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ByEricaWerner TheAssociatedPress WASHINGTON Theslaugh- ter in Florida and an at- tention-grabbing filibus- ter in the Senate did little to break the election-year stalemate in Congress over guns Thursday, with both sides unwilling to budge and Republicans standing firm against any new legis- lation opposed by the Na- tional Rifle Association. Democrats renewed their call to action af- ter Sen. Chris Murphy, D- Conn., held the floor along with colleagues in a nearly 15-hour filibuster that lasted into the early hours Thursday. "We can't just wait, we have to make something happen," said Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., at an emo- tional news conference where Democrats joined family members of people killed in the nation's recent mass shootings. "These are people bound by brutal- ity, and their numbers are growing." But Republicans were coolly dismissive of Dem- ocrats' demands. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., derided Murphy's filibuster as a "campaign talk-a-thon" that did nothing but delay potential votes. Noting that a few Dem- ocrats had skipped a clas- sified briefing on the Flor- ida nightclub shooting to participate in the filibus- ter, McConnell chided: "It's hard to think of a clearer contrast for serious work for solutions on the one hand, and endless partisan campaigning on the other." Democrats spoke of the need for new gun legisla- tion. Republicans cited the threat posed by the Islamic State group, to which Or- lando gunman Omar Ma- teen swore allegiance while killing 49 people in a gay nightclub early Sun- day. The two sides mostly talked past each other, and efforts to forge consensus quickly sputtered out. As a result, the Senate fac- ing the prospect of taking dueling votes Monday on Democratic and GOP bills, all of which looked des- tined to fail. The back and forth came as President Barack Obama visited the vic- tims' families in Orlando, and the White House and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clin- ton joined Senate Demo- crats' call for action. Pre- sumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump weighed in with a tweet suggesting he would meet with the NRA and support efforts to keep guns out of the hands of terrorists. Ex- actly what he would sup- port was unclear. It's the same exercise the Senate has engaged in time and again after mass shootings. Even after the Newtown, Connecticut, shootings of schoolchildren, the Senate could not pass a bipartisan background checks bill. After the shooting in San Bernardino, Califor- nia, last year, the effort was downgraded to trying to pass a bill by Sen. Di- anne Feinstein, D-Calif., to keep people on a govern- ment terrorism watch list or other suspected terror- ists from buying guns, but that too failed. This time, Feinstein is seeking a revote on her bill. Republicans will of- fer an alternative by Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, that would allow the govern- ment to delay a gun sale to a suspected terrorist for 72 hours, but require prosecu- tors to go to court to show probable cause to block the sale permanently. Democrats also hoped to offer a new background check bill, and Republi- cans were deliberating on another piece of legislation they could offer, with Dem- ocrats pointing to appar- ent disagreement within the GOP of evidence their pressure campaign was working. Republicans de- nied it. Sen. Chuck Schumer, D- N.Y., decried Cornyn's bill as a "wolf in sheep's cloth- ing" and said it would al- low "every terrorist to get a gun." Clinton's spokes- man, Brian Fallon, called Cornyn's bill a "smoke- screen." Cornyn responded angrily. LEGISLATION Congressstalematedongunsdespiteshooting,filibuster J.SCOTTAPPLEWHITE—THEASSOCIATEDPRESS Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., le , accompanied by Sen. 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