Passions flare at senate gun forum in Greenville
A standing-room only crowd greeted South Carolina senators to a hearing about South Carolina gun law reform in Greenville on Thursday. The group was predictably divided on gun rights, split on whether state laws should require background checks to be completed before guns could be purchased or whether changes to gun laws would chip away at citizens Second Amendment rights.
The Senate subcommittee gathered to hear from residents in the first of four public hearings scheduled across the state to gather input for what some senators hope will turn into a consensus bill to address the waiting period for background checks before firearms can be purchased.
Jennifer Pinckney rose from her seat in the front row closest to the podium inside Greenville County Council chambers and spoke first before the packed room.
She spoke of her husband, the late Sen. Clementa Pinckney, who was gunned down at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston last June and how he was killed by a man who should not have been allowed to purchase a gun.
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