‘How much more carnage are we willing to accept?’ Biden pleads for gun control in primetime speech – as it happened

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Republican Dan Bishop challenged David Cicilline's argument that Democrats' gun-control bill is fully compliant with the constitution, instead insisting that the proposals would infringe on Americans' Second Amendment rights.

And let me be clear, you are not going to bully your way into stripping Americans of fundamental rights," Bishop said.