First we must ask, why are many of these shootings happening on campuses? After 35 people were killed by a lone gunman wielding a military-style semiautomatic rifle at a popular Australian resort in 1996, Australia tightened every aspect of its gun laws.
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“Routine” is the word he used to describe the attitude Americans are taking when another mass shooting occurs. That’s 294 mass shootings in just 274 days.
Willis, who visited her granddaughter in the hospital, said Friday Boylan told her the shooter was asking students about their faith.
These latter killings weren’t mass shootings, but they are hardly lesser tragedies.
Obama made a similar plea on Thursday, saying: “We spend over a trillion dollars and devote entire agencies to preventing terrorist attacks on our soil, and rightfully so”. In spite of all those laws, the city fails to properly enforce them, resulting in the spike of crime. As The Washington Post reported in 2014, we are a violent outlier in the developed world.
Similarly, almost 80 percent favor laws that would prevent the mentally ill from buying guns. About 33,000 Americans die from gunshots each year, per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He said the focus should be on the bigger issue of mental health. The good people are unarmed, the evil person is armed. “They’ve got so many laws now that they are not even looking at, and more constraints on guns is not the answer”. News media were not allowed onto the campus in the small town of Roseburg.
The problem: As with bans on specific weapons, proponents of broad gun rights argue that regulating ammunition would undercut the primacy of the second amendment – the right to bear arms – and that high-capacity magazines could be necessary for self-defense.
The proposal: Expand the ban on the sale of firearms to those convicted of domestic violence, including abuse and stalking.
The 4:10 p.m. PT (7:10 PM ET) entry at a running timeline at AP announced that “Barack Obama will travel to Oregon this week to visit privately with families of the victims of last week’s shooting at a community college.” . Should we do away with gun-free zones, particularly at schools?
Victims of gun violence deserve more than political prayers.
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Following Oregon’s recent school shooting, a coalition of gun control groups on Tuesday renewed its push against gun violence and the gun lobby.
