President Obama listens to a question at a CNN town hall debate on gun control in Fairfax, Virginia, Jan. 8, 2016. As his term is nearing its end, he is trying to improve the situation through whatever means possible.
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“Police on average, for every 10 rounds fired, I think, actually strike something once or twice, and they are highly trained”, Bill Bratton, New York’s current police commissioner, once told me.
Obama then said he was “not sure” there is a “one-to-one correlation” between rising gun sales and declining murder rates because “if you look at the where the areas are with the highest gun ownership, those are the places that the crime hasn’t dropped down that much”.
For the past decade, more than 4 million people were the victims of assaults, robberies and other crimes involving a gun, according to the White House. “We’re the only advanced nation on earth that sees this kind of mass violence with this frequency”.
“People need to take individual responsibility. Many have had to learn to live with a disability, or learned to live without the love of their life”. He said that it is very important at this time that everyone plays their part in creating a safe society.
But the President insists that illegal gun dealers continue to benefit.
“Once again, President Obama has made a decision to take divisive, unilateral action rather than work with Congress. The announcement makes it clear that he has little respect for the constitutional rights of gun-owning Americans, and even less respect for our constitutional system of government”.
But perhaps the biggest rebuke to the concern over gun confiscation is the fact that, despite support for universal background checks from 92% of Americans and 86% of gun owners congress was unable to even bring background check legislation up for a vote. “We don’t know when we will get them, don’t know we will get them”, Richard Le Royal says.
“Like you, and like most Americans, we have had ENOUGH”.
The presidential order does not prevent anyone from owning a gun.
“I have been touched by extreme violence and I have been robbed of the life I always wanted by someone who chose to do evil”.
“Ultimately, this is about all of us”. Valerie Jackson’s shooter was an ex-felon who had been arrested and charged for domestic violence against her in the past, and there was a warrant out for his arrest for a new charge of violence against her when he killed her and her entire family. “But we must find the courage and the will to mobilize, organize and do what a strong, sensible country does in response to a crisis like this one”. The increases not only came primarily among Democrats (up 16 points to 72 percent), but also among Republicans (up 11 points to 21 percent). It has to be struggled for.
There have been armed good guys present at a number of America’s mass shootings.
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The poll also found that 42% of adults say that they or someone in their household owns a gun, and 28% say they are planning to buy one; 55% of them say that it is for “security or protection”.
