On the day after an emotional meeting with survivors of the Parkland school shooting, Sen. Bob Menendez was in Cliffside Park for an event intended to promote reading, although the events in Florida just two weeks ago remained fresh on the minds of those involved.

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“I’d like to see us be able to do something about some reasonable gun safety measures that maybe could stop some of the terrible things we see in our country,” Menendez told the fifth graders of Public School 5.

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“We need a universal background check,” he told reporters. “Universal means whether you want to go try to buy a gun on the Internet or you want to go to a gun show or buy from another person, you’re going to have to go through a background check to make sure that you have no criminal background, no mental health problems, are not a domestic abuser. I think that’s pretty simple. It doesn’t stop anybody from getting a gun who shouldn’t get a gun, but it can stop millions of people who shouldn’t get a gun from being able to do so.”

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