Some Connecticut clergy members are not happy with the gun control deal reached Wednesday, according to CNN.com.
Sen. Joe Machin, D-West Virginia, and Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pennsylvania, announced a bipartisan deal that calls for background checks and a committee to research the reasons for mass shootings. The deal insists background checks for guns bought at gun shows and guns bought online.
Clergymen, like Rabbi Shaul Praver of the Congregation Adath Israel, from Newtown, Connecticut-the site where 20 children and six adults were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School-feel that this new deal does not go far enough.
"Who are they compromising with?" Praver said. "Ninety percent of the country, 92% really, want the universal background checks. That is it, straight up, no exceptions. That is what the people want.
"If there are so many people saying, 'We want you to do this' and it is not being done, then we are not being represented," he said. "I think we have a really big problem. It is called corruption and it is really a problem. You have elected officials who come here to do, you know, serve the NRA and not their constituents that elected them. I think they are out of touch."
According to a CNN/ORC International Poll, 86 percent of those polled are in favor of "tougher new background checks for gun purchases."
The polling is in line with other polls that say 90 percent support stronger gun control, CNN reported.
"It is hard for me to believe that we need a piece of legislation on compromise when 92% of the American public supports universal background checks," said Rev. Matthew Crebbin of the Newtown Congregational Church. "I do think that many of our representatives are late adapters to the issues and don't recognize the changes that are happening under their feet."
The two clergyman and Rev. Kathleen Adams-Shepherd of Trinity Episcopal Church, organized a vigil for those lost at Sandy Hook after the shooting occurred.
At the vigil clergy had big yellow stickers which said "Background Checks Save Lives."
"We all know too intimately the ripples of grief," Crebbin said, at the vigil. "Now is the time to change."
