental adjudications are handled or defined, so putting some effort into standardizing that sounds helpful...