Data from Google shows that normally searches for “gun shop” easily outpace those for “gun control” in most states.
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‘We know that ISIL and other terrorist groups are actively encouraging people – around the world and in our country – to commit bad acts of violence, often times as lone wolf actors. This a day after San Bernardino.
San Bernardino Reignites Debate On Gun Control In The U.S..
US President Barack Obama has made a desperate plea to Congress. President Obama has voiced a popular concern that these shootings- in their nature and frequency- are nearly unique to the United States.
We obviously can’t begin to agree about guns.
Under federal law, whenever someone tries to buy a firearm from a licensed gun dealer, that dealer is required to search the prospective buyer’s name in an FBI database to find out if the person is ineligible to purchase a gun because of a criminal record, drug abuse or if the person has been “adjucated mental defective or involuntarily committed to a mental institution”.
According to a report in FT, the Republicans are calling for tougher action against Islamist extremism while Democrats urging stronger gun control.
Every poll confirms that a majority of Americans, including conservatives and gun owners, support better background checks and closing gun sales loopholes.
Fourteen people were killed and 17 others injured in the massacre on December 2, 2015, which marks the 353rd incident of gun violence this year in the US. Judging by market patterns and consumer behavior, it can be assumed that the number will have increased between then and now; internal security analysts peg the number at roughly 350 million at present- nearly 40 million more than total U.S. population. More guns translate to more deaths by guns.
While the number of firearms in the country is hard to assess accurately, the number of guns produced is not.
Of this year’s Black Friday gun sales, the FBI’s Stephen Fischer said Wednesday, “This was an approximate 5 percent increase over the 175,754 received on Black Friday 2014”. Let’s talk about gun violence. This statistic proves that 1.3% of all the fatalities in the nation were directly related to the use of firearms. Yet, the proliferation of death and injury from firearms is at epidemic levels. Almost 70% of all homicides and more than 50% of all suicides were carried out using firearms. How does the NRA respond to mass shootings? “And if so, it would underscore a threat we’ve been focused on for years – the danger of people succumbing to violent extremist ideologies”, Obama said. An analysis by the Harvard School of Public Health confirms the radical decrease in time intervals between shootings.
And the Nardis Gun Club in Texas hasn’t seen gun sales this high since 2012, in the wake of the Sandy Hook shooting, Hawaii News Now reports.
Over the past 20 years the NRA and the Republican party have moved in concert towards increasingly rigid policies opposing any gun controls.
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Reagan himself, on leaving office in 1989, added his considerable political weight to key pieces of gun control legislation. As Adam Winkler of UCLA has shown, the NRA in the 1920s and 30s was a leading proponent of gun control laws. Cabela’s “didn’t blink as others did to stop selling AR-15 platform guns”, meaning the company “got a lot of new customers”.
