'Whose side are you on?' Houston police chief tears into GOP senators over gun laws after officer killed
WASHINGTON – Houston's police chief sharply criticized the two Republican U.S. senators from his state and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell over gun control legislation during an emotional news conference as he prepared to escort the body of a police officer killed in the line of duty to a funeral home.
"We all know in law enforcement that one of the biggest reasons that the Senate and Mitch McConnell and John Cornyn and Ted Cruz and others" have not reached a compromise on the bill is that the National Rifle Association"doesn't like the fact that we want to take firearms out of the hands of boyfriends that abuse their girlfriends," Acevedo said.
Acevedo also called on McConnell, Cruz and Cornyn to pass the Violence Against Women Act in a tweet last week. "Unfortunately, important legislation like this has fallen casualty to impeachment mania," Cornyn said."We will keep trying to pass a bipartisan bill but it takes two to tango."
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