Mike Thompson (D-CA 5) introduces new gun legislation in wake of recent shootings

U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, has reignited a push to reform gun laws in America following high-profile incidents of gun violence in Santa Barbara and cities in Washington, Oregon and Nevada recently.

Thompson chaired a task force on preventing gun violence in the House of Representatives in early 2013, following a mass shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in December 2012 that left 26 children and adults at the school dead.

The legislation that resulted has stalled in the Republican-controlled House, but Thompson said that didn’t stop him from introducing a new bill, Promoting Healthy Minds for Safer Communities Act of 2014, late last month that seeks to bolster coordination between mental health agencies and law enforcement, while moving to prevent guns from falling into the wrong hands.

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The bill aims to boost crisis intervention, and would give funding for state-level programs that would allow law enforcement to get warrants to temporarily take guns from people who are found to be a risk to harm themselves or other people.

LINK: http://napavalleyregister.com/news/local/mike-thompson-introduces-new-gun-legislation-in-wake-of-recent/article_0cf4b73a-8c90-550d-978a-b42de1b31726.html