Wisconsin Advocate Attended Obama’s Gun Control Announcement Tuesday

A Wisconsin advocate who attended President Barack Obama’s announcement on Tuesday about gun control measures said the White House event was “incredibly heartening.”

Jeri Bonavia, of the Wisconsin Anti-Violence Effort, has spent many years calling for tougher gun laws. She said it was inspiring to hear the president talk of expanding gun sale background checks and promise other measures.

Critics of the president’s plan are talking about blocking some of it in the courts, but Bonavia said that would be a bad move.

“Because the alternative to taking these actions and others is to continue watching fellow Americans being gunned down,” Bonavia said. “More than 33,000 lose their lives to gun violence every year.”

U.S. Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., takes a different view, arguing that nothing in the Obama plan would have prevented any of the horrific tragedies perpetrated by bad actors in recent months.