The news out of Roseburg, Ore., on October 1 couldn’t have been any more terrible. Three of them were protected by the Secret Service.
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The manner in which the young people preparing for their futures were gunned down was despicable.
That lingering trauma has meant with the victims of the UCC shooting buried, classes at UCC back in session and life in Roseburg returning the new normal, there is still much that’s not known about what happened that day. The definition of a “gun free zone” is the people that follow the rules do not have the means to protect themselves or those around them.
Anyone who answered “yes” was shot in the head. “It can’t stop by simply launching a campaign to build public support and, as they put it, ‘ramp up pressure on Congress.’ They ARE Congress!”
I’m the son of a preacher. Not unless I hear from enough of you.
Keller makes the perplexing statement that President Obama “called for stricter controls on high-capacity cartridges, and no one listened”.
Gunshots set the tempo for one of the most draining rhythms of American life. “The government shouldn’t know who’s got weapons… we’ve seen in other countries what could happen when the government knows who has what guns”. It was the Texas campus’ second shooting in a week. If an African-American kills people, they are quick to insinuate that black people are inherently more violent, using terms like “black on black crime” and “thugs”.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation defines a mass murder as an event in which four or more people die.
Subjecting gun buyers to wait periods before they can take their guns home might help discourage spontaneous acts of violence while closing loopholes in background check laws can also help prevent the wrong people from buying guns.
“That’s just intentional homicides”.
One established feature of this cycle is a chart that circulates across the Internet showing how exceptional the U.S.is in the developed world for the frequency of its gun deaths. “And we’ve had those injuries and accidents here, we’ve had deaths here”.
Listening to the conversations, it seems most people have ideas and the desire that something be done.
A year later, neither of the senators running for president, Barack Obama and John McCain, mentioned gun control in their presidential debates. The room is named after James Brady, the late press secretary for President Ronald Reagan who was shot in a 1981 assassination attempt on the president. The reporting is routine.
That said, pundits are right to focus on the weaknesses of gun laws and the mental health issues of suspects.
Comparisons of US laws to those that exist in Great Britain and Australia are absurd. So we know there are ways to prevent it. Well, this is something we should politicize. He went on to call the mass shooting “a political choice” that has been made by America to allow these mass shootings to occur repeatedly. Meanwhile, the families of the victims, who are experiencing such bad pain and loss, are caught in the middle. In fact, the common cartridges involved in shootings are what we’d expect-.38 Special, 9mm (both 9 x 19 and 9 x 17), 12 gauge, and a host of.22s and.25s.
We know of no plans to come for the guns. When roads are unsafe, we fix them to reduce auto fatalities. We are here referring to a rather fanatical, though culturally decisive, minority who define freedom as, first and foremost, the right to “pack” a firearm or two, or ten, ad infinitum. But this is America, where there’s a gun for nearly every person, and where the Second Amendment, added to the Constitution in 1791, still exerts power on and stirs paranoia in a large portion of the American public, 224 years later.
To avoid multiple background checks, licenses could be issued to own and operate guns and purchase ammunition, coupled with gun registration. It’s a societal issue. In other words, for these folks, being armed with a gun is a cornerstone of American culture. Youngsters grow up practicing to kill people in dark video and computer games. A few genres of music glorify violence and suicide. The center will issue a report Thursday on how to use the sales tax model for gun sales. The liberal wing of the Democratic Party likes what it’s hearing from Clinton.
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Locally, the Hudson School District and St. Croix County deserve credit for having taken steps to increase security and avert a tragedy.
