From the beginning it was clear San Bernardino was not just another nut case shooting; the terrorists were dressed military style, they had bombs as well as guns, and a sophisticated plan to escape. However in that seemingly acceptable storm may find yourself being little greater than the rumbling of clouds. Her comments are aimed at promoting a bill to strengthen security in a program that allows visitors from 38 countries to enter the USA without a visa.
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A pair of Democratic measures – one to close background check loopholes to make it harder for felons and the mentally ill from buying guns, another to ban those on the terror watch list from buying guns – both went down in flames against near-unanimous GOP opposition. “He’s been begging for gun control for six years and the only major change to the gun debate since he got into office has been to his face. If you think the shooting in California is about gun control then you don’t understand what’s going on in the world”.
America has had a long romance with guns, part of the country’s celebration of individual rights, with the right to gun ownership enshrined in the U.S. Constitution’s 2nd Amendment.
Gun control advocates say this time is different. And there are some steps we could take not to eliminate every one of these mass shootings, but to improve the odds that they don’t happen as frequently: common-sense gun safety laws, stronger background checks. Galvanized by the failure of Congress to pass new gun restrictions in 2013 following the Sandy Hook school shooting in which 20 children were killed, they prepared for the 2016 elections with a new strategy and far more money.
We can look at the numbers – more than 30,000 gun deaths annually, 11,000 of them homicides – or we can look at our TV screens. He also chided Republicans who recently blocked two proposed gun control measures in Congress.
Grassroots organizations numbering 3.5 million have been formed in all 50 states with an overarching group organizing their responses. This came while three others – Susan Collins, Mark Kirk and John McCain – jumped ship to side with fellow Republican Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania to support expanded background checks while embattled Sen.
“I think it behooves anybody to take some sort of action at this point, whether that is reeducating your people on your safety programs or implementing them for the first time”, Edward Yost of the Society for Human Resource Management told the International Business Times.
Public opinion, however, remains divided. There’s only so much he can do as a world leader, and there’s only so much he can do as the Chief Officer of the United States.
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Yet Pew Research Center has tracked a trend over the past decade showing some voters growing more concerned about having their gun rights limited. The killers were a Pakistani-American Muslim couple who, it is being said, had contacts with Islamic extremists and had stockpiled guns and bombs at home.
