Article snippet: Senator Elizabeth Warren outlined a series of measures Saturday with an ambitious goal of slashing rates of gun deaths by 80 percent, pitching her ideas for firearms licensing, an assault weapons ban and other major changes ahead of a gun safety event in Iowa that follows mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, Ohio. Warren pledged to enact many of her proposals — a combination of executive actions and legislation — within the first 100 days of her presidency if elected, she wrote in a Medium post. Acknowledging her 80 percent goal as daunting, Warren likened it to the dramatic drop in automobile fatalities after the number of deaths from car accidents reached frightening heights in the 1960s. “We might not know how to get all the way there yet,” Warren wrote. “But we’ll start by implementing solutions that we believe will work. We’ll continue by constantly revisiting and updating those solutions based on new public health research. And we’ll make structural changes to end the ability of corrupt extremists to block our government from defending the lives of our people.” Warren has become known for setting the tone on policy for the 2020 Democratic primary field with detailed policy proposals unveiled almost weekly. But she had yet to release a gun control plan when mass shootings unfolded over a matter of hours last weekend, killing 31 people. Some of Warren’s campaign rivals, including California Senator Kamala Harris and New Jersey Senator Cory Booker, release... Link to the full article to read more