既然a试图遏制枪支暴力的初步协议已经在参议院达成，谈判者正在努力使该提案成为现实，而且要快。
枪支谈判的共和党领袖、得克萨斯州参议员约翰·科宁周一表示，他希望立法者在本周某个时候完成法案的立法文本，然后民主党人表示将对最终法案进行快速投票。
“我希望我们能在未来几天内完成这项工作，希望在本周末之前完成，这样所有参议员——实际上是全世界——都可以阅读该法案，”科尔宁周一在一次冗长的发言中说。
这样的时间表将为下周参议院的投票创造条件。
参议院多数党领袖查克·舒默(Chuck Schumer)周一誓言，一旦立法文本最终确定，将“迅速”举行投票，但他承认，在法案提交议会之前，还有更多工作要做。该协议的框架得到了10名共和党人的支持，足以避免共和党阻挠过去枪支法的威胁。但是共和党助手告诉ABC新闻，两党的协议是基于原则，而不是细节，细节仍在制定中。
“毫无疑问，在真正通过法案之前，我们还有很多工作要做。但昨天的声明是朝着正确方向迈出的积极而必要的一步，”舒默说。
一个由20名参议员组成的小组——10名民主党人和10名共和党人——周日宣布，经过数周的工作，他们已经达成了一项广泛的协议一所小学的大规模枪击事件在德克萨斯州的乌瓦尔迪，19名儿童和两名教师丧生。
该协议的大纲包括为精神健康和学校安全提供资金;鼓励各州和地方通过“红旗”法律，从那些被认为对自己或他人有危险的人手中收回枪支;加强联邦背景调查系统，特别是针对21岁以下的潜在枪支拥有者和被判犯有家庭暴力罪的人——堵塞所谓的“男友漏洞”。
科尔宁周一强调，拟议的改革不会对“守法的枪支所有者”增加任何限制，但他说，他相信他们将“拯救生命”
“这不是一场简单的辩论，”Cornyn说。“很感性。这可能会引起分歧。但同样重要的是，我们要行动起来。”
该协议没有包括民主党人，包括总统乔·拜登在内，在美国最近一次大规模枪击事件发生后提出的所有要求。仅本周末就有至少10起这样的谋杀。
在本月早些时候的一次全国讲话中，拜登敦促国会禁止攻击性武器(此前在20世纪90年代和21世纪初被宣布为非法)和大容量弹夹，取消枪支制造商的豁免权等。
“我们花了几个小时与数百名破碎的家庭成员在一起，他们的生活将永远不会一样，”拜登当时说。"他们给我们所有人传达了一个信息:做点什么。"
美国广播公司新闻白宫记者卡伦·特拉弗斯周一问白宫新闻秘书郭佳欣·让-皮埃尔，暂定枪支协议是否达到了那些父母所说的他们想要的。
“他听到的，你们所有人可能也从社区的人们那里听到的，是做一些事情，”让-皮埃尔回答说。“总统已经呼吁国会采取措施。他们正在做一些事情。”
让-皮埃尔补充说，拜登希望看到枪支安全改革法案“尽快放在他的办公桌上签署”。
科宁自己也承认，在一个分歧如此严重的参议院中推行反枪支暴力立法是一件微妙的事情。
“我们经常听到人们说，‘做点什么。’他在周一的演讲中说:“嗯，他们不会给你太多关于那个东西看起来像什么的指导，当你开始挖掘细节时，你会发现对那个东西应该像什么没有太多的共识。”。
他说，他相信专注于让枪支远离“罪犯和有精神健康问题的人”是一个成功的公式。
“我希望10名共和党人支持该法案不是上限，而是下限，”他说。
如果获得通过，该协议将是30年来国会通过的第一项重要的枪支管制立法。
舒默周一表示:“我敦促我的同事们想一想，通过将这一框架变成法律，我们现在可以挽救的所有生命。”“美国人等待我们采取行动的时间已经够长了。太多的生命，已经失去了太多的生命。”
Gun deal negotiators may finish draft of new law this week, ahead of speedy vote, Sen. John Cornyn says
Now that atentative deal on trying to curb gun violencehas been reached in the Senate, negotiators are working to make the proposal a reality -- and fast.
Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, the lead Republican on the gun talks, said Monday he would like to see lawmakers finish the bill's legislative text sometime this week ahead of what Democrats have said would be a quick vote on the finalized bill.
"My hope is that we can complete that job in the next few days, hopefully by the end of the week, so that the bill will be available for all senators -- indeed all the world -- to read," Cornyn said on Monday in a lengthy floor speech.
Such a timeframe would set up a possible vote on the Senate floor next week.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., vowed Monday to hold a vote "quickly" once the legislative text was finalized, but acknowledged there was still more that needed to be done before a bill reached the floor. The framework of the agreement has 10 Republicans in support -- enough to avoid the threat of a GOP filibuster that has stymied past gun laws. But Republican aides told ABC News the bipartisan deal was on the principles and not the details, which are still being worked out.
"Make no mistake about it, we have a lot of work left to do before we actually pass a bill. But yesterday's announcement was a positive and necessary step in the right direction," Schumer said.
A group of 20 senators -- 10 Democrats and 10 Republicans -- announced on Sunday they had reached a broad agreement after working for weeks followingthe mass shooting at an elementary schoolin Uvalde, Texas, that left 19 young children and two teachers dead.
The outline of the deal includes funding for mental health and school safety; incentives for states and localities to pass "red flag" laws to take away guns from those deemed a danger to themselves or others; and strengthening the federal background check system, especially for potential gun owners under the age of 21 and for people convicted of domestic violence -- closing the so-called "boyfriend loophole."
Cornyn emphasized Monday that the proposed reforms would not add any more restrictions upon "law-abiding gun owners" but said he believed they will "save lives."
"This is not an easy debate," Cornyn said. "It's emotional. It can be divisive. But it is also very important that we act."
The agreement doesn't include everything Democrats, including President Joe Biden, have called for in the wake of the latest onslaught of mass shootings across the U.S. This weekend alone there wereat least 10 such killings.
In a nationwide address earlier this month, Biden urged Congress to ban assault-style weapons -- which were previously outlawed in the 1990s and early 2000s -- and high-capacity magazines, repeal immunity for gun manufacturers and more.
"We spent hours with hundreds of family members who were broken, whose lives will never be the same," Biden said then. "They had one message for all of us: Do something."
ABC News White House correspondent Karen Travers asked White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Monday if the tentative gun deal delivered on what those parents said they wanted.
"What he heard and all of you may have heard from the folks in the community, as well, is to do something," Jean-Pierre replied. "The president has called on Congress to do something. They are doing something."
Biden wants to see the gun safety reform bill "on his desk to sign as soon as possible," Jean-Pierre added.
Cornyn himself admitted the delicacy of delivering on anti-gun violence legislation in such a closely divided Senate.
"Most often we hear people say, 'Do something.' Well, they don't give you a lot of guidance on what that something looks like -- and when you begin to dig down into the details, you find out there is not a lot of consensus about what that something should look like," he said in his speech on Monday.
He said he believed focusing on keeping guns away from "criminals and people with mental health problems" was a winning formula.
"I'm hoping that 10 Republicans supporting the bill is not a ceiling but is the floor," he said.
If passed, the deal would be the first major piece of gun control legislation to make it through Congress in three decades.
"I urge my colleagues to think of all the lives we can now save by turning this framework into law," Schumer said on Monday. "Americans have waited long enough for us to take action. Too many lives, too many have been already lost."
