Cory Booker's 'sweeping' new gun reform plan might not be realistic

Cory Booker.
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The policy proposals keep on coming.

On Monday, presidential candidate Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) released a 14-point plan to end the United States' gun violence epidemic. The plan, published on Medium, said Booker "won't wait for more thoughts and prayers," and instead will pivot to "the most sweeping gun violence prevention proposal ever advanced by a presidential candidate."

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Tim O'Donnell

Tim is a staff writer at The Week and has contributed to Bedford and Bowery and The New York Transatlantic. He is a graduate of Occidental College and NYU's journalism school. Tim enjoys writing about baseball, Europe, and extinct megafauna. He lives in New York City.