VOA标准英语2013--Gun Control Debate Firing Up Local Communities
时间：2019-01-14 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2013年(三月)
Gun Control Debate Firing Up Local Communities
Scenes of Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut are seared in the minds of many. Twenty students and six teachers died in the December mass shooting.
Yet it has only been in the past two weeks that federal lawmakers have started to act - a Senate committee sending several bills to the full Senate for consideration.
"The time has come, America, to step up and ban these weapons,'' said California senator Dianne Feinstein.
U.S. President Barack Obama has urged Congress to act, promising 1 to make another push even as he and lawmakers clash over budget issues.
In the meantime, at the state and local level - people are taking matters into their own hands.
The town of Byron, Maine, overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to require every resident to own a gun and ammunition 2.
The same day, at the Connecticut state capital, the National Rifle Association sponsored a gun rights rally.
Outside the Indiana statehouse advocates on both sides trying to make their voices heard.
In Tulsa, Oklahoma - action of a different kind - police inside a school training for the worst case scenario 3. The idea - to make things as realistic as possible.
In the meantime, on the streets of Washington this week -- not far from the U.S. Capitol - a deadly reminder 4 of the damage guns can do in the wrong hands.
''Two cars came through the block, opened fire," explained Cathy Lanier, Washington, DC polic chief. "11 people have been transported.''
The debate over gun rights and gun control still far from settled.
- The results of the experiments are very promising.实验的结果充满了希望。
- We're trying to bring along one or two promising young swimmers.我们正设法培养出一两名有前途的年轻游泳选手。
- A few of the jeeps had run out of ammunition.几辆吉普车上的弹药已经用光了。
- They have expended all their ammunition.他们把弹药用光。
- But the birth scenario is not completely accurate.然而分娩脚本并非完全准确的。
- This is a totally different scenario.这是完全不同的剧本。