A.G. Gancarski
Figuring out Rep. Corrine Brown‘s next move is a delightful game enjoyed by all Northeast Florida political junkies. Speculation Tuesday was that she has been in Jacksonville this week for interesting reasons.
This supposed journey to Jacksonville is news to her DC office, though.
As Brown’s spokesman David Simon wrote in a Tuesday email, “As far as I know, the Congresswoman is not in Jacksonville today. She should be on her way back to DC in fact, the House is in session today-Friday.”
Confusion may reign on Brown’s itinerary.
What is certain, however, is that Brown supports President Barack Obama’s proposed executive order to help “reduce and prevent gun violence in America.”
“I commend President Obama for taking action to address the plague of gun violence in our nation. The executive actions announced today will save lives and make our country safer – without infringing on any law-abiding individual’s right to own firearms,” Brown said. “The President’s actions will strengthen life-saving background checks, protect communities with bolstered enforcement, improve mental health services and fuel research to make guns safer.”
“Now, Congress must come together to build on the President’s important steps to curb gun violence,” Brown continued. “The most effective measures to address the epidemic of gun violence can only be achieved with Congressional action. To start, Congress should pass the bipartisan King-Thompson legislation, of which I am a co-sponsor, to strengthen background checks and close dangerous loopholes, so that criminals, domestic abusers and the dangerously mentally ill don’t have easy access to guns. The President has done his part – and now, Congress needs to finish the job.”
Her Republican counterpart, Ander Crenshaw, does not share Brown’s ardor for anti-gun executive action, terming it a “unilateral attempt to infringe upon our Second Amendment rights” in his own statement.
